First Draft: Today In Politics: A Surprise Showdown In South Carolina

“Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have admitted to a series of errors that could upend the verdicts,” Politico reports. “The missteps have handed Menendez’s attorneys just the kind of opening they’d been looking for, and they have already requested a new trial.

Playbook: “He has the money, the platform, a Republican trifecta in Washington and a radically altered information ecosystem compared to would-be government shrinkers in generations past. Trump and his allies are serious about targeting the federal government, which many MAGA figures see as full of disloyalty, for radical changes.” “But inertia is powerful.

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California politicians screwed their state up, and we’re supposed to foot the bill.