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A GOP civil war? Don’t bet ...

05.14.2021

If you’ve paid any attention to the news lately, you’ve probably heard this line: There’s a “civil war” raging within the GOP. Republican leadership is duking it out in the open after losing the White House, the House and the ...

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05.14.2021 A GOP civil war? Don’t bet on it If you’ve paid any attention to the news lately, you’ve probably heard this line: There’s a “civil war” raging within the GOP. Republican leadership is duking it out in the open after losing the White House, the House and the ...
05.07.2021 The Black correspondents at the White House White House reporters have access to the highest seat in the country — and they’re a small group. An even smaller group? Reporters of color. On today’s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Eugene Daniels gets honest with fellow Black White ...
04.30.2021 Money, MTG and the D.C. power machine Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has made a name — and recently, fundraised over $3 million — on becoming a political celebrity by oiling gears in the "outrage machine," promoting extremist beliefs and false conspiracy theories and bypassing establishment media and ...
04.23.2021 The senators at the center of the 50-50 split “If we miss this opportunity, God help us.” Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski. Two moderate senators smack in the middle — and on either side — of a split 50-50 Senate. On our first episode of Playbook Deep Dive, the ...
04.16.2021 BONUS: Why California’s fracking ban went bust California is the country’s leader when it comes to climate policies. But not even Democrats could impose a ban on fracking despite holding all levels of power in California. On POLITICO Energy, Colby Bermel explains why.
04.14.2021 Bonus: How a fake reporter infiltrated the White House press corps On this bonus episode of POLITICO Dispatch: Who is “Kacey Montagu”? Christopher Cadelago tells the wild and weird story of how a fictitious correspondent rose from the depths of internet role playing to the White House briefing room. Subscribe to ...
04.09.2021 Coming soon: Playbook Deep Dive Playbook Deep Dive is a new weekly podcast from Politico — for the stories that seem stranger-than-fiction, but are all too real. Underneath all the theater, backstabbing and strategy in DC are colorful characters and real life consequences. You know ...
04.02.2021 The hellish future of post-Covid travel & a special tribute at the end of this show Five cities, four countries and 15 days locked down in Australia: Global Translations author Ryan Heath talks to Playbook's Tara Palmeri about his 68-hour travel journey to get Down Under. He peers inside the hellish future of global travel and ...
03.26.2021 Fili-fix the Filibuster? Black civil rights leaders, voting rights advocates and elected officials are putting more and more pressure on Senate Democrats to nix the filibuster. The argument? Keep the filibuster OR pass voting rights legislation... 'cause you can’t do both! Playbook author ...
03.19.2021 Sen. Brian Schatz and why Senate Democrats are walking on eggshells
03.12.2021 Biden's planes, trains and automobiles
03.05.2021 How do you solve a problem like vaccine hesitancy
02.26.2021 The most important person you don't know
02.19.2021 We'll always have the Des Moines Marriott
02.12.2021 The post-Trump path of “one dude”
02.05.2021 Biden's gatekeepers
01.29.2021 The page who took down the GOP
01.22.2021 "I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"
01.15.2021 Impeached twice and still empowered
01.08.2021 A riot and a reckoning
01.01.2021 Nerdcast presents: Global Translations, episode 7
12.25.2020 Nerdcast presents: Global Translations, episode 6
12.18.2020 Goin' to the chapel to get out the v-o-t-e
12.11.2020 Abuela is always right, and other lessons from Florida 2020 It's an unspoken rule not to talk politics at the dinner table — unless you have a podcast recording, then it's fine! POLITICO's Sabrina Rodriguez gets real with her Cuban family — abuela Diana, aunt Gloria and mom Martha — ...
12.04.2020 The one place where the 2020 election isn't over It's a political cliche to say that the stakes couldn't be higher — but we're looking at Georgia and the stakes couldn't be higher! Republicans and Democrats are feeling the pressure as they vie for the Senate majority, which has ...
11.25.2020 Introducing Global Translations: Critical Minerals: The next dirty fight over clean energy "Nerdcast" presents Episode 5 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": The technologies that protect us, move us and power our daily lives require mining minerals and metalsin distant places. But access to these essential materials is increasingly ...
11.20.2020 New apps, no fact checks Dan Bongino is pushing a stolen election conspiracy theory, and he's gaining followers. Some far-right commentators like Dan are flocking to apps like Parler and Rumble, where they don't have to be fact checked by Facebook and Twitter. POLITICO reporter ...
11.13.2020 How to make a gov't in 4,000 easy steps The 2020 presidential transition is one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history: Covid-19 is raging, Joe Biden still isn't receiving classified information as prez-elect, and Donald Trump hasn't conceded the election. POLITICO Transition Playbook author Alex ...
11.06.2020 The Longest Week Election Day came and went, and on this, Day 5 of Election Week, we have a result: Joe Biden is the president-elect. POLITICO's Sudeep Reddy and Scott Bland lay out what we know, what we (still) don’t, the state of ...
11.04.2020 The results? It's definitely not the Election Night we dreamed of. But it definitely happened. Host Scott Bland teams up with Dispatch's Jeremy Siegel to analyze the results — or lack of results. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a ...
