| | | | |  | | By Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade and Eugene Daniels | | | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | THREE TOP POLITICS READS: 1. A late-breaking shift in next week's big primary?: Most of the candidates chasing Ohio's GOP Senate nomination have pledged allegiance to DONALD TRUMP and beaten a path to Mar-a-Lago. But not state Sen. MATT DOLAN. Instead, he's poured millions of his own fortune into a run as a traditional conservative. Now, "days before the May 3 primary, Dolan appears to be experiencing a late burst of momentum," Natalie Allison reports. 2. Inside the House Freedom Caucus' identity crisis: "A group founded with right-leaning policy ambition that later became a Donald Trump defense team is starting to split in important ways, from how to respond to this week's KEVIN MCCARTHY tapes to — more fundamentally — whether to reorient itself back to its limited-government roots," writes Olivia Beavers. Read on for the inside scoop on the tense relationship between Reps. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) and LAUREN BOEBERT (R-Colo.). 3. What vulnerable Democrats are losing sleep over: Purple-state Dems are displeased with President JOE BIDEN's plan "to handle a summertime migration surge at the border," report Marianne LeVine, Burgess Everett and Sarah Ferris. "[S]everal Democratic lawmakers are still calling for a delay in lifting the pandemic-era border restrictions known as Title 42. And some of them want a vote in Congress to push back against President Joe Biden's polarizing reversal of his predecessor's policy." Related read: "Republicans Blame Homeland Security Secretary for Spike in Migration," by NYT's Eileen Sullivan
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WHCD week kicked off in a major way Thursday night, with folks around town emerging from their pandemic holes to socialize like they haven't in years at parties across D.C. | Larry French/Getty Images | PLAYBOOK DEEP DIVE: WHCA EDITION — It's Friday. Official Washington is gearing up for a weekend of festivities. We have something a little lighter for you today than our normal fare, but hopefully it's as insightful. We spent the last few days talking to a trio of people with unique visibility into the equally loved and hated beast that is the White House Correspondents' Association dinner weekend:
- TAMMY HADDAD, co-host of a well-known and long-running — 29 years! — Saturday brunch.
- ED SOLOMON, proprietor of Georgetown's Anthony's Tuxedos, which has been renting formalwear for the black-tie event for more than four decades. (He bought the building from longtime White House secretary NELL YATES.)
- ELAYNE BOOSLER, the groundbreaking comedian who played the dinner in the first year of the Clinton era, when the event really transformed into a kind of Coachella for D.C. reporters, New York media executives and Hollywood personalities.
You can listen to all three on the latest episode of Playbook Deep Dive, which just dropped, but what follows are some insights from the full interviews, just for our Playbook subscribers: — Tammy's sage advice for the weekend: "Talk to the people you don't know. Don't talk to the people you do know. … Make a list in advance: 'Here's people I'd like to meet.' That's my overall rule." — Tammy on the D.C.-Hollywood pairing at her first brunch — 30 people in her backyard in the Palisades in 1993 — that convinced her she was onto something: " TIM RUSSERT [and] BARBRA STREISAND in the same room! Something's going on here. Maybe we should keep doing it." (Listen to the podcast for her story about how, years later, she lost Streisand in between the dinner and the Vanity Fair party.) — Elayne on what it was like to go through the relatively common experience of having her performance panned by the D.C. in crowd: "They scream, they laugh; the next day, every paper pans you, every person shuns you. I don't know why they even bother with this thing, but it's like they've had sex with a hooker and then when they pass her in the street the next day, they make believe they don't know her. And after all the joy I brought, the next day the papers, you know, called for my death. So that's what you're going to get if you say yes to this dinner."
