G.O.P. Plan B, Kardashian Fast Fashion, Nightmare in Greenwich

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri’s inside report on the donorworld chill engulfing DeSantis’s bumbling campaign, and the backup candidates gaining momentum in G.O.P. backchannels.

Plus, below the fold: Julia Alexander takes an abacus to Netflix’s risky new pricing strategy. Lauren Sherman scoops the next big fashion project from the Kardashian elf village. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to discuss a Greenwich Village co-op battle guaranteed to rattle your brain, while Tina Nguyen and Ben Landy dig into DeSantis’s crumbling surveillance state.

TARA PALMERI

As the candidate’s dearth of natural talent becomes clear, and his campaign endures a meaningful shake up, the Anyone-But-Trump donor class is, as Shakespeare once wrote, examining other beauties.

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JULIA ALEXANDER

After a decade of phenomenal growth based on a single offering, a content bazooka, and an indifference to password sharing, Netflix’s next theater of growth all comes down to nailing multiple price points—including a possible free tier—and deploying its vaunted algorithms across the spectrum.

LAUREN SHERMAN

Kylie will be fronting a line developed by Jens and Emma Grede, the geniuses behind Skims and other Kardashianwear.

PETER HAMBY, ERIQ GARDNER, TINA NGUYEN and BEN LANDY

Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to discuss an epic Greenwich Village co-op battle that will make you move to Mars. Then Tina Nguyen explains DeSantis’s crumbling surveillance state.