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Puck’s daily political newsletter from Washington—featuring Leigh Ann Caldwell, Peter Hamby, Marianna Sotomayor, Julia Ioffe, John Heilemann, and Abby Livingston—on what’s really happening in this town, from the White House to the Pentagon to Capitol Hill, K Street, the campaign trail, and beyond.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Peter Hamby
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June 25, 2024
Biden’s Celebrity Jeopardy
Star power has always counted for more in politics than official Washington would like to admit—and Biden, despite his campaign’s best efforts, isn’t cool. But the very concept of fame is changing, and the White House is banking on the notion that celebrity isn’t what it used to be, either.
Peter Hamby
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June 18, 2024
ATLiens
Next week’s CNN debate will be the first and perhaps only mass-media event where millions of Americans are forced to engage with the dismal reality of the looming election. Surprisingly, perhaps, for a race in which so many voters are tuned out, a majority say they’re going to tune in.
Peter Hamby
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June 11, 2024
The Left’s Trumpnesia Problem
A new poll finds that not only do many young and first-time voters not really remember the chaos of the Trump years, but they don’t really care that much, either, when presented with examples of Trump’s most inflammatory rhetoric.
Peter Hamby
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May 21, 2024
2024 and Modern Memory
An exclusive new Puck and Echelon Insights poll suggests that voters’ perceptions aren’t necessarily aligned with reality these days—a troubling sign for Biden.
Peter Hamby
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May 14, 2024
Pleading the 6th
A bracing conversation with the filmmakers behind ‘The Sixth,’ the gritty new A24 documentary about what media coverage of the Capitol riot got wrong, the radical act of remembering, and how close we came to the brink.
Peter Hamby
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May 7, 2024
The ’68th Sense
Hyperbolic comparisons between the ongoing campus protests and Kent State, or fearmongering over another “Chicago ’68,” are just too irresistible for our conflict-addicted media. Most of the callbacks to the ’60s are facile, clichéd, specious, and easily debunked.
Peter Hamby
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April 30, 2024
R.F.K. Jr. & The Aaron Rodgers Election
The Kennedy campaign is pinning its hope on a combination of alarming factors breaking their way: “double haters” who can’t stand Trump or Biden, the rise of dudebro do-your-own-researchism, and an anti-establishment turn among Gen Z men, in particular, who are ripe for R.F.K.’s contrarian message.
Peter Hamby
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April 23, 2024
The Great Biden Israel Gamble
With protests flaring across college campuses, catastrophizing pundits are predicting Biden’s weakness with younger voters could put Trump in the White House. Last week’s Harvard Youth Poll provided a useful corrective suggesting young voters are fairly aligned with the president.
Peter Hamby
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April 17, 2024
Tuned In But Not Turned On
The latest Puck/Echelon poll finds voters are finally engaged but just as unenthusiastic as ever… and, as the Stormy Daniels case goes to trial, giving a bipartisan thumbs-down to Trump using campaign funds for his legal fees.
Peter Hamby
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April 8, 2024
No Labels, Mo’ Problems
There was never any constituency for the bipartisan brain poison that Nancy Jacobson was selling donors. But the No Labels gambit was also doomed to fail because it was fundamentally misaligned with the guiding north star of any politician: self-interest.