🚨BREAKING: The College Football Playoff will officially expand to 24 teams beginning in 2027, per @CFBHeather 👀
The deal is a five-year, nearly $1.7 billion agreement between the CFP and ESPN. The move will also eliminate conference championship games.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
CAM BOOZER SETS A NEW CAREER HIGH AS MEMPHIS MATCHES BEST START IN FRANCHISE HISTORY 🚨
27 PTS (career-high, 17 IN 3Q)
9 REB
26 MIN
The @memgrizz are 6-0 for the first time since the 2014-15 NBA season!
North Delta 24
Regents School of Oxford 6
North Delta finishes the regular season 6-4 and will have a BYE next week in the First Round of the Playoffs and will await their next opponent.
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North Delta 45
Kirk Academy 6
North Delta moves to 5-4 on the season and 1-1 in district. Regents School of Oxford comes to Batesville next Friday night to finish out the regular season.
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They really had us believing Neville was about to pin Seth for the title on a random Raw.
That near fall had everyone in that arena fooled.
One of the greatest false finishes in WWE history.
North Delta extends their winning streak to 4 games with a 38-25 victory over Marshall Academy. North Delta now takes a 4-2 record into Lee Academy Clarksdale next week.
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After another weather delay before halftime, North Delta and Central Hinds Academy go to Overtime, and North Delta comes out victorious by a score of 22-20.
North Delta moves to 3-2 on the season going into their Bye Week!
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Due to weather, North Delta vs Central Hinds Academy has been moved to tomorrow, Saturday September 12th.
Game time is set for 1PM and will take place at Hinds Community College.
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Due to weather, North Delta vs Central Hinds Academy has been moved to tomorrow, Saturday September 12th.
Game time is set for 1PM and will take place at Hinds Community College.
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Due to weather, North Delta vs Central Hinds Academy has been moved to tomorrow, Saturday September 12th.
Game time is set for 1PM and will take place at Hinds Community College.
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Watching someone that was close with me go through ALS was one of the toughest things I’ve experienced. It was hard on the person diagnosed and hard on the people close to them watching them slowly fade away. A cure needs to be found.
#RebelHeart
North Delta 20 - Winona Christian 18
North Delta moves to .500 2-2 on the season while Winona Christian takes their first lose of the season moving to 3-1.
North Delta takes on Central Hinds Academy next Friday night.
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@ndsathletics (North Delta) gets the victory over West Memphis Christian by a score of 36-14.
Brings their record to 1-2 on the season.
North Delta will face Winona Christian at home next week.
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North Delta Green Wave make the trip from Batesville north on Hwy 51 to Magnolia Heights and fall to the Chiefs 42-6.
North Delta faces West Memphis Christian at home next week.
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North Delta falls to Oak Hill Academy 12-8 in the final second of the game.
North Delta travels to Magnolia Heights next week.
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