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A news/press photograph of Marine One (the presidential helicopter), a dark green and white helicopter with "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" painted on its side and a small American flag decal near the nose, parked on the South Lawn of the White House. In the background is the National Mall with the Jefferson Memorial and part of the Washington Monument visible among trees. A group of men in dark suits stands near the helicopter's open door and stairway, including one who resembles Donald Trump and another who resembles Chinese leader Xi Jinping, along with two other men in suits (one appears to be holding papers/a folder). A U.S. Marine in dress blue uniform stands at attention near the helicopter's stairway, saluting. The presidential seal is visible painted on the ground/tarmac in white.

Text in image: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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A political meme/comparison graphic with two side-by-side photos under headings. The left photo, labeled "Fake News" / "Before," shows the White House press briefing room with rows of empty brown seats facing a blue-curtained podium area with the presidential seal and an American flag. The right photo, labeled "FDR Pool" / "After," shows an ornate, renovated indoor swimming pool room with white and gold-trimmed walls, arched windows and doorways, an eagle emblem on the wall, chandelier-style sconces, and a rectangular pool with light blue water reflecting the ceiling.

Text in image: Fake News Before FDR Pool After

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Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. As you'd expect, Secret Service will heighten security today. Fans got here very early.

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The Trump administration in one year has grown personal incomes more than Biden. In four years, real median household income hit more than $80,000 last year. That's the highest level on record. This is a boom. Not air Americans richer than ever before. The poverty rate has plunged to the lowest level in American history. To just over 10 percent. That is a historic load. It hasn't been lower ever in our history.

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Mr. President, a year ago Pakistan faced external aggression from India under a false pretext. Pakistan exercised its inherent right of self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, our brave and valiant armed forces under the courageous leadership of Field Marshal Saidassam Munir responded with precision and professionalism. They silenced the enemy, repulsed its attack, and taught it a lesson it shall never ever forget. And of course, thanks to President Donald Trump's resolute and visionary leadership, that hundreds of millions of lives in South Asia were saved. His timely intervention came at a decisive juncture when two nuclear-armed neighbors stood at the brink of an all-out war. And who knows, Mr. President, the extent of devastation that could have taken place had President Trump not stepped in at this critical moment with clarity of thought and action.

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A promotional/political infographic styled like an official White House graphic, with "45|47" presidential seal-style emblems in the top corners on a dark navy banner. The headline reads "U.S. Poverty Rate At RECORD LOW". Below is a line chart titled "Official Poverty Rate, All People, 1959-2025" showing the U.S. poverty rate from roughly 1965 to 2025, fluctuating between about 10% and 22% over the decades, dipping sharply at the right end of the chart to around 8%. A red annotation reading "TRUMP Record-Low 10.2%" with a downward-pointing red arrow highlights the final segment of the line near 2023-2025.

Text in image: U.S. Poverty Rate At RECORD LOW 45 | 47 (x2, in seal emblems) Official Poverty Rate, All People, 1959-2025 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% TRUMP Record-Low 10.2% 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025

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A screenshot of a social media post (styled like X/Twitter) from an account named "Mike Lee" with handle @BasedMikeLee, which has a blue verification checkmark. The profile picture shows a person wearing a light blue collared shirt in front of an American flag background. The post is text-only, with no accompanying photo.

Text in image: Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee Trump is saving $300 million on the Reflecting Pool renovation. Naturally, leftists are freaking out over it.

