Eric Schultz

senior advisor to @barackobama, consultant for @Succession @Netflix @a24, @hbo, former @WhiteHouse, @SenSchumer flack

[Sam Stein @samstein]

would be curious for @SecScottBessent thoughts on this one

[Lauren French @laurennfrench]

The Texas endorsement is a real L for John Thune. The broader Cornyn world spent $100M to push him over the finish line, and SLF and the NRSC went scorched-earth on Paxton.

Trump didn't care, even with Thune pleading for Cornyn. Thune didn't have the pull to make it happen.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. https://t.co/nUveUBkApa

[Paul Kane @pkcapitol]

Cornyn’s 4 years as NRSC chair were marked by voters choosing bad nominees who gave away seats: The Witch, Angle, Buck, Aiken, Mourdock.

Now his own career will likely end with TX R voters and Trump rolling the dice with Paxton & possibly giving away Senate majority.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

I have worked closely with President Trump through both of his Presidential terms and voted with him more than 99% of the time. He has consistently called me a friend in this race. It is now time for Texas Republican voters to decide if they want a strong nominee to help our GOP candidates down ballot and defeat Talarico in November, or a weak nominee who jeopardizes everything we care about. I trust the Republican voters of Texas.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

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[Lauren French @laurennfrench]

Brutal headline for at-risk Republicans.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This is false from Todd Blanche—he has not met with Epstein survivors, and the DOJ has not had an open door policy to lawyers for the survivors.

[Lois Romano @loisromano]

My book is out today! Order: https://t.co/t1W89UQknT

History got Mary Todd Lincoln wrong. Her story was distorted by men who later admitted Abraham Lincoln would not have become president without her perseverance. It’s time to correct the record.

Today, she gets her voice back.

An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln is out now from @simonschuster.

@FordsTheatreNPS @hildene @ALPLM @ohmaryplay

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

It’s actually not that hard. The Senate is and has always been a majority-rule institution. With a majority, you can do anything, but the flipside is that without a majority, you can’t do anything. A caucus of committed indies could leverage this asymmetry to take control of the chamber by denying both sides a majority—including on the organizing resolution, which is the basis for which party controls the Senate.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine an adviser to Biden had said this about Jewish Americans on the day of a synagogue attack - or any day of the year!

Just imagine the response.

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

News: Trump pressed Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill

via @taylorgiorno_ @alweaver22 https://t.co/xC6jy0WdOC

[Eric Schultz @EricSchultz]

more proof points that the Roberts Court is nakedly political.

and then they wonder why confidence in the Court is the lowest it’s ever been.

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

A must-read from @JoanBiskupic on how the Supreme Court has treated Trump's solicitor general, D. John Sauer -->

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

A must-read from @JoanBiskupic on how the Supreme Court has treated Trump's solicitor general, D. John Sauer -->

[Marshall Cohen @MarshallCohen]

FACT CHECK: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) relied on false and misleading claims to justify his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison.

(1) Polis repeatedly said the charges and case have "nothing to do" with the 2020 election. That's highly misleading. He's right that Peters wasn't charged with trying to subvert that election while it was happening. But trial testimony established that her crimes in 2021 were motivated by Trump's 2020 fraud claims, and that she conspired with Lindell-linked election deniers in hopes of proving that the 2020 results were invalid.

(2) Polis repeatedly said Peters "certified Biden won." This is false, because Biden did not win her county. Trump won Mesa County (63% to 35%) and that is what Peters certified. She has never publicly acknowledged that Biden won in 2020. (Polis office clarified to me that Peters certified the "votes for Biden" in Mesa County.)

(3) Polis claimed "nothing was compromised" with Mesa County's elections. This is wrong. It's true that Peters didn't compromise vote tallies. But Colorado's top election official concluded that Peters' antics "compromised" the election equipment. So the systems were decommissioned and Mesa spent $1m in taxpayer funds to replace everything. The DA who charged Peters told me she "100% compromised the equipment." https://t.co/loqCtauAJt

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

NEW: The Newest Oldest President

Donald Trump has not faced the same scrutiny for his age as Joe Biden did. For now.

But as Trump is poised to turn 80 next month, questions about his health and increasingly erratic behavior are growing https://t.co/OwHhpILS6Z

[Axios @axios]

Trump's economic polling is in freefall https://t.co/r7tP2HYh6H

[Michael Calderone @mlcalderone]

"If you look at polling, AI is the fastest growing issue in terms of salience with voters," says @Rob_Flaherty. "The anxiety that voters feel about it is huge. People in Washington are missing it."

"I think that as the models get more and more advanced, this is going to be the defining issue of 2028 running away."

https://t.co/FdgNvb88Su

[POLITICO @politico]

Popular YA author @SomanChainani says that Washington needs to take young people seriously.

“It's up to older people to either do the Mamdani or Kirk track and get younger people involved,” he told @DashaBurns. “Or you're essentially creating a disaffected third party that will eventually come to power.”

🔗 https://t.co/w592GwBRW0