The Rush Lindell Show

On Tuesday, August 25, a closed-door meeting between Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries becomes the prism for whether the White House is secretly hedging on who will control the next House of Representatives.

The episode unpacks why this off-camera conversation matters, how it collided with progressive anger at Jeffries, and what it reveals about the gap between public confidence and private preparation in an election year. Listeners get a clear walk-through of Johnson’s on-air bravado, the polling and forecasting numbers he left out, and how recent Iran war-powers moves in the Senate fit the same hedging pattern.

• The undisclosed Kushner–Jeffries sit-down and what it signals about 2026 House expectations
• The left’s backlash against Jeffries and his attempt to reframe the meeting
• Speaker Johnson’s “hedge” comments on Fox versus the data he avoided naming
• How Iran war-powers votes mirror the quiet bets Washington is placing

Stay tuned for the next episode as Rush and Reagan dig into who else in Washington is acting like the majority is already up for grabs.

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Trump's approval just hit thirty-three percent on Thursday, August 20, and Rush Lindell and Reagan tear into what's actually driving the collapse. This episode digs into the Reuters/Ipsos crosstabs showing Democrats now beating Republicans on economic trust for the first time in a decade, then follows the money down to $527 in extra household fuel costs since the war began. Rush and Reagan clash over Fed nominee Warsh's split July decision and whether a September rate hike can even touch oil-shock inflation. They also stage a brutal parody of the White House's broken gas-price promises, with an OPIS analyst predicting no relief until 2027, before landing on three dates -- September 11th CPI, the September 15-16 FOMC meeting, and daily AAA gas averages -- that could decide the midterms.

Reagan pushes back hard on Rush's inflation-crisis framing, forcing a real argument about who owns the blockade and its price consequences.

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Trump's approval hit 33 percent on Wednesday, August 19, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting the White House spin it away. Five separate pollsters are landing in the same range, echoing the December 2017 floor Trump eventually clawed back from.

This episode digs into whether MAGA erosion is real or just noise, testing old predictions against fresh NBC/Newsweek identification numbers and a Politico finding on Trump voters ditching the label. Rush and Reagan break down a historic shift in economic trust toward Democrats, sliding Republican support for the Iran war even among Trump's own base, and what Cook Political Report's House forecast means for the midterms. They close by staking specific, falsifiable predictions for Labor Day approval numbers.

Topics covered: the 33 percent approval number and whether it's a pattern or a blip, the MAGA identification split and what's driving it, the economy and Iran war polling dragging Republicans down, and the House math behind 2026's midterm stakes.

Think the numbers turn around by fall? Tell us your prediction, and tune in tomorrow to see who's closer.

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Rush and Reagan track Trump's whiplash on Iran — calling off history's biggest planned strike twice in a week, then branding Tehran "unbelievably duplicitous" — while Iran insists it's only talking to Oman about Hormuz, not Washington.

In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Economy / Energy, Accountability / Analysis, and more.

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On Thursday, July 30, Alex Jones did the unthinkable and called for Trump's impeachment over the Iran war, and Rush Lindell and Reagan aren't letting the moment pass quietly. They pick apart whether the war powers argument holds up even as they question the messenger delivering it.

This episode covers a lot of ground fast. Oil crossing $100 a barrel and Leavitt's unanswered draft comment get separated fact from fear. The actual congressional vote counts, a 214-208 House win and a failed 47-49 Senate resolution, expose defectors nobody's tracking yet. Rush's satirical mock floor speech on Article I lands some laughs before Reagan pulls things back to the human cost: American troops killed in Jordan, strikes on Aqaba, and a war Congress never actually debated.

They close with three concrete things to watch heading into the midterms, plus predictions listeners can hold them to. Tune in tomorrow to see who's right.

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On Tuesday, July 28, Rush and Reagan tackle a hard truth: Congress just voted twice on Iran war powers, and neither vote actually stops Trump from waging war. With three American troops dead in Jordan and a fourth in Iraq, the hosts dig into why a nonbinding resolution and a failed binding one both amount to Congress talking tough while ceding real authority.

