POLITICO Playbook: What Pelosi is telling vulnerable Dems about impeachment

It’s not about President DONALD TRUMP; it’s concerning the Structure. That’s the message Speaker NANCY PELOSI needs House Democrats to remember as they gear up for what shall be a key week in their march to impeachment. “We've to proceed with our hearts full of affection for America and our hearts filled with love for the Structure. And never with unfavorable attitudes in the direction of him, but a constructive angle in the direction of our duty,” she stated on a convention call with Home Democrats on Sunday.

“The polls have modified drastically about this,” Pelosi added, pointing to numbers displaying that help for impeachment has surged since her announcement.

THE CALL underscored the tough position Democrats, notably those in districts that Trump gained in 2016, are in as they move to sell the impeachment inquiry over the two-week recess. It also comes amid rising frustration among many Democrats over inconsistent messaging about how you can speak about impeachment.

THE DEM STRATEGY … SARAH FERRIS and ANDREW DESIDERIO: “Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, who leads House Democrats’ campaign arm, advised the caucus’s most weak members to gauge help and check their message by way of using polling in their respective districts — surveys that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee would help fund, in response to multiple individuals on the decision. She additionally stated the marketing campaign arm might deploy digital advertisements in the future.

“Bustos also shared the outcomes of the DCCC’s first ballot targeted on impeachment since Pelosi formalized an inquiry last week. The poll discovered that 54 % of probably voters help the Democrats’ inquiry, in response to a summary obtained by POLITICO.

“Prime Democrats used Sunday’s conference name to formalize their caucus’s messaging operation on impeachment with extra targeted speaking factors. It got here after leaders faced blowback from some lawmakers, notably those from swing districts, over previous messaging stumbles.

“Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) outlined a plan to message the difficulty with ‘repetition,’ in line with a number of individuals on the call. He named six phrases that Democrats will use — ‘betrayal, abuse of energy, nationwide security’ — as they make the case that Trump abused his workplace when he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to examine Joe Biden.” POLITICO

-- CASE IN POINT: “Again Residence, House Democrats Tread Rigorously on Impeachment and 2020,” by NYT’s Jonathan Martin and Catie Edmonson in Anaheim, Calif.: “Orange County was the epicenter of the 2018 Home Democratic takeover, where Republicans misplaced 4 seats in what was as soon as the guts of Ronald Reagan conservatism in California. On Saturday night time, as three of the victorious Democrats have been honored at an annual political dinner, a new battle was on everyone’s minds: Learn how to shield those good points in 2020 by selling voters on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.

“On the dinner, Representative Harley Rouda warned Democrats not to ‘sit on our laurels.’ Consultant Mike Levin solemnly stated ‘the occasions have discovered us.’ And Representative Gil Cisneros, who came out for the inquiry solely last week, plugged his campaign web site twice to ask for donations and noted, ‘The Republicans are coming after me now.’” NYT

-- Outgoing House Freedom Caucus Chairman MARK MEADOWS (R-N.C.) informed us Saturday at a Playbook Change in Austin for the Texas Tribune Pageant that Republicans’ path back to the majority runs straight via California.

RECESS? WHAT RECESS? -- “U.S. Home impeachment inquiry to intensify,” by Reuters’ David Morgan: Wednesday: “deposition from former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch” … Thursday: “deposition from Trump’s former special representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker” … Friday: “closed-door hearing on Friday with the intelligence group’s inspector common, Michael Atkinson.” Reuters

-- PLUS, as Home Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) stated Sunday, Congress might get to listen to instantly from the whistleblower. However talks over his testimony are still ongoing, his legal professionals stated Sunday night time, contradicting Schiff. Their letter

BURGESS EVERETT and JAMES ARKIN: “‘A stinking fish’: Dems see impeachment as weapon towards Republican Senate”: “Senate Democrats are growing more and more giddy on the prospect of seeing a half-dozen weak senators squirm for weeks and months about Trump’s conduct earlier than ultimately being pressured to go on the report to convict or acquit Trump if he’s impeached by the Home.

“Whereas typical wisdom holds that making an attempt to take away the president might value House Democrats in battleground seats that Trump gained in 2016, there’s a sense within the get together that it might enhance Democrats’ bid to grab the Senate.” POLITICO

AS DEMS SELL IMPEACHMENT … BIDEN PUSHES BACK -- “Biden marketing campaign demands networks stop booking Giuliani,” by Michael Calderone: “Joe Biden’s presidential campaign demanded on Sunday that main TV networks stop reserving Rudy Giuliani, accusing President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer of spreading ‘false, debunked conspiracy theories’ on behalf of his shopper.

