Love me some Political Gabfest!! slate.com/podcasts/polit…

“It’s not always just a simple case of cowardice…it’s really hard to disentangle yourself from that party apparatus.” Watch staff writer McKay Coppins in conversation with alexwagner on Alex Wagner Tonight:
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George Packer's review of Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is exceptionally good. You can tell that Packer started his career as a novelist and still has one in him: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Staff writer Mark Leibovich joined Slate Political Gabfest to discuss his recent profile of Governor Gavin Newsom. Listen to the conversation here:
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RIP to longtime Florida Gov/Sen Bob Graham, a great character, who kept a running log of his waking activities for 5 decades (filing 4,400 notebooks, color coded by season). I wrote about his entry into 2004 presidential race in Graham-Running-Log form
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Gavin Newsom has made clear that he’s not running for president in 2024. But being a surrogate for Joe Biden requires a performative humility that doesn’t always come naturally to the governor, Mark Leibovich writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

SARAH LONGWELL! ♥️ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Newsom said he wanted to strike up at least some tiny bit of rapport with DeSantis during their Hannity debate. “I tried, during every commercial break,” Newsom said. “Impossible. Complete asshole.”
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Newsom on DeSantis, backstage.

From Mark Leibovich’s XCLNT new profile in The Atlantic:
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Well, this is gonna be great

Spotted in Gov. Newsom’s office

Newsom hoisted a bottle of wine someone had given him: “Desantis,” the vintage is called. I imagined a libation of complex and astringent notes, not at all supple or aromatic. “I may send it to him,” Newsom said.
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This Elaine Godfrey piece on Gaetz is the best so far

The insider state of California, from Mark Leibovich’s profile of Gov. Gavin Newsom: “Bill Newsom, Gavin’s father, was a judge—appointed by Jerry Brown [Newsom’s predecessor]—whose sister was married to the brother of [Nancy] Pelosi’s husband, Paul.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Gavin Newsom has made clear that he’s not running for president in 2024. But being a surrogate for Joe Biden requires a performative humility that doesn’t always come naturally to the governor, Mark Leibovich writes: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

'It may seem incongruous to mark the anniversary of the American Revolution with an enormous road race,' Yoni Appelbaum wrote in 2013. 'But the Boston Marathon is actually a near-perfect embodiment of the meaning of Patriots' Day.' theatlantic.com/national/archi…

'We don't need magazine profiles,' California Governor Gavin Newsom told Mark Leibovich . 'We don’t need any problems.'

And with that, Leibo is off to the races theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

'Newsom fashioned himself a presidential super-surrogate—chief alleviator of fears about Biden. But being a super-surrogate requires performative humility, subordinating one’s own ambition to the candidate’s. Not something that comes naturally to Newsom.'
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'Gavin Newsom Is Getting Antsy' Mark Leibovich theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

“We don’t need magazine profiles,” California Governor Gavin Newsom told me. “We don’t need any problems.”
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