Axios PM

March 06, 2024
Good afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 433 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for copy editing.
1 big thing — Scoop: Biden campaign attack plan

The Biden-Harris campaign plans to try to usurp Project 2025 — the name of a well-funded Heritage Foundation effort to prepare for a second Trump administration — to brand warnings about the former president's policies.
- Project 2025 is the most extensive effort ever to prepare for a presidential transition — laying out policy priorities on health care, abortion, immigration and more.
🧐 President Biden's campaign tells me Project 2025 resonates on social media, and in conversations with voters, as shorthand for what former President Trump would do if he won in November.
- So the Biden campaign's rapid-response architects will start using the term themselves.
- They'll use this frame to go after Trump on abortion, tax fairness, lowering health care and housing costs, and Social Security and Medicare.
What's next: In conjunction with tomorrow's State of the Union address, look for Biden campaign officials to unveil a slew of "Trump's Project 2025" documents, amplified through social channels.
2. Haley: "No regrets"

Nikki Haley did not immediately endorse former President Trump as she announced today that she's suspending her presidential campaign.
- "It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party, and beyond it, who did not support him. And I hope he does that," she said. "This is now his time for choosing."
Why it matters: GOP voters ultimately didn't want an alternative to Trump, but throughout the Republican primary, the competition to be the consensus non-Trump option was still very real — and Haley won it.
- She's the only woman to ever win a state in a Republican primary (she carried Vermont).
3. Catch me up

- 🗳️ Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Trump for president, despite their icy relationship and McConnell's condemnation of Jan. 6. Go deeper.
- 🇫🇷 France became the first country to explicitly guarantee a constitutional right to abortion. Details.
- ✈️ Federal regulators say Boeing has not turned over information that's important to their investigation of the plane whose fuselage blew open earlier this year. Go deeper.
4. Coming soon: Plant-based hot dogs
Oscar Mayer's new plant-based hot dogs and sausages. Photo: Courtesy of Kraft Heinz
Oscar Mayer is introducing its first plant-based hot dogs and sausages, Axios' Jennifer A. Kingson reports — a sign that there's still life in the plant-based meat sector, despite other products' failure to catch on.
- 🌭 The new products — sold under the labels NotHotDogs and NotSausages — will hit grocery shelves later this year in about 2,000 stores.
- Fun fact: The name "Not Dogs" was already taken by a company called Soy Boy, which has been making tofu-based franks since 1982.
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