
And Eric Schmitt Is Supposed to Be the Sane One
Tim Miller on the PAC supporting the supposedly mainstream Eric Schmitt's crazy new ad.
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And Eric Schmitt Is Supposed to Be the Sane One
TIM MILLER: A PAC supporting the supposedly mainstream Missouri GOP Senate candidate launches with the craziest ad of the cycle (so far).
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Michael Steele Is Not Toning It Down
On today's podcast, former RNC Chair Michael joins host Charlie Sykes to talk about the January 6 committee, Jim Jordan, Arizona's craziness, and his future in Maryland politics.
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Alyssa makes the case to Peter, Sonnyāand you!
From The Bulwark Aggregatorā¦
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Yes, Sick or Quarantined Senators Could Blow Up the Infrastructure Vote ā Ed Kilgore, Intelligencer
Activist Whose NGO Helped Olympianās Husband Escape Belarus Found Dead in Kiev ā Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast
The Fertility Doctorās Secret ā Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
The Truth About the Quietest Town in America ā Stephen Kurczy, Wired
That Weird California Computer Ban Isnāt What It Appears to Be. Itās Dumber. ā Scott Shackford, Reason
Trump raised millions but spent none of it on audits and GOP candidates ā Meridith McGraw, Politico
In Todayās Bulwark...
Rival Wants Regulators to Cripple Elon Muskās Satellite Project
CORBIN BARTHOLD: Starlinkās fight for the future.
Meet John Bennett: The Oklahoma Republican Partyās Very Special Chairman
JIM SWIFT: The Sooner GOP looked at Allen West and said, "Hold my beer . . ."
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The point is youāre not supposed to be polite, Glenn⦠The Youngkin camp forwarded me this statement in response to my story yesterday.



The entire premise of my item is that people like John McCain were forceful in dealing with voters detached from reality. Youāre supposed to push back if youāre a leader. Glenn Youngkin playing paddyfingers with election truthers isnāt going to stop until the election. (And maybe not even then, sadly.)
Will this really work? I guess maybe the data (if it exists) will tell us, but it seems to me that people in communities that need to hear this most arenāt watching TikTok microinfluencers.


From the time machineā¦

Itās Primary Day in Ohio⦠Will be interesting to see if Nina Turner is able to maintain her lead, or whether Shontel Brown is able to pull off the win. (READ: Tim Miller and me on this race from a few days ago.)
Will Chipman survive? This controversy probably isnāt something the White House will want to spend political capital on.


Speaking of trouble⦠If this is Andrew Cuomoās defense, he is screwed. Not to mention how craven it is. If he wonāt resign, NY Democrats should impeach him.



Both Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Biden have called on Cuomo to resign. My theory?
Hold onto your butts.
Tucker Carlson, live from⦠Hungary? In the Post, Philip Bump on why the Fox News personality is there:
Millions of Fox News viewers this week are likely to be presented with a vision of Hungary that not only deprioritizes its political shift but champions Orbanās ostensible focus on preserving national character. Orbanism will almost certainly be cast not as a danger to American traditions but the salvation of it. Orban is almost certainly about to get a week-long infomercial on the United Statesā most-watched cable network for nationalist authoritarianism, just as he wanted.
The secrets of working on a super yacht. A wild read at Bloomberg:
South Floridaāfrom Palm Beach down to Miamiāis quickly becoming a āroided-out version of the Mediterranean. āBut in Florida,ā YachtLifeās Curley says, āthe partyās all 12 months of the year.ā
There the business is about day charters, often for time-crunched celebs willing to drop $15,000 on one epic joyride. On āSunday Fundays,ā Curley says, āyou head out in the morning, drop anchor at the sandbar off Key Biscayne, play with the toys before youāre too drunk, then dock at the trendiest club.ā
RIP. This week in Washington, weāve had two D.C. MPD cops commit suicide, and just today, a Pentagon police officer was killed in the line of duty. Washington is a super magnet for crazy, and while we wait to hear about the motivation of the perpetrator, please say a prayer for this officer and their family and friends.
Choose your own deathventureā¦

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