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Maggie Haberman on the curse of covering Donald Trump: "'Even if I did move on, I don't get to move on, because at this point I am so publicly associated with this story — so, until he stops being a story, I think I'm stuck.'" | Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for The New York Times | | | | |  | DRIVING THE DAY | | IAN IS BACK TO HURRICANE STRENGTH — AP's Meg Kinnard and Adriana Gomez Licon: "A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina's coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and floods after the megastorm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and left people trapped in their homes. "With all of South Carolina's coast under a hurricane warning, a steady stream of vehicles left Charleston on Thursday, many likely heeding officials' warnings to seek higher ground. Storefronts were sandbagged to ward off high water levels in an area prone to inundation. … "With winds holding at 85 mph (140 kph), the National Hurricane Center's update at 2 a.m. Friday placed Ian about 175 miles (285 km) southeast of Charleston and forecast a 'life-threatening storm surge' and hurricane conditions along the Carolina coastal area later Friday." JUST POSTED: KRUSE ON MAGGIE — We are four days away from the release of MAGGIE HABERMAN's new book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" ($34), and our POLITICO Mag pal Michael Kruse just dropped this excellent profile of the author. Kruse's lede is the most Maggie anecdote ever, and we say that with great affection: "Late one recent afternoon, Maggie Haberman pulled into a parking spot in the lot at Gargiulo's, the old-time Italian restaurant in Coney Island where DONALD TRUMP's father used to eat lunch. Her phone pressed to her ear, Haberman got out of her car and started walking toward the door, oblivious to the beeping of a warning coming from her periwinkle Honda CRV. "'Maggie,' I said. 'Your car's still on.' "'I do that sometimes,' she said." How Dawsey ruined Maggie's afternoon: "Haberman, 48, a wife, a mother of three, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times and an on-air political analyst for CNN, turned around and turned off her car and then trudged into Gargiulo's and ordered a Diet Coke and a cannoli and stewed aloud over a story the Washington Post had just published — an advancement in the ongoing saga of the classified documents seized by the feds at Trump's Florida club and home. 'It's something I should have had,' she said. 'I told JOSH DAWSEY' — the reporter for the Post — 'he ruined my afternoon.'" JONATHAN SWAN on Maggie: "'It was the most competitive beat in American journalism, and she was, by any objective measure, the dominant reporter,' said Jonathan Swan of Axios, widely regarded as one of her most able challengers. 'Anyone who's rational and intellectually honest,' Swan told me, 'would acknowledge that.'" JOHN HARRIS on Maggie: "Relying on a vast network of sources from New York to Washington and beyond, wired throughout the interlocking, often feuding orbits around Trump, Haberman for Trump associates can serve as both 'tormentor' and 'confessor,' in the words of John Harris, the POLITICO founder who hired Haberman before she was hired away by the Times. 'They end up going,' Harris said of Trump aides, 'to see Dr. Maggie.'" TIM O'BRIEN on the curse of covering Trump: "'Once you cover Donald Trump closely,' said Tim O'Brien, the Trump biographer who started writing about him in the early '90s and is still writing about him now, 'you are never free.'" Maggie on the curse: "'Even if I did move on,' she said, 'I don't get to move on, because at this point I am so publicly associated with this story — so, until he stops being a story, I think I'm stuck.'" Don't miss: This black and white photo of 6-year-old Maggie sitting on ED KOCH's lap in 1980 and 7-year-old Maggie's write-up of the experience for the Daily News ("The Mayor is tall and kind and he means business. And I like people like that.") On the Trump-Maggie psychodrama: "To people around Trump, and around Haberman, too, this was proof of this 'fixation' that he had. She 'gets access to Trump because he needs her,' as BEN SMITH once said, 'not because she needs him.' To the extent that there is a 'relationship,' it's him to her more than her to him. Haberman has covered Trump the way she's covered basically everybody. Trump, on the other hand, attacked her — he called her a 'third rate reporter' and a liberal 'flunkie' 'who I don't speak to and have nothing to do with' — even as he plainly was looking for, or needing, something specially from her. 