YOU GUYS, it’s me and the great Carlos Lozada — what’s not to love?! Come join us, and I’ll reveal the secret (dorky) way Carlos spends every Friday night…

“I have no regrets,” said federal inmate No. 04370-510. “I didn’t choose this fight, this fight chose me.” Alex Leary with a jailhouse interview (via email) with Peter Navarro: wsj.com/us-news/law/pe… via The Wall Street Journal

Nice way to close out an awesome yearlong fellowship on NYT Politics, Anjali Huynh! Thanks for all your terrific work — and good luck!

As #Florida's Byron Donalds pushed legislation expanding access to charter schools and voucher programs, Mrs. Donalds began to build a company and a nonprofit that took advantage of that expansion. nytimes.com/2024/05/27/us/… via @alexandraberzon & Michael C. Bender

VEEPSTAKES! How the Little Marco vs. Small Hands beefing of 2016 informed the potential for a Trump-Rubio ticket in 2024 nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/…

VEEPSTAKES: Why Ben Carson is the most likely unlikely pick for Donald Trump nytimes.com/2024/06/12/us/…

MICHAEL on MICHAEL🎙️ aka my husband (Michael C. Bender) makes his debut w my circa 2012 work husband (Michael Barbaro) on The Daily. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

As he weighs the pros and cons of candidates, Trump has sought advice on who would be best to help raise money and who would be the most disciplined campaigner. A third factor: who matches up best on the debate stage against Vice President Kamala Harris. nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/…

Debates have long been of outsize importance to Trump, who says he might not have won the White House in 2016 without them. Even eight years later, Trump has waxed nostalgic about his performances 12+ times during rallies and interviews since September. nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/…

NEW this AM with Michael C. Bender: Want to be Trump’s vice president? Make sure he knows about your rich friends. But … don’t overdo it! Inside the cash race by all the hopefuls to be Trump’s number two. nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/…

VEEPSTAKES: Two people who spoke separately with Trump this week said he seemed undecided. As of Friday morning, he had not called any of his top three contenders to offer them the position, according to two advisers. More here: nytimes.com/2024/07/12/us/…

The great ⁦Michael Barbaro⁩ and rest of the talented team at The Daily hung out with me for a bit to document Trump’s VP pick, and stuck around at the end of the program to chat about (spoiler alert!) why he selected JD Vance. Give it a listen here: nytimes.com/2024/07/16/pod…

Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio had never attended a national political convention before this year. He’ll speak at one today from his party’s loftiest height. nytimes.com/live/2024/07/1…

Senator J.D. Vance will draw a direct line from his traumatic upbringing in southwest Ohio to his standing as one of the most combative foot soldiers in Donald J. Trump’s conservative movement when he delivers his prime-time speech on Wednesday nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/…

Peter Navarro was released from prison on Wednesday — in time to fly to Milwaukee to speak at the Republican National Convention. More from ⁦Maggie Astor⁩: nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/…

Portraying himself as a child of Appalachia with a deep appreciation for the “grit in the American heartland,” Mr. Vance effectively framed his nomination as one for Mr. Trump’s white, working-class political base. nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/…

Trump has long been terrified by the prospect of being assassinated — as president, he told at least two allies that he feared his killer would come from within his own administration’s intelligence or law enforcement agencies. More here w ⁦Lisa Lerer⁩: nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/…

NEW: JD Vance Hits the Money Circuit Vance has six finance events on his calendar as he prepares to raise a bunch of money for the Trump-Vance ticket. With Michael C. Bender / Rebecca Davis O'Brien nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/…

The in-flight candidate is a useful metaphor for the moment: a gifted yet fledgling political talent—whose calling card is his connection to the working class—adjusting to a new life with his own chartered plane as the newly minted member of the GOP ticket nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/…

Trump willingly ceded the spotlight to Democrats after their meltdown last month. Now he's struggling to get it back. More from Maggie & Swan: nytimes.com/2024/07/25/us/…