GOP Senate Majority in Reach, Our Spiraling Debt Crisis, CBS's Self-Inflicted Wounds
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
First, they break down promising polling for incumbent GOP senators like Florida’s Rick Scott and Texas’ Ted Cruz, as well as key challenger Tim Sheehy’s growing lead over Democrat Sen. Jon Tester in Montana. The outlook for a Republican Senate majority in 2025 is improving.
Next, they groan as new numbers and projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show a $1.8 trillion deficit for this past fiscal year and an even bigger one expected for the year to come. The figures also show that just paying the interest on the debt cost taxpayers $892 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 and will be more than a trillion dollars next year. It's unsustainable and neither party cares.
Finally, they chronicle the horrible week for CBS News. This includes network management chastising "CBS This Morning" Co-Host Tony Dokoupil for asking some tough questions of Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book that's very hostile towards Israel, "60 Minutes" egregiously editing the interview with Kamala Harris, and network brass telling reporters not to say that Jerusalem is in Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.6 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.4 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.6 | Very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:17.0 | Good, bad, crazy Martini's for you today. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's start with the Good, and it kind is a follow-up on discussion we had a |
| 0:23.9 | couple days ago about the momentum that Republicans seem to have in some of the |
| 0:28.7 | really tight Senate races that Democrats had had a stubbornly consistent lead in. |
| 0:34.4 | We still don't see the Republicans bursting through and leading in these, but they're still |
| 0:41.2 | very, very tight. And so in addition to the fact that |
| 0:45.3 | Michigan and Wisconsin are now considered toss-ups Ohio is as well there's another |
| 0:50.7 | couple of polls out of Ohio, one from the Washington Post which shows |
| 0:55.3 | Sharon Brown up by just a point over Bernie Moreno. The Maris Pole shows at 50 to 48 Brown over Moreno, so very, very close. |
| 1:04.3 | Also, the New York Times has done some polling |
| 1:07.1 | in three critical states. |
| 1:08.6 | They've got Tim Sheehi up eight points |
| 1:11.4 | over John Tester in Montana. |
| 1:14.3 | It's getting late early in Montana. |
| 1:15.8 | I saw some Democrats on Twitter today |
| 1:17.6 | suggesting that he's gonna lose, |
| 1:20.5 | but he was a really good senator. |
| 1:21.9 | So when they're saying that almost a month out |
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