Marcus is solo this week — Madeline is out — and he’s got two things on his mind: Trump’s diesel deal with Putin, and the Ossoff-Collins debate.
On the Putin deal: the administration is planning to import 300,000 tons of Russian diesel to start, ramping up to a million tons and potentially more. Marcus isn’t buying the spin that it’ll bring gas prices down — the U.S. burns far more diesel than that — and he’s furious about what it actually is: lifting sanctions on an adversary, funding a war machine, and stabbing Ukraine in the back. Twelve senators, including six Republicans, pushed back and said it violates the 2022 ban on Russian energy imports. Trump did it anyway.
Then there’s Georgia, where Jon Ossoff just wiped the floor with Mike Collins in their latest debate. Ossoff hit Collins on his federal ethics investigation, the House subpoena he refused to comply with, and the Laken Riley Act vote Collins has been lying about. Collins’s response — pure deflection. Marcus’s verdict: that Senate seat is coming home.
He closes on the message he keeps coming back to: Republicans are running 2024 culture war playbooks against a 2026 electorate that is fed up and feeling it at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor. It’s the economy, and Democrats are winning that argument. Get out and vote.
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