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The Long Game

Let's Get Rid of the Speaker of the House, Says Former Aide to John Boehner

May 29, 2019

Michael Steel, spent years as a top aide to Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, namely House Speaker John Boehner, has worked on a number of presidential campaigns, and is now a managing partner at Hamilton Place Partners, a public affairs firm in Washington DC. 


We talked about how the current uproar among House...


Snapchat's Peter Hamby Knows the Youth Vote & Sees Trouble Ahead for Bernie Sanders

May 10, 2019

Peter Hamby is host of “Good Luck America,” a weekly political show on Snapchat that he said is watched by 2 million young people (the majority of Snapchat users are between 13 and 24 years old). And he writes a regular political column for Vanity Fair’s “The Hive,” which reaches a more establishment...


Is Beto O'Rourke Already Played Out? Reid Epstein of The New York Times Joins to Discuss

May 3, 2019

Reid Epstein has covered Beto O'Rourke extensively, as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal the last few years, and now a newly minted member of the New York Times 2020 coverage team. Epstein talks about what it was that made O'Rourke a phenom to begin with, and how the playbook that got him thus far may be...