Greg is still out, so guest host Craig Collins gets to enjoy a rare day of three good martinis with Jim.

First, CNN delivers a big, detailed, and damning report about scandals in the Minnesota state government under Tim Walz – who knew we could get hard-hitting mainstream media coverage of someone on the Democratic ticket about a month before the election?

Meanwhile, the dockworker strike gets suspended for 90 days – the striking workers will have to make due with "merely” a 62 percent raise over six years, but America dodges an economic bullet.

Finally, Axios reports that Democrats are genuinely worried about the Wisconsin Senate race… and Democratic senator Jon Tester hasn't led a poll out in Montana since mid-August.