SCOOP -- MIKE PENCE will appear in Wisconsin with Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Ron Johnson Saturday morning, according to a source involved in the planning. The event -- at Field Park in Mukwonago -- will be part of Johnson’s bus tour. Gov. Scott Walker and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner will also appear. RYAN’s relationship with the Trump campaign is complicated, to say the least. Ryan has been openly critical of Donald Trump, and has said he’s plainly focused on re-electing a House majority, and would do nothing to help the top of the ticket. Pence and Ryan have been friends for 15 years -- even if Pence won’t endorse the Wisconsin Republican for another term as speaker. http://politi.co/2euKquY
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BUZZ -- TUESDAY: AN EARLY NIGHT? -- Here’s one theory bouncing around the reporter and political campaign consultant world: Despite the recent tightening of the race, election night could be super boring. If Nevada political guru Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) is right -- and he usually is -- Hillary Clinton has all but won that state. If she takes Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Virginia -- all states where she seems to have a lead, or is building one through early voting -- Donald Trump can win Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire and still lose.
PLUS, if you believe Steve Schale (@steveschale), one of the top Democratic consultants in Florida, he says Democrats are doing well: They have built a 161,000 vote margin in Broward County, and 170,000 more Hispanics voted early as of yesterday than voted early in the entire 2012 election. Schale says 70 percent of the Florida vote will be in by Sunday.
KEY LINE from Alex Burns and JMart’s A1 story: “Robby Mook, told donors on a conference call Thursday that the campaign expected to win Florida and North Carolina in large part because of Hispanic turnout. In Nevada, a third diverse battleground state, Mr. Mook said he no longer saw a path for Mr. Trump to win there.”
HEY, DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER! This is what operatives and lawmakers in both parties are telling us. (AND/BUT: What if everyone’s wrong? http://politi.co/2eGg1Hx)
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Good Friday morning. 4. DAYS. LEFT. (h/t Ashley Parker)
HAPPENING TODAY -- “Beyoncé to campaign for Hillary Clinton: source,” by CBS News’ Jacqueline Alemany: “Beyoncé will join Jay Z on Friday in Ohio at a get-out-the-vote concert for Hillary Clinton, a source who overheard the news told CBS News. Clinton will be joined by the music superstars at a rally at Cleveland State University heading into the final weekend before Election Day.” http://cbsn.ws/2euhKSK
-- JUST SAYING… There’s another high-profile Clinton supporter in Cleveland. He just won an NBA championship last year. He’s not playing a game tonight -- the Cavs play in Philadelphia tomorrow. Will Lebron make an appearance? We bet yes. But, you know, it’s … not a slam dunk.
AND THEN THERE IS THIS -- CBS NEWS: “FBI finds emails related to Hillary Clinton’s State Department tenure”: “The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official. These emails, CBS News’ Andres Triay reports, are not duplicates of emails found on Secretary Clinton’s private server. At this point, however, it remains to be seen whether these emails are significant to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton. It is also not known how many relevant emails there are.” http://cbsn.ws/2fKoXQa
STATE OF THE RACE -- “Early voting by Latinos may help Clinton in several states,” by WaPo’s John Wagner, Anne Gearan and Jose DelReal: “Even as the electoral map shows new signs of volatility, a surge in early voting by Latinos is bolstering Hillary Clinton’s prospects in battleground states including Arizona, Florida and Nevada in the closing days of a tightened race against Donald Trump. Fresh election data suggest that the Democratic nominee appears to be benefiting from upticks in participation by Latinos, who historically vote in lower numbers than the electorate overall. The trend, say advocates seeking to expand the Hispanic vote, is largely motivated by distaste for Trump, who has proposed hardline immigration policies and stirred emotions from the outset of his campaign with a series of controversial statements about Mexicans and other Latinos …
