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Bedminster Blues, Hollywood vs. SCOTUS, Alito’s Pandora’s Box
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Welcome back to The Daily Courant, our afternoon rundown of all the latest news at Puck.
Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri’s inside reporting on the dual anxieties wracking Bedminster: a series of unfortunate endorsements siphoning Trump’s political capital, and the rise of a rival superpower, the DeSantis regime, in North Florida.
Plus, below the fold: Matt Belloni joins Peter Hamby to discuss how Hollywood’s biggest companies are scrambling for a response to Roe. And Eriq Gardner, Tara Palmeri, and Julia Ioffe dial in for an emergency pod dissecting how the shocking ruling will reverberate across the political landscape.
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| Trump’s Case of DeSantisitis |
| After a rocky primary season, Trump has DeSantis and his expanding $124 million war chest on the brain. Sources in Bedminster are saying that he’s likely to move up a ‘24 announcement in order to freeze out the next generation. Plus: updates on Klainworld and why all eyes inside the West Wing are focused on Jill Biden. |
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| It’s winter in Bedminster: Donald Trump’s golden endorsement was put to the test this primary season with a number of high profile races that came back with mixed results. With the election cycle halfway over, the line to kiss the ring has substantially shortened. And those who received Trump’s blessing in swing states have already started to distance themselves from him, like Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, who notably dropped Trump from his branding materials, or Herschel Walker in Georgia, who dissed Trump after winning the primary. Just months ago, ambitious Republicans were making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago to beg for his endorsements, hiring aides with connections to him and asking old rich guys, like Bob Kraft, to call in favors. Now, the sojourns to Bedminster are becoming more rare.
Trump is not only lonely, he’s in a slump. He’s absorbing hits almost daily via the January 6 committee, as his own closest aides have been questioning his judgment and sanity on the record. Even the former president’s greatest champions will quietly admit that it’s not a great look, especially since the party has done little to defend him. His own mode of defense, Truth Social, hasn’t taken off, either. At the same time, there has been a steady drumbeat of stories about how Ron DeSantis has become the new standard bearer: a fresher, less impulsive version of Trump, and with less insurrectionist baggage. DeSantis managed a net-neutral feature treatment in The New Yorker, and scored an early presidential endorsement from Trump’s hometown paper, The New York Post. (Also, I highly suggest reading my Puck partner Tina Nguyen’s excellent piece on the complex, airtight political relationship between DeSantis and his wife, Casey.)
Perhaps more notably, DeSantis has also earned a slew of stories about how he has successfully tapped into Trump’s fundraising network, allowing DeSantis-curious and/or Trump-fatigued donors to put their cash toward his $124 million war chest under the cloud cover of contributing to his competitive 2022 gubernatorial re-election. Polls also show DeSantis creeping up on Trump... |
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| Hollywood vs. SCOTUS |
| Matt Belloni joins Peter to discuss how Hollywood’s biggest companies will react to Roe's overturning. |
| PETER HAMBY |
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| Alito's Pandora's Box |
| Ioffe, Gardner, and Palmeri unpack today's Roe bombshell: how we got here, and what comes next. |
| PETER HAMBY |
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| The Long Road to Moscow |
| Conscientious objectors who initially fled Russia are wending their way back home. |
| JULIA IOFFE |
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| Disney's Wall Street Bulls |
| A conversation circling the Wall Street-Disney love affair. Plus, predictions ahead of Sun Valley. |
| DYLAN BYERS & WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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