E6109 - Badlands Daily: 9/9/26 - Midterm Narrative Deployments, Stay At Home Parent Fight & CNN's War Take

CannCon and Ashe dig into a busy morning of coordinated midterm narrative seeding, starting with an Axios scoop on the Republican convention speaker lineup and the anxiety around who is showing up and who is quietly staying home. From there they cover a Hill piece on Trump leaning into trolling his critics, followed by the growing conservative split over a proposal to pay stay at home parents, a debate that gets into questions of populism, government intervention, and who actually decides how families raise their kids. CannCon also gets to prove he was right about daycare pricing after yesterday's...