Ronna McDaniel is stuck in a political no-man’s-land: too closely associated with the excesses of Jan. 6 to be accepted back into polite society; and too much of a squish to be embraced by MAGA.

So what now? Here’s what I’m thinking…

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Puck is proud to welcome longtime art world columnist Marion Maneker (Artelligence) aboard as our newest writer. His private email “Wall Power,” covering the multibillion-dollar art market, launches next week.

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As two competing D.C. factions attempt to woo Trump over the right to staff his putative government, the former president is already planning on moving his transition team to Mar-a-Lago—inciting aspiring hires to fight tooth and nail for their jobs.

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What would happen if Speaker Mike Johnson strong-arms a vote on Ukraine funding through the House? “I think he would definitely get vacated,” a senior leadership aide told me. “And I think there would definitely be more than eight [members].”

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What will it take for Speaker Mike Johnson to get hit with the dreaded motion-to-vacate in this precarious Congress ? Hint: It starts with “Ukraine”, ends with “funding,” and includes “any form of.”

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I wrote a few weeks ago for Puck that Melania Trump has been pushing for Kellyanne Conway to come back and Trump even considered her for RNC chair at one point puck.news/inside-trumpwo…

For months, Mike Johnson has fended off the motion-to-vacate from the hard right members of the House G.O.P. But after this budget battle, their anger towards him is reaching a boiling point.

Here’s what insiders are telling me about how they got there: puck.news/lees-rebellion…

SCOOP — Rep. Gallagher Press Office has told people that he is planning to take a job at Palantir, I'm told by two sources.

The Wisconsin GOP anti-China hawk announced today that he is leaving Congress next month.

May not be 100% done, but that's what he has told people he is doing next.

For those wondering if I would support ANY TikTok ban/sale bill out of the Senate.

No.

As I explain to Puck and Tina Nguyen:

Big scoop here from Teddy Schleifer >>

HFC Chair Bob Good announces “Freedom Fighters Tour” with House conservatives—attacks John McGuire as a “SWAMP-backed candidate handpicked by Kevin McCarthy, supported by RINOs and funded by K Street Lobbyists”

getting to the bottom of this kate middleton stuff. good for him.

So excited to take part in 2 amazing panels at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on 4/21 at USC : abt how CA cld determine control of Congress w/ Laurel Rosenhall Benjamin Oreskes🦅 & abt safeguarding democracy w/ Rick Hasen Michael Isikoff Daniel Klaidman Tina Nguyen events.latimes.com/festivalofbook…

NEW Puck —

Forget Aaron Rodgers. What if the next Vice President of the United States is Nicole Shanahan?

Lots of buzz in Robert F. Kennedy’s circle that Shanahan — a philanthropist and a native of Oakland, where the Kennedy VP announcement is soon to take place — that…

BREAKING: princess catherine found in feudal edo teaching lord tokugawa's men english naval battle tactics. she has already mastered several katana stances. she is being pressured into making her consort a wife

Secret billionaire lobbying efforts, frantic rationalizations, smear campaigns and Meta: It’s the backstory to the MAGA flip on saving TikTok, and how the fight might split the MAGAverse apart.

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but when will the gang of 8 be briefed?

DeSantis swiping at Libs of TikTok was not on my 2024 bingo card

NEW: Don Lemon says that Elon Musk has cancelled his X deal because he didn't like his interview.