“‘When you typically reality verify his statements in actual time during your discussions, that's not enough,’ Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn and deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO. ‘By giving him your air time, you're allowing him to introduce increasingly unhinged, unfounded and desperate lies into the nationwide conversation.’” POLITICO … The letter

-- WAPO’S MATT VISER: “Joe Biden faces the Trump fusillade. Are he and his campaign up to it?”: “Several allies, together with prime financial backers, are weighing whether to create an excellent PAC to independently defend Biden and go after the president, who has repeatedly accused the former vice chairman of corruption and whose campaign last week launched a $10 million advert blitz aimed largely at attacking Biden.

“Other supporters warning that a extra aggressive strategy might reduce towards Biden’s above-the-fray attraction and warn him towards dropping sight of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), whose steady march in reputation has eroded Biden’s standing and given her slender leads over him in a number of current polls in early-voting states.” WaPo

Good Monday morning.

USMCA LATEST -- Senate Majority Chief MITCH MCCONNELL and Home Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY penned a joint op-ed within the WSJ: “House Democrats Resist a Win for American Workers”

2020 WATCH -- “Trump allies pushed Biden-Ukraine allegations at key moments in campaign timeline,” by NBC’s Monica Alba and Carol Lee: “As Joe Biden prepared to launch his 2020 presidential bid final April, members of President Donald Trump’s internal circle began publicly pushing unsubstantiated allegations concerning the former vice chairman and Ukraine.

“The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and Brad Parscale, his 2020 campaign manager, both blasted out links to articles on Twitter within days of one another in early April that painted Biden and his son Hunter as unethical, based mostly on unproven costs stemming from Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine.

“Those first mentions, distributed to their combined hundreds of thousands of social media followers, coincided with a spring effort by the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to seek out damaging info on Biden and preceded, by a matter of days, Trump’s first telephone call on April 21 with then Ukrainian President-Elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy. 4 days later, Biden introduced his run for workplace.” NBC

BUT, BUT, BUT -- “Trump Was Repeatedly Warned That Ukraine Conspiracy Theory Was ‘Completely Debunked,’” by NYT’s Sheryl Homosexual Stolberg, Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker

ICYMI -- SUNDAY NIGHT’S TWEETSTORM: “Trump demands to meet whistleblower and leakers of his Ukraine call,” by Rishika Dugyala

2024 WATCH -- @NikkiHaley: “Depart Joe Biden alone? So are you telling us @KamalaHarris that what Biden did was moral and ethical? Where are the questions concerning the battle of interest that occurred from Biden’s actions and the problems together with his son? This response is embarrassing.” The tweet

REMEMBER BERNIE? -- “Bernie Sanders is in Hassle,” by Holly Otterbein in West Liberty, Iowa: “With simply four months until the first-in-the-nation caucuses, Sanders is in hassle. As he delivered his populist gospel to giant crowds of camouflage-clad excessive schoolers, liberal arts school students, and trade union members across Iowa final week, a problematic narrative was hardening around him: His campaign is in disarray and Elizabeth Warren has eclipsed him because the progressive standard-bearer of the main. He’s sunk to 3rd place nationally, behind Warren and Joe Biden, and a few polls of early nomination states present him barely clinging to double digits. He’s shaken up his staffs in Iowa and New Hampshire. He’s lost the endorsement of the Working Families Celebration, a left-wing group that backed him in 2016, to Warren.” POLITICO Magazine

TRUMP’S MONDAY -- The president will depart the White House at 10:35 a.m. en route to Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia, the place he'll participate in a welcome ceremony in honor of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees. At 12:05 p.m., Trump will return to the White Home for lunch with VP Mike Pence at 12:45 p.m. in the personal dining room. Trump will take part in the ceremonial swearing-in of Eugene Scalia to be secretary of Labor at 2 p.m. in the Oval Workplace. At 4 p.m., he’s scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, additionally within the Oval Workplace.