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welcome back America this is a man who is like super patriotic for this country and so forth and so on and understands the American people better than most people do what do you make of that I agree with you and when he does these things that are controversial but needed you it begs the question why didn't other presidents both Democrat Republican do things and what do I mean by that he why didn't somebody addressed the deterioration of monuments in Washington or the world's capital so to speak was not safe to walk in or the reflecting pool was a miasma or presidents had you know torn parts of the White House to put a bowling alley or basketball court or a swimming pool but they all said there's nowhere to there's nowhere to speak there's nowhere to hold a world class meeting and world-class banquet any of that lectures and he comes along and he does it but he doesn't do it I mean he doesn't do it in the sense that I'm going to be the first person to ever do it he does it because he says why hasn't this been done because we need it and so I think that's what's unusual about him he's always bragging about the US military he calls soldiers up he goes to the funerals he he wants the United States and this is what drives the left crazy because their idea was managed decline a globalist idea were just one of many or to paraphrase Barack Obama were no more exceptional in Greece or Great Britain is but he resented that idea he said we were always exceptional we have the only type of Constitution in the world where the freest people were the most powerful country how did that come across China has one China has four times the population that we do the EU has a hundred more p hundred million more people than we do and yet we have 10 trillion more of a GDP how's that possible so what his whole idea was we're going to be the first in space and they were and people said oh you know NASA is done with they haven't done anything in years he said no no no no we're going to get private enterprise and empower them and then the NASA will have to rise to the challenge and he really almost single-handedly reinvigorated the space race Elon Musk himself launched more missile satellites than the whole world combined last year and when you look at what he did with Silicon Valley he went to all these people who were left you know that the Andreessen's that sacks and all of these people the Elon Musk they all voted against him and he said to them we're in bad trouble we've got to rearm the United States we're short weapon we got to get into the drone racing race we've got to get satellite technology and use it to protect our country we need an iron dome sort of global dome over the United States and just like the war production board of World War Two Trump said I'm appealing to your patriotism not your politics if you will if I can enlist your talent I will protect you from EU censorship from Canadian digital media taxes with you neighbor I'm on your side as long as you're on our side and I define that as America side and it's really amazing when you look at these left-wing companies that opposed him I mean they were censoring news accounts of the the laptop fiasco and almost and they contributed to his defeat Mark Zuckerberg gave over 450 million dollars in 2020 through various surrogates to change helped to change balloting and yet he went back to these people and said you're very talented I'm going to allow you I'm not going to pick winners and losers like Biden wanted to do I'm going to open up I'm going to deregulate I'm going to give you energy I'm going to promote data centers for good or evil but you have to do one thing you have to use those energies and talents for the promotion of the common good and the preeminence of the United States that was very we hadn't seen that in decades somebody take that that type of argument to the opposition and the results are they're undeniable all of a sudden the United States is the greatest producer of oil and gas in history its satellites are preeminent I just looked at the software digital media bioengineering AI companies in terms of market capitalization and things like downloads of the top 10 companies globally in each of those categories the United States has eight or nine corporations in the top ten almost dominates every this is a period when they said you know mark they were saying and just a decade ago that China would have a greater GDP by now than we did and we're ten trillion dollars greater so it's amazing the book is and it is a great book the counter-revolution the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement I encourage you to get it amazon.com come Tuesday when it's released any major bookstore look how he's leading in what I call the next Industrial Revolution data centers you have dime store politicians who are looking at polls for objecting to it and so forth and so on it's local governments that make a determination where they are and how these buildings look and so forth but the president knows this is the next Industrial Revolution every single thing we use is related to AI I just think that's another example of his of his foresight we'll be right back welcome back America we're here with America's wise man that's what I call him because that's what he is the counter-revolution is his brand new book and comes out Tuesday I would pre-order on amazon.com that's the way I roll the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement there is so much in here that is so compelling because the man himself is compelling and the author is compelling Victor Davis Hanson well let's get a little bit into national security and foreign policy let's dig right in to Iran and what the president's been doing in Iran we have people who said he campaigned against this kind of thing and we we call a lot of those isolationists and so forth and so on but did he not also say peace through strength again that is sort of a Reagan phrase peace through strength and hasn't he also demonstrated as you demonstrate in your book a hesitance to use military power but if he feels it's necessary he will use military power explain yeah he never ran as an isolationist he never ran as a nation builder he ran as a Jacksonian his idea was don't tread on the United States where you'll have no better friend but you'll have no worse enemy if you do that and to carry out that policy we had to be have a preeminent military so he really in the first term tried to rebuild it but when he looked at Iran there were two kind of contrast or antithetical positions he had to guide he had to navigate between them one was given the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq we don't do well when we put thousands of troops on the ground we if we don't win very quickly and winnings very hard in those societies because you have to change the government and they have no experience with consensual rule and then on the other hand he said well seven prior prior presidents have said this is intolerable that this huge country that was once so pro-western and so powerful under the Shaw and earlier rulers now is using that 93 million population and all of its traditions and its resources with oil fourth largest reserve or third in the world for nefarious purposes and most of the problems in the Middle East come from Iran they bully the Arab Gulf