“According to the data firm Catalist, one of the largest increases of early voting by Latinos is taking place in Arizona, a traditionally Republican state that Clinton visited for the first time during the general election on Wednesday. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, delivered a speech there in Thursday entirely in Spanish. Significant upticks are also taking place in Nevada and Florida, two other states where a burgeoning Hispanic vote could prove key in determining the outcome.” http://wapo.st/2eG1sUc
--NYT A1, “Clinton Pushes Minority Turnout as Trump Tries to Rally His Base,” by Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin: “In an effort to blunt any late momentum for Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton is moving to reinforce her position among crucial constituencies, including black communities in North Carolina and Florida, and Hispanic strongholds in Nevada and Arizona, to lock down the 270 electoral votes needed to win …
“Guided by data on millions of voters around the country, the Clinton campaign has deployed her top surrogates to areas where she needs a boost: Mr. Obama fired up voters on her behalf in Jacksonville, Fla., and Miami, cities where black voters have yet to turn out in sizable numbers. Seldom have Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton’s divergent approaches to electioneering been on more vivid display … Seeking to break through on an electoral map that favors Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Trump has tested his strength in unconventional places — one day in tossup states, another in Democratic-leaning states like Michigan and New Mexico, still another in states that Mrs. Clinton seemed to have locked up long ago, like Virginia and Colorado.
“Mrs. Clinton’s extensive field operation gives her a big advantage over Mr. Trump, whose campaign employs a relatively meager staff and has outsourced most get-out-the-vote activities to the [RNC]. The committee has circulated daily emails to donors and reporters documenting its turnout activities in the field …
“In a possible blow to Mr. Trump, two Republican senators up for re-election, Rob Portman of Ohio and Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, have directed their field organizations to try to turn out groups of voters, like suburban women and college-educated moderates, who are largely hostile to Mr. Trump. In Florida, Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign has taken a similar approach to Hispanic voters, according to several Republicans briefed on the senator’s plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss closely guarded field operations.” http://nyti.ms/2fBp15A
HOT POLLS -- ABC/WaPo TRACKING -- Clinton 47, Trump 44 http://abcn.ws/2fj3Une ... TIED IN N.H. -- BOSTON GLOBE/SUFFOLK: Clinton 42, Trump 42 http://bit.ly/2eG2ccl … WBUR: Trump 40, Clinton 39 … UMASS LOWELL/7NEWS: Clinton 44, Trump 44 … NBC/WSJ/MARIST-- TEXAS: Trump 49, Clinton 40, Johnson 6, Stein 2 … GEORGIA: Trump 45, Clinton 44, Johnson 8 … ARIZONA: Trump 45, Clinton 40, Johnson 9, Stein 3. http://nbcnews.to/2fKk9ur ... ROANOKE: VIRGINIA -- Clinton 45, Trump 38. http://bit.ly/2fo8T2D ... MAGELLAN: COLORADO -- Clinton 44, Trump 38 http://on9news.tv/2flLU9K
SHELDON’S MILLIONS -- “Outside groups to inject $25 million into race to boost Trump in final week,” by CNN’s Teddy Schleifer: “Two outside groups bankrolled heavily by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson will spend for the Republican nominee and allow him to go close to dollar-for-dollar with the Democrats. Together, the super PAC Future 45 and its affiliated nonprofit, 45 Committee, will part with $25 million.” http://cnn.it/2fltdTA
NEWS YOU CAN USE – “Readers will have unlimited access to NYTimes.com for 72 hours from 12:01 a.m. ET on Monday, November 7 until 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 9.”
