Democrats
Tara Palmeri
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September 29, 2022
Democrats’ 2024 D.N.C. Moneyball
Houston, New York, Atlanta, Chicago… Each has its power brokers, critics, lobbyists, donors and political strivers jockeying for the economic windfall and media attention that accompanies a quadrennial convention roadshow. But with Biden yet to announce whether he’s running, whose decision is it anyway?
Tara Palmeri
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September 22, 2022
Biden Indecision, Trump Vibes & McConnell’s Money
News and fresh reporting on the storylines consuming the district.
Theodore Schleifer
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September 20, 2022
Gavin Newsom’s Trojan Horse
The slick-haired, Peloton-sculpted governator has aligned himself against progressives in a bizarre, only-in-California spat that has divided Silicon Valley’s big-money factions.
Tara Palmeri
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September 8, 2022
The Great Biden Recalculation
Not long ago, in a politically carnivorous riverside town known as D.C., elite liberals seemed ready to shiv their unpopular president into retirement—gossiping to the Times about his age, making wan public statements of enthusiasm, preemptively knifing him over the midterms. But with renewed momentum, the worm has turned.
Tara Palmeri
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September 5, 2022
Biden’s Pollster Bares All
John Anzalone, the blunt Democratic pollster-strategist on the White House speed-dial, tabulates the factors that could determine the outcome of the midterms, who holds Congress, and the fate of the presidency itself.
Tara Palmeri
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August 15, 2022
Is Anita Dunn the Next White House Chair?
New reporting on all the intrigue around town: Dunn’s West Wing endgame, DeSantis’s endorsement strategy, Gavin Newsom’s Biden love tap, and a potential sinecure for Hoyer and Clyburn.
Tara Palmeri
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August 1, 2022
To Beto or Not to Beto
Is Beto O’Rourke a generationally talented politician just waiting for the right race? Or a lovable loser-martyr who raises gobs of money and lights it on fire? Actually, a third narrative is emerging…
Tara Palmeri
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July 28, 2022
Joe Manchin’s Small Washington Dreams
Speculation about Manchin’s appetite for political power and ‘24 fantasies miss core truths about the coal millionaire, former jock, career public servant, and double-wide house boat denizen. He doesn’t want to be the President of the United States. He wants to be the President of West Virginia.
Julia Ioffe
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June 28, 2022
The G.O.P. Inside Conversation on Roe
During the past few days, I’ve been talking to Republican operatives across D.C. They were all careful not to gloat, but they’ve also been shocked at how little the Democratic Party is doing to fight back.
