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Ron DeSantis
WASHINGTON July 27, 2022
During two nights in Tampa, it became painfully clear that Trump still owns DeSantis—down to the Gen Zers and millennials who revere the guy like their own Dick Nixon.
Ron DeSantis
WASHINGTON July 20, 2022
Trump’s now all-but-assured entry into the next White House race is already complicating the Florida governor’s ambitions to succeed him. But the agony of waiting his turn might outweigh the risk of challenging Trump head-on.
Donald Trump
WALL STREET July 13, 2022
While Trump contemplates the timing of a 2024 run, he is also facing another, even more pressing deadline to consummate the merger between his struggling media company, Truth Social, and a rapidly deflating SPAC. Plus, news and notes on Jan. 6th’s inside men and McCormick’s post-campaign opportunities.
The Thomases
WASHINGTON July 6, 2022
The SCOTUS conservative majority’s unofficial First Lady has driven liberals berserk with her Trumpism, January 6th adjacency, and anti-Roe activism. It’s enough to make some in this town wonder if her Facebook posts narrate her husband’s internal monologue.


Cassidy Hutchinson
WASHINGTON June 29, 2022
According to the elite Republican operatives I surveyed after the Hutchinson testimony, a quiet estrangement is gradually accelerating.
Ron and Casey
WASHINGTON June 22, 2022
In some ways, the DeSantii are the political marriage of our times. Were it not for Casey DeSantis, her husband might be just another ambitious Ivy League Republican with presidential aspirations. The former TV anchor is increasingly viewed as the brains of the operation—and the brawn.
Trump
WASHINGTON June 8, 2022
As the accomplished operative circles Mar-a-Lago with potential 2024 ambitions, some in Trumpworld are bracing for impact.
Roe and Youngkin
WASHINGTON June 1, 2022
While two centimillionaires (or thereabouts) go to court over who really won Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. Senate primary, Jeff Roe, McCormick’s Trump-curious campaign manager, appears to be leveraging the recount battle into an audition for his next gig: re-electing Donald Trump.


Ron DeSantis
WASHINGTON May 25, 2022
DeSantis is exhibiting all the unteachable culture war-stoking, MAGA flame-throwing gifts that Trump seeded in 2015-6. And the party seems to be tilting, in now perceptible ways, toward his approach.
Trump
WASHINGTON May 19, 2022
Has the movement Trump created now moved beyond him?
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