The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss the addition of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the Democratic ticket and Donald Trump’s erratic response at a press conference on Thursday. “Walz has scrambled the circuits for Trump because he’s not easy to pigeonhole,” Osnos says. “He’s not what Trump imagines, in his comic-book way, of what a progressive looks like.” Plus, the campaigns’ strategies in the battleground states and what it will take to win key states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania.
This week’s reading:
- “Does Anyone in America Miss Joe Biden as Much as Donald Trump?” by Susan B. Glasser
- “How Generic Can Kamala Harris Be?” by Jay Caspian Kang
- “How Kamala Harris Became Bigger than Donald Trump,” by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
- “What Tim Walz Brings to Kamala Harris’s Campaign to Beat Donald Trump,” by Peter Slevin
- “ ‘Weird’ Is a Rebuke to Republican Dominance Politics,” by Katy Waldman
- “What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?,” by Clare Malone
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