What About the People Who Don’t Vote?
The people who don’t vote are often left out of the political conversation. Campaigns don’t spend much money on them, and the media doesn’t devote much coverage to them. But to understand a presidenti...
28 Mar 202447min
Don’t Ask RFK Jr. About Being a Spoiler
This week, the Democratic National Committee formed a unit to push back against third-party candidates and independents. At the same time, a number of Biden allies have formed a super PAC called Clear...
21 Mar 202442min
Why It Had to Be Trump
On Tuesday night, Donald J. Trump won another four nominating contests and officially became the presumptive Republican nominee. That’s despite the criminal charges, the judgments made against him in ...
14 Mar 202443min
Why It Had to Be Biden
With Super Tuesday behind us, this week is the end of one chapter of this campaign.On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump’s only remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, is out of the race. A...
7 Mar 202449min
Everything You Need to Know About Super Tuesday
It’s Super Tuesday. That means that people in 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and...
5 Mar 202429min
MAGA Thinks the Game Is Rigged. Will They Play?
For a lot of his most loyal supporters, Donald Trump isn’t just the former president or even the potential next president. He is, in their view, the true president — because many of them believe the 2...
29 Feb 202441min
‘What If Someone Dies?’ And Other 2024 Questions, Answered
For the past few months, we’ve been asking our listeners to write in with questions, and we’ve gotten some great ones. Things like: How does polling work? Does Joe Biden’s stance on Gaza present a cam...
22 Feb 202451min
Do Not Invite Donald Trump or Joe Biden on This Date
If you had just a few minutes to win someone’s affection, how political would you get? Would you dive right in, or avoid politics altogether? The Run-Up went speed dating in suburban Philadelphia to f...
15 Feb 202444min
