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Today, 168 Republican National Committee members, gathered astatine a luxury edifice successful Dana Point, Calif., volition determine by concealed ballot whether to clasp Ronna McDaniel arsenic enactment seat contempt disappointing midterm elections. McDaniel, who was archetypal elevated to her presumption by President Donald Trump, faces a spirited situation from Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who has represented Trump and has the backing of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). MyPillow CEO and predetermination denier Mike Lindell is besides seeking the position.
President Biden has nary events connected his nationalist docket Friday earlier helium heads to Camp David successful Western Maryland for the weekend.
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- 2 p.m. Eastern: White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre briefs reporters. Watch unrecorded here.
- 5:30 p.m. Eastern: Biden departs the White House en way to Camp David.
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Noted: Musk says helium met McCarthy and Jeffries to guarantee Twitter is ‘fair’
Elon Musk, the outspoken main enforcement of societal media elephantine Twitter, said helium met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) astatine the U.S. Capitol to speech astir his platform.
The Post’s Adela Suliman has details:
“Just met with Speaker McCarthy & Rep Jeffries to sermon ensuring that this level is just to some parties,” Musk tweeted Thursday evening.
He gave nary further details and was lone concisely glimpsed by reporters connected the Hill.
Twitter has faced aggravated scrutiny from some ends of the governmental spectrum implicit which voices are banned oregon promoted connected the platform.
Asked astir the meeting, McCarthy, who turned 58 connected Thursday, declined to remark but quipped that Musk “came to privation maine blessed birthday,” adding “we’ve been friends for years.”
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Take a look: See the improvement of lies successful George Santos’s run biography
George Santos began introducing himself to the satellite successful 2020 erstwhile helium ran for Congress. By the clip helium was elected successful November 2022, his run website had described him arsenic a highly educated Wall Street financier whose household had fled the Holocaust, whose parent had escaped 9/11, and who besides had recovered clip to rescue cats and dogs.
By December, journalists began discovering that astir of his biography was false.
The Post’s Azi Paybarah, Luis Melgar and Tyler Remmel instrumentality a look astatine however Santos defined and redefined himself successful his biography connected his campaign website.
The latest: With Trump reinstatement, Meta finds caller ways to punish satellite leaders
With its announcement that it would beryllium reinstating erstwhile president Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, Meta warned that it could instrumentality a stronger stance against satellite leaders who station contented that exacerbates civilian unrest oregon breaks its rules.
The Post’s Naomi Nix reports that the societal media elephantine is expanding the scope of interventions that it tin deploy to combat unsafe rhetoric from Trump and different nationalist figures — with caller measures to alteration the visibility of provocative posts. Per Naomi:
Analysis: Eric Cantor connected wherefore today’s indebtedness bounds combat is antithetic from 2011
As House bulk person successful 2011, Eric Cantor (R-Va.) led negotiations implicit raising the indebtedness bounds with then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration.
Cantor spoke to The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell for The Early 202 astir that and different issues. Here are immoderate of the highlights:
- On what astir the 2011 acquisition mightiness beryllium adjuvant for Republicans arsenic they contemplate different showdown: “You person to look astatine what was antithetic backmost then. In 2011, we had a overmuch bigger majority. Remember, we had picked up 63 seats, and truthful we had a 20-some-vote borderline versus what [Speaker] Kevin [McCarthy] is dealing with today. [And because] the preceding Congress had not finished the appropriations process, we were plunged into appropriations, which had to beryllium done successful a bipartisan mode since determination was a Democratic-controlled Senate and President Obama successful the White House. So that necessitated compromise close away.”
- On the effect of having a narrower bulk now: “We saw what happened with the election of Kevin arsenic speaker. There were galore concessions needed successful bid to person the precise tiny radical of individuals who were holding retired [to ballot for him]. I bash deliberation that has a batch to bash with however the House volition proceed, due to the fact that determination were commitments made, and expectations on with those commitments that [certain] things would happen. When you’ve got a 20-some-vote margin, you’re not needfully going to beryllium held hostage the mode that we saw connected show a fewer weeks ago.”
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The latest: Santos run concisely reported $254,000 successful payments to ‘anonymous’
In the outpouring of 2022, George Santos’s legislature run submitted a fistful of filings to the Federal Election Commission that did thing unheard of successful run finance: The run reported spending a full of $254,000 — successful much than 1,200 tiny payments — to recipients identified lone arsenic “anonymous.”
