The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO’s Jack Blanchard and Dasha Burns bring their fresh insight, analysis and reporting to the biggest story driving the day in the nation’s capital.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 6 minutes
- Episodes
- 1941
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
November 13, 2024: What to expect from Biden and Trump’s grip-and-grin
President-elect Donald Trump will visit Washington this morning to meet with President Joe Biden. Although meetings between the outgoing and incoming presidents are a long-standing tradition, Trump h…
00:10:16 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
November 12, 2024: Trump 2.0’s cabinet comes into focus
We’re getting a clearer look at President-elect Donald Trump’s new cabinet and one thing is in common: loyalty. So far, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has been named as ambassador to the United Nations…
00:08:40 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
November 11, 2024: Trump begins his Washington takeover
Congress reconvenes on Tuesday for the first time since before the election, and the big winner, President-elect Donald Trump, is already asserting his dominance. The key players around Trump (but no…
00:07:23 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
November 8, 2024: Washington readies for Trump 2.0
Since Tuesday night, Donald Trump’s resounding victory has been the only thing on anyone’s minds in Washington. That … and how Democrats managed to mess up so spectacularly. With Trump’s selection of…
00:17:39 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
November 7, 2024: The key players in Trump's transition
President-elect Donald Trump and his team launched into transition planning in Palm Beach on Wednesday, barely 12 hours after polls closed. So who's going to be chief of staff? And who’s going to hea…
00:11:12 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
November 6, 2024: Donald Trump's America
It seemed unthinkable on Jan. 7, 2021. Now it’s reality. Donald Trump will retake the presidency after making sweeping gains in state after state, slashing away at the margins that kept him from a se…
00:17:42 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
November 5, 2024: We’re finally here
After an election cycle that included an unprecedented switch at the top of a major party’s ticket, multiple assassination attempts against former president Donald Trump and razor-thin poll margins, …
00:16:46 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
November 4, 2024: The last day on the campaign trail
Most Republicans, or at least smart Republicans, had hoped that Donald Trump would wrap up his campaign with a disciplined message, focused on the economy and immigration. But if you read the headlin…
00:04:55 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
November 1, 2024: Money talks in the presidential race
Four days remain in the election, and everyone is trying to predict how the presidential race will play out. You can learn a lot about the strength of a campaign from the number of donations it has r…
00:10:47 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
October 31, 2024: Democrats in Wisconsin are 'nauseously optimistic'
Wisconsin is the red-headed stepchild of swing states. More focus typically falls on Pennsylvania or Michigan, but Republicans and Democrats are flocking to the badger state in the final days before …
00:08:17 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
October 30, 2024: Harris’ closing message vs. Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe
Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing message from the Ellipse to a crowd of roughly 75,000 people. In the speech, she highlighted her policy aspirations, commitment to fight…
00:16:15 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
October 29, 2024: Why election results might come faster this year
In 2020, it took days to announce Joe Biden as president-elect. This election cycle, officials are hopeful that the process will be much faster in several states due to improvements in preprocessing …
00:10:41 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
October 28, 2024: Trump campaign goes on damage control after MSG rally
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden won’t be remembered for the things the former President had to say, but for the racist and sexist rhetoric of other speakers who took the stage. The Trum…
00:06:51 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
October 25, 2024: Texas is the stage. But Harris’ audience is elsewhere.
We’re 11 days out from the end of the election, so naturally, Kamala Harris is campaigning in … Texas? Today, the VP will travel to Houston to deliver a message aimed squarely at voters in other stat…
00:09:53 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
October 24, 2024: Knives out in Trump world
The internal machinations of Donald Trump’s campaign have dominated headlines this past week, although not in a way they might want. There are accounts of infighting, power struggles and chaos. And t…
00:13:41 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
October 23, 2024: Is Trump’s transition leader double-dealing?
With less than two weeks out from the presidential election, a rift is opening inside Donald Trump's inner circle. Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street CEO leading Trump’s transition operation, is facing …
00:10:40 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
October 22, 2024: Who Trump is eyeing for a potential chief of staff
Though Election Day is still two weeks away, jockeying behind the scenes for Trump’s Chief of Staff has already begun. According to insiders, the three potential picks that Trump is eyeing are Susie …
00:08:47 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
October 21, 2024: Does the road to the White House run through Michigan?
In the six presidential elections since 2000, Republicans have won Michigan only once. But, that one time was Donald Trump's victory in 2016, and he might capture the state again in just over two wee…
00:09:19 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
October 18, 2024: Israel got its man. What now?
Yesterday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that they’d killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and mastermind of the terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023. But with Sinwar dead, do cease-fire tal…
00:10:37 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
October 17, 2024: Grading the latest Harris and Trump media appearances
We’re less than three weeks out from Election Day and Kamala Harris is taking big swings. After a blitz on mostly friendly shows and podcasts last week, she ventured into the Fox den last night for a…
00:18:03 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
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