| | | | | | | Presented By Facebook | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen · May 07, 2022 | | Happy Saturday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,154 words ... 4½ mins. Edited by TuAnh Dam. | | | | | | 1 big thing — Scoop: Trump v. McCormick | | Screenshot: McCormick for U.S. Senate Dave McCormick, who privately lobbied hard to win former President Trump's blessing, is going after Trump for backing Dr. Oz in the country's hottest current race — the Pennsylvania GOP race for U.S. Senate. - Why it matters: It's McCormick v. Trump in the final stretch before the May 17 primary. Trump slammed McCormick last night at a rally in Pennsylvania. Now McCormick is punching back in an ad you're seeing first on Axios — ridiculing the endorsement of Oz.
McCormick's campaign tells me the ad will begin airing on TV on Monday as the main ad for the week — the last week before the primary. - The ad, called "Wrong Endorsement in Pennsylvania," includes a clip of Fox News' Laura Ingraham saying on her show: "It was a mistake to endorse Oz."
This is a big deal: Trump attacked McCormick for the first time last night, at a rainy, muddy rally last night outside Pittsburgh. - Trump said that as CEO of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, McCormick "managed money for communist China."
- Trump asserted McCormick is the "candidate of special interests and globalists and the Washington establishment ... ripping off the United States with bad trade deals and open borders." (AP)
Trump spent more time criticizing McCormick during his hour+ remarks than he did praising Oz, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. - McCormick "may be a nice guy, but he's not MAGA," Trump said.
- The crowd booed when a warm-up speaker mentioned Oz.
Mehmet Oz and former President Trump last night in Greensburg, Pa. Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP Zoom out: McCormick wanted Trump's backing badly, turning to his wife, Dina Powell, a former Trump official, and Trump-friendly advisers like Hope Hicks to plead his case. They mostly pushed Trump to remain neutral in the race. But Trump stiffed McCormick in a very public way. - A poll released this week by Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., showed a statistical tie — Oz 18% and McCormick 16% among Republicans, with conservative activist Kathy Barnette at 12%. (Go deeper.)
- McCormick is backed by Mike Pompeo, Trump's former Secretary of State.
Reality check: The ad calls Oz "PRO-ABORTION." Oz formerly spoke in favor of abortion rights, but now says he is "100% Pro-Life." McCormick said this morning on "Fox & Friends," from a diner in Sewickley (Allegheny County), Pa.: - "President Trump's very popular in Pennsylvania — and with good reason, because his America First policies absolutely were great for Pennsylvanians and for Americans. The problem is Mehmet Oz isn't popular in Pennsylvania."
Watch the ad. |     | | | | | | 2. 🗳️ Dems pivot to health care |  | | | Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios | | | | Democrats are testing a midterm message that expands their abortion-rights argument to a broad push on health care, Axios' Alexi McCammond and Sophia Cai report. - Why it matters: The strategy would seek to divert voters' attention from inflation, crime and the border.
Zoom out: Campaigning on health care helped put Democrats over the top in 2018 and 2020. But in this cycle, COVID's economic and psychological fallout is putting President Biden's party on its heels. - The White House thinks this week's Supreme Court leak could galvanize women, people 35 and younger and people of color.
- Democrats won back the House in 2018 — flipping 41 seats — in large part due to messaging on health care. Over half the TV ads boosting Democrats in the lead-up to Election Day that cycle mentioned health care, the Wesleyan Media Project found.
Navigator Research, a progressive group, yesterday released a memo with new polling data citing strong public support for specific Democratic health care proposals. - These include calls to expand seniors' Medicare to cover hearing aids, empower Medicare to lower drug prices, cap monthly insulin costs for diabetics and lower health insurance premiums for families who must purchase their own coverage
Democrats already were gearing up to campaign against an agenda proposed by Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Even Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the plan. | | | | | | | | 3. ☢️ Putin to send new nuke warning | | Russian service members line up in Red Square today to rehearse Monday's military parade. Photo: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Vladimir Putin will send a "doomsday" warning to the West when he leads celebrations Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, Reuters reports. - Defiant toward Western isolation since ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Putin will speak in Moscow's Red Square before a parade of troops, tanks, rockets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
A fly-by over St. Basil's Cathedral will include supersonic fighters, Tu-160 strategic bombers and, for the first time since 2010, the Il-80 "doomsday" command plane, which would become the roaming command center for the Russian president in event of nuclear war. - In a grand spectacle, 11,000 troops will march across Red Square along with 131 pieces of military hardware.
Reality check: Ukraine has exposed the weakness in Russia's military. - Go deeper: "May 9 Russian holiday will be pivotal, dangerous deadline," by Axios' Glen Johnson.
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Learn what's next. | | | | | | 4. 🇦🇫 Taliban orders women to cover up | | Afghan women wait for food rations being distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul last month. Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Afghanistan's Taliban rulers today ordered Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public, AP reports from Kabul. - Why it matters: It's a sharp, hardline pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists — and is bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community.
The decree calls for women to only show their eyes, and recommends they wear the head-to-toe burqa. It evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban's previous rule between 1996 and 2001. - "We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety," said Khalid Hanafi, acting minister for the Taliban's vice and virtue ministry.
Context: The Taliban previously decided against reopening schools to girls above grade 6, reneging on an earlier promise — appeasing the hard-line base at the expense of alienating the international community. - That decision disrupted efforts by the Taliban to win recognition from potential international donors, with the country in a worsening humanitarian crisis.
Go deeper. | | | | | | | | 5. 📉 Brutal stock selloff |  Data: YCharts. Chart: Axios Visuals The S&P 500 has fallen five straight weeks — its longest retreat in a decade. The index has slumped 14% since setting a record on 2022's first trading day, wiping out $6 trillion in value, Bloomberg reports. - 70% of S&P 500 companies fell yesterday.
Why it matters: "Losses are spreading from risky stocks to steady earners." On the chart above, you see the FAANG tech giants — Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (now Alphabet) — getting hit even worse than the broader market. | | | | | | | | 6. 🛍️ $34.99 bargain was Roman relic | | Photo: San Antonio Museum of Art via AP Art collector Laura Young bought a marble bust at a Goodwill store in Austin for $34.99 in 2018. It turned out to be a Roman bust dating to the late 1st century B.C. to the early 1st century A.D., and had disappeared from the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria after World War II. - At Goodwill, it was on the floor, under a table.
- Now it's on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art through May 2023, then will be returned to Germany.
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