Subject: Axios AM: Mike's Top 10 — New space race — 2 crazy facts about Trump twitter followers — Upscale Passover fare
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By Mike Allen = ·Apr 10, 2017

1 big thing: Trumpcare hits home for Republicans on recess

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Both the White House and House Republican leaders, hopi=g to revive Obamacare repeal-and-replace, have been queasy about what memb=rs will encounter back home during this two-week Easter break.

Moderates are likely to get hammered for the stingy plans that =ere floated, and conservatives may take it in the short for leaving Obamac=re in place.

Here's an early sample of the incomin= members will be taking: Bridge Project, the liberal group, is up today wi=h a new digital a= targeting Republican House members for theparty's sputtering healthca=e efforts, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.

Tit=ed "Trumpcare 2.0: Another disaster," the ad accuses these target=d Republicans — all moderate-leaning members with good reasons to =ret about healthcare — of injuring working people to serve the ric=.

Why this matters: Moderate House Republican =embers, the base of leadership's support, feel hung out to dry by all the =hite House concessions to the hardline House Freedom Caucus. The crosscurr=nts back home, and bad karma on the Hill, make the next generation of repe=l-and-replace look as hard as the last.

2. Wall Street has gone gaga for robot stocks

Flows to funds that invest in robotics companies have e=ploded from less than $200 million in September of last year to $1.12 bill=on today, Axios' Chris Matthews reports.

This s=dden interest has helped propel robotics stocks in 2017, with the=Robo Global Robotics and Automation ETF better than doubling the performan=e of this S&P 500 year-to-date, Bank of America strategist Michael Har=nett points out in a research note.

Why it matters: The rapid rise of investor interest in these companies means that the=e will be plenty of capital available to businesses looking to profit from=automating the U.S. economy.

3. Futurecast: Moon missions fuel dreams of Mars

Financial Times

Giant leaps ... "Sights set on Moon in relaunched space race," by=Financial Times' Richard Waters in Colorado Springs:

"=he overlapping government and commercial ambitions point to a sym=iosis that could usher in what Mr Bezos describes as a 'golden age' of inn=vation in space. But they also hint at a budding competition that could ma=e the next big leap in space exploration very different from the collabora=ive, government-led ventures that have characterised space development in =he past."

"A growing number of s=ace start-ups riding on Nasa coattails hope that the agency's activities i= ''cislunar' space — the region between the Earth and the moon �=80� will create the conditions for a sustainable commercial ecosystem of=suppliers and other adventurers.

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4. Who follows Trump?

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The lovers, the haters, the bots ... Bloomberg's Polly =osendz did a deep dive on @RealDonaldTrump followers and found:

<=trong>"According to a beta content-analysis software used by Soci=l Rank, only 19 percent of Trump's followers are women. Among Trump's 20 m=st-engaged followers, only two had traditionally female names — an= both of those accounts appear to be automated."

"Egg acco=nts — named after the logo [of users — often bots= who don't adopt another image ... — make up 7.5 million of @realD=naldTrump's followers, about 28 percent of his total following."

5. Power players: One-third of the Supreme Court

The New Yorker's Jeff Toobin profiles Leonard Leo, "The=Conservative Pipeline to the Supreme Court":

Leo has for many years been the executive vice-president of the =ederalist Society, a nationwide organization of conservative lawyers, base= in Washington. Leo served, in effect, as Trump's subcontractor on the sel=ction of Gorsuch, who was confirmed by a vote of 54–45, last week,=after Republicans changed the Senate rules to forbid the use of filibuster=. Leo's role in the nomination capped a period of extraordinary influence =or him and for the Federalist Society. During the Administration of George=W. Bush, Leo also played a crucial part in the nominations of John Roberts=and Samuel Alito. Now that Gorsuch has been confirmed, Leo is resp=nsible, to a considerable extent, for a third of the Supreme Court.

6. Sentence of the weekend

N.Y. Times' Gle=n Thrush on the successful pitch to Trump by his second campa=gn manager, Paul Manafort, now embroiled in Russia: "Trump ... remarked on=Mr. Manafort's tanned, no-hair-out-of-place appearance — telling s=affers that his new associate looked much younger than a man in his late 6=s."

