London Falling, Biden’s Sticky Wicket, Vuitton Murmurs

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

First up today, Julia Ioffe takes the pulse of senior Biden officials as the administration navigates its Israel dilemma: how to plug the leaks, curb the devastation in Gaza, and manage the ferocious all-corners political blowback before November.

Plus, below the fold: Marion Maneker maps the great reshuffling of art’s global power centers. Julia Alexander foreshadows David Zaslav’s post-NBA sports strategy. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Meridith McGraw dissect Trump’s campaign maneuvers and DeSantis’s revival tour. On Fashion People, Lauren Sherman rings up Beka Gvishiani to exchange notes on LVMH’s musical chairs, Cannes fashion, and much more. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner gabs with Dylan Byers about the D.O.J.’s monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

JULIA IOFFE

Pissing off most of the people most of the time is just another day for a U.S. president. Will the Israel-Gaza war be different?

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MARION MANEKER

News and notes on the art market’s quiet deprecation of London as the big auction houses set up shop in Hong Kong, resize their ambitions in Asia, and attempt to rewrite the auction calendar.

JULIA ALEXANDER

So far, Warner Discovery’s sports strategy is having “just enough” content to work with partners, negotiate with cable carriers, demand market share, and pay down debt. So what should David Zaslav do if he loses the NBA and “just enough” becomes “not enough”?

TARA PALMERI

Tara is joined by Politico national political correspondent Meridith McGraw to discuss Donald Trump’s recent campaign stops in the Bronx and New Jersey. They then pivot to the moves Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis have been making since dropping out of the presidential race, before sharing their reactions to the Trump hush money trial’s closing arguments.