President Biden on Elon Musk: "Lots of luck on his trip to the moon, I guess."
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- NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The AP.
- "I take my wheelchair and my titanium legs over Donald Trump's supposed bone spurs any day." - .@SenDuckworth on a Biden campaign call.
- JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Two Russians fleeing military service take boat to reach remote Alaska island and seek asylum in the U.S.
- Since June, Biden's campaign + DNC has raised $1.028 BILLION.
- Just in: The Harris campaign is transferring nearly $25M to help down-ballot races. $10M each to the DSCC & DCCC. $2.5M to the DLCC; $1M each to DGA & DAGA.
- NEWS: .@JoeBiden intends to nominate Neera Tanden to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget + Princeton labor economist Cecilia Rouse to serve as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
- Harris' campaign has requested vetting materials from potential VPs, including Cooper (NC), Kelly (AZ), Shapiro (PA), Whitmer (MI), Walz (MN) + Pritzker (IL), according to a person familiar. Beshear told CNN he hasn't been asked to submit info at this point.
- "I'm not making any predictions but I think they've got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She's the favorite of the Russians," Hillary Clinton to @davidplouffe bit.ly/32sW4gn
- Obama: "In the last election, it was Hillary's emails. 'This is terrible' ... They didn't care about emails + you know how you know? B/c if they did, they'd be up in arms right now that the Chinese are listening to the president's iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart."
- This kicker in the @nytimes obit of Vartan Gregorian shows the power of a single act of kindness. nytimes.com/2021/04/16/nyr…
- .@POTUS, in his statement on the passage of the Covid plan, calls Pelosi "the finest and most capable speaker in the history of our nation. Once again, she has led into law an historic piece of legislation that addresses a major crisis and lifts up millions of Americans."
- Biden walked out of @nantucketbooks carrying a copy of “Democracy Awakening,” by Heather Cox Richardson.
- NEW: .@JoeBiden to deliver remarks Monday in southwestern Pennsylvania "to lay out a core question voters face in this election: are you safe in Donald Trump's America?"
