Matt Towery and John Hall are back with a new episode of The Leaderboard Podcast — U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, the fight to secure the Strait of Hormuz, and a fresh look at the midterm map with the latest Real Clear Politics polling.

On the board tonight: Michigan's Democratic primary (El-Sayed vs. Stevens, pre-primary average), the Georgia Senate race (Ossoff vs. Collins), North Carolina, and the Senate battlegrounds in Texas, Michigan and Iowa.

Matt Towery and John Hall put the midterms on the board — and the GOP is not where the money says it should be.

Matt has a poll in the field he hasn't released, and what's in it drives the whole hour: the war is the midterm issue nobody is polling, the party is sitting on a war chest with nothing on the air, and the Senate map still comes down to three states. John makes the case that the socialists care no longer a fringe, that the big beautiful bill is the best-polling thing nobody will campaign on, and that the networks decided which stories the country got to hear about last week.

Then the board: the winners, the losers, and one 21-year-old who beat the best player in the world in his third start as a pro.

Why Hollywood Is Fleeing California for Georgia — Randy Davidson

Inside Fort Knox with U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, the penny and the new Trump dollar coin

The prediction markets have spoken — but do the odds actually hold up? Veteran pollster and strategist Matt Towery takes apart Polymarket's 2026 forecasts and explains why the smart money may be badly misreading where the country is headed. Drawing on decades of polling and campaign experience, Matt breaks down what the betting odds get wrong, where conventional wisdom falls apart, and what the data actually says about 2026.

Election fraud expert Eric Eggers joins The Leaderboard to break down the California ballot debacle — plus Matt Towery drops EXCLUSIVE Insider Advantage Georgia runoff polls you won't see anywhere else.

Frank Siller's brother Stephen was an FDNY firefighter who ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back on September 11, 2001 — into the South Tower to save lives. He never came home. What Frank built in his brother's name is one of the most remarkable stories in American charity.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation has paid off mortgages for hundreds of fallen first responder families, built smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans, and taken over 25,000 homeless vets off the streets by converting 25 hotels into permanent housing. They return 96 cents of every dollar directly to the people they serve. And they're just getting started — with a 100-home village for Gold Star and first responder families under construction near Tampa.

Plus: Matt and John break down this week's Leaders & Laggards — Ken Paxton's Senate primary win, Wyndham Clark's PGA comeback, Trump's war negotiations trending up in the polls, the AI revolution accelerating, and why the 24-hour news cycle is the biggest loser in American politics.

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Raffensperger hides in a bunker to count votes. Cassidy finishes third. Eric Church delivers a commencement speech for the ages. Pollster Robert Cahaly joins us to decode the generic ballot and expose what the big polls are getting wrong.

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett joins Matt Towery and John Hall to break down the Trump investigations, Comey's indictment, and the intersection of law and politics — then it's Leaders & Laggards time.

Former Marriott SVP and US Travel Association President Roger Dow joins Matt Towery and John Hall for one of the most entertaining — and eye-opening — episodes yet.