Political Odd Couple
Kellyanne Conway and David Plouffe have launched a new podcast called The Campaign Managers.
Quote of the Day
“He’s a prick, he’s lying to you.”
— Jack Schlossberg, grandson of John F. Kennedy, talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Be Shot Too
“South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) suggests in her new book that President Joe Biden’s dog Commander should suffer a similar fate to the working dog she shot on her farm,” CNN reports.
Presidential Race Could Not Be Closer
Six months before Election Day, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are tied 37%-37% in an exclusive USA Today/Suffolk University Poll as millions of Americans’ votes remain up for grabs.
While the nation’s fierce polarization has set many political preferences in stone, 1 in 4 registered voters (24%) say they might change their minds ahead of November’s election, and 12% haven’t made a choice yet.
Mike Johnson Mulls Booting Disloyal Republicans
“Speaker Mike Johnson signaled to an audience at his high-dollar donor retreat that he’d support kicking members off their committees if they oppose party-line procedural votes,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Republicans voting against the rule has been a huge problem for Johnson and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy this Congress. With the GOP’s razor-thin margin of control, Republicans can only afford a handful of defections on rule votes, which are typically passed on a partisan basis. It was once unthinkable to have a member of the majority vote against a rule. But hardline Republicans — even those serving on the Rules Committee — have made it practice. Control of the Rules Committee is how the speaker controls the floor.”
Trump’s VP Hopefuls Hit the Talk Shows
“After spending time with their potential future boss at his Florida home over the weekend, many of Donald Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls hit the Sunday show circuit, repeating the former president’s doubts about election results and bashing President Joe Biden for his handling of campus protests,” CNN reports.
Trump’s ‘Hush Money’ Trial Resumes
Washington Post: “The state of New York’s criminal case against Trump continues on Monday — the 12th day of trial. Prosecutors are not revealing who they will call next to the stand, and so far the witnesses have alternated between obscure figures — like the young paralegal whose job at the Manhattan district attorney’s office includes cataloguing Trump’s social media posts — and high-profile players talking about their conversations with Trump in the White House.”
Associated Press: Prosecutors move deeper into Trump’s orbit as testimony in hush money trial enters a third week.
Biden Races to Trump-Proof His Agenda
“Less than four weeks after taking office, President Trump, his senior White House aides and a group of Republican lawmakers gathered in the Oval Office to sign a resolution that killed an obscure Obama-era energy regulation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In the following months, Trump would sign more than a dozen similar resolutions, undoing a raft of Obama administration regulations on everything from unemployment to education. The effort was made possible by Trump’s unprecedented use of a 1996 law called the Congressional Review Act, which allows a new president, with the help of allies on Capitol Hill, to quickly eliminate regulations put in place in the final months of the previous administration.”
“If he wins a second term, Trump plans to use the same tactic to unravel as much of President Biden’s agenda as possible… And senior Biden aides are doing everything in their power to stop him, setting off a behind-the-scenes scramble to Trump-proof as many regulations as they can before they become vulnerable to being overturned under the 1996 law.”
Israeli Military Warns Thousands in Rafah to Evacuate
“The Israeli military on Monday said it was asking tens of thousands of Gazans sheltering in eastern Rafah to temporarily evacuate to what it described as a humanitarian zone, a sign that Israel was inching closer to invading the city in defiance of international pressure,” the New York Times reports.
“By 9 a.m. local time, the military had begun dropping leaflets in eastern Rafah ordering people to evacuate. The Israeli military said it would also use text messages, phone calls and broadcasts in Arabic to warn residents of Rafah to leave.”
Wall Street Journal: “Israel says it needs to break up four remaining Hamas battalions located in Rafah, the one Gazan city that hasn’t been subject to a full-on Israeli ground invasion, to achieve its goal of destroying the group’s ability to attack Israel.”
Washington Post: Israel tells U.S. it has no “alternative” to military action in Rafah.
Biden Replaces Pelosi as House GOP Bogeyman
“House Republicans are looking to President Biden as their premier target to drag down vulnerable Democrats going into the 2024 general election,” Axios reports.
