The Democrat Establishment Melts Down, Indiana Holds the Line on Gas Taxes | August 5

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Casey opens on a primary night that made no sense anywhere but 2026 — a Trump-endorsed “Amir Hassan” losing to “Thomas Smith,” a man who dropped out of the race weeks ago. Then to Michigan, where establishment Democrats torched $63.9 million trying to stop Abdul El-Sayed and failed, setting up a Senate race between a Christian former FBI agent in Mike Rogers and a socialist who is already warning Rogers he has “no safe quarter in Michigan.” Congressman John James takes the GOP nomination for governor over Perry Johnson, the NRSC drops its first attack ad, and Dana Nessel is skipping her own party’s convention over safety fears. Closer to home, Gov. Braun declares a new energy emergency and extends Indiana’s gas tax suspension, while the recount timeline gets moved up in a state Senate race decided by three votes. Pete Buttigieg calls abolishing the Electoral College normal. In Hour 2, Steve Sass and Derek Dieter join to dig into the controversial Midwest Continental Divide trail project. Hour 3 covers the White House “Oxferd Comma” document dump blowing the Russia hoax apart, food stamp paperwork thinning the rolls, the armed ex-Marine arrested at Trump’s golf course, a Minnesota man charged over a spike strip, and a Brit’s horror story inside socialized urgent care.

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