NATASHA BERTRAND: “The Russia Hawk in the White Home: No one ever anticipated Fiona Hill to develop into a Trump adviser. She ended up staying far longer than anybody predicted — including her.” POLITICO Magazine

FOR YOUR RADAR -- “U.S. Officers Warn of Rising Menace From Qaeda Branch in Northwest Syria,” by NYT’s Eric Schmitt: “American counterterrorism officials are voicing increased alarm a few Qaeda affiliate in Syria that they say is plotting assaults towards the West by exploiting the chaotic security state of affairs within the country’s northwest and the protection inadvertently afforded by Russian air defenses shielding Syrian authorities forces allied with Moscow.

“The rise of this latest Qaeda branch in Syria, as nicely because the operations of other Qaeda affiliates in West Africa, Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan, underscore the terrorist group’s enduring menace despite the dying of Osama bin Laden and being largely eclipsed in recent times by the Islamic State, or ISIS, as the terrorist group of selection of worldwide jihadis.

“The brand new Qaeda department, referred to as Hurras al-Din, emerged in early 2018 after several factions broke away from a bigger affiliate in Syria. It's the successor to the Khorasan Group, a small but dangerous organization of hardened senior Qaeda operatives that Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s leader, sent to Syria to plot attacks towards the West.” NYT

TOP-ED … REP. GREGORY MEEKS (D-N.Y.) in WAPO: “Dear anonymous op-ed writer: Your plan didn’t work”

BIG IN EUROPE … ZIA WEISE: “The celebration of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz gained Austria's snap election Sunday, paving the best way for his return as the country's leader.

“Kurz's center-right Austrian Individuals's Celebration (ÖVP) came in first with 37 %, in accordance with exit polls as of 6 p.m. It is a clear victory for the 33-year-old ex-chancellor, with the Social Democrats coming a distant second at 21.8 %. …

“Kurz's former partners in authorities, the far-right Freedom Social gathering, suffered heavy losses within the election following a scandal earlier this yr, falling to 16 % — down 10 proportion factors from the last election in 2017.” POLITICO Europe … What it means

-- BORIS IN TROUBLE … AP: “U.K.’s Johnson denies wrongdoing as allegations mount” … More from London Playbook

MEGATREND -- “Shale Growth Is Slowing Simply When the World Wants Oil Most,” by WSJ’s Christopher Matthews and Rebecca Elliott: “The American shale growth is slowing as innovation plateaus—and just when shale’s significance in international markets has reached new highs following an attack on the guts of Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure.

“U.S. oil production increased by lower than 1% throughout the first six months of the yr, in line with the Power Division, down from almost 7% progress over the identical period last yr. …

“[T]he slowdown this yr is driven partly by core operational points, including wells producing less than expected after being drilled too shut to at least one another, and sweet spots operating out before anticipated.” WSJ

MEDIAWATCH -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: CNN senior political reporter NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON will write a ebook tracing the life and legacy of Shirley Chisholm, the primary African American lady elected to Congress. Henderson was repped by Deneen Howell of Williams & Connolly. She shall be working with Zack Wagman at Ecco.

-- TV TONIGHT: On CBS’ “Late Present with Stephen Colbert,” Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (the visitor band is Wilco) are touting their new guide, “The E-book of Gutsy Ladies: Favorite Tales of Braveness and Resilience.” $24.50 on Amazon

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SPOTTED: Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and former White Home COS Ken Duberstein talking on the American Airlines 9 a.m. shuttle from DCA to LaGuardia on Sunday.

SPOTTED at a Sunday brunch going-away celebration for Christine Lagarde, who will head to Frankfurt as the president of the European Central Financial institution, hosted by Adrienne Arsht: Xavier Giocanti, Renee Fleming, David Rubenstein, C. Boyden Gray, Sharon Rockefeller, Amy and Bret Baier, Andrea Mitchell, Patrick Steel, Fred Kempe and Pam Meyer, Jordanian Ambassador Dina Kawar, David and Kellie City, Paula Dobriansky, Robert Pullen and Luke Frazier, Capricia and Robert Marshall, Paige Ennis, Julie Kent and Victor Barbee, Jim and Cathy French, Jason Marczak, Jane Hartley and Ralph Schlosstein.

2020 HIRES -- FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: John McCarthy has joined the Biden campaign as deputy political director. He previously was COS for Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.).

-- Sara Kenigsberg is becoming a member of the Bernie Sanders campaign as a supervising producer. She beforehand was a senior video producer for MoveOn.

TRANSITIONS -- Anne DeCesaro is now working at USDA in the Office of the Undersecretary for Meals, Vitamin, and Shopper Providers. She most just lately was employees director for the Home Ways and Means Employee and Household Help Subcommittee for ranking member Kevin Brady (R-Texas).

