White House report card: History has not been kind to presidents bouncing from state to state

Published October 9, 2026 11:58am ET | Updated October 9, 2026 11:58am ET



Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. As usual, today we run the rule over the president’s week with two political strategists. Plus, who did the chief executive of Anthropic label as “Benedict Arnolds?”

As so often, you can rely on President Donald Trump to say the quiet part aloud.

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