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Democrats

Democrats and progressive pundits have been circulating charts, polling, and data showing that voters who closely follow the news were more likely to vote for Harris, while voters who don’t were more likely to vote for Trump.

Pod Save MAGA?

New proprietary polling from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, shows that Donald Trump is entering office with goodwill from voters. It also illustrates that Democrats don’t simply have a political and coalition problem. They have a pretty severe media handicap, too.
Peter Hamby • November 19, 2024
Tara Palmeri • November 15, 2024
The Oracle of ’24
Donald Trump
A post-election conversation with veteran Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini about what Democrats got wrong, Republicans got very right, and the bizarro rainbow coalition that ushered Trump back into the White House.
Peter Hamby • November 12, 2024
The Missing Resistance & The Tao of Rahm
Rahm Emanuel
After the heartburn of 2004, Democrats rebuilt their party through a new set of candidates in the House, winning the midterms and paving the way for a generationally talented, constituency-realigning outsider to claim the presidency four years later. Rahm Emanuel, who helped engineer the party’s comeback, has a few ideas about what the Democrats need to do now in order to reclaim the presidency—with no #Resistance in sight.
kamala harris
John Heilemann • November 10, 2024
The Post-Harris Blamescape & Dem Reckoning Tea Leaves
News and notes and fresh reporting on the current targets of professional Democratic rage: Harris, Team K, Biden, Biden’s people, wokeism and more.
Kamala Harris
Tara Palmeri • November 8, 2024
The Kamala Inc. Fire Sale
The Harris financial juggernaut, which raised well over $1 billion, is still soliciting cash and has begun seeking buyers for its email lists in order to stave off its debts—raising uncomfortable questions about where and how all that money was spent in the first place.
Jim Blanchard
Tara Palmeri • November 5, 2024
A Tale of Two Swing States
Candid conversations with two former “Blue Wall” governors—Democrat Jim Blanchard of Michigan and Republican Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania—about which way their states will swing, why this year is no 2020, and the work they’ve done to Trump-proof the results.
Hakeem Jeffries
Abby Livingston • October 31, 2024
The Honeymooners
While their Republican colleagues have been slap-fighting, Hakeem Jeffries’ leadership triumvirate has kept the Democratic caucus unusually unified. But what happens if they lose their friends in the White House? Or if they win the majority and have to actually… lead?
jon ralston
Tara Palmeri • October 29, 2024
Fear and Polling in Las Vegas
Jon Ralston, the bard of Nevada election analysis, talks zombie voters, Elon’s ground operation, and why Republicans may have the House edge.
kamala harris
Matthew Belloni • October 25, 2024
Pre-Election Vibe Check: Hollywood Edition
A pre-election check-in on the Hollywood donors and activists, from a studio chairman to an emerging screenwriter and a late-night TV host, who are simultaneously freaking out and (cautiously) optimistic about the final push for the Harris-Walz campaign.
donald trump
Tara Palmeri • October 25, 2024
Trump’s Premature Early-Voting Celebration
Fairly or not, the good vibes inside Mar-a-Lago are real, and multiple campaign sources have told me that they’re encouraged by early voting behavior so far in key battleground states. “It hit Trump in the last couple of weeks that early voting is a good way to win,” a person with knowledge of his thinking said. Here’s what the numbers really say.