#jb-pritzker

#jb-pritzker

Pritzker: I'm explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half, and very importantly, Bret, you gotta hear this, very importantly we've been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right? We've invested in community violence interruption, we've invested in police. I've added more state police than any governor in quite a long time. It's very important that we do both of those things and more to invest in our communities so that we bring crime down.

If the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election could be summed up in the style of Dustin Hoffman learning about plastics in The Graduate, it would be: Podcasts. ("One word, Benjamin: Manosphere.") Donald Trump went on every show he could; Kamala Harris didn't. And in the contemporary " attention economy," as lab-grown paid-media sound bites lose their potency, Trump won decisively with the part of the electorate whose last-minute votes are guided by vibes and auras-also known as the most important part of the electorate.

It takes one to know one on the weight question. And the president, of course, himself, is not in good shape. So, he ought to respond to that from me.