Trump Puts His Foot Inhis Mouth Again Over Puerto Rico
Pol Playbook: Trump's 2024 map
NEVER TOO Early on — Because we're Pol, Marc Caputo has a story up this morn on DONALD TRUMP's potential 2024 map. Granted, it'south non terribly surprising, centering on the five states that JOE BIDEN flipped in 2020. But the level of engagement inside Trumpworld this far out — that we didn't necessarily expect.
"Trump's shadow campaign … recently polled Trump-Biden matchups in the five states, all of which were decided in 2020 by fewer than iii percentage points. Co-ordinate to the poll … the former president led Biden in Arizona past 8 percentage points, Georgia by 3 points, Michigan by 12 points, Pennsylvania past half dozen points and Wisconsin by x points.
"The poll numbers send a message to those who remember Trump'south grip on the Republican Party is loosening, said TONY FABRIZIO, a top GOP pollster who conducted the surveys for Trump'south super PAC, 'Make America Great Again, Again!' 'Poll later on poll clearly demonstrates that former President Donald Trump is still the 800-pound gorilla in the GOP and would be its 2024 nominee should he run,' said Fabrizio, who confirmed the numbers for Pol only did not provide them. 'This new information clearly shows that today the voters in these five central states would be happy to return Trump to the White House and send Biden packing.'"
FLIGHT OF FANCY — NYC Mayor-elect ERIC ADAMS claimed that he paid his way to a post-election political retreat in Puerto Rico on what many assumed was a commercial flying, telling reporters the trip was on "my dollar, my dime and my time." But sources tell Playbook that he flew to San Juan on the G4 private jet of crypto-billionaire BROCK PIERCE. The three had dinner with Gov. PEDRO PIERLUISI of Puerto Rico, an island that Pierce one time dreamed of turning into a "Burning Man Utopia." Pierce, who's been informally advising Adams on all things crypto, attended an election night party for the mayor-elect. And Adams has vowed to make New York City "the center of the cryptocurrency manufacture." Literally putting his money where his rima oris is, he said he'll take his kickoff three paychecks as mayor in Bitcoin.
The mayor-elect's spokesperson EVAN THIES said Adams "paid for a seat on a private flying through a travel amanuensis, and he flew commercial on his return trip," just would not provide travel receipts from the trip.
Every bit Adams bones up on crypto, Pierce is wading back into politics afterward a 2020 independent run for president failed to gain traction. He filed a "statement of arrangement" with the FEC earlier this month as he weighs running as an independent for the seat of retiring Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.). The filing allows Pierce to start raising campaign coin.
Pierce — an eccentric, fedora-wearing former kid actor of "Mighty Ducks" fame — was dubbed "the Hippie Rex of Crypto-currency" by Rolling Stone in 2018.
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GOP SEEKS Plan B IN PA — With SEAN PARNELL dropping his campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania, some of his former supporters who are close to DONALD TRUMP JR. are now pushing hedge fund millionaire DAVID MCCORMICK to run. A source close to McCormick said he'due south "seriously considering doing it now more than ever" and is prepared to put tens of millions of dollars of his own money into a campaign. McCormick, the husband of former Trump White House official DINA POWELL MCCORMICK, had been waiting to announce his candidacy until the verdict in Parnell's custody boxing as a way to win over his supporters, sources tell Playbook.
While MEHMET OZ, aka Dr. Oz, has signaled interest in running for the seat, two Republican donors said they're waiting to see if he'due south willing to spend his own money on the race. "Without knowing what he's putting forrad financially, information technology'due south kind of a gimmick," said one donor in Pennsylvania. With the Trump-backed Parnell finished, and many of his supporters nonetheless angry at GOP candidate JEFF BARTOS for openly sharing details of Parnell's domestic issues, many see McCormick as the most viable choice who could win Trump'southward endorsement. He could be the saving grace for Trump Jr., who pushed his father to endorse Parnell and now needs a plan B in a must-win race.
Merely the knives already appear to exist sharpening in anticipation of a McCormick announcement, with a fresh story in the N.Y. Mail service about McCormick'southward business concern record in Pittsburgh.
BIDEN'Due south TUESDAY:
— 10 a.thousand.: The president and VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive the President'due south Daily Brief.
— 2 p.k.: Biden volition speak nearly the economic system and lowering prices.
— 4 p.chiliad.: Biden, Harris, first lady JILL BIDEN and second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF will take part in a service projection at DC Key Kitchen.
— 5:55 p.grand.: The Bidens will depart for Nantucket, arriving at 7:x p.k.
Press secretary JEN PSAKI will cursory at 3:fifteen p.m.
