Chris LaCivita
Dylan Byers
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November 1, 2024
Render Unto Cesar…
Inside 30 Rock, word that Comcast is considering spinning out NBCU’s lesser cable assets—potentially severing MSNBC from NBC—has kicked off a furious sequence of questions about the future of both networks, and about the fate of NBC News Group boss Cesar Conde.
Tara Palmeri
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October 18, 2024
Mar-a-Lago Murmurs: Irrational Confidence, R.N.C. Bashing & More Corey Drama
Further news and notes from inside Trump’s brain: his growing conviction in victory, his backup plan to contest the results, and who among his allies—LaCivita? Michael Whatley?—will get blamed if it all falls apart.
Tara Palmeri
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September 27, 2024
Inside Trump’s Brain: Nuzzi, Corey & Unbridled Confidence
In which Trump phones R.F.K. Jr. to ask about Nuzzigate, Lewandowski gets (temporarily) deplaned, another debate is debated, and campaign pollster John McLaughlin predicts a split-ticket victory in North Carolina.
John Heilemann
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September 16, 2024
Slaughterhouse 45
The totality of Donald Trump’s debate decimation by Kamala Harris was as staggering as it was indisputable. But even more stunning—and possibly more consequential—is the post-debate meltdown now consuming Trumpworld, from Mar-a-Lago to the farthest reaches of the MAGA-sphere.
Tara Palmeri
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September 6, 2024
Elon, Trump & DeSantis’s People… What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
So Trump’s campaign has tacitly endorsed DeSantis’s former operatives’ ability to restock Elon Musk’s super PAC with their old buddies, all in the spirit of reelecting 45? Unsurprisingly, the blame game has begun.
Tara Palmeri
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August 8, 2024
Can Kellyanne Go Home Again?
Amid the post-Biden Harris-Walzmentum, Trump is getting itchy for attention, and wondering if it’s time for a new voice on the campaign. Is Kellyanne Conway what he wants? Or needs?
Tara Palmeri
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August 2, 2024
Turmoil in Trumpworld
Inside Mar-a-Lago, the return of 2016-style infighting is the latest symptom of a campaign on tilt, as an election that once felt like a layup devolves into a dogfight.
John Heilemann
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July 15, 2024
The G.O.P.’s Martyr Complex & The ’24 Inevitability Question
In Milwaukee this week, a Republican Party that already saw Donald Trump as a righteous victim even before he dodged an assassin’s bullet will hail him as more than a martyr: as a bona fide hero, a literally bloodied warrior, maybe even a messiah. But many Democrats fear that Trump’s brush with death will make him something else: a landslide winner in November.
Tara Palmeri
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July 15, 2024
The Grave Politics of the Trump Assassination Attempt
A pressing conversation about the shooting of Donald Trump, the security breach, Biden’s phone call, and what to expect at the Republican convention.