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Gabriel Debenedetti

National Correspondent, New York Magazine

Gabriel Debenedetti joined New York as its national correspondent in 2018. Before that, he covered politics for Politico and Reuters. He is the author of The Long Alliance, about Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

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    The Obama Fantasy and the Biden RealitySurrounded by a fortress of advisers, the president is walled off from critics — who are desperate for the former one to intervene.
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    Mike Pence And Kamala Harris Take Part In Vice Presidential Debate
    What Kamala World Is ThinkingAs they wait for a sign, the vice-president’s allies are furious at the talk of her being passed over.
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    President Biden Delivers Remarks On Supreme Court's Immunity Ruling
    The Democratic Panic Over Biden Is Getting WorseAnxious lawmakers can’t reach him. Donors are fighting over replacements. All of them are asking: When will it end?
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    Democrats Ask Who Can Make Biden Step AsideDemocrats watched the debate and stared into the abyss. Now they ask if he’s a lost cause.
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    What Obama Is Whispering to BidenThe presidents’ plan to save their legacy from Trump.
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    President Biden Holds Campaign Rally In Philadelphia
    Does Trump’s Conviction Mean This Is a New Campaign?Down in the polls, Biden’s team hopes Trump’s felony conviction will kick off a month of contrasts that could reframe the race.
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    When Joe Biden Plays PunditA close reading of what the president really thinks about 2024—at least what he’s telling his donors.
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    It’s Not 1968 to Joe BidenThe president isn’t worried about campus protests sinking the youth vote. Should he be?
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    Independent presidential candidate Kennedy holds a rally in Raleigh
    Democrats Are Starting to Take the RFK Jr. Threat SeriouslyAfter months of focus on No Labels, pro-Biden forces turn to the man they consider the biggest third-party threat.
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    Can Democrats Make 2024 the Abortion Election?J.B. Pritzker and his fortune are going to try.
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    The Return of the ClintonsBill talks economics with Biden. Hillary gives pointers to Harris. The former First Couple is as deep in politics as they have been since Trump won.
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    Too Old? Biden World Thinks Pundits Just Don’t Get Joe.The president’s friends and aides play media critic amid a political mess.
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    Bernie Sanders’s Pressure Campaign on Democrats Over IsraelHe’s getting louder about America’s role in Israel’s war, pushing his own party to act before it’s too late.
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    Biden World Hopes Voters Are Waking Up to TrumpThe president’s reelection campaign needs voters to understand: The other guy is seriously back.
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    Biden Will Keep Talking About Democracy to Beat TrumpIt’s not only the move his campaign has been waiting to make, it’s also personal.
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    Why Are We Still Watching the Jets in Week 15?Two miserable fans return to commiserate about a lost season.
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    The Alarming Calm of the Biden CampaignThe campaign to reelect the extremely old man dragged down by inflation and war and trailing his criminally indicted opponent is going great.
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    Donald Trump Has Met His Match in Fellow Queens Native Arthur EngoronThe judge overseeing Trump’s civil fraud trial is a fiery Queens native, too.
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    The Impeachment Prosecutor Turned DefenderDan Goldman went after Trump but says there’s no comparison to the ‘bald-faced lies’ against Biden.
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    The Strike From Hell for ‘Union Joe’The UAW doesn’t want his help, but he will need theirs against Trump, who sees an opportunity.
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    Why Are We Still Watching the Jets?Two miserable fans recap week two and try to process their grief.
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    ‘The Party of Cuckoo, Wacko, and Weirdo’Biden world watched the non-Trump debate with a mixture of boredom, disgust, and glee.
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    Biden’s Hollywood Debut Is on HoldThe strike has forced him to avoid some of his biggest donors, except the one helping run his campaign.
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    J. B. Pritzker Is a New Democratic Power BrokerThe governor of Illinois is rich and powerful, making him both an ally to Joe Biden and his own center of influence.
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    Joe Biden vs. Tommy Tuberville: How the President Picks His EnemiesTommy Tuberville is just the latest Republican foil.
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    America Has Never Seen a Spectacle Like MessiIf he stays in Miami long enough, he could supercharge a sport that’s already having its moment.
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    The Guerrilla War to Stop No Labels From Electing TrumpD.C.’s centrists used to be friends, until a few inexplicably went rogue.
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    The Two Bidens Are Fighting Each Other Over the Debt CeilingThe president started the debt-ceiling fight by saying he’d never negotiate, but he can’t seem to resist cutting deals.
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    Old Beats CrazyBiden was always going to run again, and a longtime adviser explains how he might argue that age is but a number.
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    Gavin Newsom Isn’t Supposed to Be Doing ThisThe Feinstein dilemma looms over the wannabe face of Democrats.
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    How Democrats Started Winning in Wisconsin AgainAfter years of being crushed by Republicans, liberals have clawed their way back into power with more cash, better organizing, and abortion politics.
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    5 Clues That Joe Biden Is Already RunningIt’s time to stop pretending he isn’t.
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    The One Big Question Bernie Sanders Won’t AnswerThe progressive hero has more power than ever. He has to decide whether to try and keep it ’til he’s 89.
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    Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s Translator, Leaves the White HouseShe explains the press to the president, preaches Twitter-is-not-real-life, and keeps the West Wing from leaking.
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    The Agonizing Fall of the Florida DemocratThe few left in office insist their state isn’t a lost cause … yet.
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    Joe Biden’s Big Lesson From the Last Debt-Ceiling FightAnd why this time is totally different from 2011. Hopefully.
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    Joe Biden Is Quietly Rolling Into 2024He has silenced a year’s worth of chatter about potential replacements.
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    One of Democrats’ Biggest Draws This Year? Dave Matthews.Jamming out the white suburban Gen-X vote.
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    How Much Political Power Did SBF’s Millions Buy?“Bankman-who? Never knew the guy.”
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    The Wrenching Moral Calculus of Watching the World CupQatar 2022 is rotten to the core, but ignoring the tournament is not realistic.
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    The Vindication (for Now) of Joe BidenBeing underestimated is not new to those who’ve been with him from the start.
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    Why Democrats Are Suddenly Very NervousObama, both Clintons, and even Biden try to rescue their party from a potential rout.
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    The Most Important Senate Race Is Also the Most IgnoredWhile most of the chatter is about other races, Nevada might actually decide control of the chamber.
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    What Obama Is Doing Behind the Scenes to Help Democrats WinWorking the phones, advising on messaging — and trying to make all that work with his own vision for being an ex-president.
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    What Biden Privately Thinks About the MidtermsBehind closed doors, his 2022 priorities (like beating Ron Johnson) are also about his 2024 reelection.
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    Biden Isn’t the Main Character of the Midterms AnymoreThat’s a very good thing for Democrats — and it has Republicans nervous.
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    Who’s the Change Agent Now?Joe Biden is delivering breakthroughs that long eluded Barack Obama. Who understands the presidency best?
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    The Super-High-Stakes 2022 Race No One Is Talking AboutCharlie Crist has been Florida governor before. He thinks he can win again, toppling Ron DeSantis and sending the GOP into chaos in the process.
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    The Kamala ConundrumThe Democrats’ leader-in-waiting is unpopular, derided by donors, and here to stay.
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    Why More and More Democrats Want Trump to Declare Soon“It’d be terrible! We don’t want him back!” said a party pollster. “But it would highlight the contrast.”
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