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Happy Friday to all.

SCOOP: Trump eyes Sen. Marco Rubio as a potential VP pick

The short list remains on the long side. But the Florida senator is gaining traction. NBC News

with Matt Dixon Jonathan Allen

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HAPPENING NOW: Trump attends classified documents hearing seeking dismissal of charges. Dasha Burns has the latest.
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NEW: It’s officially Biden v Trump but there’s one big question remaining…

Who will be Trump’s running mate?

I’ve got new reporting on how the issue of abortion could impact the Veep-stakes.

NBC News

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Last night Biden touted his administration’s successes on the economy. But to a lot of voters the message rings hollow.

We spent time with voters across the political spectrum in bellwether Erie, PA to try to understand the disconnect.
W/Abby Brooks

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Survived another lap around the sun. Here’s a very serious new headshot to prove I’m older and wiser. 🎉😬

NEW: Governor Kristi Noem's team confirms to NBC News she met with Former President Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier today.

Noem is among Trump's possible VP contenders. She and Vivek Ramaswamy won the CPAC straw poll over the weekend on who should be Trump’s pick.

Trump calls himself a “political dissident” during CPAC speech, after recently comparing himself to Alexei Navalny.

Trump makes his CPAC 2024 debut - the conference has been remade in Trump’s image and is a vivid example of his domination of the GOP.

I asked Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville for his response to the AL Supreme Court's ruling that has resulted in clinics there pausing IVF treatments.

TT: We need to have more kids...And I thought this was the right thing to do.

DB: But IVF is used to have more children...

WATCH:

SCOOP ICYMI: After this week’s verdict costing Trump $350+ million dollars… this story takes on even more significance. Trump’s campaign war chest will need to grow…

Major Wall Street donor Omeed Malik is stepping up to help

W/ Brian Schwartz

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With the renewed focus on age in the presidential campaign, Nikki Haley is looking to tie former President Trump to President Biden, lumping their age and mental acuity together. @dashaburns has the more from South Carolina as the Republican primary nears.
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Line for Trump’s rally in South Carolina today

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he has suspended his campaign for president. The decision comes just days after he committed to staying in the race through the South Carolina primary. @dashaburns and Vaughn Hillyard have the latest.
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Inside the final hours of Ron DeSantis' ill-fated campaign

The Florida governor's Sunday dropout was the culmination of a week of internal conversations following his distant second-place finish in Iowa

w/ Matt Dixon Jonathan Allen Henry J. Gomez
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BREAKING NBC News: Governor DeSantis will suspend his presidential campaign imminently, according to three sources familiar.

w/ Matt Dixon

WATCH: In the week before the Iowa caucuses, the CEO of Never Back Down, the DeSantis-aligned super PAC, spent time in the office working on a jigsaw puzzle.

Dasha Burns: It’s “emblematic of the mismanagement and wasted efforts [that] plagued the team and the DeSantis campaign.”

A picture worth a thousand words — or a thousand puzzle pieces.

Take a deep dive with w/ me and Matt Dixon Allan Smith Abby Brooks:

‘A total failure to launch’: Why Ron DeSantis was doomed from the start:
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Tune in!

“A total failure to launch”: Why Ron DeSantis was doomed from the start

We’ll have much more on Dasha Burns new reporting this morning on Meet the Press

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