Meet the pollster who is getting under the Democrats’ skin
Mark Penn is best known for two things: his devotion to centrist politics and his former role as the top pollster and strategist for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lately, he’s added a third: a barrage of ...
26 Jan 202442min
Is this the end of the New Hampshire primary as we know it?
Joe McQuaid, the longtime publisher of The New Hampshire Union Leader – the 161-year old conservative paper that has operated like a Republican party boss for many decades – joins Deep Dive to tell ho...
19 Jan 20241h
Joe Biden called David Axelrod a ‘prick.’ It won’t shut him up.
David Axelrod, the former top Obama strategist, has been offering some tough medicine to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. In November, he suggested Biden think long and hard about running for reelec...
12 Jan 202442min
How Trump and Biden could blow it in 2024
As the Iowa caucuses near, Playbook’s Ryan Lizza and POLITICO Politics Bureau Chief Jonathan Martin go deep on what we know – and what we’ll soon find out – about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley,...
5 Jan 202453min
The most unlikely ingredient to a successful career in Washington
Arthur Brooks ran the American Enterprise Institute for more than a decade. Now, he’s a fulltime happiness scientist. Here’s his guide to making it in Washington without sacrificing your humanity. Rya...
21 Dec 20231h 7min
How Hunter Biden, Jack Smith, and Trump’s legal troubles are setting the stage for 2024
A week of new developments in impeachment, Donald Trump’s D.C. case, and Hunter Biden’s congressional inquiry showcased how the collision of law and politics will determine much of Republicans’ and De...
15 Dec 20231h 6min
Why James Lankford expects a border breakthrough
The GOP’s lead negotiator on the embattled Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border security supplemental believes that a compromise will happen. But do his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and his fell...
8 Dec 202333min
Steve Scalise reveals what’s really happened since McCarthy’s fall
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise illuminates what happened behind closed doors after Kevin McCarthy’s ousting as well as what to expect next on impeachment; why he will vote against expelling Georg...
1 Dec 202332min