exporters they have a ring of fire of terrorist appendages around Israel they subsidize terrorism all over Europe and the Western world but nobody has done anything so I'm gonna do something with one caveat I am NOT going to invade this country and try to overthrow the government and rack up a decade and casually then he hasn't done that I think people don't realize that he knew something had to be done because every year they were getting closer and closer to nuclear weapons and once they got them with that lunatic attitude whether genuine or contrived they had deterrence and with deterrence they could do almost anything and they would dominate the entire Middle East and prior administrations like the Obama administration said well maybe we can balance Iran and the Shia crescent Syria Lebanon's taken over there's Iran the Houthis Hamas and then we'll kind of play them against Israel in the Gulf States and we'll adjudicate that was a crazy idea but that was kind of US policy under Biden but especially under Obama so he said no no it's intolerable time has run out but I've got to find a way to squeeze them and disarm them without invading them and without trying to nation-build and he thought that the popular popular revolt might happen right after the Berlin Wall it took two years with Soviet Union to fall but it did fall it took many months for Eastern European governments so I think it's kind of a Civil War Union anaconda strategy now we're squeezing them economically financially they can't import goods they can't export oil the people are getting restive and I think his big worry right now is at what point will things get so terrible in Iran I think we're getting there how do you ensure that the people are not hurt by this awful regime that doesn't care about their own people and that's a concern I think he has and that that explains why some of us were surprised that we thought maybe at 38 days he should not have stopped or 40 days or 45 but I think he was thinking that if I destroy the entire infrastructure that regime it'll take a year or two for the people to rise up and you'll get mass starvation or something disease or so much chaos it'll be counterproductive so it's kind of a strategy right now to just say we can we can continue with American problems and issues and policies without being obsessed with Iran they are frozen they can't do anything we've got them in a stranglehold and all time is not on their side it's on our side and that I think is that the strategy right now and I think it will eventually work but boy he's taken a lot of criticism from people say the war is lost on no evidence I can't believe people on the conservative side even have said this was a fight fiasco it's destroyed his presence it hasn't at all if people give it time you will see radical changes in Iran for the first time in 50 years very very well put when we come back really I want to address two issues what comes post-Trump and also the president's really bold condemnation of antisemitism of antisemites some who used to be friends of his and so forth and so on let's see if we can address both of those because I think he's been quite the leader in trying to deal with with that and in the future of the Republican Party and so forth depending on who is capable of picking up the mantle and getting elected as a Republican do you think that they will share his principles and his belief systems and have the guts to say the kind of things that he says we'll be right back welcome back America tour de force the counter-revolution written by a great author of Victor Davis Hanson so Victor Davis Hanson what do you see in the future in terms of MAGA and what do you see in the future in terms of a Republican MAGA type candidate fighting antisemitism or gaslighting antisemitism yes well I we know that pumps been trolling and kidding around he's not gonna run for a third term I don't think he wants to we couldn't I think easily and he doesn't want to so the question is what's the MAGA movement I think it's irreversible the idea that we're gonna go back and allow China to dump product here below the cost of production or we're going to semi embrace the green agenda or we're gonna have open borders again as many Republicans did in the past I don't think that's gonna happen he's created a workers a working class middle class party and as I said earlier race is incidental not essential so he's trying to say that the black truck driver the Hispanic electrician the white sheetrock person and the suburban people like them they all have more in common and they're their enemies are not themselves but the East Coast liberal progressive establishment and that's not going to change and the question is who's going to succeed him I mean can you have sunlight without the Sun as one person put it and I think we have kind of an arbitrary divide between the Vance and Rubio even though Marco Rubio quite magnanimous Lee said he wouldn't run if JD Vance did JD Vance was selected contrary to all popular wisdom they said it well he's from Ohio and that's a red state they're gonna get it win it anyway in 24 and he's so he's a white male no diversity and yet Trump said well he's a masterful debater he's great on repartee and you better watch out media he's gonna destroy you and he did but I think his problem right now is that this mega movement that which I was talking about there are elements within it that want to be sort of a nationalist party in the sense of isolationism and they feel that Israel is a pernicious influence is dragging us into the two wars that are not in our interest etc etc and I'll go a little further I think a lot of the people in that movement want to deliberately be provocative to force JD Vance to say try to disown me and see what happens in 2028 so he's he feels he's in a dilemma but at some point I think that he'll do the right thing and I think he's gonna have anybody who's going to run for the office in 2028 is going to have to do two things as far as foreign policy they're gonna have to say whether you like it or not Israel has been the best friend that we've had in the Middle East in every sense of the way it's the only oasis of democracy of liberality of compassion and humanity and we're going to support it and number two people that are Jewish have a natural right to have an affinity with Israel's the historical home of the Jews there's no conspiracy they reflect the majority of our party and we're going to stop trying to demonize them we're not the left the left is completely anti-semitic it's completely anti-israeli they'll pay a price for that so we're not going to go there and for all of you who want to draw me in I think JD Vance will say and draw me in and try to make an artificial divide I'm gonna have to come out and say you don't represent the Republican Party values you don't represent the magma movement and you don't represent the legacy of Donald Trump and I think he can do it if he's the candidate but it's not just a D Vance any candidate who's nominated is gonna have to do that well I sit on the edge of my chair waiting for that I look forward to that very very much this is a fantastic book by Victor Davis Hanson the counter-revolution you get it at amazon.com any major bookstore starting on Tuesday Victor God bless you my friend you look good and healthy and you've written a real fantastic book thank you mark

