

THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ - Washington is at the stage of the debt limit standoff where the prospect of a bad deal is pushing prominent members of Congress to go public with their concerns. YOUR CLASSIC GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS SITUATION - “The debt ceiling deal could make America’s STD problem much worse,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein RON DeSANTIS’ previous support for a national sales tax with corny but catchy lyrics sung to the tune of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” Here’s a sample: “ Ron ‘DeSalesTax’ had a plan / To make you pay more / With a sales tax here, and a sales tax there / Here a tax, there a tax, everywhere a sales tax.” Watch the ad

The ad is also running today in four Iowa markets (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Sioux City) and on WMUR in New Hampshire.

PAC is launching a new ad airing on Fox News, CNN and Newsmax. JUST POSTED - Michael Kruse profiles Florida first lady CASEY DeSANTIS: “The Casey DeSantis Problem: ‘His Greatest Asset and His Greatest Liability’”įIRST IN PLAYBOOK: TRUMP WORLD’S NEW DeSANTIS ATTACK AD - Meridith McGraw reports that MAGA Inc. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAYīREAKING OVERNIGHT - “Zelenskyy to attend G7 summit in person,” by FT’s Henry Foy, Kana Inagaki and Demetri Sevastopulo in Hiroshima Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now in her fifth year in Congress, has learned how to use her unique influence to try to affect legislation, even when she’s not at the table.
