Kamala’s brand new, same old last-minute policy platform
She has been shrewd to avoid stating much beyond traditional Democratic talking points
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
Tuesday
Sunday
Republicans shouldn’t underestimate Kamala Harris
From our UK edition
Joe Biden has bowed to the inevitable in withdrawing from the presidential race and endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Only now has the presidential race become interesting as the 59-year-old Harris, who is more than likely to receive the Democratic nomination, prepares to face off against Donald Trump. Suddenly the Republican candidate has become
Thursday
How much pressure is Biden under?
From our UK edition
26 min listen
As more Democrats call for Joe Biden to pull out of the presidential race, Freddy Gray is joined by Damon Linker and Jacob Heilbrunn to discuss what could happen next. Who is influencing his decision and how transparent are top Democrats being with the public? They also discuss potential contenders to replace Biden, including Vice-President
Top Democrat Adam Schiff urges Joe Biden to quit
From our UK edition
The blows keep coming. California congressman Adam Schiff, who was an impeachment manager during Donald Trump’s first Senate trial in 2020, is now targeting another president for destruction. Schiff has called upon Joe Biden to exit the presidential race, the twenty-third legislator to do so and definitely the most significant of the lot. Schiff, who
Monday
What does JD Vance want?
From our UK edition
With his selection of JD Vance as his running mate, Donald Trump has signaled that he doesn’t simply want to defeat Joe Biden. He also wants to crush the last vestiges of the Republican establishment. No other politician can help him carry out a Maga revolution in Washington more ruthlessly and effectively than Vance. Forget
Sunday
Biden’s assassination statement is tepid
From our UK edition
Trump displayed great presence of mind in raising his fist in defiance and shouting ‘fight’ as secret service agents sought to move him to safety. He now becomes a living martyr for the MAGA cause. Not since Theodore Roosevelt continued speaking for an hour after he was shot in October 1912 has an American president
Friday
Joe Biden is in denial
From our UK edition
Donald Trump had good reason to gloat over Joe Biden’s press conference flub referring to ‘Vice President Trump’. It was preceded earlier in the day by Biden calling Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky ‘President Putin.’ Biden, in other words, was at it again. But Biden adeptly seized the opportunity to offer a little lesson in foreign
Saturday
Joe Biden’s ABC interview won’t help his doomed campaign
From our UK edition
Like a father confessor, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos tried everything to jolt President Joe Biden out of his complacency. He pleaded with him. He queried him. He exhorted him. Nothing worked. Throughout the interview, if that’s what it was, Biden rebuffed his entreaties as though they couldn’t be more outlandish. Down in the polls? Not
Saturday
Can the Democrats drop Joe Biden?
From our UK edition
After his disastrous outing against Donald Trump on Thursday evening, Joe Biden’s surrogates are scrambling to salvage something from the wreckage. ‘I would never turn my back on President Biden’s record’, California Governor Gavin Newsom said. ‘I would never turn my back on President Biden, and I don’t know a Democrat in my party who
Tuesday
Reflecting on Trumpism in Pittsburgh
His extremism is likely to push Biden over the finish line
Saturday
What’s Biden’s strategy in the Middle East?
From our UK edition
24 min listen
Suspected Israeli air strikes were launched on targets in Syria this week and Israel’s war in Gaza has entered its seventh month. Americano regular Jacob Heilbrunn joins Freddy to discuss what an escalating situation in the Middle East could mean for Joe Biden. What’s the Democrats’ strategy? And how could this impact the 2024 election?
Tuesday
Victoria Nuland was the Kremlin’s princess of darkness
The departing State Department official was always ready to speak her mind, especially when it came to Russia’s malign intentions
Saturday
Donald Trump ordered to pay $350 million in fraud case
From our UK edition
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time complaining that Nato members aren’t paying their bills, but he has been compiling his own. The latest is a whopping $350 million (£278 million) judgment courtesy of Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, who came down with a decisive thud on Trump’s business dealings in his civil fraud
Friday
What do Republicans think of Lord Cameron?
From our UK edition
30 min listen
Freddy Gray speaks to Americano regular Jacob Heilbrunn about Lord Cameron’s recent visit to DC, where he persuaded Congress to pass a bill sending aid to Ukraine. Jacob and Freddy also discuss why Jacob thinks Biden’s mental capacity is over exaggerated, and what Nato could look like under Trump, and the latest on his charges.
Monday
Trump says he will let NATO down. How will Kamala Harris respond?
The vice president is set to defend the western alliance in Munich later this week
Thursday
Will Chris Christie’s withdrawal help stop Trump?
The fear of Christie and others is that in a second term, Trump would indeed draw upon such plans to institute a dictatorship
Friday
Is an impeachment inquiry good for Biden?
From our UK edition
25 min listen
The House of Representatives has voted to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, after three Republican-led committees alleged bribery and corruption during his time as vice-president. Could it actually be good news for Biden? Freddy speaks to Jacob Heilbrunn.
Wednesday
Republican also-rans tussle in Tuscaloosa
Chris Christie had a standout night
Tuesday
Biden’s Middle East approach – and is he in trouble at home?
From our UK edition
24 min listen
Freddy Gray is reunited with Charles Lipson and Jacob Heilbrunn to debate the impact of Biden’s Middle East policy, and his shaky reputation at home. Is he a Cold War liberal, out of touch with the modern Democratic Party?
Friday
Trump’s dig at Netanyahu shows why he isn’t fit to be president
From our UK edition
When Donald Trump appeared at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in 2019, he referred to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ‘your prime minister’. Now that prime minister has incurred Trump’s wrath. On Tuesday at a rally in South Palm Beach Trump declared that Netanyahu was ‘not prepared’ for the assault by Hamas on Israel.
