Will ‘extremism’ fracture the GOP? Cheney vs. Trump in Wyoming
Trump-backed candidates have lost recently in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Idaho. The biggest caveat about how the lessons of other states might apply in Wyoming is that in states where the T...
27 Touko 202234min
The GOP rancher trying to save Idaho from the far right
Jennifer Ellis is the face of the movement that handed Donald Trump his biggest defeat of the year. She leads Take Back Idaho, a political action committee founded last year to beat back the growing t...
20 Touko 202229min
'He absolutely betrayed me': Steve Schmidt tells all about John McCain
This week on “Playbook Deep Dive,” we sat down over Zoom with Steve Schmidt, the architect of the late Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential run, to hear what amounts to an untold chapter of that exhau...
13 Touko 202249min
Lifting the curtain on SCOTUS with a POLITICO reporter who broke the Roe story
This week on Playbook Deep Dive, POLITICO’s Peter Canellos talks with our own Josh Gerstein, who broke this week’s massive news that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has drafted an opinion to...
6 Touko 20221h 5min
Haddad dishes on more than brunch
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is back for the first time since 2019. Journalists, A-list celebrities and Washington’s power players will pack the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton. ...
29 Huhti 202239min
‘You only win if you fight:' Will Gallego unseat Sinema?
This week Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza is in Arizona to dig into a few big plotlines ahead of this year’s elections. Trump narrowly lost the state in 2020, Senator Mark Kelly – the Democratic incumbe...
22 Huhti 202228min
Biden’s pollster on how to ‘not get our a---- kicked’ in midterms
In the coming weeks and months, the Playbook team will be out covering the key districts and states that will decide the outcome of the midterm elections. This week, co-author Ryan Lizza was in Las Ve...
15 Huhti 202236min
Ro Khanna had some BBB advice for the president. Biden called it ‘homicide.’
Congressman Ro Khanna is one of the most influential progressives inside the house democratic caucus. He represents California’s 17th district – a large chunk of Silicon Valley. It’s wealthy, influent...
8 Huhti 202233min
