Playbook PM: The Trump wave crashes into Washington
PoliticoPlaybook PM: The Trump wave crashes into Washington Presented by THE CATCH-UP HEADS UP — VP KAMALA HARRIS will speak at 4 p.m. at Howard University. I call on Attorney General GARLAND, ALVIN BRAGG, and FANI WILLIS to immediately terminate the politically-motivated prosecutions of President Donald Trump.” Meanwhile, in the Senate, most of those 2017 Trump skeptics — from JEFF FLAKE and BOB CORKER to PAT TOOMEY and JOHN McCAIN — are either gone or dead, and replaced now by what’s shaping up to be a new crop of MAGA Republicans eager to do Trump’s bidding. — On NBC’s “Today” show, JASON MILLER said Trump will immediately reinstate his first-term immigration crackdown and start drilling with executive actions, per Brittany Gibson. — And ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. told NPR’s Steve Inskeep that they’re serious about working to undo water fluoridation — one of the 20th century’s signal public health achievements — on Day One, along with providing vaccine “information.” WHERE UNCALLED SENATE RACES STAND: Rep. ELISSA SLOTKIN leads Republican MIKE ROGERS by three-tenths of a percentage point in Michigan with 99 percent of the vote in. Smart big-picture read: “Pariah, Felon, President-Elect: How Trump Fought His Way Back to Power,” by NYT’s Matt Flegenheimer, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan: “Day after day, his team’s decision-making revolved principally around what he wanted, what would soothe and sate him.