Hakeem’s Dream, Trump’s True Appeal, The Golden Ruhle

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

Today, we lead with Lauren Sherman’s tantalizing media scoop that the supermodel-slash-investor Karlie Kloss appears set to buy the cultishly beloved i-D magazine from Vice. How will she influence the fashion glossy—and which media properties will Vice, undergoing bankruptcy, offload next?

Plus, below the fold: Peter Hamby offers brilliant reflections on the latest polls to emerge in the wake of Milwaukee’s G.O.P. presidential debate. Eriq Garnder digs into a sprawling suit that reveals the complex provenance of some financial journalism. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri’s superlative new podcast, she chats with pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson about the true enthusiasm for Trump’s candidacy. And on The Powers That Be, Abby Livingston and Peter scrutinize Hakeem Jeffries’ post-Pelosi path to the top of Congress’s greasy pole.

LAUREN SHERMAN

The supermodel is in talks to buy the cultishly beloved ‘i-D’ magazine.

PETER HAMBY

One of the laughable tragedies about this crop of G.O.P. presidential also-rans is that they all still believe that they’re still the outsiders they were, decades ago—you know, before politics became a batshit crazy spectacle, and they started to look a lot like the people they once disrupted.

ERIQ GARDNER

A recent shareholder lawsuit against Under Armour, which calls into question an on-air report by former Bloomberg and current MSNBC star Stephanie Ruhle, reveals the complexity and nuance of how some financial journalism is produced.

TARA PALMERI

Tara is joined by Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, who recently penned an op-ed in The New York Times saying we shouldn’t underestimate the enthusiasm most Republican primary voters have for Donald Trump’s candidacy.