LAYING THE GROUNDWORK: The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) announced its initial $342 million spending plans for this year’s midterms. The investments include $236 million to back incumbent Sens. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska), Susan Collins (R., Maine), Jon Husted (R., Ohio) as well as investments that will likely help Rep. Ashley Hinson (R., Iowa) in Iowa and Michael Whatley in North Carolina. SLF’s investments also include over $100 million in offensive opportunities, including in Michigan, where former Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.) is the GOP’s likely nominee, Georgia, where the field is unsettled in the race to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff (D., Ga.), and New Hampshire, where the state has an open Senate seat.
CAMPAIGNING WITH BAGGAGE: Hasan Piker, a far-left streamer who claimed that America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will campaign with Democrats in Michigan. Piker and others will rally for Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in the open Senate seat. Mike Rogers, the GOP’s likely nominee to succeed Sen. Gary Peters (D., Mich.), noted that “while Abdul campaigns today with the man who claimed ‘America deserved 9/11,’ one thing that’s for certain: there’s no limit to how far left Michigan Democrats will go.”
PIKER PROBLEMS: Hasan Piker continues to divide Democrats, who are debating whether or not campaigning with him is an electoral asset. Ethan Agarwal, a Democrat who is challenging Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), is taking the opposite side of Khanna, who said that he would join Piker on the trail. “Only some Dems are dumb enough to engage him,” Agarwal noted.
PERSONNEL IS POLICY: GOP strategist Steve Guest noted that Politico alum Lauren French now works at Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) Senate Majority PAC. “At least they’re formalizing the relationship,” Guest noted.
LIFE IS GOOD: The Daily Wire exposed how a group of anti-oil activists have a “Globe Trotting Lifestyle.”
HAPPY EASTER: The White House rung in its annual Easter celebration with a traditional Easter Egg Roll. America 250’s presence flooded the White House lawn, and the Trump administration made a strong push for literacy, hosting a reading corner, where administration officials like Will Scharf, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Kratsios, Karoline Leavitt, and more were greeted by adoring fans of all ages. Among those spotted on the White House’s South Lawn were Reps. Michael Baumgartner (R., Wash.) and his family, Addison McDowell (R., N.C.), Brandon Gill (R., Texas), Alexa Henning, Marisela Ramirez, Logan Luse, Laney Lopez, DJ Lopez, Ally Huizenga, Nazak Nikakhtar, and Brice Bazell.
HEADIN’ DOWN SOUTH: DJ Griffin just started as communications director for Michael Whatley’s Senate campaign in North Carolina. Griffin hosted a D.C. send off where he was joined by Gates McGavick, Nicholas Ballas, Mike Joyce, Jacki Kotkiewicz, Rob Davis, Bobby LaValley, Chris Gustafson, Pat McManus, Anne Kiser, Matt Middleton, Kelly Sandhu, Peter Dudziek, and Collin Smith, among others.
TIED THE KNOT: Sarah Selip and Stinson Rogers got married in Pittsburgh with a star-studded crew in tow. Among those there to celebrate the happy couple were Miranda Dabney, Hannah Eddins, Blake Kernen, Charlotte Law, George Pulizzi, Armani Gracia, Andrea Hitt, Joshua Jamison, Jaclyn Davis, Courtney Mattison, Parker and Kasey Williams, Sarah Gallagher, Grace Davis, Maria Giannopoulos, CJ Pearson, Tucker Stewart, and AJ Swinson.