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Photo by Jesse Dittmar. | "I love being with her. She's like my psychiatrist," Donald Trump said. He was talking about Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter who has dominated the cutthroat Trump beat, and the author of the upcoming book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America . "I've never seen a psychiatrist," he added, "but if I did, I'm sure it would not be as good as this, right?" Haberman is known for her tenacity — past colleagues describe her as someone who could juggle a Blackberry, a flip phone and a cigarette at the same time — but what makes her so well-suited to covering Trump? Michael Kruse went to New York to find out what brings a great journalist and a complicated subject together. "Trump and Haberman in so many ways couldn't be any more different — he, for starters, is a serial liar, and she occupationally and dispositionally is a seeker of truth — but the Venn diagram of the two is not nil," he writes. "They both are born-and-raised New Yorkers who followed their fathers somewhat reluctantly into their respective family businesses. They both can show similarly obsessive tendencies but also enduring insecurities in spite of their manifest successes (albeit of utterly disparate sorts). They both have skins that can be simultaneously thick and thin and sometimes find it hard to slough off slights." In this fascinating profile of a presidential chronicler at the top of her game, Haberman goes deep on her work, her critics, growing up with an absent foreign-correspondent father and the anxiety she feels as a high-profile reporter with children herself. Read Kruse's story.
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| "I told my grandkids and Pete Buttigieg they could stay up late to watch this show tonight." Can you guess who said this about the Secretary of Transportation? Scroll to the bottom for the answer.**
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Long Beach, California, in 2021. | David McNew/Getty Images |
What's Newsom Doing in Texas? … California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going on the offensive, running ads in Florida implying it's less free than his state, hammering Texas Gov. Abbott in newspapers and putting up billboards in red America touting California as a haven for abortion rights. Is he running for president? Don't get ahead of yourself: He says he's more concerned with bringing the fight to the GOP. But at some point the Democratic ticket will open up, and right now Newsom is solidifying his lane in that primary as the most exasperated voice of the left.
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| 35 percent … of voters age 65 and up say they've taken something from an employer without permission, compared to just 26 percent of voters overall.
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| Swipe Right ... A new dating app called The Right Stuff — co-founded by a former Trump body man and funded by Peter Thiel — promises to provide straight conservatives a refuge from the woke dating world. POLITICO's Jackie Padilla interviewed one of the app's co-founders, Dan Huff, about his vision this week. "Seventy-two percent of young Democrats say that they wouldn't date a conservative," he told her. "The reverse isn't true. So essentially they started this. We had to build this app to survive." Check out the POLITICO Show on Snapchat to see the video.
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| Italy's election of Giorgia Meloni, its most far-right leader since fascist dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power, has rattled Europe. Not exactly clear on la politica Italiana? We'll get you up to speed: - Meloni won't go it alone as prime minister; she'll probably form a coalition government with far-right leaders Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini, both fans of Vladimir Putin. How long that government might last is unclear. - Meloni has expressed support for Ukraine, but whether she'll compromise on Putinism to win over her coalition is a source of worry in the EU. - Her party, Brothers of Italy, which she co-founded in 2012, is the heir to the Italian Social Movement, formed in 1946 by a chief of staff from Mussolini's government. The party still uses the tricolor flame, a symbol of post-World War II neo-fascism. - Meloni's anti-immigrant campaign echoes Trumpian politics and has drawn praise from American conservatives like Steve Bannon and Sen. Ted Cruz, who called her victory speech "spectacular." - Fantasy nerds have a special window into Meloni's thinking; like many hard-right Italians, she loves The Lord of the Rings and its "traditionalist mythic age for symbols, heroes and creation myths free of Fascist taboos," according to the New York Times.
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POLITICO illustration / iStock | Ranked Alaska … Democrat Mary Peltola scored a stunning victory over Sarah Palin in Alaska's special House election this August. What role did the state's ranked-choice voting model play, and what could it mean for future elections? Longtime Alaska pollster Ivan Moore told Ben Jacobs America's newest voting system helps capture the "big middle" — and that could have implications beyond the Last Frontier.
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Photo courtesy Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. | Eighty-seven years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Boulder Dam, later known as the Hoover Dam. Ten thousand people braved 102-degree heat to hear the president's speech, which began: "This morning I came, I saw and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind." The Hoover Dam sits on the Nevada-Arizona border and was the highest dam in the world when it was completed — the concrete used was enough to pave a road between San Francisco and New York City. Around 100 fatalities occurred during the dam's construction. Today, the dam attracts roughly 7 million visitors per year. It impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S. by volume when full.
| | | **Who Dissed answer: Who else but Uncle — er, make that Grandpa — Joe, speaking at the White House Correspondents Dinner in April. politicoweekend@email.politico.com | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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