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Turns out, Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie’s “campaign announcement” earlier this month was a “marketing stunt” meant to capitalize on Ritchie's name being floated as a possible contender to face off against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow in the 2018 midterms.

But after a poll from Delphi Analytica showed Michigan voters preferred Ritchie to Stabenow by four percentage points, the entertainer and longtime conservative says he’s seriously considering a run, according to Fox News.

Authored by Scott Rasmussen via Ballotpedia.org,

If the individual mandate were to be repealed and Americans were no longer required to purchase the Obamacare-mandated levels of health insurance coverage, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) believes that 15 million Americans would no longer purchase such coverage.

Some, including Jonathan Gruber, believe that the CBO is overestimating the impact of repealing the mandate. Gruber was one of the architects of the healthcare law.

After dropping to an all time low 62.9% in Q2 of 2016, the US homeownership rate rebounded modestly in the subsequent two quarters, then dropped again at the start of the year, before once again rising fractionally to 63.7% in Q2 of 2017 from 63.6% in the previous quarter, just 1% from the all time lows in the series history going back to the mid 1960s.

The Trump fiscal agenda - which these days really means tax reform - may be dead, but that does not mean it can't reemerge as a zombie every now and then. That's precisely what happened moments ago when Paul Ryan just announced that after months of speculation whether border adjustment tax will or won't be implemented to help offset Trump's proposed tax cuts, it is now officially dead.

• RYAN IS SAID TO BE TELLING REPUBLICANS BORDER TAX IS DEAD: BBG

As Reuters adds:

Now that former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli has decided not to testify in his own defense, the jury could reach a verdict as soon as Friday afternoon.