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The Trump administration faces tough questions on Capitol Hill for the path forward on Iran. Lindsey Graham's sister Darlene announces plans to run for a full six year term. And James Tallarico faces the music back home. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.

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The story of America is the story of an adventure.

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Yesterday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs raising Cain were on Capitol Hill to answer questions about the path forward for Iran.

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Iran is at the weakest point militarily it has ever been in, in the past decade, certainly maybe in 47 years, as they've gathered, effectively, a terror army. And that terror army was built to try to create conventional capability to defend against a pursuit of nuclear weapons, which meant thousands of ballistic missiles, many of which we have destroyed.

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Over the last few days. President Trump has been signaling that we are about to make a more aggressive push in Iran, particularly after the death of multiple American service members. However, there's also a lot of discussion about a potential new ceasefire, peace deal, things like that, to try and lower the temperature and reopen the Strait of Hormuz and things like that. But we will see where this continues to shape up this week. On Monday night, Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham, talked to Sean Hannity about her plans for her brother's Senate seat.

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You're in.

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I'm in.

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Now, while some are asking what qualifications she has to take on a full Senate seat, besides being the sister of a storied United States Senator, Sean Hannity reminded everybody that she actually has done quite a bit in governing.

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Now, while President Trump has full heartedly endorsed Darlene for this seat alongside Senator Tom Cotton and John Barrasso, other names have also been floated, like Ralph Norman. I'm here to announce that I will be a candidate for the Senate.

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I'll be throwing my hat in the ring.

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Norman has been endorsed by groups like tpusa, Senators Mike Lee and Rick Scott. But he is not the only other person to get in this race. Russell Frye has also announced he's getting in South Carolina. I'm in. I'm running for the US Senate. Before Darlene Graham announced that she was running, Russell Frye was seen as and reported as one of the favorites of the White House and the Trump administration. But this looks to be an interesting primary shaping up. We'll see how far President Trump's endorsement can carry Darlene Graham against other well known conservatives who are vying for this seat. As we have discussed, Troy Jackson looks to be coalescing all the votes needed for Saturday's convention to run away with it. However, there's still a lot to learn about Troy Jackson and there may be time for Democrats to pull the rug out from him if stories like this resonate. From the Washington Post. Democrats set to replace Platner in Maine Led state Senate with a Temper Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Senator Susan Collins, yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal. Yikes. I have worked pretty closely in politics and been in a lot of tense rooms and haven't seen a lot of this yelling, cursing and throwing things. And one of the anecdotes detailed in this that's been been going around main circles for a few weeks now is an incident in which Troy Jackson got so angry at a female lawmaker that he threw a water bottle at her. Now AIDS to Jackson have said he didn't throw it at her, he threw it somewhere else and it bounced and hit her. That was their defense. Either way, sounds like a guy with a pretty bad temper. Who does that sound like for a party who is just getting through the scandal of accidentally getting behind a lunatic with a terrible temper who turned out to be really abusive? There may be some second about Troy Jackson, but even if they can stomach that, they'll have to also deal with the fact that Troy Jackson is way out of step with normie voters in Maine. He supports things like Medicare for all, which means banning private health insurance. And he also happens to be a favorite, as we have discussed, of Graham Platner, but also Graham Platner's top boosters like Hassan Piker. As we've been discussing this Democrat civil war, we've seen more and more examples of Democrats, even far left Democrats getting shouted down, attacked and things like that for not being sort of pro hamas enough, any number of reasons. And one person who faced the music like this is scandal ridden, fraud aligned Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Now imagine how Radical. You, your local activists have to be to shout down Keith Ellison, who has paved the way for $9 billion in Somali fraud. He's at a rally to support Peggy Flanagan, who's also a radical. Here's Peggy. Salaam alaykum.

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My name's Peggy Flanagan.

