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joe biden with teen
WASHINGTON March 18, 2024
The usual suspects in Washington fear that young voters could protest the 2024 election if Biden bans TikTok—a supposition accepted at face value by pundits, despite the available evidence. Yes, there are polls showing young people oppose a ban. But that’s not predictive of how Gen Z will vote.
kamala harris
WASHINGTON March 12, 2024
A candid conversation with Vice President Harris as she reclaims the campaign spotlight alongside Joe Biden and fights to change the narrative surrounding her own place in the White House.
joe biden
WASHINGTON March 4, 2024
A candid, post-Michigan conversation with Mark Mellman, the prominent Democratic pollster and staunch pro-Israel advocate, about how Biden is navigating the party’s protest vote, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the media echo chamber, and whether the Gen Z backlash is for real.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
WASHINGTON February 26, 2024
Trailing in the polls and hoping to get on more ballots, Kennedy journeyed to Costa Mesa to audition for the Libertarian ticket. Alas, it turns out, not all contrarians are the same.


joe biden
WASHINGTON February 20, 2024
Exclusive new polling from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, shows a significant Democratic enthusiasm deficit among two key demographics: Gen Z and Black voters. So why isn’t the White House all that worried?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WASHINGTON February 12, 2024
On the R.F.K. Super Bowl ad family freak-out, Kennedy’s spoiler strategy, and the latest Democratic bed-wetting surrounding Biden’s age—and the magical thinking about how to replace him.
Trump is downplaying the importance of a vice presidential pick, which suggests he’ll ultimately select someone competent and boring—you know, the Mike Pence type.
WASHINGTON January 29, 2024
The media chatter around Trump’s vice presidential search is rightly derided as an overhyped and silly guessing game—the product of bored reporters and TV people paying way too much attention to a closely held decision that probably won’t matter anyway. But here we go…
Biden ran for president on the promise that voters wouldn’t have to obsess daily about the chaos in Washington. But he also ran as a bridge candidate, and that was long before a post-J6 Trump candidacy loomed as a viable option.
WASHINGTON January 22, 2024
An exclusive new poll from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, offers up some spooky results for the Biden messaging machine. Likely voters are paying attention—but they are paying attention to Trump.


Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event following her third-place finish in the Iowa caucus on January 16, 2024, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
WASHINGTON January 16, 2024
Thoughts, theories, and takeaways from the least competitive primary contest in modern history.
Each night, the primary is routinely the third or fourth story on the network evening news broadcasts—a good indicator of how little appetite there is for Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley with national audiences.
WASHINGTON January 8, 2024
Alas, it has taken till Iowa for the national media to admit that not all races were built the same.
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