Mar. 17, 2023: A president's pivot and a party's puzzle

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

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A pair of fresh stories out this morning illuminate two emerging storylines in the early jockeying for the 2024 campaign … White House aides tell us that President Joe Biden is likely to announce a final decision on the 2024 reelection in the coming weeks. And as he gears up for a likely reelection, he appears to be shimmying back to the ideological middle (an easy move when there’s no real primary challenge). And, our Olivia Beavers spoke with (nearly) every Republican of the Florida congressional delegation to see which Florida Man they plan on supporting in the 2024 GOP primary: former President Donald Trump or Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to officially announce a bid. The members are torn over what to do. They fear Trump’s wrath, worry about retaliation against those he sees as disloyal and fret about the long-term need to get closer to DeSantis, who is three decades younger than Trump and has a much longer runway ahead of him. 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 TikTok.
0:02.9	What's up Playbookers? I'm Rogul Malavalin.
0:06.1	TikTok, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.
0:11.0	Here's what we're watching on Friday, March 17th.
0:15.1	TikTok is on the clock.
0:16.7	As Drew Harwell and Katzikresky write for The Washington Post,
0:20.6	the Biden administration's
0:21.9	push to force TikTok's Chinese owner BiteDance to sell off one of the world's most popular
0:27.0	apps has gained more bipartisan support than a similar Trump attempt in 2020.
0:32.3	And the app has in recent years emerged as a major lightning rod for lawmakers, unnerved by China's technological
0:39.3	prowess and social media's effect on children and teens.
0:43.7	But it will likely face all the same challenges that doomed President Donald Trump's bid in
0:48.3	2020, during which federal judges ruled the government had not provided proof that the app, which has more than
0:55.0	100 million U.S. users, presented enough of a national security risk to outweigh Americans'
1:01.1	First Amendment rights to free expression. And As Sopna Meshwari and David McCabright for the New York
1:06.7	Times, finding a buyer for TikTok may not be so easy. At a price of $50 billion or more,
1:13.6	the value some analysts said TikTok could command, the social media platform would be too expensive
1:18.8	for many companies, including competitors like Snap, the tech giants that could afford it,
1:24.2	such as Facebook owner Meta, Google, and Microsoft are likely to shy away
1:29.1	for fear of getting caught in years of antitrust scrutiny in the United States.
1:37.2	Yesterday, former Vice President Mike Pence stood by his gridiron dinner, Barb, that
1:42.4	Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took what he called maternity leave after he and his husband Chastin adopted twins.
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