The New Yorker The Fight Over Election Results Begins verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsBiden struck a confident tone in his public statement on Election Night, as county officials continue sorting millions of mail-in ballots. “Your patience is commendable!” Joe Biden told supporters in parking...
The New Yorker The Midwest Holds the Key for Biden verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsThe early results suggest that the Electoral College race will be close, with no major realignment. Three hours after the first polls closed in the 2020 election, the broad national rejection of Donald...
The New Yorker Voters’ Problems at the Polls Have, for the Most Part, Been Refreshingly Typical verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Sue HalpernBy the comparatively low standards of American elections, most voting on Tuesday appears to have taken place in a fairly orderly and sedate manner. At 7 a.m. on Election Day, when the doors opened for...
The New Yorker Biden’s Target of One on Election Night verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Isaac ChotinerIf preëlection polling proves accurate, the former Vice-President will be looking for just one battleground state to put him over the top in the Electoral College. The most intriguing aspect of this election...
The New Yorker The Good News of Record Voter Turnout verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsTrump has drawn millions of people into the public debate who had not been there before—against him, most visibly, but also for him. The slightly eerie element of this Election Day has been the linelessness....
The New Yorker Washington, D.C., Braces for Election Night verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachOn Tuesday morning, the District’s gleaming downtown was ready for trouble—storefront windows boarded up with plywood, stone columns wrapped in plastic to thwart spray paint—but the streets were quiet....
The New Yorker Bernie Sanders’s Electability Argument Falls Apart in Michigan verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachIn 2016, Michigan was perhaps Sanders’s biggest and most surprising victory. In 2020, it will go down as perhaps his decisive defeat. The Rust Belt has been central to Bernie Sanders’s case for the Presidency....
The New Yorker On Super Tuesday, Joe Biden Carries the South, and the South Carries Joe Biden verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachThe delegates the former Vice-President racked up in the South make it likely that he will emerge from Super Tuesday in a strong position, if not ahead in the delegate count. It has been an astonishing...
The New Yorker Bernie Sanders Runs Out the Clock at a Chaotic Democratic Debate verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachSomeone may yet emerge who can successfully challenge Sanders, who is now the undisputed front-runner, but it hasn’t happened yet. Bernie Sanders went into Tuesday night’s debate in South Carolina as undisputed...
The New Yorker Warren Makes Her Electability Argument by Skewering Bloomberg at the Democratic Debate verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Michael LuoAt the debate, Bloomberg muddled his way through deflections after Warren challenged him to release women who had filed complaints against him from their nondisclosure agreements. On Wednesday night, Bloomberg...
The New Yorker Why Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar Went After Pete Buttigieg at the Democratic Debate verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachNo one running for the Democratic nomination seems to irk his or her opponents quite like the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana. No one running for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
The New Yorker Joe Biden Stumbles Again on Race at the Fifth Democratic Debate verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachAn hour and a half into the fifth Democratic debate, the moderators’ questions turned to the topic of race, and the former Vice-President delivered one his characteristic flubs. Last month, when the filmmaker...
The New Yorker “We Followed the President’s Orders”: Gordon Sondland’s Testimony Likely Assures Trump’s Impeachment verified_publisherThe New Yorker - David RohdeAn explosive opening statement from the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union provided clear evidence for senators and voters to see. The U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, delivered...
The New Yorker Trump Impeachment Hearings: William Taylor’s Unspinnable Testimony verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachInevitably, in the days to come, Republicans will rely on their supporters in the media to present the impeachment hearings as a matter of interpretation. But Taylor said he aims to provide the facts....
The New Yorker Trump Impeachment Hearings: Adam Schiff Emphasizes the Constitutional Stakes verified_publisherThe New Yorker - David RohdeIf Trump is not held accountable, the House Intelligence Committee chairman argued, he will permanently embolden future Presidents and enfeeble Congress. In his opening statement at the first public impeachment...
