Hollywood’s New Order, Bragg’s Art Crusade, ’24 Hysteria

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon dispatch of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Peter Hamby identifies a political antidote for Biden as Democrats collectively rend their clothes over that dismal Times election poll: the persistent, still-simmering backlash over Roe.

Plus, below the fold: Lauren Sherman wonders if the two-decade-old brand Tory Burch could take a hatchet to the frozen fashion I.P.O. market. Eriq Gardner details how Alvin Bragg’s crusade to recover stolen Egon Schiele drawings could reshape the landscape of art ownership disputes. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and former Biden spokesperson Michael LaRosa lock horns over the Times poll. And on The Powers That Be, Matt Belloni joins Peter Hamby to discuss Hollywood’s jarring post-strike reality.

PETER HAMBY

Amid a party-wide freak-out over a set of terrifying New York Times polls, Democrats are guardedly watching Tuesday’s elections for signs that the immense backlash over abortion bans, which turbocharged last year’s midterm results, can still deliver them the White House.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Market shifts and the post-ZIRP era have made going public out of fashion. Could Tory Burch and a crop of stalwarts change all that?

ERIQ GARDNER

A fight over a century-old portrait, which ended up in Chicago after being uprooted by the Nazis, has the potential to reshape the landscape of art ownership disputes and even draw in the Biden administration.

TARA PALMERI

Tara is joined by former spokesperson for the 2020 Biden campaign, Michael LaRosa, to share their reactions and analysis of a recent New York Times national poll that shows Donald Trump currently leading Joe Biden in six key swing states.