'He seemed to have a love-hate relationship on his side,' [STEPHANIE] GRISHAM said. 'She was at the top of the pecking order of people he paid attention to,' said ALYSSA FARAH , a former White House communications director for Trump. 'Nobody pisses off Donald Trump more than Maggie Haberman,' [MICHAEL] CAPUTO told me. 'But he also appreciates her more than any other reporter.' Said [SAM] NUNBERG: 'He thinks he probably made her.'" Maggie on whether she's addicted to her work: "'Yes. One hundred percent,' she said. 'I think you knew the answer to your question. It's my curse and my salvation.'" Additional cameos by Jonathan Lemire, Glenn Thrush, Allen Salkin, Ashley Parker, Elisabeth Bumiller, Annie Karni, Eli Stokols, Blake Hounshell and Jonathan Martin. DEEP DIVE ON GIORGIA MELONI — One of the best profiles we've read about the incoming prime minister of Italy is "How Giorgia Meloni Thinks," by POLITICO's Rome-based Hannah Roberts. Earlier this week, after the election results were in, we sat down with Hannah at a rooftop restaurant overlooking the Pantheon, and asked her to help us understand Meloni. Hannah's time was a little short. She was on deadline breaking this fascinating story about the backroom deal that made Meloni the next leader of Italy. But in our time together for this week's Playbook podcast, Hannah took us from the gritty left-wing neighborhood of Meloni's teenage years through her long career on the fringes of the Italian neo-fascist right to her recent cannonball ascent as the lone face of opposition to the last Italian government as it teetered and fell. Along the way, Hannah explodes a lot of myths about Meloni, and breaks down what precisely the West should be concerned about when it comes to Italy's polarizing new leader. Listen here … Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
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Amazon's 750,000 hourly employees are eligible for Career Choice, which now fully funds college tuition. | | | Happy Friday. Thanks for reading Playbook. Drop us a line with your favorite Maggie anecdote: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza. THE LATEST RACHAEL-KAROUN BOOK SCOOP — "Nancy Pelosi Resisted Effort to Impeach Trump on Night of Jan. 6: New Book," by The Intercept's Ryan Grim: "That evening, once the Capitol had been cleared and the House returned to finish its business, [Rep. DAVID] CICILLINE found Rep. STENY HOYER on the floor, the book reports. Hoyer, as majority leader, controls the floor schedule. Cicilline handed Hoyer the impeachment resolution and implored him to allow a vote right then and there. He hemmed, hawed, and passed the request on to [House Speaker] NANCY PELOSI. "Pelosi's staff first tried to tell Cicilline that there were technical reasons it couldn't be done, arguing that the House was in joint session and therefore, can't impeach. But of course, they could adjourn the joint session after certifying the election and gavel in a new session. Instead, Pelosi decided to gavel the chamber closed, and everybody went home. "The group kept pushing over the next week, and Pelosi deputized Rep. ADAM SCHIFF , D-Calif., to argue against them. By the end of the week, he had come out publicly in support of it, but on a critical call the next day — a Saturday — with [Rep. JERRY] NADLER and others pushing impeachment, Schiff again made the case, at Pelosi's behest, against it." More in "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump" ($35)
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| The Senate battlefield is narrowing, and leaders in both parties agree that control of the upper chamber is coming down to two (very different) Sun Belt swing states: Nevada and Georgia. "Democrats' most straightforward path to keeping the majority still means bringing back their so-called Core Four battleground senators: MAGGIE HASSAN of New Hampshire, MARK KELLY of Arizona, RAPHAEL WARNOCK of Georgia and CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO of Nevada," Burgess Everett and Natalie Allison report this morning . "And while Hassan and Kelly are breathing a bit easier these days, Cortez Masto and Warnock are sweating it out in extremely tight races." — In Georgia: The campaigns of both Warnock and GOP nominee HERSCHEL WALKER "concede there are few swing voters to win over. The Peach State's winning strategy is all about turnout." — In Nevada: Republicans got the recruit they wanted in ADAM LAXALT. He and Cortez Masto are competing for the swing state's independent voters — with the possibility that the "none of these candidates" option on Nevada ballots could actually "affect the outcome of a close Senate race." How did the battlefield narrow? "Although