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Tara Palmeri October 18, 2024
Further news and notes from inside Trump’s brain: his growing conviction in victory, his backup plan to contest the results, and who among his allies—LaCivita? Michael Whatley?—will get blamed if it all falls apart.
Trump confidant and longtime pollster John McLaughlin evinces the same supreme confidence in his polls that he did in April—but the specifics of his argument are notable.
Tara Palmeri October 15, 2024
John McLaughlin, Trump’s favorite pollster, returns to run the numbers on the final leg of the campaign: How Trump is expanding his base with unreliable first-time voters, Kamala’s ceiling, and what her advisor David Plouffe gets right and wrong about the race.
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Tara Palmeri October 11, 2024
News and notes from the late-inning presidential campaign: Kamala’s “unforced error” on ‘The View,’ Republicans’ new strategy to link Harris to Biden, and Don Jr.’s emerging role as Trump 2.0 gatekeeper.
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Tara Palmeri October 3, 2024
A diagnostic sampling of the various anxieties at play in Palm Beach as the Trump brain trust prepares for the final push to November 5.


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Tara Palmeri September 27, 2024
In which Trump phones R.F.K. Jr. to ask about Nuzzigate, Lewandowski gets (temporarily) deplaned, another debate is debated, and campaign pollster John McLaughlin predicts a split-ticket victory in North Carolina.
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Tara Palmeri September 20, 2024
News and notes on the latest rumblings inside Trumpworld amid another assassination attempt, hazy poll numbers, and abounding distractions, both external and self-inflicted.
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Tara Palmeri September 6, 2024
So Trump’s campaign has tacitly endorsed DeSantis’s former operatives’ ability to restock Elon Musk’s super PAC with their old buddies, all in the spirit of reelecting 45? Unsurprisingly, the blame game has begun.
Jeff Roe, campaign manager for Senator Ted Cruz, smiles during a Bloomberg Politics interview in Des Moines, Iowa.
Tara Palmeri August 29, 2024
Everybody’s favorite mercenary mega-consultant offers a candid assessment of the 2024 state of play, DeSantis regrets, becoming a Trump frenemy, Kamalamentum, and those “latte-drinking men.”


Corey Lewandowski
Tara Palmeri August 23, 2024
Campaign staffers are on edge as Corey Lewandowski, bearing a menacing new title, begins popping up on calls, taking meetings with staffers, and searching for loyalists to rival Chris and Susie in the evolving Trump orbit.
Corey Lewandowski
Tara Palmeri August 16, 2024
Under siege and self-sabotaging at his New Jersey golf club, Donald Trump is reaching for old familiar faces and enablers to imbue his flailing 2024 campaign with some 2016 magic: Corey Lewandowski, Tim Murtaugh, maybe Kellyanne. Who’s next, Roger Stone? Oh wait…
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