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Kamala Harris Hasn’t Ruled Out Running in 2028

Kamala Harris Hasn’t Ruled Out Running in 2028
23.01.2025 3

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Gabriel Debenedetti

Kamala Harris Hasn’t Ruled Out Running in 2028

Kamala Harris Hasn’t Ruled Out Running in 2028
23.01.2025 10

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Andy Kim Is Ready For Trump 2.0

In mid-December, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-...

27.12.2024 10

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Andy Kim Is Ready For Trump 2.0

In mid-December, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-...

27.12.2024 6

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Brian Schatz Doesn’t Know What Went Wrong

A few hours after Donald Trump was re-elected, Brian Schatz conducted an experiment. Upset, tired, and uncertain about what should come next, the...

26.11.2024 3

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Brian Schatz Doesn’t Know What Went Wrong

A few hours after Donald Trump was re-elected, Brian Schatz conducted an experiment. Upset, tired, and uncertain about what should come next, the...

26.11.2024 40

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Who Will Fill the Democratic Vacuum?

So who leads the Democrats now? At one level, everyone from the distraught White House staffers to the furious governors to the scared swing-state...

11.11.2024 10

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Who Will Fill the Democratic Vacuum?

So who leads the Democrats now? At one level, everyone from the distraught White House staffers to the furious governors to the scared swing-state...

11.11.2024 2

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Why the Kamala Harris Campaign Feels ‘Nauseously Optimistic’

First, the West Wing actor Bradley Whitford put it on X. Not long after, New Hampshire congresswoman Annie Kuster was saying it. Soon, with October...

01.11.2024 1

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Why the Kamala Harris Campaign Feels ‘Nauseously Optimistic’

First, the West Wing actor Bradley Whitford put it on X. Not long after, New Hampshire congresswoman Annie Kuster was saying it. Soon, with October...

01.11.2024 1

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The Other Running Mate

Rallies of serious electoral consequence aren’t usually held deep in a farm on Butter Road at 10 a.m. on a weekday. But last Thursday morning, in...

27.10.2024 2

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The Other Running Mate

Rallies of serious electoral consequence aren’t usually held deep in a farm on Butter Road at 10 a.m. on a weekday. But last Thursday morning, in...

27.10.2024 10

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‘I Would Rather Be Kamala Harris Than I Would Donald Trump’

When Joe Biden’s top political aides started setting up his campaign early last year, Jim Messina was one of their first calls. Messina, who...

20.10.2024 10

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‘I Would Rather Be Kamala Harris Than I Would Donald Trump’

When Joe Biden’s top political aides started setting up his campaign early last year, Jim Messina was one of their first calls. Messina, who...

20.10.2024 7

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The WhatsApp Campaign

When Tim Walz took a moment in his debate against J.D. Vance this month to quote scripture during an answer about immigration policy, some of...

15.10.2024 1

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The WhatsApp Campaign

When Tim Walz took a moment in his debate against J.D. Vance this month to quote scripture during an answer about immigration policy, some of...

15.10.2024 3

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David Plouffe on Harris vs. Trump: ‘Too Close for Comfort’

When Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden’s ailing campaign this summer, she went looking for help. Donald Trump had a commanding lead in the polls,...

14.10.2024 4

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David Plouffe on Harris vs. Trump: ‘Too Close for Comfort’

When Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden’s ailing campaign this summer, she went looking for help. Donald Trump had a commanding lead in the polls,...

14.10.2024 10

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How Tim Walz Saved Himself

Tim Walz walked onto the vice-presidential debate stage knowing he wouldn’t do the one thing that got him onto Kamala Harris’s radar in the...

02.10.2024 2

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How Tim Walz Saved Himself

Tim Walz walked onto the vice-presidential debate stage knowing he wouldn’t do the one thing that got him onto Kamala Harris’s radar in the...

02.10.2024 6

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How Kamala Knocks Out Trump

When CNN reported last week that Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor, had once called himself a “black NAZI” on a...

25.09.2024 4

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How Kamala Knocks Out Trump

When CNN reported last week that Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor, had once called himself a “black NAZI” on a...

25.09.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Scrambled Trump’s Brain

Two months and one political lifetime ago, Donald Trump’s supporters rushed to the cameras gathered in Atlanta after his debate against Joe Biden...

11.09.2024 4

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Kamala Harris Scrambled Trump’s Brain at the Debate

Two months and one political lifetime ago, Donald Trump’s supporters rushed to the cameras gathered in Atlanta after his debate against Joe Biden...

11.09.2024 20

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Why Kamala Isn’t Preparing to Knock Out Trump at the Debate

It’s the stuff of #Resistance dreams: Kamala Harris, the prosecutor, gets onstage in Philadelphia next Tuesday across from Donald Trump, the...

07.09.2024 3

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The Obama-Kamala Merger

Barack Obama listened with interest when Kamala Harris dropped by his office in Washington to make the case for her presidential candidacy and to...

20.08.2024 6

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Kamala Is a (Border) Cop

It didn’t take long for Kamala Harris’s campaign to come up with a plan to rebut Republicans’ most common attack on her that as Joe Biden’s...

16.08.2024 10

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How Team Kamala Will Pick a Running Mate

Forced into an extraordinarily compressed campaign timeline, Kamala Harris has been buried in calls and meetings at the White House, at her...

01.08.2024 3

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But Can She Win?

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Early last year, I...

26.07.2024 3

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But Can She Win?

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Early last year, I...

26.07.2024 5

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The Biden Presidency’s Tragedy and Remaining Hope

In the end, it was Joe Biden who accidentally toppled his own campaign. It was the president’s own insistence on an earlier-than-ever debate...

22.07.2024 3

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