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Democrats

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Bad Luck, Chuck

Exclusive new polling from Puck and Echelon Insights reveals that while Democrats decisively won the shutdown P.R. battle, voters have definitely soured on the party’s 74-year-old Senate leader.
Peter Hamby • November 18, 2025
John Heilemann • November 17, 2025
Not-So-Private Ryan
Pat Ryan
Congressman Pat Ryan, a Democrat from the deep purple heart of New York’s Hudson Valley, thinks his party has a lot of work to do despite its off-year election win. Herewith, he makes the case for a broad Democratic coalition, praises the pugnacity of A.O.C., and explains why Trump isn’t a lame duck—yet.
Abby Livingston • November 10, 2025
The G.O.P.’s Mess With Texas
Gavin Newsom
After an election night upset defined by major swings with Hispanic voters, some Republican operatives worry they shouldn’t have started a redistricting war with California—and that their own map may backfire.
Nancy Pelosi chuck schumer
Leigh Ann Caldwell • November 9, 2025
Can Democrats Become a Big Tent Party?
After last week, ebullient Democrats gathered in Washington to plot how to instill the lessons of the election: make room for disagreement, run younger candidates, dump the litmus tests, and hammer Trump on affordability.
Josh Shapiro
Peter Hamby • November 6, 2025
Josh Shapiro Is Done Lying Low
A candid conversation with Pennsylvania’s governor as he ramps up for reelection and beyond, including what he really thinks of Gavin Newsom, his stance on Israel, and how Democrats can win back white men.
Jack Ciattarelli
Abby Livingston • November 3, 2025
Midnight in the Garden State of Good & Evil
A candid chat with Mike DuHaime, the veteran New Jersey Republican consultant, on the brink of the Sherrill–Ciattarelli throwdown in the Garden State.
Donald Trump
Leigh Ann Caldwell • November 2, 2025
’26-7
Under the stormy skies of Trump 2.0, both parties are limbering up and probing for advantage in a midterm brawl to decide control of the House—a fight neither side can afford to lose. Naturally, strategists on both sides claim the wind is at their backs.
Graham Platner
Abby Livingston • October 30, 2025
Maine Clown Posse
What was once a sleepy Democratic primary for a winnable Senate seat has transformed into a raging morality play between a way-too-online oysterman and a 77-year-old safe bet. “This is a layup Senate seat,” said one Democratic strategist. “Instead, our choices are a loose cannon and a grandmother.”
Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders
Peter Hamby • October 28, 2025
The Dems’ Flight 93 Essay
A new 2024 postmortem, released on the eve of the D.N.C.’s own self-autopsy, makes the case for Democrats cutting the cord with left-wing party activists and winning back normie voters with a return to big-tent, multiracial, middle-class messaging—while learning a little from A.O.C. and Zohran Mamdani, too.
Ro Khanna
John Heilemann • October 27, 2025
Yes We Khanna
A conversation with the Democratic congressman from Silicon Valley about allying with Marjorie Taylor Greene, endorsing Zohran Mamdani, defending Graham Platner, and wanting to tax the hell out of his billionaire constituents.