New York policy editor @politico @politicopro; chief philanthropic adviser, Indomitable Drinky Crows
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“The solution to high health care costs, using that view, looks more like plumbing — fixing the leaky pipes raising health care costs — and less like highbrow architecture designing a new building from scratch.” nytimes.com/2026/11/03/opini…
“To me, he’s like a modern-day Columbo,” said David Paterson, a Democrat who served as New York governor during some of Jeffries’ tenure in Albany. “While you’re putting him down, he’s planning how to take you out.” politico.com/news/2026/11/02…
Paul Demko retweeted
In a vacuum, an emergency election-related request from the federal government is the sort of thing that SCOTUS typically would take very seriously. A terse, 9-0 order denying such a request, without even getting the other side's response, is the court's way of sending a message.
“We could have Tusk and Nawrocki confronting each other at the presidential palace while, across Warsaw, rival judges fight over who actually has the power to run the country’s constitutional court,” POLITICO’s Bartosz Brzezinski told Forecast politico.com/newsletters/for…
"We took over and we just kind of fucking botched it. The Democrats didn’t create some bullshit. We had a generational opportunity and we basically squandered it. Look at the coalition we had in 2024. Those people might not ever vote again in their lives.” newyorker.com/news/the-polit…
“I’m going to Argentina,” a Trump-aligned influencer told me, ducking out of an afternoon panel in a suburban strip mall. “Like, moving there. We’re all going to be indicted." newyorker.com/news/the-polit…
One Black voter likened casting a ballot to taking out the trash — a vital but not joy-inducing responsibility.
"He said something like, 'If you don’t do it, shit starts to stink around here.'"
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“Historically, quagmire abroad and high prices at home are the ingredients for a failed presidency.” nytimes.com/2026/11/01/upsho…
“Imagine AOC meeting with Bloomberg or some of the other corporate type guys,” Velazquez said, referring to Mamdani’s sessions w/ biz leaders like the former mayor. “She would have been vilified. I think there is a different standard when it comes to her” nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
“The one independent poll of the race put Kean Jr. at a five-point disadvantage, but more telling is the fact that most Republican groups pulled out of the district weeks ago, making Kean Jr. one of the first incumbents to be triaged.” politico.com/news/2026/10/31…
Paul Demko retweeted
Exclusive in @POLITICO: Maria Elvira Salazar has been a fixture, a celebrity of the 305. Suddenly she’s fighting for her political life.
The sweeping ICE crackdown in Miami risks fracturing the GOP coalition of Latino support that’s transformed the city’s politics. Salazar privately warned James Blair and White House CoS Susie Wiles about the GOP losing Latinos on immigration, well before she so publicly broke with her party in a viral ad in front of the White House.
With days to go, Salazar is the ultimate test of whether a Latina Republican can win in the era of mass deportation.
A profile months in the making, reported from my hometown — this is one of the top House races to watch on Tuesday.
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“You just can’t go tick off and declare war on the Latinos and not have it come back and bite you in the rear end,” said Republican state Rep. Gary Gates. “That’s going to have consequences.” politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Paul Demko retweeted
I obtained the audio of yesterday's CBS all-staff editorial meeting where the Dan Sullivan/Dan Sullivan story was discussed. In contrast to the Fox story's characterization (shared below), I didn't detect any tension or hear staffers clashing or disagreeing with Bari Weiss. Sounded like a standard editorial discussion...
Fox is wrong. That is not what happened in the meeting at all. No one who spoke at the network meeting opposed covering the campaign or story but rather exchanged ideas on how to do it. All of the AK candidates also know they have an open invitation (repeatedly offered) to join Face the Nation. So does the NH GOP candidate who has also been repeatedly invited. I look forward to seeing my colleagues cover it too.
I actually caught this on Fox: foxnews.com/video/6407549345…
And WaPo: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
“Distrust is especially widespread among Trump voters who identify as ‘MAGA Republicans’ — his most loyal base. Three in five MAGA Trump voters say the polls indicating Democrats will win key races next week are incorrect.” politico.com/news/2026/10/30…
“If the cumulative results of our polling are borne out on Election Day, it would mark the largest defeat that any party has seen in over 40 years.” open.substack.com/pub/thearg…
“If Democrats win back control of the Senate it will be in spite of the instincts of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand,” Green said. “Leaving the garage with your parking brake on — that is Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.” washingtonsun.com/congress/k…
“When you have a very large middle class and all boats are lifting with the tide, more people feel good about the economy,” Ms. Swonk said. “This has more of the feeling of some people with yachts and some people with no boats at all.” nytimes.com/2026/10/29/busin…
“This is what we are at risk of losing. Or what, Berger might say, is being stolen from us, not least by the technologies that offer us endless novelty and seem to fulfill desires we never even knew we had.” nytimes.com/2026/10/18/magaz…
“Blair’s critics describe him as imperious, smug and in over his head — a fringe Florida political guy who stumbled into the big leagues.” theatlantic.com/politics/202…
“For ten endless years, our politics has been all about the vast gap that separates these two men, and the near-impossible task of trying to understand how a country that elected Obama twice could, so soon after, do the same for Trump.” newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
