Happy Monday and welcome to The Best & The Brightest, I’m Peter Hamby. Today, a gut check on the boomlet for Tim Scott, a genuinely nice and genuinely conservative candidate custom built for National Review cruise-goers and Republican mega-donors who have never met a real voter in their lives. But first…
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Happy Monday and welcome to The Best & The Brightest, I’m Peter Hamby. Today, a gut check on the boomlet for Tim Scott, a genuinely nice and genuinely conservative candidate custom built for National Review cruise-goers and Republican mega-donors who have never met a real voter in their lives.
But first…
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| A special mini-dispatch from the front lines of the G.O.P. in Iowa and Palm Beach.
By Tina Nguyen
- Oh, Mother: If you thought it was brutal to watch Tucker Carlson dress down Mike Pence in front of a room full of Christian activists at the Family Leadership Summit, in Des Moines, imagine being in the room. The beleaguered presidential candidate—a self-declared “born-again, evangelical Catholic” who was selected for the 2016 ticket because Trump needed to persuade religious voters that he wasn’t a sleazebag—was repeatedly booed on Friday, especially when he voiced his support for...
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| The Great Tim Scott Fantasy |
| Scott’s donors are betting on his optimism, his Christian faith, and the American dream. But, of course, they’ve never met real Republican voters. |
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| In order to defeat Donald Trump and win the Republican nomination in 2024, one of the many candidates in the field must accomplish a series of herculean, Mission Impossible-level feats: raise gargantuan sums of money, become a known figure to millions of voters in the short sprint of about six months, and exhibit enough on-camera charisma and brashness to outshine Trump on a debate stage, while simultaneously hacking away at former president in a way that doesn’t cause his MAGA supports to... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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