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Ronna McDaniel
Tara Palmeri January 26, 2024
The Trump campaign, feeling itself after New Hampshire, is eager to layer R.N.C. chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel with a campaign insider. It’s the latest reminder of how hard it is to stay on Trump’s good side.
Ron DeSantis speaks to workers at a campaign office on January 12, 2024, in Urbandale, Iowa.
Tara Palmeri January 18, 2024
Despite having spent several days on the campaign trail this week, I’ve struggled to find a single DeSantis voter who can articulate his path forward. So what is the candidate accomplishing in his forced march past New Hampshire, besides torching his remaining political capital?
The fact that Chris Christie didn’t endorse Nikki Haley in his exit speech was probably a gift for her campaign: He had some of the highest unfavorables among Republican voters.
Tara Palmeri January 12, 2024
Christie may be old news as a candidate, but his departure adds a few arithmetic wrinkles to a race that already seemed over. Oh, and his people did trade calls with No Labels...
The Trump team, already reveling in their likely victory, appears intent on burying DeSantis.
Tara Palmeri January 5, 2024
Imagining the political options for the former wunderkind candidate after Iowa and New Hampshire.


U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018.
Tara Palmeri December 29, 2023
Lindsey Graham, Chris Sununu, Debbie Dingell, Ritchie Torres, Steve Schmidt, Roger Stone, and many other experts of varying stripes explain what’s going down next year.
Chris Christie’s inner circle hasn’t yet had the talk with the candidate, according to a donor, but will likely do so soon.
Tara Palmeri December 21, 2023
The latest plot twists and bickering as all roads lead to Iowa: Manchin’s grasps for relevance, Nikki Haley’s potential fallback plan, and the movement to vote Christie off the island.
There’s already some chatter on K Street and around the Hill about whether Steve Scalise, McCarthy’s longtime No. 2, could make another play for the top spot.
Tara Palmeri December 15, 2023
The latest intrigue and conversation inside Congress: Mike Johnson’s post-honeymoon blues, Scalise succession games, and McCarthy’s speaker circuit rate card.
Donald Trump speaks to the media while attending his trial in New York State Supreme Court on December 7, 2023 in New York City.
Tara Palmeri December 8, 2023
National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Steve Daines has been “aggressively lobbying” senators to make their Trump endorsement now, before the blacklisting begins. House members and G.O.P. operatives aren’t far behind.


President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama greet Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro at the Liacouras Center on November 5, 2022 in Philadelphia.
Tara Palmeri December 1, 2023
As the White House confronts a Gen Z backlash, calls for an Obama intervention have been tempered by fresh anxiety over the party’s generational deficit and the president’s messaging strategy.
The absence of anyone with a clear inside track to Johnson illuminates one of the vulnerabilities in Washington’s relationship-based business model.
Tara Palmeri November 17, 2023
As Mike Johnson ascends from nobody to speaker, the entire flat-footed lobbying industry is desperately searching their Rolodexes for ins, connections, second cousins once removed—or any way to influence the new guy with the gavel.
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