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
- 1944
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Nov. 1, 2022: The troubling future of political violence in America
Even though it was Halloween, two political extremists were unmasked yesterday, one on each coast.
What they said tells us a lot about the future of political violence in America.
In Washington, at t…
00:07:40 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Oct. 31, 2022: The next big precedent SCOTUS is set to overturn
Another landmark Supreme Court decision from the 1970s is likely to fall.
This morning, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and t…
00:16:30 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Oct. 28, 2022: Biden and Trump step into a Pennsylvania proxy war
For months, President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have been shadow-boxing on the campaign trail — zig-zagging across the country on parallel paths that never quite intersected.
That’s about to change.…
00:06:19 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
Oct. 27, 2022: Forecast: All GOP on the Western front
Senior campaigns and elections editor Steve Shepard is out with the latest update of POLITICO’s 2022 forecast.
Let’s begin with the headline: Five races are changing in this update, four of them in t…
00:12:26 |
Thu 27 Oct 2022
Oct. 26, 2022: How much will John Fetterman’s rocky night matter?
Let’s state the obvious: John Fetterman struggled to effectively communicate during his one and only Senate debate with Mehmet Oz Tuesday in Harrisburg.
We don’t usually dwell on a single debate in …
00:06:20 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Oct. 25, 2022: Inside the Democratic divisions on Ukraine
“For some of Ukraine’s most ardent backers, even talking about diplomacy amounts to appeasement,” Gideon Rachman, the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, noted last week.
Thirty …
00:06:53 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Oct. 24, 2022: What's at stake during debate week
15 days left until Election Day. … 7,501,492 early votes already cast as of 10:20 p.m. Sunday, per the United States Elections Project.
And Playbook editor Mike Debonis and deputy editor Zack Stanton…
00:15:33 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Oct. 21, 2022: Where Democrats can find some good news
Our colleague Natalie Allison got her hands on some new polling data out of Nevada that shows the closely watched race between Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Adam Laxalt tighte…
00:04:40 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
Oct. 20, 2022: It’s the gas prices, stupid
There’s a reason White House chief of staff RON KLAIN checks AAA’s survey of gas prices every single morning.
For all the well-informed punditry about whether this or that issue will be the terrain u…
00:04:50 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Oct. 17, 2022: Raphael Warnock’s two worlds
We definitely have Georgia on our minds here at Playbook. The Senate race in the Peach State — pitting Sen. Raphael Warnock against football legend Herschel Walker — is likely the most consequential …
00:16:38 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Oct. 14, 2022: Why Trump is the main character of 2022
For a minute there, Donald Trump wasn’t the dominant political story. In between peak coverage in August of the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago home and Thursday’s public vote by the Jan. 6 committee …
00:05:27 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Oct. 13, 2022: Where the Jan. 6 investigation heads next
Since the very first hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee, the panel has vowed to do three things: (1) correct the historical record of the aftermath of the 2020 election; (2) present the case that …
00:07:36 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Oct. 12, 2022: The blue state Biden can't ignore
It’s perhaps the most precious campaign resource in all of American politics — a presidential fundraising visit. So why, with less than four weeks till Election Day, is President Joe Biden pointing A…
00:16:38 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Oct. 11, 2022: New revelations about Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6
This morning we have the first scoop from Robert Draper’s latest book, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind" ($29), which will be released Oct. 18.
It’s been widely repo…
00:05:46 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Oct. 7, 2022: Biden warns of nuclear ‘Armageddon’
Last night at a fundraiser in New York City, President Joe Biden issued a stark warning about the risks of nuclear war in Ukraine.
“First time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat …
00:06:33 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Oct. 6, 2022: Dems seethe over Saudi oil slash
For months, aides to President Joe Biden have been backchanneling to keep OPEC from cutting oil exports and, in turn, raising oil and gas prices around the world.
So much for all that.
On Wednesday, …
00:09:41 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
Oct. 5, 2022: What to expect from Elon Musk's Twitter
President Joe Biden will arrive this afternoon in Fort Myers, Fla., where he will survey the damage from Hurricane Ian via helicopter and then receive a briefing on disaster response and recovery eff…
00:06:20 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
Oct. 4, 2022: Herschel Walker rushes to defuse abortion bombshell
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker promised Monday night that he would file a lawsuit this morning against The Daily Beast, after the website’s Roger Sollenberger reported that Walke…
00:12:08 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Sep. 30, 2022: The Senate battlefield is narrowing
AP’s Meg Kinnard and Adriana Gomez Licon: “A revived Hurricane Ian set its sights on South Carolina’s coast Friday and the historic city of Charleston, with forecasters predicting a storm surge and f…
00:05:19 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Sep. 29. 2022: As trust in SCOTUS drops, Alito spars with Kagan
A new Gallup poll set for release today shows a drop in approval of and confidence in the Supreme Court. Gallup previewed some of the key findings for Playbook:
The topline: “Less than half of Ameri…
00:08:37 |
Thu 29 Sep 2022
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