Pence 2.0, Elon vs. Wall Street, Zaz’s Superlawyer

Happy Tuesday, and welcome back to The Daily Currant, our afternoon capsule of new work at Puck.

Today, we lead with Tara Palmeri’s provocative reporting on the emerging dark horse G.O.P. case for Glenn Youngkin—potentially the better, richer Mike Pence in a ‘24 primary where anything might go.

Plus, below the fold, Eriq Gardner talks to Warner Bros. Discovery superlawyer Daniel Petrocelli about his antitrust case against the D.O.J., what's new in the Cuomo litigation, and what the Depp trial could mean for Kesha. Then Bill Cohan stops by The Powers That Be to discuss the Musk imbroglio—his suit, the settlement math, Twitter’s legal strategy, and how world’s richest man can reasonably exit this storm.

Lastly, there are a few rumored candidates who don’t fit neatly into any of these lanes: namely Mike Pence, whose vice presidency saw him emerge from a little-known, unlikely-to-be-reelected culture warrior into an indefatigable apologist who dutifully sanitized Trump until the very end, when he refused to dignify his election fraud nonsense; and Glenn Youngkin, who is neither Trump-created nor Trump-inspired nor really Never Trump. Pence and Youngkin are both seemingly folksy, practical conservatives who can talk credibly about the concerns of families, despite the latter being worth hundreds of millions thanks to his roughly 2 percent stake in Carlyle. They’re also both classic “nice guys,” who embrace cultural issues, but not as virulently as DeSantis. And the two are likely going to have to go through each other to have a credible shot in the already-crowded field...