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
Feb. 18, 2022: McCarthy endorses Cheney Challenger
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy officially backed Harriet Hageman, the primary challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Olivia Beavers reports. While tensions have simmered between McCarthy and C…
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Fri 18 Feb 2022
Feb. 17, 2022: Operation ‘Stop Greitens’ goes awry
Former President Donald Trump met with Alabama GOP Senate candidate Katie Britt at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, two sources familiar told Playbook. The former president has been having buyer’s remorse afte…
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Thu 17 Feb 2022
Feb. 16, 2022: Exclusive poll: Answers to the midterm’s 2 big questions
We have some news in our latest POLITICO-Morning Consult poll that we can share with you this morning.
The results get to the heart of two big questions about 2022:
1. Can Democrats overcome the cul…
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Wed 16 Feb 2022
Feb. 11, 2022: Where things stand with SCOTUS
The first clips of President Joe Biden's sitdown interview with NBC’s Lester Holt were released Thursday night (the full video will air on Sunday’s Super Bowl pregame show).
Biden announced that his …
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Fri 11 Feb 2022
Feb. 10, 2022: House Dems break against mask mandate
It’s been one of the greatest sources of tension between House Republicans and Democrats for a year now: a chamber-wide mandate requiring lawmakers to mask up before they vote — and steep fines if th…
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Thu 10 Feb 2022
Feb. 9, 2022: Biden lags behind Dem govs on easing mask mandates
Across the country, top Democratic officials are relaxing mask mandates as Omicron recedes and concern rises about how masking is affecting schoolchildren. Meanwhile, Republicans have seized on the i…
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Wed 09 Feb 2022
Feb. 8, 2022: Censures inflame GOP tensions
The fallout from the RNC’s weekend censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) spread to Capitol Hill on Monday: Hill Republicans returned to town and lit into Chair Ronna McDani…
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Tue 08 Feb 2022
Feb. 7, 2022: Can Dems defy history?
The most likely November election scenario is that Republicans win the House and Senate. On average since World War II, the president’s party loses 26 House seats and four Senate seats in a midterm e…
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Mon 07 Feb 2022
Feb. 4, 2022: The Instagram account that has the Hill riveted
If you work on Capitol Hill, you’ve probably heard about “Dear White Staffers.” It’s an Instagram account that started as a place where aides of color on the Hill — a place dominated by white lawmake…
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Fri 04 Feb 2022
Feb. 2, 2022: Republicans can’t agree on a SCOTUS strategy
Republicans have been all over the map lately in their Supreme Court messaging. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) called President Joe Biden's vow to only consider Black women for the vacancy “affirmative …
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Wed 02 Feb 2022
Feb. 1, 2022: Biden’s bipartisan temptation
The center of legislative intrigue on Capitol Hill is bipartisan election reform.
“That’s on a hot track right now,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Monday.
But as talks heat up to overhaul the Elec…
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Tue 01 Feb 2022
Jan. 31, 2022: Congress confronts a February deluge
Lawmakers return from recess this week to a massive February to-do list before President Joe Biden's March 1 State of the Union address. And the pressure is on: The White House and vulnerable House D…
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Mon 31 Jan 2022
Jan. 28, 2022: Dr. Oz tries to win over McConnell and Trump
TV doc turned Senate hopeful Mehmet Oz met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the NRSC headquarters earlier this month to lay out why he thinks he can win in the swing state of Pennsylvan…
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Fri 28 Jan 2022
Jan. 27, 2022: Breyer throws Biden a lifeline
For weeks, Joe Biden's presidency has been dragged down by a stalled agenda, spiraling inflation, lousy poll numbers and an angry base accusing him of not delivering on his promises.
Wednesday delive…
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Thu 27 Jan 2022
Jan. 25, 2022: Schumer strategy leaves some Dems seething
Frustration with Chuck Schumer leadership strategy is privately simmering among some Hill Democrats.
We talked to a half-dozen senior Democratic staffers in both chambers Monday night and heard a va…
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Tue 25 Jan 2022
Jan. 24, 2022: Biden confronts major troop decision
With Congress out of town and President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda paused, Washington will be dominated by Ukraine-Russia news this week.
Some major developments on Ukraine in the past 24 hours:
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Mon 24 Jan 2022
Jan. 21, 2022: Suspicious Trump weighs dual endorsements
Former President Donald Trump has floated the idea of doling out dual endorsements in some of the key midterm races as he becomes increasingly suspicious of his advisers who are pushing competing can…
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Fri 21 Jan 2022
Jan. 20, 2022: Biden breaks up with Bernie
There’s a lot to unpack from President Joe Biden's marathon press conference in the East Room, but let’s start with this statement deep into the 1-hour-and-51-minute event:
“You guys have been trying…
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Thu 20 Jan 2022
Jan. 18, 2022: Outlook remains dreary for Dems this week
Welcome back to a four-day workweek in Washington. Today, Senate Democrats resume their doomed push on voting rights and election reform, taking up legislation that already passed the House. Expect m…
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Tue 18 Jan 2022
Jan. 14, 2022: Bill and Hillary peek their heads out
With the Democratic Party on course for a devastating midterm election and party elder statesmen stepping in to help, Playbook's Tara Palmeri reports that people close to Bill and Hillary Clinton sai…
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Fri 14 Jan 2022
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