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Rick Wilson is co-founder and board member of The Lincoln Project. He’s a renowned political strategist, infamous award-winning ad-maker and podcast host, writer, speaker, and political commentator on MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, NPR, Real Time with Bill Maher, and various American and international news outlets. He’s a 30-year veteran of national Republican politics who got his start in the 1988 Presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush, and has produced groundbreaking and award-winning political advertising and strategic counsel to winning political candidates, SuperPACS, state parties, the national campaign committees, and corporate, association, and government clients across the nation and around the world. Rick has authored two New York Times bestsellers – Everything Trump Touches Dies and Running Against The Devil – A Plot To Save America from Trump And Democrats From Themselves – and often writes for The Washington Post, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Hill, The Bulwark, and the London Spectator.

Are Donald Trump and the Republican Party imploding? Are we finally at the long-awaited inflection point? Is a blue tidal wave coming? Do Democrats finally have the right candidates and messaging? Are they going to win back the House AND Senate? Will Trump "run" again in '28? Will Don Jr. run? And if so, what will J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio and other potential candidates do? Rick addresses these critical questions and more.

But first, Andy and Matty discuss the breaking Supreme Court ruling on elections; Trump's media ban and new Iran threat; and AL Sen. Tommy Tuberville's "furry" fears, Plus, this week's Winners and Losers and Andy's rant on the ban.

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