During her decade in national politics, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been profiled, ad nauseam, by any number of very important publications: The New Yorker, New York Magazine (a couple times), Vogue, The New York Times. But her 2012 interview with Self magazine, three years into her Senate tenure, is among the most compelling and useful […]
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Welcome, friends! I hope everyone had a thankful Thanksgiving! 🦃 harry (Harry Enten, senior political writer): I had turkey. I wish I had duck. clare.malone (Clare Malone, senior political writer): “#sex-misconduct-2020” — what a name for a […]
A few weeks ago, Jason Zengerle wrote a helpful breakdown for The New York Times of the potential Democratic presidential candidates for 2020. One name was notably absent, however: former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. That’s likely no accident: O’Malley barely made a ripple in the 2016 pond with only a few other Democratic primary candidates […]
In this week’s politics chat, we debate what we can say now about the 2020 presidential election. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Hi, people! harry (Harry Enten, senior political writer): Hey, friends! micah: This article, “Trump is on track to win reelection,” sparked some heated debate in […]
California Gov. Jerry Brown made one of the biggest moves yet in the 2020 Democratic primary last week. He didn’t declare his candidacy or make a “random” visit to Iowa. He signed a law that moved the state’s 2020 presidential primary from June to March 3 — also known as Super Tuesday, the moniker typically […]