The HOUSE and THE SENATE are out.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Upkeep Problems — WaPo's Tyler Pager and Ashley Parker: "The White Business firm has largely paused the hiring of new personnel in recent weeks because of budgetary shortfalls, even as multiple staffers have departed … The budget trouble stems from the brusk-term legislation Congress passed in late September to avert a government shutdown, which one official said did not provide enough money to cover all of the White House's operating costs.'"
WHY POWELL GOT THE NOD EXPLAINER — Ben White breaks down why Biden decided to reappoint Fed Chair JEROME POWELL to the post: "People shut to Biden say he did information technology because of Wall Street'due south conviction in Powell's stewardship during the pandemic — the Dow jumped a couple of hundred points on Mon right subsequently the news. And Biden past nature tends to favor incumbents, continuity and bipartisanship." Ben writes that "there also wasn't an overwhelming case to fire Powell, though the scary surge in aggrandizement offered one potential way out."
ALL POLITICS
THE THREE I's — WSJ's Gerry Seib zeroes in on 2022 and concludes "it isn't likewise early to see what Republicans desire [the midterms] to be about. They want to focus voter attention on iii I's: inflation, immigration and identity politics—specifically, whether Democrats now are the ones practicing identity politics.
"For Democrats, that is a potentially toxic mixture. They need to shift the focus to friendlier terrain, which they recall they have started to do with success on infrastructure and social-spending legislation. They still have time, but also need to worry that perceptions tin harden long earlier votes are bandage. This backdrop is important, because in politics as in warfare, the side that succeeds in picking the battleground and taking the high ground at that place early on has a large reward."
WHAT DO DEMOCRATS STAND FOR? — In the aftermath of the recent loss in Virginia's governor's race, Autonomous strategists descended on the state to figure out what went incorrect. Through focus groups and polling they found that voters "could not clear what Democrats stand for. They could too not say what they are doing in Washington, besides fighting," David Siders writes. "Less than a yr ahead of midterm elections, in which fifty-fifty Democrats widely wait they will lose the House and, possibly, the Senate, the party is confronting an identity crisis."
JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH
PAY Upwards — A federal judge Mon "ordered GARY D. FIELDER and ERNEST JOHN WALKER, two Colorado lawyers who filed a lawsuit late last yr challenging the 2020 ballot results, to pay nearly $187,000 to defray the legal fees of groups they sued, arguing that the hefty penalty was proper to deter others from using frivolous suits to undermine the democratic system," WaPo's Rosalind Helderman reports.
THE SUBPOENAS KEEP COMING — The House select committee on January. 6 issued v more subpoenas to Trump allies Monday, including political operative ROGER STONE and InfoWars' ALEX JONES. CNN's Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Whitney Wild write that "the latest batch of subpoenas indicates the committee continues to focus, in role, on organizers and funding of the 'Stop the Steal' rallies that took identify on Jan v and half dozen, as well every bit earlier rallies in the months leading up to the US Capitol attack.
"Also subpoenaed by the committee Monday: DUSTIN STOCKTON and JENNIFER LAWRENCE, cardinal players in the 'Stop the Steal' movement later the ballot, who the committee noted are engaged to each other."
BUT WAIT, THERE'Southward MORE — The committee was decorated Monday: It also filed courtroom documents along with the National Archives arguing that allowing Trump to block the investigation into his White Firm records could threaten democracy itself, reports Kyle Cheney. Lawyers argued that with preventing a Jan. 6 echo at stake, "future elections could exist in jeopardy if Congress isn't permitted to learn everything it can about how Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat helped spark the violent set on on the Capitol," Kyle writes. The filings
DID TRUMP Interruption THE Police force ON JAN. vi? — In a courtroom hearing for ane of the Americans who participated in the January. 6 riot, U.South. District Courtroom Estimate CARL NICHOLS and lawyers "discussed whether Trump's pressure on Vice President MIKE PENCE could have amounted to obstruction," Josh Gerstein writes. "The in-court discussion of Trump's potential criminal culpability in the Capitol anarchism raised a nagging and uncomfortable question for the Justice Department: whether it is making a serious effort to investigate whether the onetime president committed whatever crimes in connexion with the events of Jan. 6."
TRUMP CARDS
PICKING UP THE TAB — The RNC is paying for a portion of Trump'south legal bills every bit he faces criminal investigations in New York, WaPo's David Fahrenthold, Josh Dawsey, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Shayna Jacobs write: "In Oct, the RNC made two payments totaling $121,670 to the law house of RONALD FISCHETTI, a veteran defense attorney whom Trump hired in Apr. … [A source said] the arrangement was willing to foot the bills because [New York A.G. TISH] JAMES has fabricated comments that she wanted to go later on Trump."
