That's about where he bottomed out in his first term (excl. his very bitter end)

We'll find out soon whether how committed his base really is

RW media spin-cycle is still in effect.

NYP has the Epstein story front and center but is spinning it as a Clinton scandal.

Fox and WSJ have it buried on their home page, Fox is basically turned into a Michael Wolff story, WSJ is spun less but still leads with a GOP vs. D "cherry-picking" framing

Interesting poll from YouGov: more impacted by shutdown = more blame tilted GOP

I can see this creating havoc in the GOP between "materially affected by Trump's policies" vs. "politics is just a game", esp. since power holders are more likely to be the latter

today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Some interesting price action today, SPX dumping at the close even with a significant positive MOC. No insights here, just an interesting observation vs. what I'm used to seeing.

Looks like there was a big spike in SRF usage last night. My understanding is that's not uncommon for end-of-month/end-of-quarter, but maybe it is spooking some people about banks' liquidity in the not-so-short term? esp. with the private credit risks on everyone's minds