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-I could say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you. Why not leave it behind? -You're ABC fake news, right? -Why not? -It's only -- only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you. You should be embarrassed to ask in that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, "No, no, no. Don't give us -- I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is." Or I could say, "Thank you very much." You know? There was an old golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer. And he had a motto -- "When they give you a putt, you say, 'Thank you very much.' You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole." A lot of people are stupid. They say, "No, no. I insist on putting it." Then they putt it and they miss it. And their partner gets angry at him. You know what? Remember that -- Sam Snead. When they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole, and you say, "Thank you very much."

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A news photograph of Donald Trump sitting in the driver's seat of a white garbage truck, wearing a white shirt, red tie, and an orange high-visibility safety vest. The truck's side panel is decorated with a campaign livery reading "TRUMP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 2024" with an American flag graphic. Another person wearing a white hard hat is visible in the passenger area behind him. A man in a dark suit with an earpiece (apparent security/Secret Service agent) stands on the pavement to the left of the truck. The setting appears to be an outdoor tarmac or parking area under an overcast sky, with some vehicles and a building visible in the background. This appears to reference a real campaign event where Trump sat in a garbage truck.

Text in image: TRUMP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 2024

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A chart image with a bold red headline reading "IRAN HAS HYPERINFLATION" above a line graph plotting the Iranian rial-to-US-dollar exchange rate from Jan-25 through Sep-26. The blue line trends steadily upward with fluctuations, starting around 720,000-900,000 rial per dollar and climbing to roughly 1.95-2.27 million rial per dollar by late 2026. A thick red arrow overlays the chart pointing from a callout labeled "0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar" (near Jun-25) up to a callout labeled "2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR" near the end of the timeline (around Aug/Sep-26), emphasizing the currency's depreciation. The y-axis ranges from 500,000 to 2,300,000 in increments of 200,000.