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Anne Horak, a Broadway actress, received married this weekend. Pool report: “The newlyweds have been joined by their closest associates and family for an intimate ceremony and reception in Green Bay. The pair seems to be ahead to starting a life crammed with love, happiness and Packer Super Bowls.” Pic

-- Brendan Sullivan, CEO of Weymouth Methods and an Obama alum, and Ashley Patton, a world coverage analyst at PCAOB, received married Saturday at Walden Corridor in Reva, Va. … SPOTTED: Alex Pleasant, Clark Jennings, Will Jennings, John McComb, Karly Satkowiak, Nat Kaine, Hallie Ruvin, Pete Selfridge, Dave Cusack, Zaina Javaid, Ben Shannon, Matt Harney, Jesse Sendroff, Kaitlin Gaughran, Gabrielle DeFranceschi, Tucker Minor, Alan Bray, Cole Randle and Maju Varghese.

-- Shelby Wagenseller, director of special tasks for the 2020 Democratic Nationwide Convention Committee and a Sign Group alum, and Nolan Canter of the Chesapeake Bay Basis and the incoming director of group engagement for the 2020 Democratic Conference Host Committee, received married on Saturday in Easton, Md. … SPOTTED: Andrew Deerin, Elizabeth Northrup, John Procter, Michelle Baker, Noe Garcia and Thomas Mathiasen. Pic

-- Amanda Thayer, deputy national communications director at NARAL Pro-Selection America, and Eric Heidenberger, associate/owner at DC Restaurant Group at Historic Rosemont Manor, obtained married in Berryville, Va. … SPOTTED: Kate Hansen, Meredith Kelly, Ronald Allen, Travis Brimm, Kaylie Hanson Lengthy, John Moffett and Cuffe Owens. Pic

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Hildy Kuryk, founder of Artemis Methods. A development she thinks doesn’t get enough attention: “As the general public’s religion in its establishments are sinking, they are forcing manufacturers -- who earlier than had been concerned with being seen as partisan -- to stand up for what they consider in. It's not acceptable to stand on the sidelines of what previously had been ‘controversial’ points -- local weather change, immigration, and so on. It’s exciting to observe individuals of all ages take to the streets to demand what they see are their primary rights. Corporations are not allowed to be passive observers.” Playbook Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Craig Minassian is 49 … Ari Shapiro, host of NPR’s “All Things Thought-about” … FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon Jr. ... Greg Mecher … Nate Tibbits, SVP of worldwide government affairs and public affairs at Qualcomm … Conor Maguire … POLITICO’s Sally Goldenberg and Brendan MacArthur … POLITICO Europe’s David Herszenhorn ... Stefanie Mohler ... Jake Yunker … Felix Schein is 43 ... Ben Voelkel, comms director for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), is 33 ... AP authorized affairs author Curt Anderson ... former Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) is 59 ... former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert is 74 ... Iowa Republican operative Grant Younger ... WSJ’s Steve Russolillo … Michael O’Connor, senior director of state government affairs at Eli Lilly … Edelman’s Emily Lippard … LaRhonda Burley … Natalie Rossetti … Bobby Donachie … Sue Andres … Bradley Akubuiro, director of corporate communications and public affairs at United Technologies …

… Mike Henry, chief of employees to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) … Rachel Trello of the Info Know-how and Innovation Basis (hat tip: the ITIF group) … Anastasia Goodstein, SVP at the Ad Council ... Maggie Rousseau, comms director for Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) … Alyssa Cass, director of politics for Future Now and Future Now Fund (h/t Michelle Kuppersmith) … Charlotte Dillon Ross ... Caroline Cirillo … Arthi Yerramilli … Cynthia McCabe … Sam Lozier, senior nationwide campaigns lead at NGP VAN ... Nathan Thornburgh, co-founder of Roads and Kingdoms … JJ Mitchell (h/t cousin Daniel Lippman) ... Courtney Sanders Felts of the U.S. Chamber … Gerardo Interiano … Maria Cereghino ... Mark Drapeau ... Phillip Martin ... Alan Eason ... Adam Hudson ... Joshua Hoyos, task editor at ABC Information ... Kitty Eisele … Caroline Hewell (h/t Jon Haber) … Mike Milligan … Aaron Pickrell … Mary Triick (h/ts Teresa Vilmain)

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