📅 Friday, August 21, 2026

TODAY’S TOPICS:


The Bessent economy.

Data center politics.

Health care cost politics.

Trump in South Carolina.

Vance in Ohio.

Iran.

Peggy Noonan and the Trump legacy.

Democrats ’28.

The Bidens.

Winners and losers of the week and what to look for this weekend.

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