This episode covers a lot of ground. Rush and Reagan grade their own prior predictions on the ceasefire collapse, owning what they got wrong. They trace triple-digit oil prices and near-four-dollar gas straight back to the widening war, separating panic-driven spikes from real structural risk. They break down which Republicans are crossing party lines and why, including Trump's blunt insult toward defectors. And Reagan walks through the legal distinction between concurrent and joint resolutions that explains why Congress's votes are more symbolic than binding.

Expect sharp disagreement, a few laughs at Trump's Truth Social threats, and a serious look at collapsing GOP support as prices climb and questions swirl around Hegseth. Next episode: watch for that new benchmark both hosts committed to on the record.

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Rush opens fired up over CENTCOM's twelfth straight night of strikes on Iran, framing it as a war dressed up as diplomacy, until Reagan corrects the record on how many separate waves of strikes there have actually been.

In this episode, we cover Lead Story / Iran War, Callback / Accountability, Defense Spending / War Economics, and more.

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The Iran MOU is dead, and on Tuesday, July 21, Rush Lindell and Reagan tear apart exactly how it collapsed. Trump killed the deal himself at the NATO summit, and within weeks his rhetoric flipped from praise to calling Iran's leaders "scum."

This episode covers the full timeline from tanker attacks to CENTCOM's 80-plus target strikes and Tehran's defiant response from Ghalibaf. Rush and Reagan break down oil's 6% spike, CFR's read on why prices still sit below prior war highs, and shipping data showing Hormuz is rattled but not shut. They also revisit their own MOU predictions with blunt self-criticism, dig into Max Boot's limited-war thesis, and expose the overlooked detail that the deal only guaranteed 60 days of toll-free shipping. A parody Yelp review of Iran's Foreign Ministry keeps things sharp before the final verdict: gas prices, not diplomacy, may decide what happens next heading into midterms.

Who called it right? Listen and decide, then tell us where you land before the next episode drops.

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Thursday, July 16: DDHQ's new 2026 midterm forecast has Democrats favored to retake the House while the Senate sits at a knife's-edge 50-50, with JD Vance as the tiebreaker "asterisk man." Rush and Reagan dig into what that 57% probability actually means before anyone calls it a done deal.

From there, the show turns structural: mid-decade redistricting quietly padded the GOP's House position by roughly five seats, a shift Rush calls the party's "insurance policy" and Reagan insists gets separated from any Trump approval bump. The Senate breakdown maps all eight DDHQ-flagged races into Rush's "Firewall" thesis, stress-tested against North Carolina, Alaska, and Texas, where even a clean sweep leaves Democrats one seat short. A satirical DNC war-room bit gets deflated fast, and a look at Trump's climbing approval versus a shrinking generic-ballot cushion sets up both hosts' predictions, with a Lear Capital read in between.

Rush stakes a number on the Senate map. Reagan reminds him a hundred-plus days is a long time. Tune in next episode as the Firewall thread gets tracked again, and weigh in with your own call on the eight races in play.

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The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling isn't the 6-3 landslide everyone's reporting on Thursday, July 9 — it's actually a 5-4 constitutional squeaker, and Rush and Reagan break down why that distinction changes everything.

This episode covers Trump's Truth Social demand for Congress to act despite the legal contradiction baked into his own request, Kavanaugh's concurrence that dodged the Fourteenth Amendment entirely, Stephen Miller's apocalyptic "knife wound" rhetoric versus what federal law may already handle, and the GOP's three-way strategy collapse between Rand Paul's state-by-state amendment push, the Lee-DeSantis-Johnson caucus, and competing statutory bills from Cotton and Cornyn.

Listeners get a clear-eyed look at why none of these Republican plans solve the actual vote math, plus a satirical imagining of what happens when you put all these competing GOP factions in one room.

The hosts close by weighing this ruling against Trump's other major losses this term, making the case that the real fight just moved from the Court to a gridlocked Congress ahead of the midterms.

Next episode: what happens when the amendment caucus and the statute crowd actually sit down together. Got a theory on how this plays out? Send it our way.

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