Plus: Trump's favorite gift | Wednesday, August 04, 2021
| | | | | | | Presented By Facebook | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen ·Aug 04, 2021 | | Good afternoon. Today's PM — edited by Kate Nocera — is 493 words, a 2-minute read. 🚨 Breaking: A majority of New York State Assembly members would oust Gov. Andrew Cuomo if he doesn't resign, according to an AP tally. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Clyburn the kingmaker | | Rep. James Clyburn speaks last September. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) cemented his Biden-era kingmaker status with Shontel Brown's upset in Ohio last night. The 81-year-old is showing critics — including some progressives — that he has the pulse of his party, Axios' Alexi McCammond reports. - "I was going to stay right here in South Carolina minding my business until I got called stupid," Clyburn told Axios in an interview today. "That's the kind of BS that sent me to Cleveland."
The Ohio surprise is the latest in a string of primary wins by centrists over progressives — bolstering a playbook that Clyburn has championed since helping Joe Biden clinch the party's 2020 nomination. - Clyburn, along with many in congressional leadership and in the West Wing, sees that as the best path for Democrats to keep control of the House and Senate in next year's midterms.
Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic group that spent roughly $500,000 on digital attack ads on behalf of the Ohio winner, said: - "Jim Clyburn is really good at politics and he really understands, especially, where African American and older African American voters are."
Keep reading. |     | | | | | | 2. Olympic history — and a food truck |  | | | Tamyra Mensah-Stock. Photo: Wang Yuguo/Xinhua via Getty Images | | | | Team USA's Tamyra Mensah-Stock became the first Black woman to win Olympic gold in freestyle wrestling. - "Young women are going to ... look up there and go: 'I can do that. I can see myself,'" she said.
She said she'll use her prize money to buy her mother a food truck "because it is her dream." Photo: Jack Guaz/AFP via Getty Images | | | | | | | | A message from Facebook | | The internet has changed a lot since 1996 - internet regulations should too | | |  | | | | It's been 25 years since comprehensive internet regulations passed. See why we support updated regulations on key issues, including: - Protecting people's privacy.
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| | | | | | 3. Widow on vaccines: "I would've given anything" |  | | | Rep. Letlow and her late husband. Photo via "CBS This Morning" | | | | Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) — whose husband, Luke, then a congressman-elect, died of COVID in December — made an emotional plea on "CBS This Morning" for more Louisiana residents to get the coronavirus vaccine. - Republican Luke Letlow, who was elected to Congress in December, died just days before he was set to be sworn in. Julia Letlow then won a special election to replace him.
The congresswoman said: "I would've given everything for that shot to be available for us. Looking back now, and for someone to turn it away, it's heartbreaking." | | | | | | | | 4. 🎁 1 for the road: Trump's favorite gift | | A disclosure of gifts to President Trump by foreign leaders in 2019 shows that three of them all had the same idea: They gave him portraits of himself, AP's Matt Lee writes. - The self-obsessed president received a Trump painting on dual-pane glass from then-Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong.
- From Egypt, Trump got a "large double frame carved from black stone with image of President Donald J. Trump in precious metal on one side and the coat of arms of Egypt on the reverse," from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave Trump a framed photo of Trump and his wife.
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