Nicole Shanahan's $10 million donation to the RFK campaign probably is gonna go down as having pretty good ROI as far as mega-donors go.

JUST ANNOUNCED: CNN will host a 2024 Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in Atlanta, GA. The debate will air live on 6/27 at 9pET on CNN, CNN Max and without a cable login on CNN.com. More: cnn.it/4al4I2G

Republicans flock to court to ‘kiss the ring’ during Trump criminal trial. By Hannah Knowles Marianne LeVine : washingtonpost.com/elections/2024…

Total Wine and More founder David Trone just spent approximately 5,922,000 bottles worth of Josh to lose a not-particularly close Senate primary

NEWS: Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats. By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Maeve Reston: wapo.st/3wHDR2M

This is from another great data analysis column by Andrew Van Dam

[Spoiler alert: He also looks at what counties are closest to the overall U.S. averages. Alaska, Hawaii and much of the South are more unusual...]

washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Which state best reflects America?

By racial makeup: Illinois, New York, Connecticut
By religious affiliation: Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
By income: Illinois, Georgia, Arizona
By education: Georgia, Florida, NC
By type of work: Pennsylvania, Oregon, Texas
By 'social

Sometimes pool duty is fueled by BrewHaHa in Wilmington, Del. Other times, it takes you to coffee meccas like San Francisco and Seattle (h/t Eli Stokols, who has at times been convinced to walk longer than expected in search of good coffee) politico.com/newsletters/we…

Election shocker! Candidate accepts defeat without dispute.

'I lost and I concede. I trust the process and I accept the result.'

latimes.com/politics/story…

2 months after exiting the 2024 race, Nikki Haley is huddling next week to thank donors who supported her now-shuttered Republican presidential campaign.

She's not expected to endorse Donald Trump - or ask her donors to do so.

My latest: apnews.com/article/haley-…

Nice of Gavin Newsom to affirm Wes Venteicher story on why Newsom sees battering Big Oil as good politics:

politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

New from WaPo: Trump told oil executives to give his presidential campaign $1 billion. He vowed in return to lower regulations and taxes on big oil.

Expect more 'deals' like this.
Many CEOs are frustrated by Biden's regulatory and anti-trust push. They're willing to turn back to

NEW: Trump team throws out GOP plan and builds a ‘leaner’ 2024 operation. Inside the party debates over how big to build the campaign, w/ ⁦Josh Dawsey⁩ ⁦Maeve Reston⁩ ⁦Yvonne Wingett Sanchez⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Had forgotten how soothing C-SPAN narration of votes can be.

NEW: Major social media platforms tried to limit the reach of Trump’s messages. It didn’t work.
Analysis of thousands of the former president's Truth Social posts and who shares them off-platform, via me + Ence Morse 
wapo.st/3wpGciO

Truth Social is relatively small. But Trump’s posts find enormous audiences anyway, thanks to an army of amplifiers and surrogates. A new analysis of thousands of the former president's messages and the people who share them, via Sarah Ellison + Ence Morse
wapo.st/3wpGciO

Speaker Johnson this morning in response to a Q from Marianna Sotomayor about whether he plans to run for speaker again:

“I intend to lead this conference in the future”

MTG goes down in flames with her motion to vacate 💥

BREAKING: The House is set to vote on Rep. Greene's motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson as the top Republican leading the chamber. Democrats are expected to help 'table' or kill the motion momentarily washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) officially filed her motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as leader of the House, prompting boos from fellow Republicans and moves to immediately derail the effort. wapo.st/4b9nRFI