JUST POSTED ON NYT.COM -- "These Officials Help Write Ballot Questions. Companies Write Them Checks," by NYT's Eric Lipton and Pro Publica's Robert Faturechi. http://nyti.ms/2eGl76N
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- Veep’s lead character Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) stars in a Rock the Vote spot urging people to get out to the ballot box. 30-second video http://bit.ly/2euodgq
PRESIDENT TRUMP -- “Trump eyes Goldman alum [Steven] Mnuchin for Treasury secretary,” by Zach Warmbrodt: “Trump’s preference for the Goldman Sachs alumnus is the latest evidence that the GOP presidential nominee would be inclined to hire officials with experience in the business world should he win next week’s election, despite the anti-establishment tone that has dominated the campaign.” http://politi.co/2flpdCW
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK -- The African American Research Collaborative is releasing a poll focused on African-American voting today at 12:30 p.m. 64% think it’s more important to vote in 2016 than it was in 2012. 88% are absolutely certain they are going to vote. But enthusiasm is down: just 24% say they are more enthusiastic now than they were in 2012. 54% say they were more enthusiastic in 2012. 1,200 people completed the survey, half online and half on the phone
-- SCOOP: Fox News has hired Democratic strategist Mo Elleithee as a contributor to provide analysis on daytime and primetime shows. Elleithee, a DNC and Hillary alum, is the founding executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service.
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS -- UTAH REP. JASON CHAFFETZ to Wolf Blitzer: “I think the endorsement is far different than who you actually vote for.” http://cnn.it/2eG210A
HAPPENING TODAY -- DONALD TRUMP has a noon rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire, at the Atkinson Country Club, followed by a 4 p.m. event at Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services in Wilmington, Ohio. He finishes the day in Hershey, Pennsylvania, at the Giant Center at 7 p.m. MIKE PENCE is in Lansing, Michigan, Greenville, North Carolina, and Miami.
HILLARY CLINTON is in Pittsburgh at 12:45 p.m. for a rally at The Great Hall at Heinz Field. She is in Detroit at 5:15 p.m. for a rally at Eastern Market, and then she appears at a get-out-the-vote rally with Jay-Z and Beyonce at Cleveland State University.
-- IN PITTSBURGH: Clinton will contrast “her vision for an economy that works for everyone with Donald Trump’s plans to build an economy that works for people like him. She’ll focus on the pressures facing women -- who are either the sole or primary breadwinner in four out of 10 families -- and working families, who are facing rising costs for everything from childcare to prescription drugs,” a campaign aide said.
TIM KAINE is in Florida, and is making stops in Melbourne, Ft. Myers and Sarasota. In the evening, he’s appearing with Jon Bon Jovi in St. Petersburg. BARACK OBAMA is in North Carolina, and is rallying in Fayetteville at Fayetteville State University and in Charlotte at PNC Music Pavilion.
JOE BIDEN goes to Madison, Wisconsin. BERNIE SANDERS is in Omaha, and Iowa, making stops in Davenport, Iowa City and Cedar Falls. BILL CLINTON in in Pueblo, Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado. STEVIE WONDER is holding a get-out-the-vote concert in Philadelphia at 7 p.m.
CHECK IT OUT -- We’ve launched a new website Playbook Plus with tons of new features, including Playbook Power Lunch, a midday briefing, which posts around 1 p.m. http://politi.co/2f51Jnf
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DEEP DIVE – “My Journey to the Center of the Alt-Right,” by Luke O’Brien in HuffPost Highline: “I went to a white nationalist ethnostate in Indiana. I got bounced from a secret meeting in D.C. I spent weeks figuring out how hate gurgles up from the nastiest recesses of the Internet. And I'm sorry to report that unconscionable racists will be a force in American politics well beyond November 8.” http://huff.to/2flujir
MICHAEL KRUSE in POLITICO Magazine on Hillary Clinton’s long path to power -- “What It Took: How a lifetime of compromises and concessions brought one woman to the brink of history.” http://politi.co/2fBG1c0
FIRST LADY MELANIA -- @matthewjdowd: “Melania’s speech [Thursday] would be like Bernie Madoff’s wife giving a talk on integrity of investment portfolios and fighting Ponzi schemes” … @mj_lee: “Melania Trump says ‘our culture has gotten too mean and too rough’; that people put down others on ‘looks and intelligence.’ #2016”
CLOSING ARGUMENTS -- @gdebenedetti: “Coming Monday night to Philly: Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton. Big, big rally.”