polls are obviously an imperfect metric, we've watched as Nevada and Georgia have gone back and forth and New Hampshire and Arizona show reliable Democratic leads," Burgess and Natalie told Playbook Thursday night. "In Nevada and Georgia, the GOP candidates barely were grazed in the primaries, while Arizona's BLAKE MASTERS and New Hampshire's DON BOLDUC had late primary wins in crowded fields. And you can follow the money: Establishment Republicans have pulled out some money in Arizona. They've left it in New Hampshire for now, but we are watching to see if some of it gets reallocated to Nevada and Georgia." BIG PICTURE BIDEN'S STRATEGY — "Biden takes aim at a GOP triumvirate: Scott, Johnson, McCarthy," by WaPo's Matt Viser MAPMAKER, MAPMAKER — "Gerrymandering Isn't Giving Republicans the Advantage You Might Expect," by NYT's Nate Cohn TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN — "Two Election Deniers Are Facing Very Different Odds In Arizona," by FiveThirtyEight's Kaleigh Rogers BATTLE FOR THE SENATE FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — The Senate Republican Conference is out with a new messaging video, shared exclusively with Playbook, illustrating what GOP senators want to be talking about in key races ahead of the midterms: Thumping Biden and Democrats for putting America "on the wrong track." The 2-minute-plus video is narrated by Sen. JOHN BARRASSO (R-Wyo.) and titled, "The First Two Years." Watch the video PERSONALITY TEST — "'Boring white guys' are out in a Pennsylvania Senate race focused on personality," by the Philly Inquirer's Jonathan Tamari and Julia Terruso: "In a contest that features a TV celebrity and a steel country PAUL BUNYAN , big personalities have largely overshadowed serious policy debate. … When the candidates have talked about issues, it's mostly to scare the bejesus out of voters." BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE FLUKE OR FEATURE? — In August, MARY PELTOLA beat SARAH PALIN in an Alaska special election, an outcome that supporters of ranked choice voting see as vindication that the quirky system encourages the election of moderates over ideologues. "Now," Ben Jacobs writes, "a rematch in November for a full two-year term promises to show whether the August results were a fluke or a feature of Alaskans' preferences and their voting system." RED (MAINE'S VERSION) — "Lobster feud boils over in Maine," by Garrett Downs: "Rep. JARED GOLDEN, fighting a tough reelection campaign, is attacked for accepting a donation from anti-lobster group."
| | | | A message from Amazon: Amazon fully funds college tuition for hourly employees after just 90 days of employment through the Career Choice program. "Without Amazon, I never would have gotten to where I am," said Jamie, who trained to be a first-aid instructor through Career Choice. | | | BATTLE FOR THE STATES HAPPENING TODAY — "High stakes for O'Rourke in Texas governor's debate Friday," by AP's Paul Weber RATINGS ROUNDUP — The Cook Political Report's Jessica Taylor shifted ratings for four governor's races: Michigan and Pennsylvania both moved from leaning Democratic to likely, while Oklahoma inched onto the board — from solid Republican to likely. One race moved in Republicans' favor: Ohio went from likely Republican to solid. DEEP IN THE HEART — "Democrats Need More Than Beto O'Rourke If They Want To Flip Texas," by FiveThirtyEight's Alex Samuels SPLASHING CASH — "Eyeing redistricting, national Republicans plan $2 million in ads to boost Ohio Supreme court candidates," by Cleveland.com's Andrew Tobias HOT POLLS — North Carolina: Two new polls show a tied Senate race. Meredith College has Democrat CHERI BEASLEY and Rep. TED BUDD at 41% apiece, while Civitas/John Locke Foundation finds them each at 44%. — Wisconsin: Republican Sen. RON JOHNSON is leading Democrat MANDELA BARNES 48% to 44%, per a Fox News poll. Last month in the same poll, Barnes held a four-point lead, 50% to 46%. Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. TONY EVERS and Republican TIM MICHELS are tied at 47%. Evers held a three-point lead last month. — Arizona: Democratic Sen. MARK KELLY (D-Ariz.) leads Republican BLAKE MASTERS, 46% to 40%, per a new Fox News poll . Last month, Kelly was up, 50% to 42%. The gubernatorial race is tightening: Democrat KATIE HOBBS leads Republican KARI LAKE, 44% to 43%. HOT ADS With help from Steve Shepard — Ohio: Despite the parade of near-disqualifying stories about GOP nominee J.R. MAJEWSKI, Democratic Rep. MARCY KAPTUR touts her bipartisan cred in her latest ad in Toledo.
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9 a.m.: The president will receive the President's Daily Brief.
