New: Kristi Noem’s recounting of how she killed her dog may have also killed something else: her hopes to be Donald Trump’s running mate.

“Haven't seen a more public suicide than Jim Jones at Jonestown,” is how one Trumpworld source put it

W/ Jake Lahut

thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-ki…

Like I reported earlier today, members went home for the recess and heard from their constituents. And while some might be pissed at Johnson, they think the timing is wrong. Lots more members coming out publicly expressing this sentiment now.

'I poll all my folks. Once people

Tim Sheehy was asked about my report that a campaign aide promoted racist, far-right content.

Sheehy refused to comment, saying, 'If The Daily Beast writes it. I wouldn't believe it.'

But we have the receipts. Read the story for yourself here.
thedailybeast.com/tim-sheehy-gop…

This piece about Columbia’s student-run Varsity Show is worth a read. (I’m biased since my brother wrote the show.)

“What has been so stunning,” my brother Casey told the NYT “is the way that lines that we wrote months ago have new meaning.”

nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…

New: A week at home for members may have solidified Johnson’s support in some areas of the conference. But it bolstered the dissension in others.

1 thing that might save him: timing. There’s skepticism of MTV close to an election. But animosity is rising

thedailybeast.com/gop-reps-slam-…

SCOOP: As Ronna McDaniel collected six-figure severance from the RNC, her successor claimed an apparently larger salary paycheck—he had also reportedly argued *against* cutting the next chair's salary just before he took her place. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/inside-ronna-m…

In his first campaign video, Senate candidate Jeff Gunter was decked out in western gear. Records show he'd just purchased them at a Boot Barn.

NV GOP Senate Hopeful Uses Campaign Cash to Cosplay as a Cowboy

w/ Reese Gorman

thedailybeast.com/nevada-gop-sen…

Very sad news: Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. has died at 65.

newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/do…

Days ago, aid to Ukraine was languishing in the U.S. House. Widely supported restrictions on TikTok were dying in the U.S. Senate. Now, both are on their way to Joe Biden’s desk. All it took was some mutual caving from key figures in both chambers. trib.al/0KJTpNY

hear me out.... turn some of those foxtrots into wawas. more wawas.

😭 Matt Fuller is the absolute best. The The Daily Beast politics team won’t be the same without him.

I came to The Daily Beast to work under and learn from Matt Fuller . He was one of the best bosses and mentors I’ve had and I am so thankful for our time together.

While I’m ecstatic that he has this opportunity, I’m sad for The Daily Beast as we are losing one of the bests.

New: Johnson passed foreign aid knowing it could threaten his speakership. But, he did it because he believed it was the 'right thing.'

With a push for a MTV growing, will Dems save him?

Nancy Pelosi told me that a motion to vacate Johnson “disregards any respect for the

After months of dithering, the House officially passed aid to Ukraine with Speaker Mike Johnson's go-ahead.

Johnson Came to Ukraine’s Aid. Will Democrats Come to His? The Daily Beast

w/ Reese Gorman

thedailybeast.com/mike-johnson-c…

NEW: The Trump-RNC fundraising was worse than it looked last month—but a new ruling from the FEC’s Republicans about how legal accounts can be used may have bailed them out just in time. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/republicans-ju…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is using some complex congressional procedure to force the Senate to vote on a bill that would force the sale of TikTok within a year. trib.al/R7UxFOU

New: Paul Gosar has co-sponsored MTG’s motion to vacate, per source familiar

If Biden hopes to move past this awful news cycle, I will say this solid hoagie order is a good place to start (if it is actually his hoagie)