2016 PLAYERS -- HAIM SABAN PROFILE -- “Team Clinton’s favorite billionaire,” by Gabe Debenedetti in White Plains, N.Y.: “In the sprawling ecosystem of Hillary and Bill Clinton donors and fundraisers, there are thousands who fashion themselves top contributors, hundreds who consider themselves friends of the former president and secretary of state, dozens who see their role as deep-pocketed strategic advisors, and just a handful capable of dialing into the candidate’s inner circle with no obstacles. But there is only one Haim Saban. Known for two decades to be one of the Clintons’ top-tier supporters and a close personal friend, the billionaire chairman and part owner of Univision who brought Power Rangers to the United States has emerged in 2016 as all of the above, according to the clear picture painted by the hacked emails of campaign chairman John Podesta published by WikiLeaks in recent weeks.” http://politi.co/2flvw9l
-- “Soros spends $2 million to defeat Arpaio: The spending is part of Soros’ nationwide push on criminal justice and immigration reform,” by Scott Bland: http://politi.co/2flzvmk
OBAMA ALUMNI -- Reggie Love, Jeremy Bird, Buffy Wicks, Anne Fillipic, Sara El Amine, John Carson, Ronnie Cho and more start in a #DoItForObama video, encouraging people to get out and help Hillary Clinton. (FYI: That’s “do it for Obama,” not “dolt for Obama.”) http://bit.ly/2ekEa5r
UBER’S NIKI CHRISTOFF: “As part of our ongoing campaign to encourage users to vote, Uber is team teaming up with Google to launch a special in-app feature on November 8th that will help you locate your polling location and then seamlessly request a ride with just a push of a button.” http://ubr.to/2f6iU4Z
CASHING IN ON TRUMP -- “The Hawkers Of The Traveling Trump Circus: Meet the vendors selling unauthorized swag to the Trump faithful,” by BuzzFeed’s Cora Lewis: “Some are true believers, who parlayed their passion for the candidate into a profitable side gig. Others are professedly apolitical, their only allegiance to a solvent crowd — they’d just as soon be selling pennants outside a ballgame; they treat the candidate as a brand, like they would a beer, a car, or a sports team. Often, they’re among the only people of color in the overwhelmingly white crowds that many Trump rallies draw.” http://bzfd.it/2flpmWD
--“How Macedonia Became A Global Hub For Pro-Trump Misinformation,” by BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman and Lawrence Alexander: “Over the past year, the central Macedonian town of Veles (population 45,000) has experienced a digital gold rush as locals launched at least 140 US politics websites. ... The young Macedonians who run these sites don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US.” http://bzfd.it/2eumNT5
K-FILE – “Eric Trump: David Duke ‘deserves a bullet,’” by CNN’s Chris Massie and Andrew Kaczynski: http://cnn.it/2fhitYL
HILLWATCH -- "Hunter repays campaign $49,000 in personal expenses," by the San Diego Union Tribune's Morgan Cook. http://bit.ly/2flP6Cw Story has an unbelievable list of expenses including food at Disneyland, and restaurants in Rome and Florence.