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| Have a great weekend, and read on into the Playbookers section for a robust party report from the first night of WHCA weekend events … By the way: If you're heading to a WHCA-related party tonight, help us out! Send us spotteds, good gossip or funny moments: You can email tips to us at playbook@politico.com, or just text us: Save 202-556-3307 as "Playbook" in your contacts, and when you see something interesting, shoot us a text. (And don't worry, we'll keep you anonymous.) Happy Friday. Thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels , Ryan Lizza.
| | | | A message from Google: Google is helping connect American businesses and customers online. Every month in 2021, Google helped drive over 2.4 billion direct connections to customers, including phone calls, bookings, and more. View the 2021 Google Economic Impact Report. | | | YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO READ THIS — Today, POLITICO launches something exciting: a fresh newsletter packed with sharp, buzzy reads that will have Washington talking. We're calling it POLITICO Weekend. Each week, it will give you an incisive, fun window into the stories, personalities and obsessions behind American power — as told through deep-dive features, smart reads on culture and politics, gripping tales from history and snappy dispatches from the American seat of power. It's everything you need to know heading into the weekend. The first edition — out today — is packed with great stories:
- "The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter," by Max Tani: "The dulling down of the White House beat is not due to a lack of reportorial talent in the room. Nor has it meant that the work being done hasn't been important. … Rather, what is happening is the fulfillment of a central Biden promise. Running for office against Donald Trump — the most theatrical, attention-seeking, Beltway-panic-inducing president in living memory — he pledged to make Washington news boring again."
- "Why a Legendary Washington Insider Is Dreading the White House Correspondents' Dinner," by Michael Schaffer: "JULEANNA GLOVER is one of the best-known conveners at the nexus of social and political Washington. … But this year, with the annual festivities back to their familiar frenetic pace, amid a degree of excitement beyond anything in years, Glover is experiencing a distinctly unfamiliar feeling: dread. It has nothing to do with the virus or the war in Ukraine. … Instead, it's about politics itself."
Plus much more, but we can't spoil everything here. The first edition is set to publish at 9 a.m., so go ahead and sign up!
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres leave a news conference during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. | Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | ALL POLITICS REDISTRICTING READ — Ally Mutnick, Sarah Ferris and Bill Mahoney have the scoop on the fallout from the "shocking" New York court ruling that "struck down Democrats' most effective gerrymander" and in doing so "scuttling a map that would have likely netted the party 22 of New York's 26 seats in an election when they desperately needed every one of them." "The decision has incensed Democrats across the country — particularly since it was delivered by judges appointed by their own party's governors. Not only does it deprive Democrats of one of their best advantages in an ominous midterm cycle, it also takes the map-drawing process out of their hands entirely, perhaps for the next 10 years. New York Democrats are already preparing their battle plan to contest the ruling and insist the fight isn't over." HOYER AND PELOSI TAKE OPPOSING SIDES — House Majority Leader STENY HOYER jumped into the crowded Democratic Maryland gubernatorial primary Thursday, throwing his support behind author and entrepreneur WES MOORE, Zach Montellaro scoops . The move is significant as Hoyer becomes the most prominent Maryland official to get involved in the race. But it also has some intrigue at the top of the party: Pelosi, a Baltimore native, "has previously endorsed TOM PEREZ, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee and a former federal and state secretary of labor." FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: BILLBOARD WARS — On Monday,we had an item in Playbook about the DCCC and vulnerable Rep. SHARICE DAVIDS trying to go on offense on gas prices in Kansas, in part by putting up a billboard accusing her GOP opponent of being against policies that could lower costs at the pump. Now, the NRCC is hitting back: Today, they'll be putting up their own counter-billboard in the district in a bid to "set … the record straight" that Biden and Davids are to blame. See it first here JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH BUCKLE UP — The Jan. 6 select committee "has tentatively scheduled public hearings for prime-time slots from June 9 through the end of that month," WaPo's Jacqueline Alemany and Josh Dawsey report. TRUMP CARDS FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK — DOJ is suing PAUL MANAFORT "for almost $3 million in penalties related to his alleged failure to file reports disclosing more than 20 bank accounts he controlled in foreign countries, including Cyprus, the United Kingdom and St. Vincent and the Grenadines," Josh Gerstein reports. CONGRESS COMING ATTRACTIONS — Pelosi has invited Greek PM KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS to address a joint session of Congress on May 17, her office said. COMING IN FOR A LANDING — Rep. KAI KAHELE (D-Hawaii), who has recently been the subject of scrutiny over his absence on Capitol Hill and continued work as a commercial airline pilot, is planning to retire at the end of his term to run for governor, CNN's Annie Grayer and Alex Rogers report. ICYMI: Honolulu Civil Beat, which reported extensively about Kahele's piloting arrangement, reported earlier this month that he was considering a gubernatorial run.
