Welcome back to The Washington Mall, my twice-a-week private email about what’s really happening in this town—on the Hill, on K Street, in the press, and of course in Bidenworld.

In tonight’s email: Herschel Walker, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman, Hugh Hewitt, Scott Paradise, Christian Walker, Rick Scott, Maggie Haberman, Trump, and a half-dozen or so Republicans who requested anonymity.

But first… Senate candidates Dr. Mehmet Oz and Adam Laxalt are in Santa Ana tonight at a fundraiser hosted by Palmer Luckey, the billionaire Oculus founder and brother-in-law of Congressman Matt Gaetz. It’s an N.R.S.C. Rick Scott special, so the tickets are as much as $50,000 per head. Oz’s opponent John Fetterman, of course, dinged him for flying first class to California.

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Cynically, it’s late in the game for Republicans, fighting for a highly contested Senate majority, to completely drop Walker given that their path to a majority is largely predicated on his race. “What a fucking disaster...