10 a.m.: Biden, first lady JILL BIDEN, VP KAMALA HARRIS and second gentleman DOUG EMHOFF will attend Supreme Court Justice KETANJI BROWN JACKSON's investiture ceremony.
11:30 a.m.: Biden will deliver remarks on the federal government's response to Hurricane Ian.
12 p.m.: The president, first lady, Harris and Emhoff will attend a reception to celebrate the Jewish New Year, where Emhoff will deliver remarks.
4 p.m.: The Bidens will host a Hispanic Heritage Month reception and deliver remarks.
Press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE will brief at 2:45 p.m.
THE HOUSE will meet at 9 a.m., with last votes between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
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VP Kamala Harris, right, uses binoculars as she visits the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea on Thursday, Sept. 29. | Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP | | | PLAYBOOK READS | | MAR-A-LAGO FALLOUT CANNON FODDER — U.S. District Court Judge AILEEN CANNON handed Trump's team a major win on Thursday, "extending the timeline of an outside review Trump demanded of the documents and other materials" from Mar-a-Lago, and also overruling "some of the procedures proposed by the independent reviewer, senior U.S. District Court Judge RAYMOND DEARIE, whom she appointed to the role at Trump's request," our colleagues Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney write . "Under Cannon's new order, the review and her handling of any objections to Dearie's rulings will almost certainly stretch into the new year." CONGRESS SENATE AVERTS SHUTDOWN — The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill on Thursday that keeps the government funded until mid-December and likely averts a shutdown that would have kicked in this weekend absent any action, Caitlin Emma and Marianne LeVine report. "Senate leaders reached an agreement to speed passage of the short-term funding fix on Thursday after Biden signed off on a temporary 100 percent federal cost-share waiver for typhoon aid in Alaska, appeasing the state's GOP senators. Republican Sen. MIKE BRAUN of Indiana also backed off an effort to delay the vote after he secured floor time to expound on the benefits of balanced budgets." It now heads to the House for final passage, after which it will land on Biden's desk. — Right on cue: WSJ's @siobhanehughes: "[Senate Majority Leader CHUCK] SCHUMER announces that next roll call vote is Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 5:30 p.m." JOCKEYING — Rep. KEVIN HERN (R-Okla.) seems a shoo-in to take over the top post of the Republican Study Committee after his challenger, Rep. KAT CAMMACK (R-Fla.), told colleagues that she was pulling out of the race, Olivia Beavers reports. "One GOP source familiar with the matter said Cammack is being approached by her colleagues about running for the open conference secretary role. If she did, she would set off a two-way race with freshman Rep. LISA McCLAIN (R-Mich.)." HEADS UP — "Congress Votes to Suspend Tariffs on Baby Formula Ingredient to Boost Supply," WSJ MORE POLITICS EYES EMOJI — Virginia Gov. GLENN YOUNGKIN , who is frequently mentioned as a potential GOP 2024 aspirant, notably "sidestepped when asked this week if he would commit to completing all four years of the term he began just eight months ago," WaPo's Laura Vozzella reports. "I'm committed to completing our agenda," Youngkin said. JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH WHO'S TALKING — VIRGINIA THOMAS, the wife of Supreme Court Justice CLARENCE THOMAS, appeared before the House Jan. 6 committee for testimony on Thursday, telling the panel that she still believes that the 2020 election was stolen, Nicholas Wu and Kyle Cheney write. "Thomas, also known as Ginni, sat with the panel behind closed doors for over four hours in a congressional office building where they have conducted many of their interviews." — The Federalist got its hands on Thomas' opening statement to the panel: "Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with [Clarence] at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event. I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way," she said, according to prepared remarks. THE JURY IS IN — "Jury seated in Oath Keepers Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy trial," by WaPo's Spencer Hsu THE GEORGIA INVESTIGATION — "Boris Epshteyn, lawyer to Trump, testifies before Georgia grand jury," by WaPo's Tom Hamburger JUDICIARY SQUARE SPECIAL TREATMENT? — Clarence and Ginni Thomas have been the focus of intense scrutiny related to Ginni's consulting work and potential conflicts of interest that it raises. "But a POLITICO investigation shows that potential conflicts involving justices' spouses extend beyond the Thomases," Hailey Fuchs, Josh Gerstein and Peter Canellos report. That includes JANE ROBERTS, wife of Chief Justice JOHN ROBERTS, who works for a legal head-hunter firm, and JESSE BARRETT, husband of AMY CONEY BARRETT , who heads the D.C. office of a boutique Indiana firm. To make matters more murky, the Supreme Court's ethical disclosure system makes it nearly impossible to learn who their clients are.
