TikTok Intrigues, Wall Street Murmurs, Biden’s Secret Summit

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

Today, we lead with Peter Hamby’s candid, one-on-one chat with Kamala Harris as she reclaims the spotlight alongside Joe Biden. They dig into the Gaza question, the administration’s narrative problems, presidential succession, and much more.

Plus, below the fold: Julia Alexander crunches the numbers behind Netflix’s live sports gambit. Teddy Schleifer presents a potpourri of Silicon Valley scoops and intel. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner and Peter assess the legality of a TikTok ban, while Ben Landy and Bill Cohan unpack the lively post-SOTU chatter on Wall Street.

PETER HAMBY

A candid conversation with Vice President Harris as she reclaims the campaign spotlight alongside Joe Biden and fights to change the narrative surrounding her own place in the White House.

JULIA ALEXANDER

Rival executives have characterized the streamer’s recent live events as a sign of desperation—or simply P.R. stunts to jumpstart its ad revenue efforts. But this critique underestimates the Sarandos strategy and its ultimate ambition.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Inside the Silicon Valley lunch behind the president’s explorations on TikTok—and the Republican billionaire fighting to keep the app unbanned.

PETER HAMBY, ERIQ GARDNER, WILLIAM D. COHAN, and BEN LANDY

Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss the TikTok ban marching through Congress, whether it’s all a political stunt, and how this issue is probably bound for the courts, anyway. Then Ben and Bill Cohan dig into the lively post-SOTU chatter on Wall Street.