Tara Palmeri
Washington’s most feared and fearless politics reporter, covering what people are really talking about inside the White House, on the Hill, on K Street, and within the media companies who cover it all. Tara was previously a lead author of Playbook and White House correspondent at ABC News.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
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September 15, 2022
Jeff Roe on Biden’s “Sugar High” and How to Beat Trump
Roe, the prodigious G.O.P. operative du jour, shares his expansive views about the Democrats’ strategic euthanasia, Biden’s challenges, Trump’s ‘24 opportunity, and the precise playbook for a challenger to beat him. He also muses on some dream Dem candidates for the right to feast on.
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September 12, 2022
How to Lose Friends and Alienate D.C.
Rick Scott came to Washington with a twinkle in his eye after a very successful run in the private sector and the Tallahassee governor’s mansion. He thought he could apply his maverick ways to running the N.R.S.C., only to learn that there’s only one way to do things in the Senate—and that’s McConnell’s way.
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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.
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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.
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September 1, 2022
McCarthy’s Political REDRUM Moment
Facing a tighter-than-expected midterm race, the presumptive future Speaker of the House has a former president who is playing mind games with him and a caucus who is ready to extort him. It’s a job he’s wanted forever, but is the Boehneresque writing already on the wall?
Tara Palmeri
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August 25, 2022
The Whims of Oz & Carville’s Next Act
A look inside Kevin McCarthy’s annual Jackson Hole strategy mixer, where an unmentioned Trump loomed larger. Plus, James Carville’s next act and why Nadler won in New York.
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August 23, 2022
Trump and Fox Prepare for Marriage Counseling
Ever since the raid on Mar-a-Lago, the simmering resentment between the former president and his former favorite news platform has entered a new and complicated phase. Each side needs the other, but neither want to look like they’re being played. So who will bend first?
Tara Palmeri
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August 18, 2022
The Jill Biden Gatekeeper Sweepstakes
New reporting on the drama enrapturing the West Wing, plus the latest round of Trump’s beef with Hannity, and Kyrsten Sinema’s rocky road ahead.
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.
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August 11, 2022
The Trump Informant Guessing Game: Knives Are Out!
Of course, it took about 12 minutes after the F.B.I. raid on Mar-a-Lago for the denizens of Trumpworld to commence the important work of pointing fingers and implicating colleagues. Plus news on the Pelosi succession that Clyburn and Hoyer won’t like.