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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) received the John Robert Lewis Lifetime Legacy Award, while Broadway press agent and producer Irene Gandy and playwright and director George C. Wolfe received March On Awards. SPOTTED: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), Emilio Sosa, Jeffrey Wright, Robert Raben, Anthony Coley, Tiffeny Sanchez, Joyce Brayboy, Tanya Lombard, Steve Hartell, Kathleen Buhle, Cameron Normand, Tara Hogan Charles, Heather Foster, Samara Foxx, Adrienne Elrod, Tim Lynch and Angela Davis. — The Recording Industry Association of America and the Recording Academy jointly hosted a panel discussion on Thursday night on the Restoring Artistic Protection, or RAP, Act, which aims to protect artists, particularly hip hop artists, from their lyrics being used against them in court proceedings. Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), who introduced the legislation in Congress in July, gave opening remarks before the panel, which featured entertainment lawyers and music executives, and was moderated by Variety's Shirley Halperin. SPOTTED: Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Dina LaPolt, Shay M. Lawson, Jack Lerner, Kevin Liles, Willie "Prophet" Stiggers, Alencia Johnson, Scott Goldstein, Ryan Butler, Sean Glover and Jerome Murray. … Photo — SPOTTED at an Advanced Micro Devices reception and episode screening premiere of PBS' "The Good Road" at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum on Wednesday: Jon Hoganson, Grant Gardner, Earl Bridges, Craig Martin, Andrew Duensing, Jane Horton, Harry Clapsis, Travis Campbell, Jim Papa, Amanda Thayer, Steve Roberts, Adrienne Schweer, Arthur Sidney, Frank Steinberg and Jeanne Whalen. TRANSITIONS — Joe Van Wye is joining Farm Action as policy and outreach director. He previously was a legislative aide on the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. … Bradley Saull is now VP for Jefferson Business Consulting. He previously was a federal civilian market strategist at Dell. … Natasha Shah is now VP of government strategy at the National Association of Energy Service Companies. She most recently was senior VP and general manager of federal P&L business for NORESCO. … … Keenan Austin Reed is now executive VP at Alpine Group. She previously was chief of staff for Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.). … Conor McCabe is now creative manager at the U.S. Department of Energy. He previously was digital director for Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and is a Mark Pocan and Mark Udall alum. … Michael Hendrix is now special adviser to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee. He previously was senior fellow and director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute. ENGAGED — Shefali Luthra, health reporter for The 19th, and Logan Buzzell, business development associate at Creative Associates International, got engaged Saturday. Logan proposed in their apartment before their morning trip to the Mount Pleasant Farmers Market. They celebrated with ice cream at Mount Desert Island, the site of their second date, followed by a party that evening with friends. The two met through Hinge in the fall of 2019. Pic … Another pic HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) … NPR's Ari Shapiro … Nate Tibbits of Qualcomm … WaPo's Perry Bacon Jr. … POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg, Brendan MacArthur and Josh Sisco … Edelman's Emily Lippard … AT&T's Lin Whitehouse … Mike Henry of Sen. Tim Kaine's (D-Va.) office … Harrison Fields of Rep. Byron Donalds' (R-Fla.) office … Bobby Donachie … Maggie Rousseau Sunstrum of Sen. Jeff Merkley's (D-Ore.) office … former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) … Craig Minassian of the Clinton Foundation and Minassian Media … Victor Melara of Leidos … Courtney Sanders Felts of the U.S. Chamber … Kodiak Hill-Davis … Slingshot Strategies' Alyssa Cass … Sue Andres … Tom Johnson … Jeff MacKinnon … Bradley Akubuiro of Bully Pulpit Interactive … WSJ's Steve Russolillo … Shawn VanDiver Did someone forward this email to you? Sign up here. Send Playbookers tips to playbook@politico.com or text us at 202-556-3307. Playbook couldn't happen without our editor Mike DeBonis, deputy editor Zack Stanton and producers Setota Hailemariam and Bethany Irvine. Correction: Thursday's Playbook misstated the senator for whom David Marten previously was legislative director. It was Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).
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