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| By Mike Allen ·Nov 10, 2021 |
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| 1 big thing: Post-Trump GOP doctrine |
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| Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios |
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| Republicans — reshaped, controlled and defined by Donald Trump since 2015 — are slowly but surely charting a post-Trump ideology and platform. - Why it matters: Other than conservative courts, toughness on immigration and hostility toward modern liberalism, it's been impossible to specify the core and connective ideology of Republicans under Trump.
Now, Republicans are rallying around a plan to break up with corporate America and oppose Big Business, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Education — and big government: - Quit corporate America: A new breed of Republicans — led by Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who last week called on the party to divorce Big Business — is championing the working class against the party's traditional boardroom allies. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a plan to "Bust Up Anti-Competitive Big Businesses."
- Pound parental rights: Terry McAuliffe's debate remark dissing parents allowed Virginia Republicans to mainstream an issue that was already burning up Fox News. The day after Glenn Youngkin's victory, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said the party will soon unveil a "parent's bill of rights." Democrats are now playing defense on education — an issue they used to own.
- Terrorize tech: If Republicans win back the House and/or Senate majorities, curbs on Big Tech — including new taxes — will be a Day 1 priority. Cries of censorship — real or manufactured — are one of the surest GOP applause lines, milking the party's cultural gulf with Silicon Valley. J.D. Vance, the "Hillbilly Elegy" author running for Senate in Ohio, is pushing to dismantle the "Big Tech Oligarchy."
- Malign mandates: President Biden's plan to require COVID vaccination or testing for employers of 100+ people beginning Jan. 4 has been a huge gift in the eyes of Republican governors. Florida's Ron DeSantis was among the first of several GOP governors to sue Biden over the mandate: "[T]he federal government cannot unilaterally impose medical policy under the guise of workplace regulation."
- Fan fear: House Republicans are building their regain-the-majority strategy around the trifecta of rising inflation, illegal immigration and crime. The GOP blames all those troubling trends on Democrats, since they're in charge. The fear factor has a receptive audience with the big prize in next year's midterms — suburban swing voters.
The big picture: Trump will probably run in 2024 and make the GOP about his various grievances. In that case, Republican candidates will try to smuggle these ideas to voters without offending the party leader. |
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| 2. Trump's legal losing streak |
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| It turns out it's not OK to use the White House as a stage for the Republican National Convention: - A top watchdog found that 13 senior Trump officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, violated ethics law and helped create "a taxpayer-funded campaign apparatus within the upper echelons of the executive branch."
- A federal judge last night rejected Trump's request to block the National Archives from turning over documents sought by the House select committee investigating Jan. 6.
- The committee has subpoenaed 16 former Trump aides over the past two days, including former senior adviser Stephen Miller, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and campaign adviser Jason Miller.
- A second grand jury has been empaneled in New York's criminal investigation of the Trump Organization (NBC News).
- An Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening her own grand jury in an investigation of Trump's attempts to overturn the election in Georgia (N.Y. Times).
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| 3. Exclusive: U.S. to speed shots to conflict zones |
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| The Biden administration is set to announce today that it has brokered a deal to get more doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine into conflict zones around the world, a senior White House official tells Axios health care editor Tina Reed. - Why it matters: J&J doses could previously only be used for official government vaccination programs due to liability concerns. But in many humanitarian settings and conflict zones, there's no government entity to administer the doses and accept that liability.
Secretary of State Tony Blinken is expected to announce the deal as part of a virtual meeting with foreign ministers today. - He will also announce that the U.S facilitated a deal to make an additional 300,000 doses of J&J available for humanitarian, UN peacekeeping, and other frontline workers around the world.
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| 4. Pic du jour: Vanishing glaciers |
| Photos: Planet Labs Inc. via AP These satellite images show glaciers on Mt. Kilimanjaro — the highest mountain in Africa, and one of Tanzania's main tourism attractions — in 2016 (left) and this year. - Kilimanjaro has lost about 90% of its glacial ice to melting and to sublimation, a process in which solid ice transitions directly to vapor without becoming a liquid first, AP reports.
Why it matters: From the southern border of Germany to the highest peaks in Africa, glaciers are moneymaking tourist attractions, and beacons of beliefs for indigenous groups. |
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| 5. Musk's record plunge |
 Data: FactSet. Chart: Axios Visuals Elon Musk has lost $50 billion this week as Tesla shares plunged — the biggest two-day decline in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bloomberg reports. What's happening: The rout started after Musk asked Twitter whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla. His brother, Kimbal, sold shares. And Insider quoted Michael Burry of "Big Short" fame saying Musk may want to sell shares to cover personal debts, per Bloomberg. |
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| 6. Future of Santa |
| Santa shouts to a family at a Bass Pro Shops drive-by Christmas kickoff last Saturday in Springfield, Mo. Photo: Andrew Jansen/Springfield News-Leader via Reuters The tight labor market is producing a Santa shortage as malls try to return to real-life wonderlands after last year's virtual workarounds, The Wall Street Journal writes (subscription): - "Working Santas are capitalizing on their scarcity value, bumping up hourly rates and packing their schedules."
"Concerns about the virus are still high among a group of workers that skews toward older, heavier-set men," The Journal notes. |
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| 7. Brian Williams to end 28-year run |
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| MSNBC President Rashida Jones announced in an internal email last night that after 28 years with NBC, Brian Williams, 62, "has informed us he would like to take the coming months to spend time with his family. He will be signing off from 'The 11th Hour' at the end of the year." - "The 11th Hour" (11 p.m. ET on MSNBC), which just celebrated five years, became a refuge for the proud New Jersey native after he lost his "NBC Nightly News" chair in a fabulism scandal.
Williams said in a note to colleagues: "28 years, 38 countries, 8 Olympic games, 7 Presidential elections, half a dozen Presidents, a few wars, and one SNL. ... This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another. There are many things I want to do, and I'll pop up again somewhere." |
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| 8. Parting shot: Dogs on the dais |
| Photo: Andrew Solender/Axios Bella, staffed by Axios congressional reporter Andrew Solender, drops by the House Rules Committee in a star turn for the Dogs on the Dais Instagram feed. |
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