Badlands Daily: 10/7/26 - Feds at the Polls, a $194M TS/SCI Fraud Plea & Dual Citizen Lawmakers

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday's Badlands Daily with an NAACP lawsuit, flagged by Mark Elias, seeking records on the Justice Department's plan to send about 1,000 federal personnel to polling places for the midterms. They question why ICE or the National Guard near the polls would worry eligible voters, and Ashe argues that watching polling places won't catch election fraud. They also cover a federal judge upholding New Hampshire's student voter ID law. From there, CannCon and Ashe in America get into health care price transparency rules, a reported cartel threat against CBP personnel at the Texas border, and Tom Homan's answer to a CBS reporter on deaths in ICE custody. Two DOJ cases follow: a St. Paul man sentenced in the Feeding Our Future fraud, and former senior federal official David Rush, who held a TS/SCI clearance, pleading guilty to a roughly $194 million fraud. CannCon argues no one clears that background check with his résumé without help. They close with the White House barring Politico from Air Force One, the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger and AI layoffs, Taylor Sheridan's shows, and a debate over dual citizenship for lawmakers after a video of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.