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The White House AI rebrand fallacy
Lately I’ve been struck by one thing in my conversations with Republicans working on midterm campaigns, as well as those in and around the White House.
The AI and tech industry’s biggest problem, they tell me, is a branding one.
They see...
The Trumpiest YouTube page takes a hit
Editor’s note: Welcome back! Especially all of you Nicole Wallace and Antonia Hylton viewers. After I scheduled this post to go up, the Detroit News reported that Jackson Karki, the 19-year-old Marquette County GOP chairman working for the...
Mailbag + tune into MS NOW at 3pm ET
Hi everyone,
If you have nothing else to do this afternoon, I’m going to be on MS NOW for the full hour at 3 o’clock.
It’ll be a great panel discussing one of the more peculiar news weeks of Trump 2.0, and it comes as MS was barred from...
Trouble in Michigan: a Mike Rogers campaign staffer sounds the alarm
When it comes to GOP candidates in the 2026 midterms, everything is pretty buttoned up. You might see answers like this one from North Carolina Senate candidate, Michael Whatley, who struggled to define an economic message beyond insisting...
GOP Dallas convention gets SEO-trolled with Epstein files
Correction: The official website for the convention is gopconvention.com, and this appears to be an SEO trolling effort.
Something strange is happening with the website for the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas.
Upon finding...
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Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
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