Lincoln Square Executive Editor Susan J. Demas sat down with Amie Parnes, bestselling author and senior correspondent for The Hill, to talk about Trump’s second term, the midterms, the 2028 presidential race, and her latest book with Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, examining the 2024 presidential election.
Amie, who’s written bestselling books about the 2016 and 2020 elections, told Susan that she wasn’t planning another tome on last year’s race. But after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate — which led to him dropping out with only about 100 days before the November election — her publisher asked her to reconsider. She and Allen offer up an inside look at both the Biden and the Kamala Harris campaigns — and what went wrong. She said the Democratic Party is still haunted by the loss today as it struggles to find its footing.
“They [many Democratic leaders] still blame Joe Biden for the loss — not so much Kamala Harris as much as Joe Biden. I think there’s still a lot of animosity and bitterness about what happened there,” Amie said.
And the 2028 election might be a little less than three years away, but Amie is already reporting on all the jockeying going on for the Democratic nomination for The Hill.
“When people say Kamala Harris [as the nominee], I kind of, it’s a little bit laughable to me,” she said. “I don’t think that they can run someone who lost against Donald Trump again. ... I think [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom is the frontrunner in a very big way.”
Tune in to First Draft for a conversation with one of the top political reporters in the nation about where we’re at as a country nearly one year into Trump’s second term — and what to expect from next year’s elections.
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