Mar. 28, 2023: Trump returns to Fox, Christie returns to N.H.

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

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The Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be a case of déjà vu. In 2015 into 2016, Donald Trump gained an early lead and never looked back. The hype about a well-funded, twice-elected Florida governor proved to be illusory. Most of Trump’s opponents waited around for someone else to take him down until it was too late. Chris Christie, one of the few Trump opponents who had sharp words for Trump, was too moderate for Republicans. Trump dominated the only thing that seemed to matter: the media’s attention. Most of the GOP’s elite donors, opinion pages, and elected leaders rallied in opposition to Trump (often privately) and prayed that some meteor-like event would destroy his candidacy So far in 2023: 1) Ron DeSantis may be reprising the role of Jeb Bush; 2) Nikki Haley and Mike Pence (so far) are reprising the role of Trump’s milquetoast challengers, who occasionally swat at him but rarely damage him; 3) Chris Christie is reprising the role of … Chris Christie; 4) Trump is once again flooding social media, email inboxes and cable news with his own content; and 5) many Republicans are once again looking to the sky for meteors, this time in the form of criminal indictments. 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.
0:02.7	How's it going playbook listeners?
0:04.9	I'm Ragu Monovalin.
0:06.4	DeSantis staffs up.
0:08.1	Biden's nominees face a tough fight.
0:10.2	Plus, it's beginning to feel a bit like 2016.
0:14.0	Here's what we're watching on Tuesday, March 28th.
0:17.4	Michael Bender from the New York Times notes that a pro-de-santa super PAC hires another former Trump aide.
0:24.0	Bender writes Matt Wolkin, the deputy communications director for Mr. Trump's previous campaign,
0:29.1	has joined the SuperPact Never Backed Down as strategic communications director.
0:35.0	Most recently, he was vice president of communications and Axiom Strategies.
0:40.1	That's the company run by Jeff Rowe, a political consultant who joined the pro-Dissanta Super PAC
0:45.9	earlier this month. And Politico's Burgess Everett, Daniela Diaz, and Daniel Lipman write
0:52.1	that Biden's nominees hit the Senate skids.
0:55.6	It looked at the beginning of the year, like Democrats would have an easier time,
0:59.8	confirming Biden's picks, having gained a seat last fall after a historically lengthy run in a 50-50
1:06.1	Senate. But this Congress has brought a host of new challenges, despite that padded margin for Biden's party.
1:13.7	Two high-profile Biden administration hopefuls have withdrawn in the past month alone.
1:18.8	The president's Labor Department pick faces a tough road to confirmation, and the administration is in danger of a first,
1:26.5	having to abandon a judicial nominee due to
1:29.3	tepid democratic support.
1:32.1	The Republican presidential primary is shaping up to be a case of deja vu.
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