— James and CY VANCE JR., the Manhattan DA, are also looking into Trump's varying value estimates on the aforementioned properties. The Trump Organization'due south xl Wall Street building in Manhattan was valued at $527 1000000 back in 2012, merely WaPo's David Fahrenthold, Jonathan O'Connell, Josh Dawsey and Shayna Jacobs write that a few months afterward the arrangement "told property tax officials that the entire 70-story edifice was worth less than a high-cease Manhattan condo: just $16.vii million."
Across THE BELTWAY
LIFE Equally A State LAWMAKER — A new report shows that state lawmakers across the land are earning low salaries, and information technology "impacts who is able to run and stay in office," The 19th's Barbara Rodriguez reports. The written report found that "most lawmakers are paid wages that do non let them to focus solely on the job of legislating. Many piece of work in legislatures that are considered hybrid or part-time. They run into for shorter periods of time, oft at the beginning of the year and into the spring.
"But it's a role that has morphed in recent years into i with increasing year-round demands and expectations from constituents, many of whom may not realize their lawmakers are beingness paid little to no money to exist that accessible."
Michael Cohen was released subsequently three years of house arrest. In an interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota, Cohen predicted, "Donald volition not run" in 2024. "His fragile ego cannot stand to exist considered a ii-time loser."
Louie Gohmert announced on Newsmax that he's running for A.G. of Texas.
Larry Hogan shot dorsum at Donald Trump after the sometime president endorsed a Republican country legislator running against a Hogan ally in the GOP primary: "Personally, I'd prefer endorsements from people who didn't lose Maryland past 33 points."
SPOTTED: Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) at the Chops Grille steakhouse aboard the Purple Caribbean area Harmony of the Seas cruise. The trip came as she announced she would claiming Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-Ga.) in a member-vs.-fellow member matchup for a new, safe Autonomous seat in the Atlanta suburbs.
TRANSITIONS — Perry Apelbaum will bring together the Department of Justice as a senior counsel in the antitrust partition. He previously was staff director/chief counsel for the House Judiciary Commission. Amy Rutkin will continue to lead the commission as chief of staff/staff manager, promoting Aaron Hiller to chief counsel/deputy staff director and John Doty to senior adviser/deputy staff director. …
… Eli Cousin is now deputy national printing secretary at the DSCC. He near recently was at the DCCC, and is an MJ Hegar alum. … Nairka J. Treviño Müller is at present comms director for Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.1000.). She previously was comms director for the function of Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi.
ENGAGED — Jack Porter, policy analyst at the National Governors Association, and Mackay Coleman, senior student success adviser at 2U, got engaged Sunday on Capitol Hill.
WEDDING — Michael Stratford, an education reporter at POLITICO and Samantha Rubin, a staff attorney at the D.C. Circuit, got married Friday at the InterContinental - The Wharf. The couple met at Cornell simply started dating in 2015 after reconnecting on a trip to Charleston, S.C., with common friends. Pic
WELCOME TO THE World — Michael Pratt, senior grouping director for strategic policy, advancement and regime comms at Existent Chemistry and an Functioning Warp Speed alum, and Amanda Pratt, a atomic number 82 vocaliser in the 24K Issue Band, welcomed Elizabeth "Elle" Jean Pratt on Friday nighttime. Motion picture … Another pic
— Carly Borgmeier, branch chief for specialty ingather and agriculture evolution in the agricultural marketing service at USDA, and Daniel Yang, product manager for local projects at WETA-TV, welcomed Madeline Rae Yang Borgmeier on Nov. 5. She came in at ix lbs, ane oz. Due to a quantum Covid infection at their older girl Olivia'southward school, Daniel was quarantined when Carly's water bankrupt and watched hours of her labor over Zoom. At midnight, after the hospital granted special permission at the cease of his ten-twenty-four hour period isolation period, Daniel raced to the delivery room merely in fourth dimension to reunite with Carly for the birth. Pic … Another picture show
HAPPY Birthday: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer … Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.) (5-0) … NYT'south Carolyn Ryan … one-time Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) … Amy Schatz of Glen Echo Group … Geoff Mackler … RNC's Rick Gorka … Matt Dennis … Katie Wall of Meeks, Butera & Israel … BBC'due south Suzanne Kianpour … AFP'south Bill Riggs … Nancy Ortmeyer Kuhn … Jeremy Slevin of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) office … Colby Nelson … Richard Hunt of the Consumer Bankers Association … POLITICO'due south Phelim Kine, Ally Moore and Ryan Niblock … Robin Roberts … Google'southward Brittany Griffin … BP'south Geoff Morrell … Joey Francilus … DOJ's Sheria Clarke … Mary Rutherford Jennings … Will Glasscock … Melissa Pardue … Liz Victorin … Elizabeth Taylor of the American Legislative Substitution Quango … Charlie Goodyear … Danny Cevallos … HuffPost's Jade Walker … Sheara Braun … Bermuda Premier Edward David Burt … former Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle … Adam Belmar … Alan Rosenberg of RG Grouping
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