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dan pfeiffer pod save america
WASHINGTON September 5, 2024
A sobering conversation with Dan Pfeiffer, the Obama advisor turned podcaster and polling guru, on whether Democrats are overrating Harris, how Trump could bridge the gender gap, and which states keep him up at night.
A conversation surrounding the state of the post-Biden Democratic Party, and whether Barack Obama is right that most Americans want to get along.
WASHINGTON September 1, 2024
In a candid conversation, the Times’ Nicholas Kristof diagnoses the Democrats’ Thanksgiving challenge, looks back at the year of magical thinking about Joe Biden, assesses Tim Walz’s talent, and much, much more.
Kamala Harris dnc
WASHINGTON August 25, 2024
Following a convention that was exceptional by every measure—ratings, volunteer sign-ups, fundraising, crowd size—here’s what Democratic operatives and political professionals are saying privately.
barack obama 2024 dnc
WASHINGTON August 21, 2024
A convention conversation with political columnist James Bennet about the lasting power of the Obamas, what the G.O.P. has lost with Trump, and whether Kamala can sell America on generational change.


donald trump
WASHINGTON August 18, 2024
With the octogenarian incumbent out of the picture, Trump finds himself facing a less forgiving split screen opposite Kamala Harris—and a press corps finally starting to focus on his own cognitive decline. Can Team K turn the tables and do to Trump what Trump and his campaign did to Biden?
kamala harris
WASHINGTON August 4, 2024
With the Democratic convention two weeks out and the Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign looming, Kamala Harris and her people have a jillion big decisions and tasks to tackle in no time flat. But three items on their punch list matter most of all: map, message, and running mate.
kamala harris
WASHINGTON July 28, 2024
The first week of Kamala Harris’s wholly unexpected, wildly unlikely stint as the de facto Democratic nominee was more smashingly successful than she or her team could have dared to hope or the political class expected. Now comes the hard part.
Joe Biden
WASHINGTON July 21, 2024
News, notes, and the four most pressing takeaways on a historic day.


donald trump
WASHINGTON July 18, 2024
At a private lunch just outside of the R.N.C., longtime Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio confidently expounded on the campaign’s view that it has myriad—and growing—paths to 270 electoral votes: “We literally stopped counting at 25.”
jd vance
WASHINGTON July 17, 2024
An insider conversation with G.O.P. turned #NeverTrump strategist Stuart Stevens and The Bulwark’s Tim Miller about the foibles and pitfalls of J.D. Vance as Trump’s running mate, the opening of the Republican convention, and the ongoing existential drama in Bidenworld.
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