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DEMS IN ARRAY — JMart’s latest: “Newsom Told the White House He Won’t Challenge Biden”
California Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM: “I’ve told everyone successful the White House, from the main of unit to the archetypal lady,” helium told JMart connected predetermination night.
Later that night, connected the telephone with JOE BIDEN: “I’m each in, enactment maine successful coach,” the politician said. “We person your back.”
ANOTHER MESS AT MAR-A-LAGO — The quickest mode to DONALD TRUMP’s bosom is flattery: Say bully things astir him, and you’re in.
Which is possibly wherefore helium was reportedly truthful smitten with NICK FUENTES — a young achromatic nationalist person and whose antisemitic and racist views are well-documented and well-known — aft eating with him and YE, the performer formerly known arsenic Kanye West, astatine Mar-a-Lago this week. (Fuentes’ beingness was archetypal reported by POLITICO.)
NYT’s Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer: “During the dinner, according to a idiosyncratic briefed connected what took place, Mr. Fuentes described himself arsenic portion of Mr. Trump’s basal of supporters. Mr. Trump remarked that his advisers impulse him to work speeches utilizing a teleprompter and don’t similar erstwhile helium ad-libs remarks.
“Mr. Fuentes said Mr. Trump’s supporters preferred the ad-libs, astatine which Mr. Trump turned to the others, the idiosyncratic said, and declared that helium liked Mr. Fuentes, adding: ‘He gets me.’”
Axios’ Jonathan Swan and Zachary Beau: “A root acquainted with the meal speech told Axios that Trump ‘seemed precise taken’ with Fuentes, impressed that the 24-year-old was capable to rattle disconnected statistic and callback speeches dating backmost to his 2016 campaign. …
“Fuentes told Trump that helium represented a broadside of Trump’s base that was disappointed with his recently cautious approach, particularly with what immoderate far-right activists presumption arsenic a deficiency of enactment for those charged successful the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“Trump didn’t disagree with Fuentes, but said helium has advisers who privation him to work disconnected teleprompters and beryllium much ‘presidential.’ …
“‘To beryllium honest, I don’t judge the president knew who the hellhole [Fuentes] was,’ the root added.”
What Trump knew astatine the time, of course, is simply a spot beside the point: Now that helium undeniably knows who Fuentes is, volition Trump condemn oregon adjacent knock him?
That seems unlikely, fixed Trump’s statements frankincense far.
In a Truth Social station connected Friday, Trump confirmed the dinner, calling it “quick and uneventful.”
Later, “in a abstracted statement, Trump denied knowing who Fuentes was, stating that the ‘dinner gathering was intended to beryllium Kanye and maine only, but helium arrived with a impermanent whom I had ne'er met and knew thing about,’” reports Meridith McGraw. “Both that connection and the Truth Social station did not see a denunciation of West’s oregon Fuentes’ caller comments.”
Then, successful yet different societal media post, Trump said that Ye “was asking maine for proposal … having to bash with his business. … Anyway, we got on great, helium expressed nary anti-Semitism … Also, I didn’t cognize Nick Fuentes.”
The episode, Meredith writes, “underscores however fewer guardrails presently beryllium wrong the erstwhile president’s governmental operation, with fewer aides determination to surface guests oregon counsel against and negociate specified gatherings.”
Now, Trump’s squad is successful afloat “damage control” mode,reports NBC’s Marc Caputo:
“‘This is simply a f---ing nightmare,’ said 1 longtime Trump adviser who spoke connected information of anonymity for fearfulness of stoking the erstwhile president's ire astatine ‘disloyal’ radical who knock him. ‘If radical are looking astatine [Florida Gov. RON] DeSANTIS to tally against Trump, here’s different crushed why.’”
So far, possibly the astir vocal inside-the-tent criticism implicit the meal with Fuentes has travel from DAVID FRIEDMAN, who served arsenic Trump’s ambassador to Israel. “To my person Donald Trump, you are amended than this,” he wrote connected Twitter. “Antisemites merit nary 4th among American leaders, close oregon left.”
Trump’s unwillingness to criticize those who’ve been complimentary towards him is thing caller — adjacent erstwhile condemnation is merited, and adjacent erstwhile his refusal to bash truthful explodes successful his face, arsenic with his remark that determination were “some precise good radical connected some sides” aft achromatic nationalists marched connected Charlottesville, Va.
That remark successful 2017 prompted a question of statements from starring Republicans expressing their discomfort with Trump’s remark and disgust with achromatic nationalists. But ultimately, astir of those aforesaid GOP leaders came astir and yet ended up supporting Trump anyway.
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Good Saturday morning, and acknowledgment for speechmaking Playbook. I’m Zack Stanton, Playbook’s lawman editor, penning contiguous to springiness the remainder of the squad a breather implicit the vacation weekend. How are you spending your post-Thanksgiving downtime this weekend? Drop america a line: [email protected] and [email protected].
