Hello and welcome to The Best and The Brightest. I’m Tina Nguyen.

A quick note: For those of you who also subscribe to my colleague John Ourand’s newsletter, The Varsity, you may have been surprised to hear I made a cameo at WrestleMania 40 this weekend. For the record: Yes, I was there on both nights, and yes, it should surprise absolutely no one that Puck’s resident populism whisperer is also a huge WWE fan. Let’s not make this political: Is it a thoughtcrime to enjoy watching The Undertaker chokeslam former quasi-presidential aspirant The Rock and help Cody Rhodes finish his story? Not in my America.

In tonight’s edition, the evolution of the Ronna McDaniel saga, after her R.N.C. ouster and the NBC rejection, as her search for a fourth act becomes a cautionary tale. In the Trump era, one cannot, to abuse a new favorite pun, Ronna-way from their past.

But first… here’s Abby Livingston with the readout from the Hill…