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Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, our new private email focused on the real conversation inside the White House, the Pentagon, on K Street, and under the Dome.
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Tonight, my conversation with MAGA whisperer Tina Nyguen about what’s in store for CPAC after impresario Matt Schlapp was accused of sexual assault, how the G.O.P. base is responding to Trump’s lackluster early campaign, and how the looming debt ceiling negotiations could spiral into a crisis.

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Trump’s Triangle of Sadness
Trump’s Triangle of Sadness
News and notes from around this town on the Republicans off their talking points: the future of CPAC, Trump’s soft start, debt ceiling pressure points, and more.
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There’s a whole vibrant political economy that spins into life every year around CPAC, which has transformed over time from a circus-like political conference at a dated complex hotel in D.C., where Rand Paul used to win every straw poll, to a huge money-making enterprise with regular events around the world. Naturally, there was a lot of money on the line when CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, the high-powered conservative lobbyist, was accused of sexual assault. Of course, if there was any doubt about whether attendance would be impacted by the metastasizing scandal, that was put to rest by Donald Trump’s announcement that he’d be a headliner again this year. (Schlapp was accused in a lawsuit of groping a man who worked for Herschel Walker, an accusation he vehemently denies.)

CPAC, now a hallmark of Washington life just like the cherry blossoms, is just around the corner. But its very contours may look different in a Trump-DeSantis world, with...

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