Kamala’s Groundswell, Hedi-Go-Lucky, Summer of ‘Twisters’

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon potpourri of Puck’s freshest reporting.

First up today, John Ourand presents his insider account of David Zaslav’s eleventh-hour gamble to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion bid for NBA rights—a Hail Mary to keep the league on TNT, despite signals that Adam Silver would rather cut a deal with Bezos’s $2 trillion market cap company.

Plus, below the fold: Peter Hamby foreshadows the Dems’ Kamala Harris rebranding exercise. Lauren Sherman reveals why Tom Ford’s creative director Peter Hawkings was put out to pasture. Matt Belloni spotlights Harris’s Hollywood donor cavalry. Scott Mendelson unpacks the old-school appeal and gangbusters opening weekend for Twisters. On Impolitic, John Heilemann is joined by Robert Costa and Michael Beschloss to evaluate how Donald Trump will likely countenance his new political foil. On Somebody’s Gotta Win, Tara Palmeri and Karen Finney ruminate on Harris’s incredible momentum and her polling against Trump. On Fashion People, Lauren rings up WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher to discuss modern conservative fashion trends, the Supreme acquisition, the latest Hedi rumors, and much more.

JOHN OURAND

Unsurprisingly, Warner Bros Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav has had his lawyers and dealmakers attempt to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion ‘C’ package bid for NBA rights—even if the league appears eager to jettison cable for streaming.

PETER HAMBY

Riding a surge of Democratic enthusiasm, endorsements, and record-breaking donations, the Harris campaign is racing to reintroduce their candidate to America before the Trump campaign can define her. Exclusive new polling for Puck shows why the next few weeks will be so critical.

LAUREN SHERMAN

The quick departure of Peter Hawkings, Ford’s handpicked successor, begets the question: Without the founder’s obsessive control and inimitable taste, what’s left?

MATTHEW BELLONI

Disney TV chief Dana Walden and her husband go back years with Kamala Harris, and the relationship between the potential POTUS and the ascendant Hollywood executive could be meaningful for both of them.