Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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check on. So you all know Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right? Everybody knows Robert F. Kennedy. Very active in the vaccination conversations both prior to COVID and throughout. And he tweeted at me today. I didn't realize he follows me on Twitter but he tweeted at me today and he was telling me that at Children's HD and hashtag The Defender — I don't know what they are, they must be Twitter entities —…

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gical solution for what had been an incurable problem for forever and anybody who got that surgery and got fixed if they heard it from me then you know then it helped. And there are a number of other diseases and stuff that I've helped with directly and indirectly.

All right, good luck to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his voice. If his experience is like mine — I'm shy bladder for example — if his experience is like mine the recovery period lasts a long time. So your voice will be better fairly quickly but then it just continues improving as your vocal mechanism heals to its perfect state. So I think it took me years actually, years for my voice to normalize. But it did.

Rasmussen poll says that the GOP is just creeping the Democrats on these three issues: energy, immigration and spending. Those seem like pretty big issues, don't they? Energy, immigration and spending. The public by majority, not just the plurality but by an actual solid majority, which means the independents and Democrats a little bit are crossing over.

So here are the numbers. 53 percent of likely U.S. voters trust Republicans more to handle immigration. So Republicans on immigration 53 percent, only 36 percent trust Democrats. And then you know there's the people in between. That's a huge difference. The Republicans just have a solid winning position on immigration.

Now I'll say it again. If Trump comes in and just says the same things he used to say about immigration he will give away all of the advantage. Am I right? If he just acts the way he always acts and says the same things he always says he will give away all of the advantage. All he needs to do is just play it: we need to control the border. And then we need to separate the question of who comes in. Just one little change. Just separate the question of who comes in from the management of the physical border. You just do that, you own the topic. Such a small change and one that Trump would not disagree with. Do you think Trump would disagree with separating the physical security which he wants from the decision of how much to open the door? No, he said that directly, right? He said the big beautiful door so that you can let people in but you do it reasonably and logically.

So I think you know I mean this is just like a huge superhighway for a Republican to just walk into the office at this point. Yeah. So energy of course the Republicans are better on energy. Let's say 48 trust Republicans so it's not over 50 but only 40 trust Democrats. Again it's a pretty big difference between 40 and 48.

And then on environmental policy 43 percent trust Republicans, the Democrats 40. Crime and homeland — that's not the subject of this poll. Do Republicans or Democrats would win with the general public on crime? Oh spending, this is the third one. Sorry. And somewhere there's something about spending. 50 trust Republicans more on spending and only 35 percent trust Democrats. Thank you.

And so what about crime and homeland defense?

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You know national defense. Don't you think Republicans win that too? Like I haven't seen the numbers recently but I think so, right? So this would mean that Republicans are better on fiscal things. I think you could call that the economy, fiscal handling, energy, the environment, immigration, crime and homeland defense. And the election is still going to be close. Thank goodness for mail-in voting…

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