10.30.2020 How to watch election night like a pro Nov. 3 is barreling toward us, but don't expect that to be the day we'll know who won the presidency. POLITICO's Zach Montellaro and Nerdcast host Scott Bland decode how to watch Election Day — and the days that follow ...
10.23.2020 How Trump could repeat 2016 By almost every measure, the likely outcome is that Joe Biden will win the White House. Yet less than two weeks before Election Day, the unfolding reality of 2020 is that it’s harder than ever to be sure. POLITICO's Charlie ...
10.16.2020 Inside the weirdest, wildest, tightest state in politics While Florida Republicans used to dominate the absentee ballot game, this year there's been a stunning development: For the first time ever at this stage of a general election, Florida Democrats are outvoting Republicans. But lest they get too excited, ...
10.09.2020 Trump stock market soars — and wealthy reap gains President Donald Trump regularly promotes the soaring stock market as a barometer of the economy's health. But the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans own 50 percent of the value of stocks held by individual households — and investors aren’t sharing ...
10.02.2020 6 Catholics, 1 Court: SCOTUS and the rise of the Federalist Society Evangelicals make up a bigger share of the Republican electorate. But on the courts? It's conservative Catholics who reign supreme. If confirmed, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, would be ...
09.25.2020 Trump team braces for a presidential self-own Donald Trump will face Joe Biden for the first of three presidential debates on Tuesday. POLITICO's Gabby Orr and Scott Bland dive into how the president is prepping — or not — for the big day ... and why some ...
09.18.2020 Was the TikTok face-off 'security theater'? After weeks of uncertainty following President Donald Trump's executive order on TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that has stolen the hearts — if not the data — of millions of teens has found an American partner: Oracle. But will it ...
09.11.2020 The 9/11 babies are all grown up — and ready to vote For the first time, young adults born on or around September 11, 2001, will vote in a presidential election this November. America has been at war virtually every day they've been alive — and now they're coming of age politically ...
09.04.2020 Inside the Wild West of PredictIt When Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, it was a historic moment — and one that made some people thousands of dollars. Traders on the website PredictIt, a stock market for politics, wager thousands of dollars on ...
08.31.2020 Bonus episode: A tale of two conventions Are we a country that's failed disastrously to respond to a global pandemic, or a country that's overrun by protests and violence on the streets? Democrats and Republicans painted wildly different pictures of America at their party conventions this month. ...
08.28.2020 The GOP's identity crisis A question from a high schooler left POLITICO chief political correspondent Tim Alberta stumped: What does it mean to be a Republican? Alberta talks with Scott Bland about whether the Republican National Convention answered that question this week — and ...
08.21.2020 Signed. Sealed. Delivered? The postal service is older than America itself. It delivers bills, Amazon packages and even ballots straight to your house. So what happens when, in the middle of a pandemic that has skyrocketed the demand for vote-by-mail, the USPS suddenly ...
08.14.2020 Fundraising Remix: The Zoom where it happens In-person events have long been the bedrock of political fundraising. So what happens when a global pandemic takes away in-person fundraisers? … They go to Zoom. Sure, there's awkwardness and technical difficulties, but they are helping both campaigns raise record ...
08.07.2020 Canvassing, interrupted Donald Trump's campaign says it knocks on a million doors a week. Joe Biden's campaign says it knocks on zero. Host Scott Bland talks to Miles Baker — former door knocker, organizer and current political strategist — about the silver ...
07.31.2020 At-risk Republicans have a problem: Trump The congressional map as it stands now — three months out from the election — paints a cautiously optimistic picture for Democrats, who could see their majority grow. POLITICO reporter Ally Mutnick talks with Scott Bland about how Donald Trump's ...
07.24.2020 Everything that can go wrong in November November's election is about to be a perfect storm — that we can all see coming. Garrett M. Graff digs into his POLITICO magazine cover story with Scott Bland about the voting issues that have tripped up primaries in 2020 ...
07.17.2020 Trump vs. the NFL President Donald Trump's vendetta against the NFL isn't just political. It's personal. POLITICO Magazine's Michael Kruse talks with Scott Bland about the decadeslong feud — and whether recent shifts in public sentiment on racial justice issues could make Trump's reelection ...
07.10.2020 Why a football coach could beat Jeff Sessions Trump's former attorney general wants his Senate seat back. But polling shows Tommy Tuberville — a former football coach and political newbie — ahead of Jeff Sessions in the Republican primary runoff. Birmingham, Ala.-based journalist Eric Velasco talks with Scott ...
07.03.2020 The SCOTUS case that could tip the 2020 scales The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to strike down a Louisiana abortion law could motivate conservative voters at the ballot box — and progressives, too. Health care reporter Alice Miranda Ollstein explains. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a ...
06.26.2020 How to handle a scandal House Democrats are wrestling with how hard to go after President Donald Trump's laundry list of alleged abuses. With just weeks to go until Election Day, could aggressive oversight undermine the party's political prospects? Congress reporter Heather Caygle talks with ...

