The midterms are six months away and new polling has the race closer than you might expect, Donald Trump forgets who he endorsed in Ohio, and later: some fun with the highlights and lowlights of Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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Show Notes

SIX MONTHS TO GO

• NYT: Democrats’ Mystery: How to Brighten a Presidency and a National Mood
• Axios: Dems punch back against GOP’s “culture war” attacks
• CNN: This ad tells you a whole lot about Joe Biden’s political problems 
• NYT: Biden Received Early Warnings That Immigration and Inflation Could Erode His Support
• FiveThirtyEight: The GOP Primary For Ohio Senate Will Be A Test For Trump — But Probably A Win For Trumpism
• NYT: Once Soft-Spoken, Ohio Conservatives Embrace the Bombast
• Business Insider: Trump confused the names of candidates in a closely contested GOP Senate primary that’s 2 days away — one of whom he endorsed last month
• NYT: Opinion: The Ohio Primary and the Return of the Republican Civil War
• Politico: Trumpworld braces for ‘a couple of ugly nights’ in May
• Politico: Immigration reform withers as Democrats descend into border infighting

CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER RECAP

• Slate: What Trevor Noah Got Desperately Wrong at the White House Correspondents Dinner 
• Insider: Ron DeSantis says he would never attend a White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a ‘cabal’ of ‘reviled’ journalists 
• Playbook: Party city
• Politico: Washington Stages Its Own 1970s Disaster Movie
• WaPo: Pent-up partying before — and long after — the correspondents’ dinner
• NYT: Before Washington’s ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation

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