BUSINESS BURST -- “Generic-Drug Firms Face Possible Collusion Charges,” by WSJ’s Peter Loftus, Brent Kendall and Christopher M. Matthews: “Federal prosecutors, after a lengthy probe, are nearing possible criminal charges for price-collusion in the generic-drug industry, according to a person familiar with the matter … The specific companies that are a focus of the investigation weren’t immediately known. However, the Justice Department has sent subpoenas to several manufacturers of generic drugs and to some individual executives, seeking information about product pricing and ‘communications with competitors.’” http://on.wsj.com/2fByCcN
POLITICO “PULSE CHECK” podcast – SURGEON GENERAL Vivek Murthy to Dan Diamond, on whether fear of the gun lobby has stifled progress and reforms. “What I’ve said before is what I believe now — which is gun violence is absolutely a public health issue… I won’t shy away from saying that. It makes some people nervous when I say that. Frankly, I don’t care. Because the truth is the truth.” The podcast http://bit.ly/2fiGSNq … The story http://politi.co/2fiCzlc
VIDEO DU JOUR -- Koch has launched a new video series featuring Charles Koch called “CGK On.” The first short episode features the oil magnate and political megadonor discussing how reading has personally influenced his life and the importance of exploring all viewpoints. http://bit.ly/2esORq4
FOR YOUR RADAR -- “U.S. officials warn of Russian mischief in election and beyond,” by WaPo’s Greg Miller and new recruit Adam Entous: “U.S. intelligence agencies do not see Russia as capable of using cyberespionage to alter the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, but they have warned that Moscow may continue meddling after the voting has ended to sow doubts about the legitimacy of the result, U.S. officials said. The assessment reflects widespread concern among U.S. spy agencies that a months-long campaign by Russia to rattle the mechanisms of American democracy will probably continue after polls close on one of the most polarizing races in recent history, extending and amplifying the political turbulence.” http://wapo.st/2etm9oN
-- “White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem” – NBC News: “Russia has been warned that any effort to manipulate the actual voting or vote counting would be viewed as a serious breach, intelligence officials say. ... While multiple intelligence officials told NBC that they have no specific warning about an Election Day attack, they also say they consider the massive and sophisticated internet disruption of Friday, Oct. 21, a potential dry run.” http://nbcnews.to/2fBuGJ1
MEDIAWATCH -- “Inside BuzzFeed’s Scramble to Produce an Election Night Live Broadcast on Twitter,” by Variety’s Todd Spangler: “BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith [a birthday boy today] wants to boost its credibility as a hard news outlet with the company’s most ambitious live event yet: an election-night broadcast, distributed exclusively via Twitter, that could run five hours or longer.” http://bit.ly/2fltS7M
-- “Report: Megyn Kelly memoir details sexual harassment by Roger Ailes,” by Kelsey Sutton: “Passages from the book [“Settle for More,” out Nov. 15] ... allege that Ailes began harassing Kelly the summer of 2005 and included ‘inappropriate sexually charged comments’ as well as ‘physical advances.’ ... ‘There was a pattern to his behavior,’ Kelly wrote. ‘I would be called into Roger’s office, he would shut the door, and over the next hour or two, he would engage in a kind of cat-and-mouse game with me — veering between obviously inappropriate sexually charged comments (e.g. about the “very sexy bras” I must have and how he’d like to see me in them) and legitimate professional advice.’ Kelly alleges that Ailes offered to advance her career ‘in exchange for sexual favors,’ but that she rejected his advances.” http://politi.co/2ejdjXC ... Pre-order -- $17.99 on Amazon http://amzn.to/2eGanFn
AILES’ response, via attorney Susan Estrich: “Mr. Ailes denies her allegations of sexual harassment or misconduct of any kind.” http://bit.ly/2fkJFUt (h/t Morning Media)