| | | | A message from Google: Google is helping American small businesses like veteran-led Junk Platoon grow. Todd Temaat owns Junk Platoon, a junk removal service in Oklahoma City. He uses digital tools like Google Workspace and a Google Business Profile to help run his business. Since April 2021, Google Ads helped Junk Platoon grow their total sales by 10%. View your state's impact report here. | | | THE WHITE HOUSE ANOTHER W.H. SHAKEUP — PILI TOBAR, deputy comms director at the White House, will be "departing her role for the private sector," Axios' Sarah Mucha reports. NOMINEE NEWS — Biden's latest pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "secured the backing of a prominent group of legal figures" Thursday, Laura Barrón-López reports . "Seven members of the prosecution team in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case, including the lead attorney JOE HARTZLER, sent a letter to the top senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday praising Biden's nominee: STEVE DETTELBACH." WAR IN UKRAINE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS … — On the ground: "Russia pounded targets from practically one end of Ukraine to the other Thursday, including Kyiv," per AP's David Keyton and Inna Varenytsia. CNN's Tim Lister reports that "Ukrainian officials have condemned Russia's missile attack on Kyiv Thursday night, which occurred as the United Nations Secretary-General ANTONIO GUTERRES was finishing a visit to the Ukrainian capital." — On the peripherals: Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN on Thursday said the U.S. "will 'strongly support' NATO membership for Sweden and Finland if they choose to join the military alliance," per WaPo. — "The U.S. government has assessed that Russian intelligence was behind an attack earlier this month on a Nobel Prize winner and prominent Russian editor who had criticized the Kremlin's war against Ukraine," WaPo's Paul Sonne and Mary Ilyushina write. VALLEY TALK MEET THE NEW BOSS — ELON MUSK's pending takeover of Twitter is already playing out in public: "Twitter tried to fend off a free-speech lawsuit on Thursday even as a federal judge asked if Elon Musk's takeover might make the whole case moot," Susannah Luthi reports from San Francisco. TOP-ED — Facebook whistleblower FRANCES HAUGEN writes for NYT Opinion: "Europe Is Making Social Media Better Without Curtailing Free Speech. The U.S. Should, Too" TV TONIGHT — PBS' "Washington Week": Nikole Killion, Hans Nichols and Michael Shear. SUNDAY SO FAR … FOX "Fox News Sunday," guest-anchored by Bret Baier: Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) … DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Panel: Marc Short, Mara Liasson, Harold Ford Jr. and Olivia Beavers. NBC "Meet the Press": DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Panel: Helene Cooper, Garrett Haake, Stephen Hayes and Claire McCaskill. CBS "Face the Nation": USAID Administrator Samantha Power … Paul Burton … Deborah Birx … Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). MSNBC "The Sunday Show": Virginia state Del. Danica Roem … Ruth Ben-Ghiat … French Ambassador Philippe Etienne … Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) … George Hahn. ABC "This Week": USAID Administrator Samantha Power. Panel: Donna Brazile, Chris Christie, David Remnick and Susan Page. CNN "Inside Politics": Panel: Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and MJ Lee.
