WFP CHANGES: President Donald Trump nominated the Department of Agriculture’s Luke Lindberg to succeed Cindy McCain as the head of the World Food Program, which is the largest humanitarian organization in the world.
BOOK REVIEW: President Donald Trump praised Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R., N.Y.) new book, Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities, and noted that Stefanik is “strong, smart, and tough.” The president added that “there is nobody more qualified to speak on this important subject than Elise.” Buy Stefanik’s book here.
CONGRATS: Ashley Will was promoted to serve as Rep. Jimmy Patronis’s press secretary; she previously was Patronis’s press assistant.
CA$H ON HAND: Rep. Ashley Hinson (R., Iowa) raised over $3 million for her Senate campaign.
PIKER PROBLEMS CONTINUE: The GOP is eager to tie far-left streamer Hasan Piker to as many Democrats as possible. Kiersten Pels, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) National Press Secretary, noted after Piker’s rally with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan that the anti-American activist “is a disgusting human being. He laughed at a U.S. servicemember being shot down and abuses his dog on camera. Yet Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed are embracing him.”
WHIP EXPANSION: Sen. Tim Sheehy (R., Mont.) joined the Senate GOP’s Whip operation.
FIRST-TIME NUMBERS: First time candidates Michael Whatley, who is running for Senate in North Carolina, and Austin Rogers, who is running for Congress in Florida, hauled in eyebrow-raising numbers this past quarter. Whatley raised $5 million this past quarter, and Rogers raised $725,000 — that includes $350,000 directly from Rogers. A separate, pro-Rogers group, Panhandle Patriots, announced a $2 million haul. Whatley is running to succeed retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) and Rogers is running to succeed retiring Rep. Neal Dunn (R., Fla.).
NEW HORIZONS: Vikram Prasad, Louis Focht, and Stevan Novakovic hosted a party to celebrate a slew of new jobs in the Trump administration and beyond. Those spotted included Noah Yosif and Danielle Finley Yosif, Gary Charles, Eric Prag, Matthew Foldi, Miranda Dabney, Marisela Ramirez, Melanie Meyers, Chris Gardner, Ryan Fournier, Tatyana Velazquez, Mike Fullerton, Sean Lee, Luis Valdez, Sam Owen, Shawn Bloch, Nate Horton, Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Abbott, Sarah Ereio, Arjun Singh, Matt Martini, Ben Smith, Trey Donathan, Bridget Henne, Rohan Suri, and Sharan Kumar.
100 DOWN: The Daily Wire’s Isabel Brown celebrated 100 episodes of her show at a party in D.C. sponsored by Meta. Among those in attendance were Cassie Scher, Brent Scher, Michael Sugimoto, Francis Brennan, Margo Hess, Brynn Jeffers, Chaya Raichik, Christine Yeargin, Taylor Walters, Mary Margaret Olohan, Ben Domench, Johanna Persing, Eldad Yaron, Caroline Andregg, Corinne Clark, Aaron Harison, Anna Laudiero, Vallen King, Brianna D’Apuzzo, Billy McLaughlin, Sonny Joy Nelson, Bre Marsh, James Klug, Calli Cooper, Kaylee White, Vanessa Santos, Kaelan Dorr, Gabe Kaminsky, Reagan Reese, Alden Lee McRae.
