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joe biden debate
John Heilemann July 2, 2024
Biden may find the next 10 days to two weeks even more challenging than even the past 72 hours. As the polling numbers stream in, Democratic elected officials and fundraisers are inclined not to give the president or his team the slightest margin for error or benefit of the doubt. To say they have lost faith would be putting it far too mildly.
Jen O’Malley Dillon
John Heilemann June 24, 2024
A rare and candid conversation with Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of the Biden reelection campaign, on the Democratic bed-wetters, the “six in six” strategy, North Carolina, why 2024 isn’t 2020 all over again, and much more.
donald trump veepstakes
John Heilemann June 17, 2024
Running mates don’t matter to the outcomes of elections and they’re generally ignored (or worse) by their bosses once in office. And given what happened to Trump’s last running mate, the willingness to be his V.P. is, by definition, disqualifying for holding the job—and arguably a sign of mental illness. So why do we give a crap who he picks?
joe biden
John Heilemann June 10, 2024
The apparent sanguinity of Bidenworld in the face of an allegedly damning portrait of the president’s “slipping” mental faculties has the punditocracy wondering whether Wilmington is experiencing its own sort of delusion. But the hyperbolic response begs the question: Isn’t Biden’s age already fully priced in?


trump trial
John Heilemann June 3, 2024
And, well, you know the rest. But while the verdict in the New York hush-money case was sweeping and unequivocal, the electoral impact of the former president’s 34 felony convictions is far less clear—even and especially to the Biden and Trump campaigns.
robert f kennedy jr rfk jr
John Heilemann May 28, 2024
A close look at Donald Trump and R.F.K. Jr.’s cringe-inducing, partly hilarious, and ultimately failed forays into Libertarian Land.
donald trump
John Heilemann May 19, 2024
Sure, Trump’s New York criminal trial has been more riveting and revealing than expected. But outside the Acela corridor, where Trump’s tawdriness was fully priced in a long time ago, the hush-money case feels like very old news—and almost no one is paying attention. The only question is whether a guilty verdict would be enough to change all that.
john Heilemann
John Heilemann May 5, 2024
From its first incarnation to its latest (and greatest!) here at Puck, the ethos of Impolitic has been the same: 100 percent #realtalk, free of bullshit and bad faith. No fake news, no outrage porn, no performative piety. And, unequivocally, no false binaries or false equivalencies.


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