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In politics this week...

We are days away from the first of two scheduled presidential debates. The big question: will Trump stay awake for the full 90 minutes?Trump’s latest tax proposal - all tariffs, no income tax - is a huge gift for the wealthy (of course) and a disaster for the rest of us (also of course!)The Republican National Committee and conservative TV have embraced the art of “cheap fake” videos: deceptively edited videos designed to make Joe Biden appear feeble and mentally failing.The Biden campaign is taking direct aim at Trump’s criminal recordLouisiana will require the display of the 10 Commandments in all public classrooms, even though their leader has violated just about all of them.The never-ending battle between Attorney General Nessel and the Enbridge Line 5 Pipeline takes another twisting turn - one that favors NesselA black church in Detroit temporarily turns white … thanks to an appearance by the aforementioned Donald TrumpNew polling of black Michigan voters shows many want a change in the Democratic ticket … with either Gretchen Whitmer or Michelle Obama as the presidential candidate. Both women have already said they are not runningThe state House, in a near-unanimous vote, is outlawing A.I. - generated X-rated deep fakes.Sinclair floods local news websites with hundreds of deceptive articles about Biden's mental fitness - Judd Legum/Popular InformationTrump Wasn’t Going to Stay in Milwaukee for the Republican Convention - The New York TimesFormer Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels: The GOP has a lock on some states, Democrats others. It’s not healthy. - The Washington PostTop revelations from Fauci’s book, including conversations with Trump - The Washington PostWhy so many Americans have misconceptions about crime trends - Judd Legum/Popular InformationIn Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandating military service - The Washington Post

Joining this week's conversation is Mike Madrid a communications expert and a nationally recognized expert on Latino voting trends. He graduated from the Edmund G. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1997, where he wrote his senior thesis on Latino politics and the perspective that politicization of emerging Latino voter groups in Southwestern states was unique in American history. The completion of his thesis at Georgetown University in Washington DC on Latino voters became the basis for his pioneering work on Latino communications and outreach strategies in California, Texas, Florida and nationwide. 

Mike has played a key role in pioneering Latino outreach and communications strategies. In 2001 he was named as one of America’s “Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business Magazine. He is a regular commentator on Latino political issues in statewide and national media publications.

He is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and author of a just-released book The Latino Century which explores the true meaning of America at a time of rapid cultural change, the founding principles of self-government and individual responsibility, and one man’s journey through a political party that has turned itself inside out.

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