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May 03, 2022
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"Trump's Missed Vance."

In This Episode

The midterms are six months away and new polling has the race closer than you might expect, Donald Trump forgets who he endorsed in Ohio, and later: some fun with the highlights and lowlights of Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

 

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Show Notes

 

SIX MONTHS TO GO

  • NYT: Democrats’ Mystery: How to Brighten a Presidency and a National Mood
  • Axios: Dems punch back against GOP’s “culture war” attacks
  • CNN: This ad tells you a whole lot about Joe Biden’s political problems 
  • NYT: Biden Received Early Warnings That Immigration and Inflation Could Erode His Support
  • FiveThirtyEight: The GOP Primary For Ohio Senate Will Be A Test For Trump — But Probably A Win For Trumpism
  • NYT: Once Soft-Spoken, Ohio Conservatives Embrace the Bombast
  • Business Insider: Trump confused the names of candidates in a closely contested GOP Senate primary that’s 2 days away — one of whom he endorsed last month
  • NYT: Opinion: The Ohio Primary and the Return of the Republican Civil War
  • Politico: Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May
  • Politico: Immigration reform withers as Democrats descend into border infighting

 

CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER RECAP

  • Slate: What Trevor Noah Got Desperately Wrong at the White House Correspondents Dinner 
  • Insider: Ron DeSantis says he would never attend a White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a ‘cabal’ of ‘reviled’ journalists 
  • Playbook: Party city
  • Politico: Washington Stages Its Own 1970s Disaster Movie
  • WaPo: Pent-up partying before — and long after — the correspondents’ dinner
  • NYT: Before Washington’s ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation

 

 

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