Scoop w/ Reese Gorman on how the Kristi Noem dog incident has gone down in Trumpworld:

- Worries about ads being cut over Noem shooting her dog
- VP chances cooked
- Cabinet position, also cooked
- Concerns over ‘bad judgment’ and being a ‘gaffe machine’
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For the latest issue of TIME, I interviewed Donald Trump twice to ask what he would do with a second term. Here's what he told me:

Republicans control the House by the tiniest of margins, only 217-212. Meet the GOP's daredevils -- a group that can't stop jumping out of airplanes and participating in extreme sports.

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SCOOP: As Ronna McDaniel collected six-figure severance from the RNC, her successor claimed an apparently larger salary paycheck—he had also reportedly argued *against* cutting the next chair's salary just before he took her place. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/inside-ronna-m…

How Parenthood Changed Pete Buttigieg - from his views on life in Washington to his political future.

“I’m more attuned to all of the different ways you can have a good life, only some of which involve public life,” he tells me for NOTUS. notus.org/democrats/pete…

NEW: The Trump-RNC fundraising was worse than it looked last month—but a new ruling from the FEC’s Republicans about how legal accounts can be used may have bailed them out just in time. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/republicans-ju…

Glad to make my debut today on the Bill Press Pod with some great journalists, including a few of my favorite former colleagues!

We talk about the Trump trial, RFK, and congressional chaos:

President Biden stopped at Sheetz in Pittsburgh today, per travel pool—an inflammatory move that amounts to declaring war on Wawa Nation

Following my reporting w/Mini Racker about Ted Cruz's podcast deal last week, Campaign Legal Center has just filed a new complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging that Cruz may have violated the ban on accepting 'honoraria,' or speaking fees campaignlegal.org/update/will-se…

NEW: Uber-wealthy GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick is running again in 2024, but he's just now getting around to refunding his 2022 donors — after his self-funded campaign already spent their money, against federal law. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/wealthy-gop-se…

NEW: The DLCC raised nearly $7M in Q1, its best first-quarter fundraising ever.

The committee is still emphasizing that that's a drop in the bucket compared to the money at the top of the ticket.

thedailybeast.com/grassroots-dem…

If booze alternatives aren’t alcohol, does it matter who drinks them? For The Atlantic, I wrote about why the zero-proof movement can’t agree on what it wants to be theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The deeply silly, extremely serious rise of Nick Adams (Alpha Male)

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As Roger Sollenberger Mini Racker report, the key technicality that Cruz may be pushing on with his iHeartMedia/super PAC arrangement is the distinction between 'raising' and 'earning.'

thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-tu…

RFK Jr. has a powerful weapon in his arsenal: a 25-year-old politically eclectic content creator Link Lauren who has spun the third-party candidate's TikTok account into one of the largest of any candidate/campaign. Story w/ TaylorLorenz.Substack.com: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

NEW: Ted Cruz is trying to turn his super PAC into a media company — and he may get away with it. Here is as deep a dive as you’re going to get on this unfolding conflict of interest cash scandal. Me w/Mini Racker The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-tu…

Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

'The unfortunate paradox of super-popular policies is that, almost by definition, they fail to generate the kind of drama needed to get people to pay attention to them,' Rogé Karma writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

NEW: Oregon Democrat Val Hoyle has been at the center of a wild cannabis scandal for a year, and it keeps getting weirder—now, we got some new records that show just how central she is, and it seems the DOJ might have them too. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/new-docs-show-…

NEW: In the first 3 months of 2024, the DLCC saw record grassroots fundraising for a Q1, thanks to a new recurring donor program called Down Ballot Defenders. The committee raised $2.3M from small-dollar donors.

More details, first in The Daily Beast:

thedailybeast.com/dems-have-a-ne…