PRESIDENTS, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US — “The Biden family’s contented of eating lunch, buying and watching a Christmas histrion lighting successful downtown Nantucket connected Friday became mostly astir keeping the president’s 2-year-old grandson from having a meltdown,” AP’s Darlene Superville reports from the island.
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7 THINGS THAT STUCK WITH US
1. RUNOFF REPORT: “The overlooked constituency some parties are present targeting successful the Georgia runoff,” by Holly Otterbein and Madison Fernandez: “Powered by a multimillion-dollar get-out-the-vote program, turnout among Asian Americans astir doubled successful Georgia from 2016 to 2020, according to the Democratic steadfast TargetSmart — a large boon for Democrats, who they backed overwhelmingly.
“The aforesaid investigation recovered that the fig of ballots formed by Asian Americans successful the authorities accrued by upwards of 60,000 votes successful 2020, much than the magnitude by which President Joe Biden carried Georgia. Now Asian American and Pacific Islander elected officials, donors and activists who enactment [Democratic Sen. RAPHAEL] WARNOCK are trying to beryllium that those voters tin beryllium the borderline of triumph successful this year’s runoff — and turn their clout successful the process.”
2. KNOWING GINA RAIMONDO: “A Rising Star successful the Biden Administration Faces a $100 Billion Test,” by NYT’s Ana Swanson successful West Lafayette, Ind.: “The Commerce Department, nether Ms. Raimondo’s leadership, is present poised to statesman distributing astir $100 cardinal — astir 10 times the department’s yearly fund — to physique up the U.S. spot manufacture and grow broadband entree passim the country.
“How Ms. Raimondo handles that task volition person large implications for the United States system going forward. Many presumption the effort arsenic the champion — and lone — stake for the United States to presumption itself successful industries of the future, similar artificial quality and supercomputing, and guarantee that the state has a unafraid proviso of the chips indispensable for nationalist security. But the risks are likewise huge.”
3. GUNS IN AMERICA: “Emboldened Biden, Dems propulsion prohibition connected alleged battle weapons,” by AP’s Colleen Long, Mary Clare Jalonick and Lindsay Whitehurst: “A weapons prohibition is acold disconnected successful a intimately divided Congress. But Biden and the Democrats person go progressively emboldened successful pushing for stronger weapon controls — and doing truthful with nary wide electoral consequences.”
— Related read: “At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking,” by NYT’s Mike McIntire: “Armed Americans, often pushing a right-wing agenda, are progressively utilizing open-carry laws to intimidate opponents and unopen down debate.”
4. MEET THE NEW CONGRESS: “Bipartisan set of brothers: The West Point grads coming to Congress,” by Jordain Carney and Olivia Beavers: “When JOHN JAMES and PAT RYAN reconnected connected the sidelines of an Army shot crippled successful 2019, they were 2 aged West Point classmates with night-and-day governmental identities successful a akin predicament: Both had conscionable mislaid legislature bids. Three years later, the erstwhile Cadet institution buddies’ fates person shifted — some volition beryllium House members adjacent year. … Incredibly, different postgraduate of their people volition besides beryllium roaming the Capitol halls adjacent year: Rep.-elect WESLEY HUNT (R-Texas) volition articulation James, whom helium counts arsenic a adjacent friend, arsenic the archetypal 2 Black graduates of West Point to participate Congress.”
5. WAR IN UKRAINE: “Western sanctions drawback up with Russia’s wartime economy,” by WaPo’s Catherine Belton and Robyn Dixon: “Recent figures amusement the concern has worsened considerably since the summertime when, buoyed by a dependable watercourse of lipid and state revenue, the Russian system seemed to stabilize.”
— “Artillery Is Breaking successful Ukraine. It’s Becoming a Problem for the Pentagon,” by NYT’s John Ismay and Thomas Gibbons-Neff: “A 3rd of the astir 350 Western-made howitzers donated to Kyiv are retired of enactment astatine immoderate fixed time, according to U.S. defence officials and others acquainted with Ukraine’s defence needs. Swapping retired a howitzer’s barrel, which tin beryllium 20 feet agelong and measurement thousands of pounds, is beyond the capableness of soldiers successful the tract and has go a precedence for the Pentagon’s European Command, which has acceptable up a repair installation successful Poland.”
6. CRISIS AVERTED: “Midterms escaped of feared chaos arsenic voting experts look to 2024,” by AP’s Nicholas Riccardi: “Voting rights groups accidental they’re relieved their fears didn’t materialize, but they accidental threats to ideology stay connected the skyline for 2024 — particularly with Trump announcing that he’s moving again.”
— Related read: “New authorities elector fraud units uncovering fewer cases from midterms,” by AP’s Gary Fields, Anthony Izaguirre and Sudhin Thanawala
7. A NEW YORK MINUTE: “‘The sixth borough’: How Westchester became a Democratic firewall successful New York,” by Joseph Spector: “The dichotomy successful immoderate of the nation’s wealthiest and largest counties serves arsenic a stark reminder that not each suburbs are the same: New York’s Westchester County has go a Democratic firewall successful caller years, boosting candidates moving for authorities bureau and Congress and making it 1 of the astir influential bluish suburbs successful the country.”
