

THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS - When Mayorkas was tapped to run the Department of Homeland Security - the now 20-year-old behemoth with some 260,000 employees - he said that he was determined to be the secretary of homeland security, not the secretary of immigration. “Now more than ever, our nation needs an energetic executive leader who will get right to work for the American people on Day One." “Governor DeSantis is a strong conservative leader who knows how to get things done and has the record to prove it,” Adams will say, according to a copy of a press release that will be blasted out by the DeSantis campaign later today.

The slate of supporters, which includes Utah Senate President SUART ADAMS, brings DeSantis’ nationwide total of endorsements from state leaders up to 270, according to the campaign. RON DeSANTIS for president today in a press conference at the state’s capital. right now.”įIRST IN PLAYBOOK: DeSANTIS GROWS STATE ENDORSEMENTS - More than a dozen Utah state legislators will endorse Gov. As Maggie Haberman noted, this is “bout as a revealing a story as you will read about the state of politics in the U.S. | Jacquelyn Martin, File/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAYĭONALD WHO? - “No one wants to talk about Trump in Aspen,” by Nahal Toosi and Alexander Ward. House Republicans have tried to make Alejandro Mayorkas the face of immigration policy, to the exclusion of most other DHS issues.
