One q I have: My whole life marijuana legalization has been treated as a youth vote issue, but is it….? If you’re in your 20s in lots of places it’s been effectively legal as long as you’ve cared. It’s your Gen X dad who’s boring you by constantly saying how amazing that is.

New J.L. Partners polling in David Weigel’s Semafor Americana newsletter

Four in ten Americans – and one in three Independents – think Trump secretly backs a federal abortion ban

Poll comes as issue increases in salience on campaign trail

Read: semafor.com/newsletter/05/…

a funny thing happening in the rfk jr verse is that it seems like most people around the campaign want trump to win, which means that rfk jr should *try to appeal to biden supporters*, but not everyone in the rfk-jr-verse can keep this straight

NEWS: Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and wife indicted on bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan via Caroline Anders semafor.com/article/05/03/…

New AMERICANA time

New scoop in Semafor tech today: Travis Kalanick-linked Digital Restaurant Association has registered to lobby in Los Angeles - continuing the fight over food delivery data. semafor.com/article/05/03/…

🟡NEW Americana: Biden's fraying fringe

David Weigel looks at how Tulsi Gabbard and other post-left figures with big megaphones have turned hard on Biden since 2020.

semafor.com/newsletter/05/…

Trump’s Super PAC is running this ad in rural Georgia counties targeting Black men.

struggling to pick which frame of this to get as my back tattoo

INBOX: Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. to give the commencement speech The Citadel this Saturday. Mace became the first woman cadet to graduate from the military college in 1999

🟡 Today in Principals

Donald Trump’s dream convention
Biden’s message on protests
FTC targets oil market collusion
FAA bill drama ✈️
Google’s closing arguments
DACA recipients get Obamacare
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+One Good Text w/ Rep. Susan Wild
(Bonus One Good Dog w/ Zoey)

Despite being at the 2016 RNC, even I forgot just HOW crazy it got: In addition to the multi-day Melania plagiarism disaster and Ted Cruz non-endorsing Trump on stage, there was also a wild floor fight with anti-Trump delegates semafor.com/article/05/02/…

🟡NEW: Trump’s first GOP convention was a chaotic civil war. His second got wrecked by COVID. Only now will he have total control — and his team plans to make the most of it. Shelby Talcott has the latest on what that means: semafor.com/article/05/02/…