Text in image: IRAN HAS HYPERINFLATION 0.9 Million RIAL to $1 Dollar 2.27 MILLION RIAL to $1 DOLLAR 2,300,000 2,100,000 1,900,000 1,700,000 1,500,000 1,300,000 1,100,000 900,000 700,000 500,000 JAN-25 FEB-25 MAR-25 APR-25 MAY-25 JUN-25 JUL-25 AUG-25 SEP-25 OCT-25 NOV-25 DEC-25 JAN-26 FEB-26 MAR-26 APR-26 MAY-26 JUN-26 JUL-26 AUG-26 SEP-26

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An infographic-style chart. On the left is a map showing the Strait of Hormuz, circled, located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula (labeled Iran, United Arab Emirates, Oman), with the strait highlighted in a blue banner. On the right is a bar comparison graphic: a gray bar labeled "Before / 20 Million barrels per day" next to a green bar labeled "Now / 18 Million barrels per day" with upward arrows above the green bar. The headline at top reads "Hormuz Oil Volumes are BACK!" despite the chart showing the "Now" figure (18 million) as lower than the "Before" figure (20 million).

Text in image: Hormuz Oil Volumes are BACK! Iran STRAIT OF HORMUZ United Arab Emirates Oman Before 20 Million barrels per day Now 18 Million barrels per day

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meeting and we're hitting hold on to your seats folks non-farm payrolls for the month of August up one hundred and sixty two K 162,000 that's basically three times what expectations are now here's the fly in the ointment the two month net revision is minus excuse me it was minus 103,000 last month it's plus plus 55,000.

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And recall that last month what happened was that there was a kind of strange seasonal adjustment problem and so there was a big reduction in employment for teachers and we knew that was gonna come back once school started up and that we'd have a strong number but this number skyrocketed so much more than we expected. To put it in perspective Bloomberg surveyed 77 economists and said what do you think the jobs number is gonna be and this blew past every single one of them. All 77 got the number wrong and by a lot. This number is four standard deviations above the average of their forecast. This is one of the best numbers relative to expectation that I've ever seen.