The New Yorker Impeachment Consensus Makes the Democratic-Debate Stage verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachTuesday’s primary debate began with an expansive conversation about impeachment, and unity and resolve were the themes of the night. For much of the year that followed the 2018 midterm elections, leading...
The New Yorker Nancy Pelosi Responds to Trump on Impeachment at The New Yorker Festival verified_publisherThe New Yorker“He’s almost trying to make lawlessness a virtue,” the Democratic House leader said of the President, in a conversation with Jane Mayer. “He’s almost trying to make lawlessness a virtue,” the Democratic...
The New Yorker Watch Live: Joseph Maguire Testifies to the House on the Whistle-Blower’s Complaint About President Trump verified_publisherThe New YorkerA complaint regarding a conversation between Trump and the President of Ukraine was made public minutes before the acting director of National Intelligence was due to testify before the House Intelligence...
The New Yorker A Damning Whistle-Blower Report of a White House Coverup on Ukraine verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Susan B. GlasserThe Ukraine scandal is, among many other things, a portrait of American foreign policy gone terribly wrong. President Trump is a bit panicky. At about the same time that the House Intelligence Committee...
The New Yorker The House Releases the Declassified Whistle-Blower Complaint Against Donald Trump verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachThe document is a masterpiece of precise bureaucratic prose, laying out a forceful narrative in its allegations against President Trump. “In the course of my official duties, I have received information...
The New Yorker Where Was Mayor Pete Buttigieg at the Democratic Debate? verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachIt’s not that he was absent from the night entirely, but it was hard to see the Buttigieg who had risen to the cusp of front-runner status in the 2020 field. There’s a scene in the movie “Zero Dark Thirty,”...
The New Yorker Did Beto O’Rourke Just Change the Democratic Conversation on Guns at the Debate? verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Michael LuoThe former congressman did not flinch when asked whether he wanted to take away people’s firearms. About an hour into Thursday night’s Democratic debate, David Muir, one of the moderators, turned to the...
The New Yorker Are the Democratic Presidential Debates Working? verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsWith the single exception of Elizabeth Warren, all the candidates ended the summer in essentially the same position in which they started the race. As the Democratic Presidential candidates arrived in...
The New Yorker CNN’s Non-Stop Hunt for Drama at the Democratic Debate verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachTuesday was perhaps the last chance for the long shots to keep their campaigns alive. CNN made the most of their desperation. Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate began with a CNN-produced sizzle...
The New Yorker At the Democratic Debate, Marianne Williamson Battles the “Dark Psychic Force” verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Naomi FryOn Tuesday night, Williamson seemed less of a joke, less of a meme, which made her, perhaps, less curious but also arguably more affecting. A few minutes before 8 p.m. on Tuesday, I received a push notification...
The New Yorker Mueller Revealed the Conspiracy-Theory-Driven State of American Politics verified_publisherThe New Yorker - David RohdeThree competing narratives of the Mueller hearing and the Russia investigation emerged throughout the day. Politics is a battle of narratives. During Robert Mueller’s five-hour appearance on Capitol Hill,...
The New Yorker The Unsurprising Recalcitrance of Robert Mueller During His Testimony verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Osita NwanevuDemocrats clearly want the former special counsel’s blessing to impeach President Donald Trump, but it isn’t, as far as Mueller is concerned, his to give. Robert Mueller’s appearance before the House Committee,...
The New Yorker Mueller’s Testimony Walks Back the Suggestion That Trump Would Be Indicted If He Weren’t the President verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Eric LachWhen asked whether Trump would be facing criminal charges for his actions if he were anyone but the President, Mueller initially appeared to answer yes but later tempered his response. Ted Lieu, the congressman...
The New Yorker Mueller Testimony: “The President Was Not Exculpated” verified_publisherThe New Yorker - David RohdeIn the first minutes of Mueller’s testimony, Democrats achieved a basic aim: contradicting Trump’s claims of innocence. Within minutes of beginning his testimony before Congress on Wednesday, Robert Mueller,...
