Leigh Ann Caldwell
Chief Washington Correspondent at Puck
Early 202 co-author and Washington Post Live anchor @washingtonpost; frmr NBCNews Capitol Hill Correspondent. Mom of 2. [email protected]
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5 days ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Just before President Donald Trump announced a new trade agreement with the U.K.—really more of an outline of a framework of an agreement, but one that Trump allies are nevertheless portraying as part of the greatest negotiation in the history of negotiations—I sat down with Republican Indiana Sen. Jim Banks, who is all in on Trump’s tariff policy. Banks, a freshman from Indiana, has an umbilical relationship with the president.
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6 days ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a guy named Stephen Cloobeck, asking to chat. Cloobeck? The name sounded familiar, but I had to Google him to find out that he wasn’t some former high school classmate or colleague, but rather a sixtysomething real estate mogul running for governor of California.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Mike Johnson has notched his share of victories in his 18 months as speaker of the House, not least of which is that he still has the job—which few thought would be possible given the Republican Party’s nanoscopic majority. Along the way, he’s angered colleagues, faced multiple threats to his leadership, and struggled to wrangle the votes for his January speaker election.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
On the morning of Donald Trump’s 100th day in office, House Republicans emerged confident from a closed-door briefing about the state of their majority—in lockstep and seemingly unconcerned about their political viability in next year’s midterms. “It looks really bad for the Democrats,” Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern, a member of House Republican leadership, told me afterward. Member after member defended the president, downplaying the sour mood of the electorate and generally making reassuring noises.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Leigh Ann Caldwell
Illinois, the Democratic epicenter of the Midwest, is facing major political turnover this cycle: Governor JB Pritzker is contemplating a presidential run. Senator Dick Durbin just confirmed he won’t seek reelection, the starting gun for a half-dozen much younger Democrats who were jockeying for position well before he made it official. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, also 80, is about to announce that she won’t run again for her suburban Chicago district.
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