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I am the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and I'm really honored and humbled to be here with all of you today. Keith Ellison is one of the far left's best champions because he has no shame and no concern whatsoever for the rule of law. He will break it to support left wing causes, and yet he's getting shouted down. And to conclude this very short discussion about Keith Ellison, we need to do a little bit of commentary about that hat. Now, Keith Ellison is insanely dedicated to this fedora. Okay, I got you, brother. If you stepped outside lately, you've seen it. I'll just tell you this.

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I'm running for attorney general for a third time. Hey, friends, Keith Ellison here, your Minnesota

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Attorney general, he's wearing it to four or five different events, which made me wonder, did he get like a bad haircut or maybe smacked in the head and needed to cover something up? But to honor it today, we want to do a little who wore it best? First off, who wore it best? Keith Ellison or Jason Mraz? Keith Ellison or Ice from the Disney Halloween classic Hocus Pocus? Keith Ellison or Tim Robinson from the sketch Brian's hat.

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I'm putting the hat back on. I don't care what happens to me. Just take the hat off, Brian. I've never fought for anything in my entire life. I'm fighting for this hat or my

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personal favorite, Keith Ellison or Fidel Castro. Now, speaking of getting yelled at by activists, we've talked about the tough dynamics for James Talarico in the Texas Senate race. You may remember that when he announced his candidacy, Chuck Schumer and the party establishment ran rallied to him immediately at the expense of Jasmine Crockett. And Jasmine Crockett has had a few things to say about it.

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You see, a lot of haters got a lot of things to say about me and my race and how I ran it. But the reality is that there was a lot of racist. Not a lot. It was racist. It was a racist race. It is what it is.

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Well, now James Salarico and the Democrat establishment is facing the music. So you stay here.

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You answer our question, or you suffered the consequences. Here, put your chest.

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So I'm happy to engage. We'll come to here in just a second. I appreciate you being here and I

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it for my people, not for you. Yikes. Again, this has been boiling because of the heavy handed actions of Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority pac, his super PAC, and the party establishment that thought James Talarico was a better choice. Now I've said before I think that might have been a mistake. Jasmine Crockett is crazy, but but I don't think she has as bad of oppo as James Talarico with all the insane things he has said about God being transgender and non binary, about needing abortion care for our transgender neighbors, about needing to ban meat to fight climate change, things that feel tailor made for a Democrat to lose statewide in Texas. Jasmine Crockett does not have those same kind of very targeted and intentional vulnerabilities. And when you combine the fact that a lot of the black voters in Texas are a little bit more socially conservative, the same things that cut against James Tallarico with Republicans also hurt him with these same black Democrats that are critical to the winning coalition here. So again, as we talk about the Democrat Coalition, the Democrat civil war with the dsa, these dynamics are fascinating to watch and it will be interesting to see if the people shouting down James Talarico at this rally are emblematic of a larger problem he faces going into November. For you can't make it up segment today, what do you get when you combine too much day drinking with a rabid case of Tourette's syndrome?

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Jennifer Welch Republicans are a personality type that are incapable of critical thinking that cling to money and racism as their driving ethos.

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Now she went viral last week for a clip talking about horrible homeschooling.

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The homeschooling that I was referring to is the crazy Christian homeschooling. It is trickle down stupidity. The reason they're melting down so much about this is because homeschooling is inherently patriarchal and it is a huge push of the fascist project because it keeps women at home.

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When you hear patriarchal step of the fascist project, it sounds a little bit like Wine Mom, Mad Lips where she's got all these words, patriarchal, fascist that she's got to get into. One, competition there and there's not a lot of substance to it. And it's really interesting because it did cause a pretty big backlash of people pointing out one, the public school system is not exactly crushing it right now and two, a lot of homeschooled kids end up performing significantly better on tests in college, high school, going forward, things like that. So grateful to Jennifer Welsh for helping create this juxtaposition of the out of touch left wing wine mom that's become the base of the DSA and the Further and further Left Democrat Party. It helps us all see exactly what the rest of the country is fighting against. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review, tell your friends and have a great day.