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Suzan DelBene
Abby Livingston October 29, 2024
The Democrats’ congressional rainmaker on their chances of retaking the House, how developing software at Microsoft prepped her for Congress, and the hardest part of chairing the D.C.C.C.
nancy pelosi
Abby Livingston September 26, 2024
What’s the deal with all the cameos from lesser-known politicians in political ads this year?
Suzan DelBene
Abby Livingston September 10, 2024
A concise and incisive chat with a pair of Inside Election analysts about the House races that will determine which party wins the gavel.
Joe Manchin is considered a top K Street recruit.
Abby Livingston August 28, 2024
In just a few months, a new crop of elected officials will trade their legislative power for the higher calling of the lobbying industry. Unfortunately, according to my K Street sources, an increasingly weak crop of lawmakers is cycling through the revolving door—unless, say, Tim Walz needs a job...


nancy pelosi
Abby Livingston July 11, 2024
The speaker emerita quickly backpedaled her comments on MSNBC. But Democratic operatives, members, former members, and leadership aides all interpreted her remarks as cloud cover for members to speak their conscience about Biden.
Nancy Pelosi Lloyd Doggett
Abby Livingston July 3, 2024
Support for Biden is plunging on Capitol Hill as members panic about their political futures, raising the prospect that the former Senate fixture’s political career may be undone in the same arena where he first made his name.
joe biden Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Abby Livingston June 26, 2024
Bed-wetters or altruists, down-ballot Democrats are going out of their way to help the president, and seemingly without asking for anything in return, at least for now.
larry hogan
Abby Livingston June 4, 2024
Larry Hogan, the popular former Maryland governor and Republican Senate candidate, is getting the shiv following his measured call to “respect the verdict and the legal process” in the Trump trial. It’s the latest example of the self-defeating penalty for misalignment with Trump’s G.O.P.


joe biden
Abby Livingston March 12, 2024
News and notes on the latest murmurs, enticements, mood swings, and anxieties in the D.M.V.
Mitch McConnell John Barrasso John Thune John Cornyn
Abby Livingston February 29, 2024
A chaotic Senate leadership fight beckons as McConnell, the long-reigning top Republican, prepares to step down—ushering a three-way succession battle royale.
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