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Country star George Strait just broke the attendance record for the largest concert in the U.S. during his Saturday show at Kyle Field, located on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. Parker McCollum and Catie Offerman appeared at the show as special guests. 

“What’s going on everybody?” the 72-year-old recording artist said to his fans assembled at the home of the Texas A&M Aggies football team. “We got some Aggies out there? Oh yeah! I’m ashamed to say this, but this is my first time to ever be in Kyle Field… damn! Just invite me back, I’ll come!”

His weekend show attracted 110,905 ticket-buying fans, besting the record previously set by The Grateful Dead. Their 1977 show at Raceway Park in New Jersey attracted 107,019 people. Strait’s latest record-breaking numbers also applied to Texas A&M Kyle Field specifically, as it beat out a 2014 college football game against Ole Miss which attracted 110,633 attendees, per Billboard.

There were several prominent faces in the crowd, including Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. “Unbelievable concert by the King, George Strait,” he shared on X. “Largest packed house for a concert in America. Ever.”

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was also there with his daughter. “Took my daughter Caroline to see @GeorgeStrait⁩ at Kyle Field ⁦@TAMU⁩ tonight,” he wrote on X alongside a photo of the duo posing with Strait. “Great fun. Spectacular concert.”

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This is not the first time the revered “King of Country Music” has set a record. The “Check Yes Or No” crooner also has the most number-one singles of any artist in any genre and is the only artist to chart a top 10 hit every year for 30 years. Strait has the most number-one albums, gold albums, and platinum albums in country music.

Strait introduced two new songs ahead of the show. “MIA in MIA” and “The Little Things” are part of his upcoming album, “Cowboys And Dreamers,” which is scheduled to be released on September 6. 

Next up, the singer’s tour heads to Salt Lake City, Detroit, and Chicago. Strait is also scheduled to play in Las Vegas on December 7. 

On Sunday, former President Trump targeted Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, who has been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party but who has presided over the state while natives flee.

Pritzker was inaugurated as governor of the state in January 2019; between July 2021 and July 2022, over 142,000 people left Illinois. The only state that had a faster rate of population decline during that same time period was New York.

“Sloppy J.B. Pritzker, the Rotund Governor from the once great State of Illinois, who makes Chris Christie look like a male model, and whose family wanted him out of the business because he was so pathetic at helping them run it, has presided over the destruction and disintegration of Illinois at levels never seen before in any State. Crime is rampant and people are, sadly, fleeing Illinois. Unless a change is made at the Governor’s level, Illinois can never be Great Again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Pritzker has a massive $52.7 billion 2025 spending plan that will require enormous tax increases of an estimated $898 million. Illinois currently has the second-highest corporate income tax rate in the country. He wants to extend extension of Illinois’ cap on net operating losses, which would raise taxes on companies losing money, as Bryce Hill, Director of Fiscal and Economic Research with the Illinois Policy Institute, pointed out in a comprehensive piece about Pritzker’s 2025 budget.

Pritzker would “effectively raise taxes by $186 million on retailers,” Hill noted, adding, “Retailers now retain 1.75% of the sales taxes for collecting and sending them to the government, so long as they properly file and pay their applicable sales taxes by their due dates. Under Pritzker’s proposal, the value of this tax credit would be capped at $1,000 per month.”

Hill asserts that Pritzker’s 2025 budget proposal includes “a hidden $93 million income tax hike on individuals. He will get that money by shortchanging the inflation adjustment to the state’s standard income tax exemption. … the state’s current standard exemption for tax year 2024 is set a $2,775 per income taxpayer and dependent. Pritzker wants to reduce this exemption to $2,550 per income taxpayer and dependent – a change that would only account for one years’ worth of inflation adjustments instead of the two taxpayers are due.”