Closer. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the thirdparty group no labels ended months of speculation about whether it would field a unity ticket for the president ial race in a Virtual Convention with an 800 delegates from all 50 states voted to move forward with the process and on the heels of that news, several outlets are reporting theres a particular candidate. Now under consideration. Geoff duncan, 48 yearold, was a republican Lieutenant Governor of georgia under brian kemp from 2019 to early 2023, is a conservative republican and also a vocal critic of Donald Trumps efforts to over returned the 2020 president ial election. Duncan recently wrote an oped in the Atlanta Journal constitution titled end doesnt justify the means on trump about why he wont support trump for president. Writing quote, trump has become incapable of leading in a respectable or mature way until more of us are willing to acknowledge that pardon, truth, we will be on the outside looking in. The
spain, italy, portugal, ireland could all be next needing emergency shelter and support n an economic storm, what that means is more bailouts and cut backs with europe means spending less money. that mean s the world factory floor, asia, has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states or of europe has slowed. india slowed, too. that means more than two billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we ve got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. you can t go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that is something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the storm. but they won t because that would mean being honest with you about things that are getting potentially worse and not better. and that kind of talk doesn t win elections. so congress stick