The Rush Lindell Show

Wednesday, June 3 — DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went on national television and threatened to pull customs officers from JFK, LAX, and O'Hare, which would effectively shut down international travel at America's busiest airports.

Rush and Reagan break down what triggered it: a Memorial Day standoff at Newark's Delaney Hall detention facility where local police never showed up. They build the conservative case for the threat, then dismantle it — starting with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy publicly breaking with Mullin at a Congressional hearing. They run the numbers on why the rerouting logic doesn't survive contact with reality, covering 70 million annual passengers and the red-state connecting hubs that take the same hit as blue-city gateways. They get into the World Cup timing disaster, with hotel bookings already running nearly 80% below forecasts weeks before MetLife hosts the final. And they close on the legal and political picture: CNN sources calling this Mullin's personal obsession, courts that already blocked this same theory in 2017, and a White House that won't touch it.

Is this leverage theater or a genuinely dangerous idea? Weigh in — and tell us whether Duffy or Mullin has the better argument.

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Tuesday, June 2 — Trump's endorsement record now stands at 118 and zero, and the Republican Party just watched a four-term Texas senator lose his own primary by 28 points.

Rush and Reagan break down the 2026 primary season race by race: Thomas Massie out after 14 years, Bill Cassidy running pro-Trump ads while Trump funded ads to end his career, and John Cornyn gone in the most significant GOP Senate primary upset since 1970. They dig into Ken Paxton's Texas win and what Cook Political's same-night rating shift signals about November. Then the November map — Democrats need four Senate seats but only three House flips, and forecasters already like their odds in the lower chamber.

The core question isn't whether Trump can win a primary. It's whether winning every primary loses the majority anyway. That answer may come on the same night.

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