| | | | JOIN US TODAY FOR A WOMEN RULE DISCUSSION ON WOMEN IN TECH : Women, particularly women of color and women from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, have historically been locked out of the tech world. But this new tech revolution could be an opportunity for women to get in on the ground floor of a new chapter. Join POLITICO for an in-depth panel discussion on the future of women in tech and how to make sure women are both participating in this fast-moving era and have access to all it offers. REGISTER HERE. | | | | | | | PLAYBOOKERS | | Donald Trump returned to social media — Truth Social — with a callback to one of his classics. Our colleague Zack Colman is one of the 500 most influential people shaping policy in D.C., per Washingtonian. Debbie Dingell celebrated the Detroit Lions drafting Michigan star Aidan Hutchinson, tweeting: "Let's go bite some kneecaps!" WHCD WEEKEND BEGINS — WHCD weekend kicked off in a major way Thursday night, with folks around town emerging from their pandemic holes to socialize like they haven't in years at parties across D.C. — First, over at the Larz Anderson House, a Gilded Age mansion just off Dupont Circle, Washingtonian and Story Partners hosted the 9th annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards. Guests feted this year's honorees — including NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, CNN's Kaitlan Collins, WaPo's Kathleen Parker and ABC's Martha Raddatz — with rosés and other wines from the building's interior courtyard. Photos of the honorees here SPOTTED: Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), British Ambassador Karen Pierce, Norwegian Ambassador Anniken Krutnes, Neera Tanden, Michael LaRosa, John McCarthy, Yamiche Alcindor, Molly Ball and David Kihara, Kate Bennett, Rita Braver, Steve Clemons, Sam Feist, Robert Holleyman, Steven Lombardo, Katherine Lugar, Tim Doyle, Tamera Luzzatto, Goli Sheikholeslami, Cally Stolbach Baute, Mathias Döpfner, Jan Bayer, Abby Phillip, Heather Podesta, Erin Streeter and Karen Knutson.
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Courtesy of Ben Chang | — National Geographic held a D.C. premiere for its new documentary, "We Feed People," about chef José Andrés, who was in attendance for the reception. SPOTTED: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Jeff Bezos, Garrett Haake, Stephanie Ruhle, Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, Sam Feist, Sophia Bush, Danny Strong, Alexander Vindman, Jennifer Palmieri, Courteney Monroe, Peter Rice, Jonathan Karl, Mark Ein, Liz Allen, Mehdi Hasan, Steve and Jean Case, Dana Bash, Daniel Lubetsky, Catherine and Wayne Reynolds, and Nathan Mook.
|  World Central Kitchen Founder José Andrés and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attend a screening of WE FEED PEOPLE at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images for National Geographic | — The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper headlined the Free Expression Awards at the Anthem. Jonathan Capehart emceed the evening, where Nikole Hannah Jones, Alberto Ibarguen, Eric Treene, Cynthia Choi, Russell Jeung and Manjusha Kulkarni were honored with awards. (One standout joke from Klepper: "Sadly, the Newseum only lasted 11 years — or, for perspective, 264 CNN+s.") SPOTTED:Dean Baquet, Joe Kahn, Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt, Krissah Thompson, Sommer Mathis, Nick Massella, Paul Beckett and Jake Silverstein. Video of Klepper's jokes, where MSNBC, Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson were among those that received digs — At the Irish ambassador's residence, the Bytes & Bylines event co-hosted by Allen Gannett, De'Ara Balenger, Eric Kuhn, Susanna Quinn, Sarah Kate Ellis and Stellene Volandes hosted hundreds of folks inside and outside the residence. Ambassador Daniel Mulhall spoke to the crowd about the importance of journalism in a world of misinformation and disinformation, and how Ireland has taken in tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees and is ready to accept even more. SPOTTED: Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Reps. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Mark Takano (D-Calif.), British Ambassador Karen Pierce, Chasten Buttigieg, Michael LaRosa, Amanda Finney, Vedant Patel, Remi Yamamoto, Megan Apper, Chris Meagher, John McCarthy, Kate Berner, Katie Petrelius, Norah O'Donnell, Kelly O'Donnell, Phil Mattingly, Jeh Johnson, Joe Crowley, Kate Bennett, Jennifer Griffin, Peter Alexander, Alexander Marquardt, Josh Dawsey, Stephanie Cutter, Anthony Mercurio, Reggie Greer, Juleanna Glover, Francesca Chambers, Ari Shapiro, Jeff Zeleny, Abby Phillip and Adrienne Elrod. — Over at Meridian International Center, the White House Foreign Press Group and the Meridian Rising Leaders Council hosted a cocktail reception, which featured a performance by D.C. band Suspicious Package. SPOTTED: Polish Ambassador Marek Magierowski, Swiss Ambassador Jacques Henri Pitteloud, Amanda Finney, Andrew Rabens, Adrienne Watson, Vedant Patel, Dean Lieberman, Sean Savett, Matt Kaminski, Bay Fang, Alexandra Dukakis, Anastasia Dellaccio, Ben Chang, Natalie Jones, Andy Oros, Kiki Burger and Puru Trivedi.
