SCOOPLET: Equality PAC, the campaign arm of the pro-LGBTQ rights Congressional Equality Caucus, has started spending against April Delaney in the MD-06 Democratic primary. The mailers say she’s too close to Republicans and is trying to “buy her seat.” subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/202…

Xavier Becerra plots political future after Biden administration politi.co/3Qa5O9V via Christopher Cadelago Daniel Lippman

Xavier Becerra plots political future after Biden administration ow.ly/8Pcz105qqAg

SCOOP: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has spent more than $130,000 over the last year on “campaign consultants” and he or his emissaries have approached political firms about standing up a campaign to succeed Gavin Newsom in 2026, Christopher Cadelago and I report. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

House committee finds CIA at fault in investigation on sexual assaults ow.ly/nkRE105qeO6

Inside the fight for top Trump national security roles ow.ly/1FG7105qeRJ

“A furious sweepstakes for senior national security posts in a new Donald Trump administration is well underway, with everyone from MAGA acolytes to mainstream Republicans vying to serve the former president in a second term.” W/ ⁦Daniel Lippman⁩ politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

NEW: A furious sweepstakes for senior natsec posts in a new Trump admin. is underway, with everyone from MAGA acolytes to mainstream Republicans vying to serve. Among the names: Ric Grenell, Robert O’Brien, Bill Hagerty and Elbridge Colby. (w/ Alex Ward) politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

SCOOP: The House intel committee has found that the CIA failed to properly deal with sexual assault among its employees with “little to no accountability or punishment for confirmed perpetrators,” according to the investigation’s final report I obtained. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

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I hope you and your family are having a lovely weekend. I would like to personally thank ALL of you who supported me during this week when the democratic illiberal media did their coordinated ‘hit’ pieces on me.
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“Lots of politicians talk about ‘the dignity of work.’ Not so many back it up by picking tomatoes and shoveling manure.” Michael Grunwald on the late Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham: politico.com/news/magazine/…

SCOOP: Hesai Group — the Chinese lidar maker that’s come under Pentagon scrutiny — has ordered a Russian website to stop selling its products after some of its Western employees raised concerns about its equipment getting used by Russian troops in Ukraine. politico.com/newsletters/na…

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The Conservative Partnership Institute, home of Mark Meadows and Jim DeMint, left exposed and vulnerable every resume updated to its job bank for the past several months. Info included social security numbers, identities of TS/SCI clearance holders, cell numbers/addresses and…

“[C]ollege is about encountering the unknown and learning to adapt, even if that means sidestepping a grievously drunk roommate at 3 a.m. Freshman year is when the girl who grew up with a private chef lives with someone whose rare meal out was at IHOP.” nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opi…

SCOOP: The Chinese Embassy has been quietly lobbying Congress against the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

New: Rep. Victoria Spartz accused Chuck Goodrich, her lead opponent in the 5th District, of “alcoholic fueled activity at the state legislature.” Things getting nuclear in this race.