Casey at the Bat, Thiel vs. Hoffman, Inflation Ennui

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to what’s new at Puck.

Today, Tina Nguyen turns the spotlight on Casey DeSantis, the media-savvy Florida governor’s wife, whose early training in the television dark arts could be the key to turning America into Florida North.

Plus, below the fold, Teddy Schleifer tracks the evolution of a billionaire political battle from Stanford to Ohio. And Bill Cohan stops by The Powers That Be to discuss Biden’s faltering attempts to placate the public while tickling Wall Street.

When I mentioned that anecdote to a G.O.P. consultant, he remarked that he had heard similar stories about the “DeSantii” interview process—not just for potential employees, but for vendors and contractors, too. Sometimes, both Ron and Casey would run the interview. Sometimes, it was just Ron. If he wasn’t available, Casey was “an acceptable substitute,” this person told me. Every single time, he added, the couple would request piles of advance documentation that could impress a job candidate or scare them off entirely, but at the very least convey the magnitude of the position in question. Every dollar that the job candidate proposed in their budget needed to be accounted for in that interview, and every motive needed to be uncovered.

This consultant hypothesized that the couple are strongly aware they could be targets for graft, an endemic problem in the post-Trump Republican ecosphere...