--“Don’t hold your breath for Trump TV: He’s got an enthusiastic following and powerful media allies. There’s just one problem: the business model,” by Alex Weprin: “The cost of launching a cable TV channel is typically in the hundreds of millions of dollars and has a time frame of more than a year. ... Cable TV is no longer a growth business. With pay-TV providers looking to slim down their bundles, it is not a good time to try and break in. Many of those providers might also be reluctant to alienate potential customers by adding a controversial channel, even if it might have a loyal following. Then, there is the issue of cost.” http://politi.co/2fJ7KGY
--“LA Times Fires Stringer For Tweeting Trump Death Wish,” by The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove: “The Times fired Steven Borowiec, who has written about North and South Korea for the newspaper, after his tweet was linked on the Drudge Report and prompted a social media firestorm.” http://thebea.st/2ejhq5T
--Check out our Facebook live video yesterday where we discussed Playbook Plus and the latest news on the campaign trail: http://politi.co/2fj0xg9
JACK SHAFER, “Sympathy for Donna Brazile”: “While Brazile deserves criticism—I shamed her for her alleged leak earlier this week — calling her behavior ‘disgusting’ takes the whole castigation thing a tad too far. What Brazile did — violating the confidence of a (part-time) employer — is what makes the wheels of journalism turn. If the press, including [Jeff] Zucker’s own CNN, could not rely on employees to breach basic ethical understandings, nondisclosure pacts and promises to keep lips zipped in order to leak information, journalism would cease to exist.” http://politi.co/2eENkuJ
--PLAYBOOK’S TAKE: Please keep sending in those tips, folks: anna@politico.com, sherman@politico.com and daniel@politico.com
MILESTONE -- “This week Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos reached a milestone in his career: marking three decades in the anchor chair -- longer than the legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite.” http://youtu.be/Qa48il_oLbo
-- COVER DU JOUR: Bloomberg Businessweek’s new cover, “SUNDAY NIGHT Concussions -- Domestic Violence -- Kaepernicking -- Lousy Football -- Millenial Cord Cutting – You’re Probably Watching this Insane Election, Anyway” http://bit.ly/2fjTOjY ... The story http://buswk.co/NFLratings46
OUR EARLY-MORNING PALS -- “How the Skimm Became a Must-Read for Millennials,” by Max Chafkin in Bloomberg Businessweek: “It might be helpful to think of the Skimm as a millennial-friendly update to Henry Luce’s original Time magazine, combining an earnest journalistic comprehensiveness with in-jokes. … Founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, both 30 and former NBC News producers, started the company in 2012 while sharing an apartment in New York. The idea arose from seeing most of their friends avidly consuming media, including lifestyle blogs, Instagram, and Netflix, while often remaining woefully underinformed about world events. … The Skimm [has] transitioned from a do-it-yourself guerrilla media property to a company employing 35, including software developers, ad salespeople, and full-time writers.” http://bloom.bg/2flFwzl
--TV TODAY: Rev. Al Sharpton is interviewing President Obama in Fayetteville, N.C. to air on MSNBC’s 8 p.m. show “All In with Chris Hayes.” Sharpton tells Playbook: “To have this interview with President Obama four days before the election of the man or woman who will succeed the first African American president, and who will win the most tumultuous election of our time, is not only historic, but, for me personally, it is an epical moment as someone who has spent my life fighting for civil and voting rights.”
THINGS JOHN BRESNAHAN HATES -- “Study: Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola Would See 6,500 Rides A Day,” by DCist’s Rachel Sadon: http://bit.ly/2eZBfmO
OUT AND ABOUT – Steve Clemons and Laurie Rubiner hosted a screening last night of the film “Imperium” about an undercover FBI agent played by Daniel Radcliffe who embeds himself in the White power movement. After the film, Steve interviewed Daniel Ragussis, the movie’s director and Michael German, the film’s co-writer and a former FBI agent. Trailer http://bit.ly/2fiI6II
SPOTTED: Jamie Kirchick, Polson Kanneth, Julian Borger, Eleanor Clift, Daily Beast Christina Sevilla, Jeff Stein, Ben Chang, Michael Hirsh, Maya Rhodan, Walt Slocombe, Christian Conner, Ray Suarez, Melissa Block, Paul Wood, James Bamford, Eric Schmitt.