The Post’s Emma Brown and Isaac Stanley-Becker study that a period later, successful amended reports, those listed expenditures were gone. Campaigns mostly are not required to itemize payments nether $200, truthful the removal of the “anonymous” payments reverted, successful a way, to customary practice. Per our colleagues:
The latest: Jeffries says ‘a fistful of tenable Republicans’ tin assistance extremity indebtedness bounds standoff
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said successful an interrogation broadcast Friday that the standoff implicit raising the indebtedness ceiling could extremity erstwhile “a fistful of tenable Republicans” tin beryllium convinced to driblet GOP demands for large concessions connected spending cuts.
“We volition beryllium capable to, astatine the extremity of the day, person a fistful of tenable Republicans successful the House to bash what the concern assemblage passim America person suggested needs to beryllium done, what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce believes needs to beryllium done, what Wall Street says needs to beryllium done, which is to marque definite we wage America’s bills that person already been incurred,” Jeffries said during an interrogation with NPR.
On our radar: RNC seat seeks to quell revolt, divisions up of tense Friday election
A contentious conflict implicit the aboriginal of the GOP volition beryllium decided Friday erstwhile Republican National Committee members vote connected whether to support Ronna McDaniel arsenic seat for 2 much years oregon regenerate her aft a disappointing predetermination that galore person blamed connected erstwhile president Donald Trump, who archetypal elevated her to the position.
The Post’s Isaac Arnsdorf, Dylan Wells and Josh Dawsey study that McDaniel is facing a situation from Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who has represented Trump and unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake, seizing connected grass-roots furor demanding caller enactment aft a drawstring of electoral failures. Per our colleagues:
The latest: Arizona Republicans exempt lawmakers from the state’s open-records law
Arizona Republicans shielded legislators from the state’s open-records instrumentality this week — a determination that comes months aft the merchandise of thousands of documents detailing extended efforts to undermine Joe Biden’s triumph present successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.
The Post’s Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez study that documents that person surfaced implicit the past 2 years see correspondence describing the interior workings of a partisan reappraisal of the 2020 predetermination by the Cyber Ninjas, arsenic good as emails by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the woman of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urging lawmakers to overturn President Donald Trump’s constrictive decision successful the state. Per our colleagues:
On our radar: Trump’s instrumentality to Facebook, Instagram raises hopes of fundraising windfall
No different person has ever spent and raised wealth connected Facebook and Instagram similar Donald Trump.
The Post’s Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey and Isaac Stanley-Becker study that the erstwhile president and his affiliated governmental operations person fixed the genitor company, present known arsenic Meta, much than $159 cardinal to acquisition implicit 1.3 cardinal chiseled ads connected the societal networks since May 2018, erstwhile Meta began keeping public records.
Per our colleagues:
When Trump stood astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice to denote different tally for president successful November, the advertising, fundraising and governmental database gathering — which had continued done a workaround adjacent aft Trump was officially booted from the platforms successful 2021 — astir crushed to a halt.
For the archetypal clip successful months, adjacent Save America, his governmental enactment committee, each but stopped pushing caller polls, pitches and products to imaginable supporters. As a campaigner for president, Trump could not marque nonstop appeals.
Meta’s determination Wednesday to let Trump backmost onto the networks clears the mode to efficaciously reopen the fiscal concern that proved important to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, allowing him to excavation the American nationalist for radical who whitethorn beryllium consenting to springiness him wealth and bargain his merchandise.
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Noted: Arizona’s largest region to analyse wherefore ballot printers failed
Maricopa County, location to astir of Arizona’s voters, has hired retired Arizona Supreme Court main justness Ruth McGregor to analyse wherefore printers utilized to people ballots during the Nov. 8 predetermination failed astatine dozens of voting locations.
The autarkic probe volition probe what caused the printers to fail, wherefore they worked decently during the superior predetermination but not the wide election, and what steps region elections officials tin instrumentality to forestall aboriginal problems.
The Post obtained the missive detailing the scope of enactment connected Thursday done a nationalist records request.
The latest: Calif. seeks to disbar Trump advisor John Eastman implicit Jan. 6 charges
The State Bar of California intends to question the disbarment of erstwhile president Donald Trump’s election lawyer John Eastman for his relation successful trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Post’s Mariana Alfaro reports that successful a statement, the bureau of California barroom Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona said Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges, each arising from allegations that helium was down Trump’s program to obstruct the count of electoral votes. Mariana writes:
Per the statement, Eastman is accused of making mendacious and misleading statements regarding alleged predetermination fraud — including claims helium made astatine a rally astatine the Ellipse extracurricular the White House that preceded the deadly riot astatine the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.
In the mentation of the charges, the California barroom straight connects Eastman’s code to the insurrection, saying helium “contributed to provoking a assemblage to battle and breach the Capitol to intimidate then-Vice President [Mike] Pence and forestall the electoral number from proceeding.”
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