He defied Trump and still survived a GOP primary
This week in the GOP primary for South Dakota’s at-large district, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) defeated a challenger from his right who claimed he wasn’t aligned closely enough with former President D...
10 Jun 202244min
Will the GOP control Congress for the next decade?
There’s at least a few people in the Democratic establishment who have hope for the midterms. They’re the redistricting experts, people like Kelly Burton. She’s a long-time political operative and the...
3 Jun 202226min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Apr 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 Apr 202228min