ENGAGED -- Roshan Patel, partner at 50 State Strategies, and Meredith Kaufman, Barre3 Alexandria Old Town founder, were engaged last night in Alexandria. The couple met on Gov. Richardson’s presidential campaign in 2008. Meredith said yes to Roshan’s bended knee proposal on King Street. The couple were surprised by friends at Magnolia on King Street. The crowd included: Erica Farage, Tyler and Emily Threadgill, Phil Cox, JB and Jennifer Poersch, Remy Onstad, Wells Ellenberg. Pic http://bit.ly/2f0Zdy7
SUNDAY SO FAR – “FOX News Sunday,” during which a new FNC studio will be unveiled: Gov. Mike Pence ... panel: Karl Rove, Bob Woodward, Dana Perino, Juan Williams
--CNN’s “State of the Union”: panel: Dana Bash, David Chalian, Van Jones ... Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) ... Sean Spicer ... former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.)
--CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Reince Priebus ... new CBS News “Battleground Tracker” poll results from Florida and Ohio ... panel: Jamelle Bouie, Amy Walter, Mark Leibovich and John Heilemann
--ABC’s “This Week”: Alex Castellanos, Stephanie Cutter, Matthew Dowd, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Kristen Soltis Anderson
--NBC’s “Meet the Press”: New NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll ... Bill McInturff ... Fred Yang ... panel: Tom Brokaw ... José Díaz-Balart ... Savannah Guthrie ... Chris Matthews ... Nicolle Wallace
--CNN’s “Inside Politics,” anchored by John King ... panel: Nia-Malika Henderson, Jonathan Martin, Maeve Reston, Jeff Zeleny
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): SiriusXM’s White House correspondent Jared Rizzi (h/t Gina Wolfson)
BIRTHDAYS: Jeremy Bernard ... Kathy Griffin ... Kit Seelye ... Laura Bush is 7-0 ... BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith -- read the Playbook Plus Birthday of the Day Q&A with him: http://politi.co/2fo0QTq … U.S. Chamber’s Blair Latoff Holmes, the pride of West Chester, Pa. … Craig Stevens … Hal Malchow ... Rima Sirota of the Georgetown University Law Center, celebrating with Tom (h/t Jon Haber) … Michael Fontneau, a Front Porch Strategies and Strategy Group alum … Alice Tong, deputy political director at the Virginia Democratic Coordinated Campaign and a Mark Warner alum … Kenneth R. Weinstein, president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, is 55 (h/t Jewish Insider) ... Eric Wagner, director of comms. and marketing at Bloomberg Government and an ABC News alum … Toby Lam … AP’s Alex Sanz … WTOP’s Hillary Howard … WaPo’s Mike Debonis ... Carlos Gutierrez, chair at Albright Stonebridge and former Secretary of Commerce under Bush 43 and CEO of Kellogg ... Will Shaw ... Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) is 69 ... Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) is 45 (h/t Sean Spicer) ... Emma Kenyon, health and judiciary policy aide for Sen. McCaskill (h/t Sophie White) ... Laylee Ghiasi, former NextGen Climate political intern and J.D. candidate at Georgetown Law ...
… Amanda Thayer, manager of comms at Global Strategy Group .. South Jersey’s own Tim Saler, a V.P. at Grassroots Targeting and Bobby Jindal and Rick Scott alum, is 31... Catherine De Castelbajac … Ezra Mechaber, an Obama WH alum now principal at Precision Strategies Lucy Tutwiler Hodas … Brian J. Siebel … L’Auberge Chez Francois’ Jacques Haeringer … Ashley Estes Kavanaugh … Trish Turner … Elena Chiriboga, mobile news editor at WSJ and a Politico alum … Markus Palmgren … Joe Vidunas … Kari Kant … Jeremy Chwat is 42 ... Ira Fishman, COO/managing director of the NFL Players Association ... Danny O’Driscoll, a Romney and Scott Walker alum ... Kristin Hardy-Artikaslan … Jared Kleinstein ... Julie Tippens ... Lynde Uihlein ... Susan Knapp ... Casey Sinnwell (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Sloan Rappaport ... Matthew McConaughey is 47 ... Sean “Puffy” Combs is 47 (h/ts AP)