Tara Palmeri
A former Playbook lead author and ABC News White House Correspondent, now reporting on the convergence of Capitol Hill, K Street, the West Wing, and the D.C. media companies who cover it all.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
WASHINGTON
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August 18, 2022
The Jill Biden Gatekeeper Sweepstakes
New reporting on the drama enrapturing the West Wing, plus the latest round of Trump’s beef with Hannity, and Kyrsten Sinema’s rocky road ahead.
WASHINGTON
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August 15, 2022
Is Anita Dunn the Next White House Chair?
New reporting on all the intrigue around town: Dunn’s West Wing endgame, DeSantis’s endorsement strategy, Gavin Newsom’s Biden love tap, and a potential sinecure for Hoyer and Clyburn.
WASHINGTON
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August 11, 2022
The Trump Informant Guessing Game: Knives Are Out!
Of course, it took about 12 minutes after the F.B.I. raid on Mar-a-Lago for the denizens of Trumpworld to commence the important work of pointing fingers and implicating colleagues. Plus news on the Pelosi succession that Clyburn and Hoyer won’t like.
WASHINGTON
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August 8, 2022
A Trump Victim Tells All
Rodney Davis has spent a decade representing Illinois’s 13th district before being deemed by voters as insufficiently Trumpy and losing to a mega-MAGA candidate this summer. Now, as he prepares to leave Washington, he candidly opens up about the future of the party, the DeSantis question, Trump’s endorsement strategy, and hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle.
WASHINGTON
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August 5, 2022
Kellyanne’s Comeback
The former White House aide, whose marriage and domestic life became crossover TMZ fodder, was in the Trumpworld doghouse for months. Now she’s edging her way back into Trump’s inner circle—and may be the frontrunner to run his campaign.
WASHINGTON
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August 4, 2022
Even Manchin & Sinema Dislike Manchin & Sinema
The former political duo, once given the Capitol Hill Bennifer treatment, are really as unaligned as you could imagine—especially as Sinema has the chance to deflate her ole ally.
WASHINGTON
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August 1, 2022
To Beto or Not to Beto
Is Beto O’Rourke a generationally talented politician just waiting for the right race? Or a lovable loser-martyr who raises gobs of money and lights it on fire? Actually, a third narrative is emerging…
WASHINGTON
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July 28, 2022
Oz’s Great Escape
Republican Party insiders are increasingly frustrated with what they perceive as a certain laissez-faire attitude from the poorly-polling G.O.P. Senate candidate, who has spent nearly as much time on vacation as on the campaign trail.
WASHINGTON
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July 28, 2022
Joe Manchin’s Small Washington Dreams
Speculation about Manchin’s appetite for political power and ‘24 fantasies miss core truths about the coal millionaire, former jock, career public servant, and double-wide house boat denizen. He doesn’t want to be the President of the United States. He wants to be the President of West Virginia.
WASHINGTON
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July 25, 2022
Steny Hoyer’s T Word & Axelrod Fatigue
David Axelrod, the ex-Obama adviser turned CNN gadfly, has been giving Biden’s comms shop indigestion—and a gnawing sense of pique. Meanwhile, aging Democratic leaders, scrambling for relevance in a post-Pelosi world, have become entranced by a potentially "transformational" political newcomer.