Feb. 2, 2023: Trump vs. DeSantis vs. who else?

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

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“The Cold Calculus Behind the Shrinking GOP Presidential Field.” Would-be Republican White House aspirants face a harsh reality: It’s not just Donald Trump who’s freezing the 2024 field, reports Jonathan Martin. As GOP strategist Scott Jennings puts it: “They don’t have a Trump problem, they have a [Ron] DeSantis problem.” But consider this: “[T]he history most on the minds of the Republicans considering the race, who are not named Trump or DeSantis, is what happens when there’s a bloody battle between top contenders. Spoiler: It augurs well for a third candidate.” And this afternoon, a subset of the Congressional Black Caucus will sit down with President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris to officially restart the push for police reform legislation following the funeral of Tyre Nichols, whose death last week at the hands of Memphis police has galvanized advocates for reform. Black lawmakers have zeroed in on their first and biggest request of Biden: a commitment to talk about policing in next week’s State of the Union. One CBC member told us the group is even considering telling Biden exactly what they want him to say — and that they expect him to bang the drum until legislation hits the Oval Office. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	presented by the American Petroleum Institute.
0:04.3	Hey there, playbook listeners. I'm Ragu Mnobalovalin.
0:08.2	House Republicans attempt to get an array. It's Groundhog Day for the Congressional Black
0:13.5	Caucus. Plus, 2024 watch heats up. Here are the big things we're watching on Thursday, February
0:20.1	2nd. Would-be Republican,
0:23.2	White House aspirants, face a harsh reality. It's not just Donald Trump who's freezing the
0:28.3	2024 field. As GOP strategist Scott Jennings puts it, they don't have a Trump problem. They have
0:34.1	a wrong dissentist problem. But consider this. As Politico's Jonathan Martin reports this morning, the history most on the minds of the
0:41.9	Republicans considering the race who are not named Trump or DeSantis is what happens
0:46.5	when there's a bloody battle between top contenders.
0:49.5	Spoiler, it augurs well for a third candidate.
0:53.6	Here's the question then.
0:54.6	Who might that third candidate be?
0:57.1	Maggie Haberman, Michael Bender, and Reid Epstein from the New York Times, right?
1:01.4	Contenders have so far been unwilling to officially jump into the race, wary of becoming a
1:07.0	sacrificial lamb on Mr. Trump's altar of devastating nicknames and eternal fury.
1:12.6	Republicans who hoped to stop him worried that dithering by possible candidates could only strengthen
1:17.8	Mr. Trump's position and could even lead to a field that is far smaller and weaker than many
1:24.1	in the political world have anticipated. This morning, former Maryland governor, Larry Hogan, will call in to Hugh Hewitt at 705 a.m.,
1:33.2	followed by two New Hampshire hits, WFEA's morning update at 738, and WGIR's New Hampshire
1:40.5	Today at 808.
1:42.7	Paul Steinha from Fox News writes that Senator Tim Scott is kicking off his faith in America listening tour,
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