7. West Wing backstories

"Inside the Bannon machine: How President Trump's chief=strategist leveraged a network of companies and nonprofit organizations fo= his populist cause" — WashPost front-pager by Shawn Boburg and Bob O'Harrow: =Bannon was able to produce more than a dozen conservative documentaries ov=r the past decade by drawing on a network of two dozen nonprofit organizat=ons and private companies."

"Ba=non, who had already made millions on Wall Street, often was paid=in multiple ways for each project — a common practice in Hollywood= where he had worked as an entertainment financier. ... Bannon reported hi= net worth as between $11.8 million and $53.8 million."

Reed=Cordish family ... "A rival-turned-friend, David Cordish =/strong>is the president's kind of dealmaker ... David Cordish once made a= enemy of Donald Trump over plans to develop two casinos in Florida. But h=s son is now a senior figure in the White House," by Financial Times' Gary Silverman=

"The Cordish family's relatio=s with government have grown more complicated now that Re=d Cordish, 42, has left the family business ... to serve as Mr Tr=mp's assistant for intergovernmental and technology initiatives and a memb=r of the White House Office of American Innovation. 'We miss him,' his fat=er says. 'Anytime the president wants to send him back, we'll take him.'"<=p>

8. Inside the seller's market for houses

We told you last week how har= it would be to find a home to buy this spring. AP is out this morning wit= a story by Business Writer Alex Veiga ("Mission nearly impossi=le this spring: Finding a home to buy") that explains why the nation's="supply of homes for sale hasn't been this thin in nearly 20 years=/strong>" (especially those affordable for first-time buyers):

"Since 2008, the average time homeowners have stayed in t=eir houses before selling has doubled to nearly eight years."

"Some who had locked in ultra-low fixed mortgage rates may be =eluctant to take on a new loan at a higher rate. Others may wish to sell b=t can't because they own one of the 3.2 million homes worth less than what=s owed on their mortgage."

"Some homeowners own other properties they rent out and have little incentive to giv= up the steady rental income, especially while they're also benefiting fro= rising home values."

"Investors, wh= typically keep properties for disproportionately long periods, own a larg=r share of houses."

"Though the pace of build=ng has been rising, it has yet to make up for years of sluggish c=nstruction growth that followed the housing bust."

Wha= it means: "The homes that are on the market are less affordable =o a growing proportion of the population."

9. Colbert: most viewed show in late night

Colbert with "Pod Save America" founders Tommy Vietor, Jon Lovett and Jo= Favreau

Shot ... N.Y. Times Business Day centerpiece story, "How Colbert Finally Got Real," by John Koblin: "Jus= like 'Saturday Night Live' and MSNBC's prime-time lineup, Mr. Colbert has=benefited from his decidedly anti-Trump point of view. But even though Mr.=Trump's victory appears to have single-handedly turned the late-night come=y race upside down, Mr. Colbert's rise is the product of months of meticul=us work. The goal: to earn the chance to be — as [executive produc=r Chris] Licht put it — 'resampled' by viewers.

Chas=r ... New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, "=anting more from Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show': Some nights he's a mar=sman, nailing the day's hypocrisies. But, in 2017, a talk-show host famed =or his ethical clarity should deliver something tougher":

[I]n 2017, it doesn't seem outrageous to long for a =alk-show host famed for his ethical clarity to deliver something tougher: =omedy more like reporting and less like op-ed. Peers of Colbert's—=any of them "Daily Show" alumni—have been doing just that, on "Las= Week Tonight with John Oliver" and "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," as w=ll as on the surprisingly aggressive and likable "Late Night with Seth Mey=rs."

10. 1 tasty thing

"Kosher food =odernizes for Passover to lure foodies ... Feasts ... from gl=ten-free fusilli [to organic] to matzah s'mores kits," by USA Today's Ziat= Meyer: "New twists include ... quinoa-based pasta ... packaged crostinis=and pesto ... Instead of the syrupy, sweet wine often associated with Pas=over, there are kosher wines like vermentino, a light white wine, from Can=ina Giuliano in Italy's Tuscany region."

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