The Political Scene Podcast

“The Harris campaign will have a couple of uplifting, very positive ads, especially when they announce who the V.P. will be,” Professor Jennifer Lawless says. “But my bet is that this will be a race to the bottom in terms of negativity.”

“Vice-Presidents might not make a Presidency, but they sure can break a lot of things,” Amy Davidson Sorkin says.

Jennifer Palmieri, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, explains what she learned working on the 2016 election, and how the race that Harris faces differs from those of other women who’ve run for President.

Analyzing the “very successful” kickoff of the Vice-President’s 2024 campaign.

How the Vice-President quickly consolidated support in the Democratic Party, and what to expect from her campaign against Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris “has one foot in the incumbency and one foot outside of it, and that is the opportunity here,” Evan Osnos says. “She has the chance to reshape this race in a profound way.”

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten says that, unless the race shifts significantly, Donald Trump will win. And the pollster Ann Selzer explains how the polls know what they know.

The Republican National Convention “had the feeling of sort of a very polite Midwestern cult meeting,” Susan B. Glasser says, reporting from Milwaukee.

Reporting from Milwaukee, Antonia Hitchens offers on-the-ground updates on Donald Trump’s first appearance following an attempted assassination in Pennsylvania.

A former Presidential candidate, Castro tells David Remnick why Democratic leaders concerned about President Biden’s age were afraid to challenge the establishment and run against him.

Analyzing President Biden’s press conference in light of mounting concerns about his age and electability.

The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.

After the first Presidential debate, Democratic Party insiders expressed concern that Biden could not beat Trump. But these worries raise a more pressing question: Can he fulfill the duties of his office right now?

Once a beacon for progressives, the senator has put the left at a distance and moved past centrist Democrats with his unconditional support of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza.

David Remnick asked listeners for their questions about the Presidential election, and a crack team of The New Yorker’s political writers came together to answer them.

“This has raised terrible questions about the Biden camp’s credibility on the issue of his age,” Jane Mayer says.

In some of its most consequential cases, the Court is trying to clarify the sweeping decisions it previously made in Bruen and Dobbs.