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Here to discuss all of this is former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor, KT McFarland. Always great to see you, especially great to see you, KT, on this particular story because it's right in your wheelhouse. I want to start with Venezuela. When you step back and you look at this deal, and I get, you know, there are all kinds of other questions about this, but it does kind of make you wonder if when President Trump's memoirs are written, the whole, this whole situation in Venezuela, where the US winds up gaining access to these reserves, wasn't the precursor to his decision to then go after Iran? Oh, I think it was. And I think they probably thought Iran might be easier than it turned out to be, but it didn't. It turned out to be harder, but we still won. And that's the difference. We've won that. We've won that war. Because why? Because the oil that was moving through the Strait of Hormuz, 20 million barrels a day, it's going differently. It's going through the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, I'm probably 10 million barrels a day now because we've cleared the southern route. But a lot of that oil that used to move by tankers is now moving by pipeline. And it's not going to go back to tankers. And then some of the shortfall has been made up by American oil and natural gas that's moving out of the United States. So at the end of the day, we got rid of the nukes. And if they try to rebuild the nukes, well, we'll bomb those again. And as far as the importance of the Strait, it's going to be increasingly irrelevant, especially because of the Venezuela oil connection. We are now controlling a quarter of the world's oil and whoever controls the world's energy, the world's fossil fuels in the years ahead controls the future. You know, it's kind of amazing to think about, but for five decades, Iran has used their ability to put the squeeze in the Strait of Hormuz to get exact, you know, political things from other people. It's almost like they kind of pulled that bluff this time with the wrong dude, and it didn't work out for them. And they may have broken the one thing, the one lever that they've always had. You know, that's the point. They thought they were dealing with, you know, typical American president. They didn't realize it was Donald Trump and he plays by different games. And so they thought, okay, we're going to close the Strait of Hormuz just like we tried to do with President Reagan, just like we've tried to do many times before. But because Donald Trump already had the Armada prepositioned, he could then put a blockade on Iran. So for six months, no ships have gone into Iran. No ships have gone out of Iran. Their economy is spiraling. And yet at the same time, we've got this workaround of how to get oil to the world. You're going to see oil prices start to go down. I think pretty dramatically now that that shortfall of 20 million barrels a day, that's now getting to the producers. That's getting to the refineries. And it wasn't three weeks ago. It wasn't two months ago. Now it is. And so the price of oil should start coming down and hopefully the price of gasoline to follow. So not only is it significant in terms of American power in Venezuela, the U.S. having control of that. It also means that our enemies, our biggest rivals, whether it's a country like Cuba or a country like China, doesn't have access, free access for cut rate oil from Venezuela. Yeah, China had been all over South America trying to get their hands on Venezuelan and other other resources, oil as well. And now they're gone. They're out of there. They're not having any access to that. All China can get is that Iranian oil, which they're probably not getting that much of anyway. The genius of President Trump is that he realizes as a businessman, what's the best country solution you can have to all of your trade, all of your commerce, all of your manufacturing, all of your production to do it nearby. So we don't have to think about trans-specific trade or transatlantic trade. We're now going to have a Western hemisphere united at peace, trading with each other and under the United States leadership. The cheap goods that we've been importing from China for decades, they're going to now be made in South America. And because of the energy, particularly as we look to the future and the requirements of the data centers and artificial intelligence, and he's a lot more energy. Well, who's going to have all the energy? Us. Yes. Make the Western hemisphere great again. KT McFarland, as always, really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

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Yeah, in the Senate he has done very well. This is a reality check for you. That is, Donald Trump is still the son on which the planets of the GOP revolve around. You could see it quite well here. Look at this. Trump endorsed these one Senate primaries. If the person that he endorsed is not an elected incumbent like Darlene Graham was, you know, since 2022, or 2022 is about 95% of the time, has that weakened it all this cycle? No, it is not. It has actually gotten stronger. Look at this. 100% of the time if Trump endorsed a non-elected incumbent like Darlene Graham, they in fact won the Republican primary for United States Senate, Trump's name is still the one that GOP voters buy when it comes to Senate endorsements. He went there. He spent money. He made a difference. And according to some measurements here, it may have turned it around for her. Yeah, I would say that this is probably the endorsement of Darlene Graham and getting her across the finish line. The Republican party is probably the strongest sign of Donald Trump's name being gold in Republican primaries to date. It is by far his most impressive performance because just take a look here. It is according to the cash to prediction market. Chance to win the South Carolina special GOP Senate primary. Before the Trump endorsement, it was just 14%. Just 14%. The reason why Darlene Graham won that primary, won that nomination is because of one name and one name only, Donald John Trump. This was his most impressive endorsement to date in terms of getting someone actually nominated because she basically stood no chance. Once that endorsement came in, her chances rocketed well north of 50% and last night she won that nomination. And it's largely because Republican primary voters are hugely supportive of the president. You know, sometimes we have these polls and you know, they're favorable polls or approval polls and they're in the moment. But I just love this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that much, Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln, who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this, this is six, seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53%, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at 8%. And the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well.

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A composite/collage graphic titled "Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026" at the top, assembling multiple news headline clippings and social media post screenshots about Trump-endorsed candidates winning 2026 Republican primaries/runoffs, particularly in South Carolina and Oklahoma. The left column shows headline boxes from The Wall Street Journal, Greenville News, The Downballot, Newser, NonDoc, and El País, covering Darline Graham's South Carolina Senate runoff win and Mike Mazzei's win over Gentner Drummond. The right column shows a NOTUS headline and screenshots of social media posts (X/Twitter-style) from users Preston Hill (@realPrestonHill), Gina Milan (@ginamilan_), and Ron Pyle (@rreactor), discussing the strength of Trump's endorsement, with one post including an embedded U.S. election results map graphic showing South Carolina county-level primary results colored red/yellow.