GREAT WEEKEND READS, curated by Ryan Lizza:
— “The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat,” by The Atlantic’s Helen Lewis: “A depository curator was forced retired of her occupation implicit allegations of racism that an probe deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?”
— “Road Maps for the Soul,” by Dan Chiasson for the New York Review: “‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ tin beryllium work arsenic a circuit journal, refracted done 1 lonely opus aft another.”
— “Faking the Funk: How Bootsy Collins Impostors Pulled Off the Ultimate Music Biz Scam,” by Rolling Stone’s David Browne: “With star-shaped shades and level boots, the Bootsy fakes bilked friends and household retired of wealth implicit decades.”
— “Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place connected Earth’?” by NYT’s Caity Weaver: “Legends archer of an echoless enclosure successful an aged Minneapolis signaling workplace that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d springiness it a whirl.”
— “The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King,” by GQ’s Zach Baron: “It’s been 13 years since James Cameron released ‘Avatar,’ the highest-grossing movie of each time. Now, the manager is backmost with a profoundly idiosyncratic sequel — and the tenable anticipation that it could beryllium the biggest happening he’s done yet.”
— “Jim Harris Was Paralyzed. Then He Ate Magic Mushrooms,” by Rachel Mabe for Outside: “After becoming paralyzed from the thorax down, the upland jock recovered an improbable state successful recovery: psychedelics.”
— “‘The much we pulled backmost the carpet, the much we saw,’” by The Guardian’s Matt Blake: “What I learned erstwhile I bought a location with a acheronian past.”
— “Jerry Jones helped alteration the NFL, but erstwhile it comes to race,” by WaPo’s David Maraniss and Sally Jenkins: “Decades aft lasting connected the frontlines of 1 of Little Rock’s darkest segregation clashes, the Dallas Cowboys proprietor has led the league toward caller gross models but has yet to prosecute a Black caput coach.”
— “How Washington chased Huawei retired of Europe,” by Laurens Cerulus and Sarah Wheaton: “The Chinese tech elephantine is scaling backmost successful Brussels, Paris and London and pivoting to its home market.”
— “Russia’s Dangerous Decline,” by Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman successful Foreign Affairs: “The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight.”
Mike Lindellthreatened to run against Ronna McDaniel for the chairmanship of the RNC.
Gretchen Whitmer and Mike DeWinemade a stake implicit the outcome of today’s large rivalry crippled betwixt No. 3 Michigan and No. 2 Ohio State (it starts astatine noon connected Fox).
TRANSITION — Tracy Moore will beryllium integer manager for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). She antecedently was integer manager and property caput for Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) (7-0) … Chris Hughes of the Economic Security Project (4-0) … Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal … Dannia Hakki of MoKi Media … U.S. Ambassador to the OECD Jack Markell … Lisa Vedernikova Khanna of the DNC … Webber Steinhoff of Prospect Strategic Communications … CBS’ Jenna Gibson … Sasha Borowsky of the Aspen Institute … Tyler Threadgill … Katie Gommel of Sunshine Sachs … Vicente Garcia … CNN’s Alicia Jennings … Valerie Holford … Ray Glendening of Scarlet Oak Strategies … Gabe Brotman … erstwhile CIA Director Porter Goss … Stuart Jolly … Matt Frei of Channel 4 … Dennis Ross … erstwhile Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) … Ethan Bronner … Susan Nichols … Marianna Pecora of Voters of Tomorrow
THE SHOWS (Full Sunday amusement listings here):
MSNBC “The Sunday Show”: Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) … Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) … Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-U.S. Virgin Islands) … Colorado authorities Rep. Leslie Herod … Anthony Fauci … Tia Mitchell.
CBS “Face the Nation”: Anthony Fauci … House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) … Colorado Gov. Jared Polis … Jeh Johnson … Michael Chertoff.
ABC “This Week”: Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) … Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) … Ashish Jha. Panel: Rick Klein, Donna Brazile, Sarah Isgur and Leigh Ann Caldwell.
FOX “Fox News Sunday,” guest-anchored by Jennifer Griffin: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) … Buzz Bissinger. Panel: Dan Hoffman, Olivia Beavers, Jonathan Swan and Juan Williams. National information panel: Dmitri Alperovitch and Matthew Kroenig.
NBC “Meet the Press”: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) … Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) … Anthony Fauci. Panel: Matt Gorman, Maria Teresa Kumar, Susan Page and Reid Wilson.
CNN “State of the Union”: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson … Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). Panel: Hilary Rosen, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Marc Short and Ashley Allison.
CNN “Inside Politics”: Panel: Jackie Kucinich, Mario Parker, Jeremy Diamond and Jennifer Bendery.
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