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I am back from the Big Apple and I can confirm: It’s still a pretty great city.

I learned a ton at Substack’s “The Once and Future Media Forum.” I am still sifting through my notes, thoughts and the like. I am planning to write a few posts inspired by what I heard on Thursday — so stay tuned!

Below I answered a whole bunch of subscriber questions from the week that was.

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Let’s open the mail.

Q: Do you think John Cornyn regrets his vote on the second impeachment in 2021?

A: Hmmm. Good question. That is very hard to answer!

Only 7 Republican Senators voted to convict Donald Trump after January 6, 2021. Of those seven, only ONE is guaranteed to be back in 2027: Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski.

It seems pretty clear from that record that voting to convict Trump in 2021 was something pretty close to a political death sentence.

Of course, Trump screwed Cornyn anyway — endorsing Ken Paxton a week before this week’s runoff. And Cornyn got his ass handed to him….