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
- 1942
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
July 16, 2024: Live from Milwaukee, it's the RNC
Roughly halfway through the first day of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump announced that had chosen J.D. Vance, a junior senator from Ohio, as his running mate. But of course although…
00:10:15 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
July 15, 2024: Welcome to RNC day one
The Republican National Convention begins today, with former President Donald Trump expected to address attendees on Thursday. But all expectations of what that moment would hold were shattered when …
00:12:35 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
July 12, 2024: Biden’s presser leaves Dems in purgatory
It was almost certainly the most important press conference of President Joe Biden’s long career. And now that it’s done … well, things seem even more unclear than they were before. Democrats now fin…
00:08:47 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
July 11, 2024: Biden's pressure-cooker presser
What’s driving the day today is what’s been driving the day: Joe Biden’s health and whether he’s going to stay in the race. Recently, the Biden campaign has begun calling delegates, in what politics …
00:08:51 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
July 10, 2024: The public/private split screen of Hill Dems
A Tuesday meeting with Hill Democrats left many who initially expressed concerns after the debate two weeks ago reluctantly falling in line with Biden or saying nothing at all. Though the dam appears…
00:09:09 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
July 9, 2024: NATO is Biden’s next big agility test
Over the next few days, the spotlight on Joe Biden will only sharpen as the president attends this year’s NATO summit in Washington. His first big test will be a major address today commemorating the…
00:09:16 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
July 8, 2024: Biden's support on the Hill begins to crumble
Congress returns today after time off for the Fourth of July, but it is the forthcoming presidential election that is the only thing anyone is talking about. More and more Democrats are coming out of…
00:07:23 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
July 3, 2024: The case for Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket
Nearly a week after the disastrous presidential debate, more Democrats are going on the record to suggest President Biden step aside and let another candidate be the nominee for president in 2024. Af…
00:09:58 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
July 2, 2024: What the SCOTUS immunity ruling really means
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for some actions he took as president while fighting to subvert the 2020 election, further complicating efforts…
00:09:38 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
July 1, 2024: Debate aftershocks continue to rattle Democrats
The fallout from last week's presidential debate continues. Over the weekend, it was reported that the Biden family gathered to discuss whether the president should remain in the race. His family is …
00:04:52 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
June 28, 2024: Biden's unmitigated disaster of a debate
President Joe Biden’s campaign gambled on a June debate, ostensibly with the goal of shaking up the trajectory of the campaign. Last night, it backfired in spectacular fashion. Over the course of a d…
00:13:32 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
June 27, 2024: Biden and Trump sharpen their teeth ahead of tonight’s debate
It’s the day that members of both major parties have been waiting for with excitement and/or dread. Tonight in Atlanta, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will take to the debate s…
00:08:21 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
June 26, 2024: The Supreme Court's final sprint
The Supreme Court is slated to deliver rulings on roughly a dozen cases in the coming days—its last batch of this term. Among these is Trump v. United States, which will rule on whether the former pr…
00:09:56 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
June 25, 2024: Live from New York: It’s primary day
It is primary day in the Empire State, and one of the buzziest races of the day involves Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY-16). In the only public polls out, Bowman appears to be trailing his opponent, George L…
00:08:14 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
June 24, 2024: Activists form abortion-rights "supergroup”
Groups including Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Reproductive Freedom for All are banding together to form Abortion Access Now, an alliance focused on restoring protections for abortion care on the…
00:09:58 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
June 21, 2024: Jack Smith braces for a shot from Cannon
Today begins a momentous three days of hearings in Trump’s classified documents case in the Florida courtroom of Judge Aileen Cannon. In an alternate timeline, the criminal prosecution — which was or…
00:09:16 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
June 20, 2024: SCOTUS prepares for judgment day
It could happen today. It could happen tomorrow. And you can count on it happening next week, too. The Supreme Court has 22 remaining cases left on the docket, and with time ticking down on this term…
00:09:13 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
June 18, 2024: Inside Biden’s big immigration announcement
Twelve years after former President Barack Obama passed DACA, and just a few weeks after President Joe Biden announced a harsh crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border, Biden is slated to make a major ann…
00:09:26 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
June 17, 2024: Trump zeroes in on a VP
The Republican National Convention is less than one month away, which means we are less than one month from knowing who presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will choose for his ru…
00:08:33 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
June 14, 2024: Trump looms over Biden’s G7 meetings
At the G7 meetings in Italy, many of the conversations revolve around two men: One who’s there (Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy), and one who isn’t (Donald Trump). Though much of President Jo…
00:09:48 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
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