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What's Playbook Deep Dive about?

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Playbook Deep Dive episodes:

A GOP civil war? Don’t bet on it

The Black correspondents at the White House

Money, MTG and the D.C. power machine

The senators at the center of the 50-50 split

BONUS: Why California’s fracking ban went bust

Bonus: How a fake reporter infiltrated the White House press corps

Coming soon: Playbook Deep Dive

The hellish future of post-Covid travel & a special tribute at the end of this show

Fili-fix the Filibuster?

Sen. Brian Schatz and why Senate Democrats are walking on eggshells

Biden's planes, trains and automobiles

How do you solve a problem like vaccine hesitancy

The most important person you don't know

We'll always have the Des Moines Marriott

The post-Trump path of “one dude”

Biden's gatekeepers

The page who took down the GOP

"I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"

Impeached twice and still empowered

A riot and a reckoning

Nerdcast presents: Global Translations, episode 7

Nerdcast presents: Global Translations, episode 6

Goin' to the chapel to get out the v-o-t-e

Abuela is always right, and other lessons from Florida 2020

The one place where the 2020 election isn't over

Introducing Global Translations: Critical Minerals: The next dirty fight over clean energy

New apps, no fact checks

How to make a gov't in 4,000 easy steps

The Longest Week

The results?

How to watch election night like a pro

How Trump could repeat 2016

Inside the weirdest, wildest, tightest state in politics

Trump stock market soars — and wealthy reap gains

6 Catholics, 1 Court: SCOTUS and the rise of the Federalist Society

Trump team braces for a presidential self-own

Was the TikTok face-off 'security theater'?

The 9/11 babies are all grown up — and ready to vote

Inside the Wild West of PredictIt

Bonus episode: A tale of two conventions

The GOP's identity crisis

Signed. Sealed. Delivered?

Fundraising Remix: The Zoom where it happens

Canvassing, interrupted

At-risk Republicans have a problem: Trump

Everything that can go wrong in November

Trump vs. the NFL

Why a football coach could beat Jeff Sessions

The SCOTUS case that could tip the 2020 scales

How to handle a scandal

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