Over the Skies of Alaska
What You May Have Missed
President Biden ordered the downing of an unidentified object over Alaska just hours after the U.S. test-fired an ICBM.
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield will soon leave the White House, to be succeeded by Ben LaBolt. Bedingfield first announced plans to depart last summer, but changed her mind and opted to stay a bit longer.
The White House says Fox cancelled the traditional Super Bowl presidential interview, not the other way around.
While the biggest city in swing state Georgia would be a sensible pick for the 2024 Democratic convention, Chicago Democrats say picking Atlanta would be an insult to labor.
The FBI searched Mike Pence’s Indiana home, finding one new classified document.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has become the fifth current Senate Republican to endorse Donald Trump for 2024.
Trump is turning on Turning Point USA.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is staffing up in a possible sign of a presidential candidacy.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) will enter the crowded California Senate race sometime this month.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is almost certainly running again, and the FEC says Rep. George Santos (R-NY) needs to declare his reelection candidacy. Perhaps they can console one another if defeated?
New name, dubious claims, nightclub experience, and questionable assertions of Jewishness: Santos? No, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).
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Extra Links
Here are some interesting links that didn’t make it into Political Wire today:
Why Biden shouldn't dismiss his negative poll numbers.
Avoiding catastrophe will be the true test of fractious US-China relations.
Russia puts ex-Putin speechwriter on foreign agents list.
The simple politics of Biden’s focus on Social Security.
Biden to visit Poland for anniversary of Ukraine war.
Mitch McConnell really, really hates Rick Scott, from
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Presented Without Comment
Rick Wilson is on point, Biden is making people look foolish for their continued underestimation of him, and what is it with the GOP and it’s candidates & officials that are either visibly antisemitic, frauds about their heritage or both? 🤨 Along with a bunch of other disturbing shortcomings. But yet no real discipline concerning this nonsense.