Kim K’s $4B Valuation, G.O.P. Impeachment Roulette, and Roe’s Woes

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Tina Nguyen’s insider account of the hostilities between Ron DeSantis’s flagging campaign and its own Jeff Roe-led super PAC, a post-shakeup blame game that’s strafing everyone but the candidate, himself.

Plus, below the fold: Dylan Byers teases out the latest anxieties plaguing CNN’s newsroom before assessing a head-scratching media drama. On The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Dylan dig into into the Variety story consuming the chattering classes, while Lauren Sherman and Ben Landy ponder that $4 billion Skims valuation. And on The Town, Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw consider the unique crowdfunding “pay-it-forward” model that brought Qanon-adjacent thriller Sound of Freedom $100 million in its first two weeks.

TINA NGUYEN

News and notes on the political erogenous zones of the modern right: Is Jeff Roe or Generra Peck to blame for the DeSantis slump? And Is Kevin McCarthy really going after the president?

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DYLAN BYERS

I didn’t want to write about ‘that Variety story,’ largely because it mentions me. But it’s all everyone is talking about, so here goes… Plus some news on CNN’s prime time strategy and an update on a former Zucker deputy.

PETER HAMBY, DYLAN BYERS, BEN LANDY and LAUREN SHERMAN

Dylan Byers joins Peter Hamby to work through the story that everyone in media is talking about right now. Then Lauren Sherman and Ben Landy dig into that $4 billion Skims valuation.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss how the independent thriller ‘Sound of Freedom’ came out of nowhere and made $100 million in its first two weeks. They talk about the unique crowdfunding “pay-it-forward” model that helped market and finance the film and wonder if this is just a fluke or if there are any lessons to learn.