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| By Mike Allen · May 04, 2022 |
| Hello, Wednesday. Smart Brevity™ count: 992 words ... 4 mins. Edited by Justin Green and Zachary Basu. |
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| 1 big thing: Vance's Trump-like effect |
| J.D. Vance with his wife Usha Vance on stage last night in Cincinnati. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images J.D. Vance will arrive in a D.C. filled with enemies if he follows last night's Ohio Republican Senate primary win with victory over Democratic nominee Tim Ryan in November, Axios' Jonathan Swan and Lachlan Markay report. - Why it matters: The Republican establishment privately regards Vance with the same disgust many felt toward Donald Trump when he entered the White House on Jan. 20, 2017.
Zoom out: Vance will be seen as arguably the hardest-edged populist nationalist in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's conference. - Vance has made statements on the campaign trail that have repulsed establishment Republicans, including members of Senate leadership.
- Major Republican donors spent millions trying to defeat him, including the powerful Club for Growth.
Between the lines: McConnell has pushed President Biden to do more to help Ukraine win the war. Vance has said Ukraine is not America's problem. - Vance said on Steve Bannon's podcast shortly before Russia invaded its neighbor: "I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another."
- McConnell's stance has the enthusiastic support of virtually his entire Senate GOP conference. Vance's opponents saw an opportunity to use his indifference to Ukraine against him. But Vance didn't budge.
"It was a pivotal moment in solidifying the view of J.D. as a fighter by the base and some of the most important media voices on the right," a source close to the campaign told Axios. - None of those voices was more important than Fox's top-rated host Tucker Carlson, a major booster of Vance.
Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images The bottom line: Vance's victory deals a body blow to a small but noticeable resurgence of anti-Trump — or post-Trump — sentiment in the GOP. - Republican Trump critics staked their hopes on state senator Matt Dolan, who accused Trump of peddling "lies" about fraud in the 2020 election and blamed him for Jan. 6.
- But even with four solidly pro-Trump candidates in the race, Dolan was unable to marshal a plurality. As of this morning, Dolan was in third.
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| 2. Abortion challenges Corporate America's activism |
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| The Supreme Court's forthcoming abortion ruling will put Corporate America in a vise, Axios' Lachlan Markay and Emily Peck report. - "Disney was a real wake up call for a lot of big companies," said Doug Pinkham, the president of the D.C.-based Public Affairs Council.
- Companies are in a "quandary" between an increasingly young and educated white-collar workforce — and alienating powerful lawmakers in the states where big companies do business.
The bottom line: "For most companies I've talked to, their guiding star is their employees," a prominent Democratic lobbyist told Axios. - "Businesses have core values, but they also are capitalists, and they're gonna say, in a state that has, let's say, an absolute ban on all abortions … can I get employees to come work there?"
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| 3. Protests sweep U.S. |
| Photo: Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images Thousands of abortion rights protesters rallied across the U.S. yesterday, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports. - Tensions were running high on both sides in Los Angeles, per the Los Angeles Times. The LAPD said it issued a dispersal order after some protesters threw rocks at officers.
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| 4. Poll: Distrust rising |
 Data: LAAUNCH; Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios A greater percentage of Americans now distrust the loyalties of people of Asian descent, and more incorrectly blame them for COVID-19, Axios' Shawna Chen and Hope King report. "From the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1800s to the internment camps of the 1940s to the murder of Vincent Chin in the '80s, this has always been a part of the fabric of the United States," Eric Toda, a member of the board of Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change, told Axios Today. |
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| 5. Dave Chappelle attacked on stage |
| Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled on stage by a man with a replica gun last night at a Los Angeles comedy festival. He was reportedly uninjured. - "[A]ccounts posted online showed the man climbing onto the front of the Hollywood Bowl stage and rushing toward Chappelle," per The Hollywood Reporter.
- The LAPD "confirmed the attack, saying the weapon the man was carrying can eject a knife blade 'when you discharge it correctly,'" NBC Los Angeles reports.
- The attacker had "superficial injuries" after being detained by security, police said. BuzzFeed News reporter Brianna Sacks later tweeted video of the alleged attacker being loaded onto an ambulance.
The bottom line: The attack — a month after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock — "is likely to reignite worries in the comedy community about audience members rushing the stage," THR writes. |
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| 6. 🇺🇦 Russia storms Mariupol plant |
| A resident stands yesterday in front of a block of apartments destroyed in Mariupol. Photo: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Russian forces began storming the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where the last remaining Ukrainian forces defending the besieged port city have been bunkered down for weeks. - The assault comes two weeks after Vladimir Putin ordered his military not to storm Azovstal, but instead seal off the sprawling labyrinth of Soviet-era tunnels and bunkers that stretches over four square miles.
⚡ 101 civilians — including mothers, children and the elderly — were able to escape the plant and reach Ukrainian-held territory through a humanitarian operation overseen by the U.N. and the Red Cross. |
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| 7. Inside Biden's meeting with Austin Tice's parents |
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| Debra and Marc Tice at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2018. Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images |
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| President Biden committed in an Oval Office meeting on Monday to engage directly with the Assad regime to find a solution that will bring home Austin Tice, an American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, Axios' Zachary Basu reports. - Tice's parents told Axios the meeting came together swiftly after CBS reporter Steven Portnoy, the current president of the White House Correspondents' Association, used his speech at Saturday's annual dinner to call attention to Tice's case.
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| 8. 📷 Parting shot |
| Photo: San Francisco Fire Department via AP Above: An abortion opponent climbs the 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco yesterday. - Maison Des Champs, 22, who describes himself as a "pro-life Spiderman," was arrested on the tower's roof.
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