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| By Mike Allen ·Aug 10, 2021 |
| Happy Tuesday! Smart Brevity™ count: 1,182 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. ⚡ Situational awareness: Final Senate votes on the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan are expected around 11 a.m. ET. Then it's off to the House. |
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| 1 big thing: One place Trump still wins |
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| The first three big post-presidency books about Donald Trump have shot up the bestseller list. But actual sales are nothing like the blockbusters when Trump was in the White House and the nation was obsessed, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer reports. The new books have held top spots on the N.Y. Times bestseller list for several weeks: - "I Alone Can Fix It," by the WashPost's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, sold more than 124,000 copies in the U.S. through the end of July, according to NPD BookScan data. That figure represents about half of all books sold. Ebook, audiobook and international book sales make up the other half. The book ranked No. 2 on the Times' hardcover nonfiction list for the past two weeks.
- "Frankly, We Did Win This Election," by The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender, has sold over 75,000 copies, including hardcovers, ebooks and audio downloads, according to a statement from the publisher. The book debuted at No. 3 and has been on the list for three weeks.
- "Landslide," by Michael Wolff, has also been on the list for three weeks. NPD BookScan data suggests that "Landslide" sold nearly 45,000 print copies in the U.S. through the end of July.
 Reproduced from NPD BookScan. Chart: Axios Visuals Context: Those figures are nothing like Trump book sales last year. The big picture: More political books were sold across all formats during the Trump presidential term than at any point in NPD BookScan history. |
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| 2. Pediatric COVID hospitalizations rise |
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| Doctors are increasingly worried about COVID's impact on kids, Axios health care editor Tina Reed reports. - While serious illness in kids is rare, pediatric hospitalizations in some areas of the country have reached worrying levels.
Infectious-disease doctors agree the high level of transmission of the Delta variant, particularly in regions of the country with low vaccination rates, is in large part to blame for the uptick. - These doctors fear the level of pediatric hospitalizations may also be due to the Delta variant being more virulent in kids.
What's next: Experts expect back-to-school surges in the next few weeks. |
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| 3. Office politics hit home |
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| The tense dynamics once confined to the office have infiltrated people's houses and apartments, Axios' Erica Pandey writes. - Families are haggling over who gets prime workspace.
In many homes, women get stuck with less-than-ideal offices. - "Women have become nomads," says Liz Patton, a professor of media and communication studies at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of "Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office."
- "There have always been spaces in the home that have been masculinized, like garages and basements," she added. "We already have ideas about who these spaces belong to, and so we default."
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| A message from Facebook |
| Internet regulations are as outdated as dial-up |
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| Facebook supports updated regulations, including four areas where lawmakers can make quick progress: - Reforming Section 230.
- Preventing foreign interference in our elections.
- Passing federal privacy law.
- Setting rules that allow people to safely transfer data between services.
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| 4. Pic du jour: Global mood |
| Photo: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg via Getty Images A wildfire approaches this lady's house in the village of Gouves, on the island of Evia, Greece, on Sunday. |
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| 5. Tokyo ratings spiral |
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| Primetime ratings for the Tokyo Games were down 42% from the 2016 Games, Axios' Sara Fischer writes from NBCUniversal data. - Why it matters: It's further evidence that the decline of traditional television is happening faster than initially expected.
The Games averaged 15.5 million primetime viewers across the two weeks that NBC aired the events, according to an analysis of total audience delivery measured by Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. - That's down from roughly 26.7 primetime viewers who tuned into the Summer Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
NBCU says the declines were partially offset by digital gains, and still expects the Olympics to be profitable. |
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| 6. Cuomo impeachment "increasingly inevitable" |
| Gov. Andrew Cuomo's dog, Captain, looks at members of the media across the street from the Executive Mansion in Albany on Saturday. Photo: Cindy Schultz/Reuters Impeachment "appears increasingly inevitable" for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the N.Y. Times reports (subscription): - New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie "believes he has the support from most, if not all, of the Democratic majority to impeach."
Cuomo believes "his best chance at political survival is to drag out the process," The Times reports, adding that the "prospect of a protracted and public battle has disheartened many close to Mr. Cuomo." - His top aide — Melissa DeRosa, who resigned Sunday — "no longer wanted to have to defend the governor in public."
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| 7. First look: Recess bus |
| Illustration: DNC The DNC plans to pump up President Biden's agenda during the August recess with a nationwide bus tour featuring mayors, governors and members of Congress, Axios' Alayna Treene reports. - Why it matters: The tour comes as lawmakers in both parties gear up for a messaging war ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Dems' three-part message: Job creation through infrastructure ... tax cuts for middle-class families ... and lower health care costs. - Axios reported Sunday that Republicans believe inflation, crime and illegal immigration are their key to regaining at least the House.
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| 8. J.D. Vance boost from right |
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| An influential House Republican is endorsing Senate candidate J.D. Vance of Ohio, as the author and venture capitalist fights for the seat vacated by Sen. Rob Portman's retirement, Jonathan Swan reports. - Jim Banks (R-Ind.) — chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, the largest bloc of House Republicans — tells Axios that Vance "isn't afraid to stand up to the woke elites."
State of play: Former state treasurer Josh Mandel leads early polls of the crowded 2022 GOP Senate primary field. - Tony Fabrizio, who polled for Donald Trump, found in polling for Vance's super PAC that Vance held a 6% share of the vote in April and 4% in June — well behind Mandel's 25% and 22%.
- But in a July survey of 800 likely Ohio Republican primary voters, Vance's share rose to 12% — second to Mandel, Fabrizio wrote in a memo to the Vance super PAC.
The highest-rated host on cable TV, Tucker Carlson, has been promoting and praising Vance. |
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| 9. Inside the #PsakiBomb factory |
| Photo: Annie Leibovitz/Vogue Twitter fans of White House press secretary Jen Psaki deploy the #PsakiBomb hashtag when she dispenses with a "foolish or spuriously framed question," Lizzie Widdicombe writes in Vogue's September issue: Many of her cheerful quips are actually ways of shutting down a line of questioning. .... [S]he'll brush aside questions about tense dealmaking by chirping, "Democracy in action!" Psaki tells Widdicombe that along with tone, President Biden wants to eliminate bureaucratic jargon that might confuse or alienate the public. She recalls briefing him on COVID-relief checks. "He said, 'How are you explaining how people are going to get these checks if they don't file taxes?' I said, 'Well, if you are a non-filer—'" Biden interrupted her. "He's like, 'Non-filer? Nobody knows what that is. That's not how anybody speaks.'" Keep reading. |
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| 10. 1 for the road: Your day — every day |
| Photo: Ed Zurga/Getty Images) The Yankees' Joey Gallo leaps over teammate Brett Gardner as he goes for a ball in Kansas City, Mo., last night. |
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| Why Facebook supports the Honest Ads Act |
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