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Nikki Haley and Tim Scott
Tara Palmeri October 13, 2022
Scott, a Haley disciple, owes his champion bigly for plucking him from obscurity to become a historic U.S. Senator. But in a remade Republican party, he’s not going to wait another presidential cycle to steal her lane. And she’s not going to back down, either.
President And Mrs Biden Depart White House For Puerto Rico
Tara Palmeri & Peter Hamby October 10, 2022
The inside conversation, in Washington and L.A., about the midterms media narrative, post-election ’24 calculus, and whether a potential Biden-Trump rematch will be upstaged by their putative successors-in-waiting.
herschel walker
Tara Palmeri October 6, 2022
Republican operatives are responding to Walker’s latest scandal with exactly the sort of cynical circumspection you might imagine in midterm-giddy 2022 Washington—gritting their teeth and hoping he can get over the goal line, blaming others, and praying that he’s more Trump than Greitens.
peter thiel
Tara Palmeri October 4, 2022
When his C.V. became a dealbreaker on the D.C. dating scene, former Trump staffer John McEntee went to Peter Thiel for help launching The Right Stuff, an unapologetically MAGA dating app for finding love in Trumpworld.


Adam Schiff
Tara Palmeri October 3, 2022
The hyper ambitious, limelight-loving Trump impeachment star is also one of the most prolific (and parsimonious) fundraisers in Congress, provoking questions about what he’s hoarding so much money for, anyway, if not to spend it.
Boris Epshteyn
Tara Palmeri September 30, 2022
Boris Epshteyn has been meeting with outside counsel to help manage Trumpworld’s self-inflicted special master problem, but few white shoe firms want to get involved in Trump’s legal woes. Here come the “conflicts…”
dnc
Tara Palmeri September 29, 2022
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?
rick scott and mitch mcconnell
Tara Palmeri & Theodore Schleifer September 26, 2022
Assessing the current state of play in the Washington war room: McConnell vs. Masters; McConnell vs. Trump; Trump vs. Trump; Trump vs. DeSantis; and the post-Pelosi hunger games.


biden
Tara Palmeri September 22, 2022
News and fresh reporting on the storylines consuming the district.
Hillary Clinton
Tara Palmeri September 19, 2022
The muted return of the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual conclave is evidence that its first family is doing some brand burnishing. Plus, a new movement in the Pelosi succession drama and the leadership ambitions encircling The Squad.
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