When I was a senior in high school, we rented a bus to drive us to Wildwood, where security guards patrolled the parking lot of our cheap motel a block from the boardwalk to make sure no one was brandishing any age-restricted beverage containers

That 2026 Senate primary could be wild

POLITICO's look at impact of having 2 or more lawyers on Trump's jury includes flashback to 1 of the great DC jury debacles of all time when an aspiring law student led fellow jurors to $2M libel verdict v. Washington Post. w/Betsy Woodruff Swan Kyle Cheney politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Quite the read: GOP consultant David Johnson recalls an encounter from Bob Graham from 1998 when he was trying to help Charlie Crist beat him floridapolitics.com/archives/66998…

BREAKING: Federal appeals court UPHOLDS preliminary injunction scrapping the county line in this year’s NJ Dem primary.

Opinion just released.

Some Revenge Tour News: A nonprofit aligned with ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy is airing TV ads hitting members on their immigration votes — including 3 Rs who voted to depose him

The list includes:
Nancy Mace in #SC01
Bob Good in #VA05
Eli Crane in #AZ02

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Trump’s NIL deal =>

Among likely voters in five-way race, it’s Trump 42%, Biden 41%, Kennedy 12%, Stein 3%, West 1%. #mulawpoll

Always a closely watched poll out of Wisconsin

NEW - The promise of an onslaught of spending from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has loomed over Democratic primaries for months — but it hasn’t yet materialized.

That’s not stopping progressives from using it as a foil
w/ Madison Fernandez
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Ah, the Bob McDonnell strategem

#SCOTUS ' conservative majority & at least 1 liberal (KBJ) seemed skeptical about breadth of federal prosecutors use of obstruction statute to charge #Jan6 defendants. But how justices might rein it in remains murky, as is impact on Trump. w/Kyle Cheney politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

We've got six jurors, folks (more than I thought we would have by now) politico.com/live-updates/2…

NEW: Conservative SCOTUS justices seemed skeptical of the way DOJ has deployed obstruction charges againt Jan. 6 rioters — but also pointed to a possible path that would keep those charges alive even if the court narrows the law.

w/ Josh Gerstein

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#WISen : The first DSCC orders are coming through. So far, we've seen $4.5M placed in Wisconsin, set to run August through November.

Whitey Herzog, innovative manager, Cardinals champion and creator of 'Whiteyball,' dies at 92 stltoday.com/sports/profess…

Excited to share a big project I've been working on: Bots and Ballots, an editorial series on POLITICOEurope exploring how AI is influencing upcoming elections worldwide.

Check out the first installment:

politico.eu/politico-edito…