Edward-Isaac Dovere

It Ain’t Over in Wisconsin

The Badger State could decide the presidency again. Or it could be “one of a bunch of cherries on top of a democracy sundae.”

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 29, 2020

The 11,000 Votes That Haunt Michigan Democrats

Donald Trump barely won the state in 2016. Here’s how Democrats plan to flip it back.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 25, 2020

Cory Booker on Why the Democrats Haven’t Stopped Barrett

The senator from New Jersey talks about Donald Trump, race, and the Supreme Court—and says he thinks he’s “taking up space” in the president’s head.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 23, 2020

What George W. Bush Plans to Do About Trump

Anti-Trump Republicans say Bush’s absence from 2020 is inexcusable. Bush’s office says he’s staying retired.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 16, 2020

Here Comes Obama

The arena politician won’t be appearing in an arena anytime soon. He has other plans.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 15, 2020

Hillary Clinton Says She Was Right All Along

The biggest factors she blames for her loss—disinformation, Vladimir Putin, and America’s deep political divide—will still be problems even if Trump loses, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee warns.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 9, 2020

What Else Does the CIA Know About Trump and Russia?

In a new book, former CIA Director John Brennan traces how he came to believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. There’s still more about Russia that worries him.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• October 1, 2020

The Debates Could Seal Biden’s Fate

Trump says he isn’t preparing. Biden’s aides see debates as boxes to check. But many Democrats remain nervous.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 22, 2020

What Republican Senators Say in Private

With a Supreme Court vacancy after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Republican senators must again choose between country and party.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 19, 2020

Howie Hawkins Is No Kanye West

The Green Party’s 2020 nominee tells The Ticket he’s not running as a spoiler candidate. But he insists that Kanye West’s candidacy is a “Republican dirty trick.”

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 19, 2020

Poisoned by 9/11, Killed by the Coronavirus

Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaign on a strangely normal 9/11, as the pandemic comes for survivors, too.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 11, 2020

The Deadline That Could Hand Trump the Election

A 133-year-old law creates perverse incentives for the Trump administration—and could make a chaotic postelection period even more tumultuous.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 9, 2020

‘Completely Exasperated’: Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor Confronts Kenosha

“It takes political leadership to fix this sort of moment,” Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor says. But Trump, he suggests, “is only making things worse.”

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• September 7, 2020

This Isn’t How Joe Biden Wanted to Win

What happens when the virtuoso retail campaigner can’t do any retail campaigning?

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 21, 2020

The Battle That Changed Kamala Harris

What the national mortgage settlement taught the freshly elected California attorney general—and how it connected her to Joe Biden

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 20, 2020

Why Joe Biden Picked Kamala Harris

Biden’s running mate is two decades younger than he is; the potential vice presidency seems like merely a first step.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 11, 2020

This Is Exactly What Susan Rice Feared

The Biden vice-presidential-nominee finalist discusses Trump’s pandemic response, Benghazi, and her family’s politics.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 8, 2020

Joe Biden Doesn’t Have a Plan for That

The Democratic nominee, just like everyone else, doesn’t know what might await him in January.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• August 6, 2020

When Karen Bass Went to Work in Castro’s Cuba

In 1973, Bass, who’s now a potential Biden VP pick, traveled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. “I didn’t have any illusions that the people in Cuba had the same freedoms I did,” she said.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 31, 2020

The Florida Democrat Who’s Been Warning About a Pandemic for Decades

Long before Donna Shalala got to Congress, she was America’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services—and Anthony Fauci’s boss.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• July 25, 2020