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Peter Hamby • August 5, 2024

Harris’s Three-Pronged Kryptonite

While Democrats celebrate their shiny new presumptive nominee, particularly on the eve of her veep selection, Kamala Harris still faces a trifecta of challenges that could turn today’s “irrational exuberance” into another 2016-style shocker. Herewith, the bear case for Harris…
Dylan Byers • February 14, 2024
The Age of Biden
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For better or worse, many in the WH press corps have spent the last couple years noticeably avoiding the topic of the president’s agility and acuity because it felt indelicate or irrelevant. Now, the Hur report has stirred some soul-searching.
Tara Palmeri • November 9, 2023
The Biden Bunker Mentality
President Biden Departs the White House for Illinois
News and notes about what people are really discussing around town this week: the Democratic divide over the president, Nikki Haley’s poll positioning, and third-party second-guessing.
President Biden Speaks on his Bidenomics Economic Plan and Its Investment in Passenger Rail at an Amtrak Facility in Delaware
Abby Livingston • November 6, 2023
The Biden Anxiety Meter & the Axelrod Effect
Measuring the level of the political freak-out under the dome as Democrats absorb the latest Biden-Trump poll and weigh their dwindling options.
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Tara Palmeri • 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.