“Republicans lost their top bogeyman when Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stepped down as House Democrats’ leader, and her successor, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), has not yet proven an effective foil.”
Cease-Fire Talks Again at an Impasse
“The latest round of negotiations between Israel and Hamas hit an impasse on Sunday as mediators struggled to bridge remaining gaps and a Hamas delegation departed the talks in Cairo,” the New York Times reports.
Bloomberg: “Israel closed the Kerem Shalom humanitarian crossing into Gaza on Sunday after a rocket barrage was fired by Hamas, as weekend talks on a potential truce broke up inconclusively.”
Harry Dunn Pointed Gun at His Wife
Punchbowl News: “We have new details about a 2011 domestic dispute between Democratic congressional candidate Harry Dunn and his then-wife.”
“Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer who gained national attention following his testimony in the Jan. 6 investigation, allegedly pointed a gun at Danyell Dunn and shoved her against a wall, according to a report from a Montgomery County Police officer who investigated the incident.”
Xi Shouldn’t Expect an Easy Ride in Europe This Time
“Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s first visit to Europe in nearly five years is shaping up as a test of the continent’s willingness to confront Beijing over its support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as well as Chinese trade policies that have eviscerated critical European industries,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“European leaders tend to tread lightly with Beijing, not wanting to jeopardize ties with a major trade partner. But French President Emmanuel Macron, who is set to meet with Xi on Monday on the first leg of the six-day trip, has cast the Ukraine war and China’s trade practices as an existential threat to Europe.”
Bloomberg: China’s billions help Xi make useful friends in Eastern Europe.
The Wolves Of K Street
Just published: The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins.
An excerpt from Politico: “Trump’s victory would touch off the most dramatic reshuffling of K Street’s pecking order since the conservative revolution of 1980. The Democratic lobbyists who’d expected to flourish under a Hillary Clinton administration were now out in the cold, and the Republican lobbying establishment had almost no relationship with Trump.”
“Suddenly every wheeler-dealer in the city was racing to make friends in Trump’s orbit, portraying themselves as longtime backers of the MAGA movement, even if they weren’t, and creating new strategies for getting what they wanted out of the president-elect. Washington’s entire lobbying industry, it seemed, was reinventing itself overnight.”
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Mullins, Brody (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 621 Pages - 05/07/2024 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Florida Activists Battle Over 6-Week Abortion Law
“Abortion-rights groups with a deep war chest are facing off against organizers determined to protect a near ban on the procedure in Florida that went into effect this month,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The pitched battle is over a November ballot initiative that would override the state’s new ban on abortion after six weeks and enshrine abortion rights in the Florida constitution. Democrats view the ballot measure as a catalyst that will galvanize party voters, possibly putting the red state in play for President Biden.”
“But it is also a steeper hurdle for abortion-rights supporters than in past battles because Florida requires a supermajority to pass ballot initiatives. That has transformed the organizing effort into an expensive and multimillion-dollar referendum that could deliver organizers their first loss and potentially shape the outcome of other races on the ballot, including contests for the White House and Congress.”
House GOP Embroiled in Escalating Primary Feuds
CNN: “It has long been a breach of protocol on Capitol Hill to campaign against sitting members of the same party.”
“But the 118th Congress has seen the House GOP descend into a seemingly endless series of intraparty wars, with members hurling personal insults at each other, pointedly blaming each other for their failures to enact a conservative agenda and now actively stumping to defeat their own Republican colleagues in races that will carry major consequences for the direction of the party.”
Kristi Noem Won’t Admit Story In Her Book Is False
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) refused to take responsibility in a CBS News interview for falsely claiming in her new book that she met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Said Noem: “As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits. So I’m glad that this book is being released in a couple days and that those edits will be in place.”
She added: “I’m saying that this book is very, very good. And I’ve met with many world leaders and there are world leaders that I’ve met with that are in this book and there are many that I’ve met with that are not in this book. This is an anecdote that I asked to have removed because I believe it’s appropriate at this point in time.”
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