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Courtesy of Ben Chang | OUT AND ABOUT ELSEWHERE — SPOTTED at a memorial service for Vic Fazio at the Library of Congress Great Hall on Thursday: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (who gave the lead eulogy), Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), Sandi Stuart, Steve Ricchetti, Kent Conrad, Byron Dorgan, Earl Pomeroy, Jane Harman, Barbara Kennelly, Alexis Covey-Brandt, Fred Graefe, Bruce Yarwood, Pat Sarcone and Dana Fazio Lawrie. — French Ambassador Philippe Etienne hosted a lunch featuring a discussion of the implications for Europe and the U.S. of French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection. Semafor's Steve Clemons moderated the conversation and got attendees in on the discussion. SPOTTED: Howard Solomon, Sujit Sharma, Pascal Confavreaux, David Lawler, Amy Mackinnon, Bret Baier, Courtney McBride, Franklin Foer, Sam Feist, Jacob Heilbrunn, Michael Hirsh, Isaac Dovere, Aamer Madhani, Eli Stokols, Jonathan Martin, Julia Ioffe, Robert Costa, Kevin Baron, Tim Wu, Josh Lederman, Annie Karni, John Hudson, Abby Livingston, Heidi Przybyła, Wesley Lowery, Ishaan Tharoor, Henry Olsen, Doug Heye and Norm Ornstein. FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — NYT reporters Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias are writing "The Fall Of Roe," a new book offering a definitive look at abortion over the last 10 years as the nexus for America's greatest personal, political and moral battles. The book was sold at auction to Bryn Clark for Flatiron Books by CAA's Mollie Glick and David Larabell. — Emily Warren is now head of public policy at Embark Trucks. She previously was a senior manager for public policy at Amazon, and is a Lyft alum. TRANSITIONS — Jim McGreevy will be VP of public policy, federal government relations and political engagement at Coca-Cola. He currently is president and CEO of the Beer Institute. … Carolyn Blankenship is joining BigBear.ai as general counsel. She previously was general counsel for innovation and product for Thomson Reuters. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Quinn Bradlee (4-0) … Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) … Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) … NBC's Hallie Jackson … Lynne Weil of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology … Peter Kiley of C-SPAN … Akin Gump's Ed Pagano (6-0) … Anne Brachman … Eric Pierce of Lockheed Martin … Allison Zelman … Emily Saleme of Sen. John Thune's (R-S.D.) office … Dawn Kopecki … Gentry Collins … Nadeam Elshami of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck … U.Va.'s Melody Barnes … Finsbury Glover Hering's Ari Isaacman Bevacqua … Richard Goodstein … David Gaidamak ... Josh Sharp of Advoc8 ... Holly Morris ... WaPo's Melina Mara ... Geng Ngarmboonanant … Rob Bassin … Bracewell's Scott Segal … Cara Morris Stern … Meghan Pennington of Hamilton Place Strategies ... former Reps. Jim Ryun (R-Kan.) and Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) … Geoff Earle of the Daily Mail … Jasleen Vig of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) office … Nolen Bivens of Americans for the Arts … Rick Rosen … CAP's Graham Griffin … Andy Oros … James Kariuki Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@politico.com. Playbook couldn't happen without our editor Mike Zapler, deputy editor Zack Stanton and producers Bethany Irvine, Eli Okun and Garrett Ross. | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Ottawa Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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