Leigh Ann Caldwell
Chief Washington Correspondent at Puck
Chief Washington Correspondent @pucknews. Mostly on the Hill. Frmly Washington Post, NBC News. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
President Donald Trump has endorsed about half of the senators running for reelection in 2026, including his golfing buddy Lindsey Graham in South Carolina; Montana’s Steve Daines, the campaign maven who helped Republicans gain control of the Senate last cycle as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee; and blindly loyal types like Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who serves as a liaison between the Senate, the House, and the White House.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
The other day, during a conversation with one of the smartest Republican political operatives that I know, we both wondered aloud when artificial intelligence would become a truly dominant campaign issue. It could be as early as the 2026 midterms, we surmised, and certainly by 2028. Sure, we could both be completely wrong, and A.I. adoption will simply lead to endless economic, social, and cultural prosperity. But that’s probably not happening.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
At the tender age of 52, Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz represents a generational shift in the Democratic Party, even if he still needs to wait his turn for top leadership—or at least until 2026, when Sen. Dick Durbin retires and Schatz will finally get his shot at becoming the Democratic whip. Until then, he’s positioned himself as a critical voice in the caucus, even as Democrats, by Schatz’s own admission, are aimless.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Senator John Fetterman is a serial instigator of mini-freakouts in Democratic circles—over his pro-Israel stance, his condemnation of his own party’s reaction to President Trump’s troop deployment in L.A., and now his chosen dinner companions.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
The Trump administration, which the White House press secretary has repeatedly referred to as the most transparent in American history, appears to be cutting off information and data from lawmakers. Ahead of a recent international trip, or CODEL, House lawmakers were stonewalled by State Department officials when they inquired how they should discuss foreign aid cuts with overseas officials.
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