Excerpt
The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020
In an excerpt of Trump in Exile, Meridith McGraw reveals how the former president was overwhelmed by the dysfunction his election loss brought upon Mar-a-Lago—until Susie Wiles took the wheel of his comeback campaign. “I don’t know who’s in charge,” he told Wiles. “I need you to fix it.”
By Meridith McGraw
such language
Donald Trump Called Kamala Harris “Bitch” Multiple Times: NYT
The former president’s team denied the remarks. Yet, this wouldn’t be the first time he’s used the slur when referring to women.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Joy Ride: Upbeat Dems Are Spreading Optimism to a Divided (and Newly Delighted) Nation
After eight years of fear and loathing, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are energizing the electorate with levity—and an eye toward tomorrow.
By Mark McKinnon
New Polls Show Walz’s Approval Rating Surging While Vance’s Circles the Drain
A real tale of two running mates.
By Bess Levin
breaking news
Third Suspect Arrested in Connection With Alleged Terrorist Plot to Attack Eras Tour Vienna Concerts
The teenager had allegedly been in touch with other suspects involved in the plan to cause “a bloodbath” at the Taylor Swift concerts.
By Kase Wickman
Dizzy Gillespie for President! Revisiting the Jazz Giant’s Quixotic 1964 Campaign
Miles Davis…for CIA chief? Malcolm X for attorney general? Why did the jazz master make a tongue-in-cheek run for the White House?
By Will Friedwald
Trump Spews Lies, Disparages Harris’s Intelligence, Insults Jews, and Rambles About “Insane Asylums” in Unhinged Press Conference
He did little to quell reports that he is melting down over Harris’s poll numbers.
By Bess Levin
RED, WHITE, AND DEW
Two VP Candidates, One Soda: How Tim Walz and JD Vance Made Diet Mountain Dew a Political Symbol
What Dews it mean that the opposing potential veeps both reach for the same beverage?
By Kase Wickman
Inside the Hive
What’s Behind Kamala Harris’s Surging Campaign and the Wave of Walzmentum
Politico’s Eugene Daniels reflects on his years covering the VP and Democratic nominee, from the challenges she faced in the Biden White House to the shift in her communication style.
By Brian Stelter
Oops: Trump Was Full of Praise for Tim Walz Before They Became Opponents
The ex-president commended Walz’s handling of the 2020 George Floyd protests and called him an “excellent guy.”
By Bess Levin
Republicans Think They Could Win if Donald Trump Would Just Focus on the Issues
But the ex-president has become increasingly preoccupied and frustrated with his campaign, recent polls, and crowd sizes at Kamala Harris events.
By Eric Lutz
2024 Election
Can Kamala Harris Throw Out Biden’s Economic Baggage?
The vice president is inheriting an unpredictable and fragile post-pandemic recovery, as evidenced by the latest market swings. And even if Harris is “a far superior communicator,” says one insider, Americans are “still feeling the pinch of cost.”
By Chris Smith
Donald Trump, Who Has Been Likened to Hitler by His Own Running Mate, Claims Tim Walz as VP Pick Is “Insulting to Jewish People”
Trump has also baselessly asserted that Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people.”
By Bess Levin
Merch
How Kamala Harris’s Design Team Turned Tim Walz’s Favorite Accessory Into a Million-Dollar Idea
When interest in the Minnesota governor’s fondness for Realtree-style hunter’s camo took off online, the campaign sprang into action, getting hats printed in Philadelphia and raising $1 million in the process.
By Erin Vanderhoof
Politics
The Mad Dash to Make 2024 Debates Happen
The emergence of the Kamala Harris–Tim Walz ticket, and Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on a planned ABC debate, have sent the networks and campaigns back to the drawing board. As one TV exec puts it, “The fall schedule is a blank piece of paper now.”
By Brian Stelter
Tim Walz Shows He Can Do It All (Warn Against the Dangers of Donald Trump and Make a JD Vance Couch-F--king Joke)
The Minnesota governor contains multitudes.
By Bess Levin
Republicans Simply Can’t Figure Out How to Knock Down Tim Walz
Kamala Harris’s running mate has displayed a kind of authenticity that is hard to fake—and even harder, it appears, for his opponents to attack.
By Eric Lutz
ALL IS FAIR
Tim Walz at the Minnesota State Fair Redefines BDE: Big Dad Energy
And can we discuss whatever is going on between the man and the turkey population as a whole?
By Kase Wickman
Trump’s Campaign Attacks Tim Walz for Allowing “Convicted Felons to Vote”
Who wants to tell them?
By Bess Levin
Hamptons Problems
A Trump Fundraiser in the Hamptons Unleashed a Gridlock Nightmare
Last Friday, never-ending traffic from Riverhead to Amagansett lasted late into the night, with vehicles on main roads, side streets, highways, and everything in between snarled for hours.
By Stephanie Krikorian
Republicans Think Trump Is Having a “Nervous Breakdown” Over Kamala Harris
The ex-president is definitely missing Joe Biden right about now.
By Bess Levin