Text in image: Trump Endorsement Success 8.26.2026 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. World Business U.S. Politics Economy Tech Markets & Finance Opinion Free Expression Arts Lifestyle POLITICS • ELECTIONS Trump Senate Pick Darline Graham Wins GOP Runoff in South Carolina Sister of late Sen. Lindsey Graham defeats Rep. Ralph Norman By Maya Davis, Cameron McWhirter and Marianne LeVine Updated Aug. 26, 2026 12:14 am ET Greenville News News Sports Real Estate Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper POLITICS Trump, PACs, turnout: How Darline Graham won the SC GOP Senate runoff Bella Carpentier Greenville News Aug. 26, 2026, 5:06 a.m. ET THE DOWNBALLOT Morning Digest: Trump's picks come out on top in tight GOP runoffs Trump's endorsement and heavy outside spending proves to be just enough in South Carolina and Oklahoma. DAVID NIR AND JEFF SINGER Aug. 26, 2026 newser TOP STORIES POPULAR US WORLD SCIENCE POLITICS There's One Big Takeaway From Tuesday's Primaries Trump's endorsement still holds sway By Arden Dier with Newser AI Posted Aug 26, 2026 8:50 AM CDT NonDoc 'Edge of your seats': Trump support propels Mike Mazzei past Gentner Drummond Andrea Hancock, Tuesday, August 25, 2026 EL PAÍS US Trump records an electoral win with his candidate's victory in South Carolina primary NOTUS NEWSLETTERS Win for Graham, and Trump Too Preston Hill @realPrestonHill Tonight, Donald Trump's endorsement likely got Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei over the finish line. Regardless of how strong the endorsement still is as a whole, it's clear the endorsement still has the power to influence voter choices in these races—especially close ones. 11:44 PM · Aug 25, 2026 · 5,057 Views Gina Milan @ginamilan_ Subscribe This just proves how strong Trump's endorsement actually is. Everything else is worthless. Some people never learn. [Embedded map graphic: "VOTES" header, "2026 South Carolina US Senate", showing county results map with red/yellow shading, candidate vote totals list, dated Aug 25, 2026] 7:30 PM · Aug 25, 2026 · 3,906 Views Ron Pyle @rreactor Yes, the establishment R's are trying hard to scuttle Paxton's campaign, but as we saw in South Carolina, Trump's endorsement matters more than money. By the end of the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Paxton will highly likely be leading in the polls. Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX · 23h Republicans spent $92.5 million trying to save John Cornyn in the Texas Senate primary over Ken Paxton. So far in the general election against James Talarico? Barely $200k from Paxton's side... plus one late $1.7M Cruz-linked ad... 10:12 AM · Aug 26, 2026 · 37 Views

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A stylized map graphic showing the northeastern/eastern United States, the Great Lakes, and southern Canada. The Great Lakes are shaded light blue and labeled "Lake America" in bold red italic text. One of the lakes (appears to be Lake Erie) is outlined in red. The Gulf of Mexico at the bottom is relabeled "Gulf of America" in white italic text, and the Atlantic Ocean is labeled normally in white italic text. State and country borders are drawn in thin gray lines, with "Canada" and "United States" labeled in dark gray serif capital letters.

Text in image: CANADA Lake America UNITED STATES ATLANTIC OCEAN GULF OF AMERICA

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of this one. Okay. The president Republicans most admire. It's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan who traditionally has won that. Donald Trump nearly triples up on this. Reagan at just 18%. And then Abraham Lincoln who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time. But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by what is this this is six seven times as many Donald John Trump at 53% easily crushing a blink in at 8% and the Elon poll showed that he was the greatest president as well. Don feel like this slide might end up on a printout at his desk.

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