Scoop - Biden campaign expands polling shop, bringing on 4 new pollsters.

- Geoff Garin
- Jef Pollock
- Molly Murphy
- Brenda Lee

Celinda Lake & other 2020-ers returning, too. John Anzalone will be an adviser, not involved in day-to-day.

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Confirming News Channel Nebraska that NE state Sen. Mike McDonnell is switching parties from Dem to GOP.

But McDonnell confirms in a text message to me: 'It does not change my position I am voting against changing the electoral vote structure in the state of Nebraska.'

New: Donald Trump went to Michigan on Tuesday to hammer Joe Biden on immigration in a major battleground.

He left beset by controversy, facing questions about whether he fabricated an anecdote about speaking to family members of a murder victim.

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SCOOP: Club for Growth, funded by major TikTok parent-company investor Jeff Yass, has warned GOP lawmakers that they will give them a worse conservative grade if they vote for a TikTok ban

via Hailey Fuchs

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Trump's VP search is starting to get serious , via Meridith McGraw , Natalie Allison and Burgess Everett

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News: The RNC is weighing whether to restrict NBC’s access to this summer’s convention, following the network’s decision to drop former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor politico.com/news/2024/03/2…

NEW from Brittany Gibson — RFK Jr.'s VP pick is sharply critical of IVF and has called for research into sunlight's effects on fertility instead politico.com/news/2024/03/2…

Scoop: Vivek Ramaswamy is endorsing Jamison Carrier for Congress in Indiana’s 6th congressional district, the latest of more than two dozen endorsements Ramaswamy has made up and down the ballot since abandoning his presidential campaign.

Good Adam Wren + Natalie Allison on the cynicism that's the price of admission to retain a role in Trump's GOP

“She was keeping her audience of one happy,” Brock said.'What she’s saying now is markedly different than what she was saying even a year ago'

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Fewer rallies, more fundraisers. Trump donors know it’s time to get down to “brass tacks” on his cash crunch. From ⁦Natalie Allison⁩ and ⁦Meridith McGraw⁩ politico.com/news/2024/03/2…

New POLITICO: Mike Pence makes his final break from Trumpism, positioning himself as the guardian of Reaganism.

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New this morning for @POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. tinyurl.com/yr88h68u

Since Roe's overturning, Jane Kleeb👢🪧🗳️ said, abortion had transformed in Dems' psyche like civil rights or gay marriage, when once “it was OK at some point to just say you’re OK with civil unions.”

'But then, there was a point where that wasn’t OK.”

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Nebraska Politics Are Famously Moderate. Abortion Is Changing That. politi.co/3Pl3DQO via POLITICO

House Republicans break from Trump on TikTok politico.com/news/2024/03/1… (w/ Lisa Kashinsky)

Is Trump lobbying to kill the TikTok bill?

“He’s not calling anybody,” said one Republican member. “I’m sure if he were calling House members and actively discouraging them it would get out very quickly”

⁦Meridith McGraw⁩ ⁦Natalie Allison⁩ politico.com/news/2024/03/1…

“This week feels like a dark exclamation point on the complete capitulation of the Republican Party,” Charlie Sykes tells me.

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NEW: Nikki Haley couldn’t stop Donald Trump. But by staying in the race through 25 contests, she gave Joe Biden and his allies a blueprint for where Trump is potentially weakest come November.

Exit polls, voter patterns and more w/Jessica Piper POLITICO politi.co/3wJhVEb

Haley ran a near perfect race. She just couldn’t figure out Trump. Via Natalie Allison

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Read Natalie Allison on Haley ...

Asked if she plans to continue critiquing the direction of the GOP under Trump, regardless of whether she stays in the race, Haley paused.

“I don’t know,” she said. “I mean, that’s not something I’ve thought about.”

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