With just six weeks until the midterm elections, Puck reporters Tara Palmeri and Teddy Schleifer exchanged notes on the Thiel–McConnell standoff in Arizona, the Pelosi succession chatter in D.C., Kamala Harris’s weak hand in California, and what’s next in the Trump–DeSantis grudge match. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
Tara Palmeri: Teddy, I’m glad we’re talking today, because in many ways we’ve both been circling different angles on the defining campaign story of this election cycle: How Republicans gained, then let slip, a potentially decisive electoral advantage in the midterm races.
