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Jan. 25, 2025

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Happy Saturday. I=E2=80=99m Leigh Ann Caldwell, a former
Washington Post reporter and anchor and NBC News correspondent, now chief W=
ashington correspondent for Puck. Beginning on Sunday, I=E2=80=99ll be writ=
ing to you throughout the week in The Best & The Brightest, our daily polit=
ical newsletter covering what=E2=80=99s really happening in this town=E2=80=
=94from Capitol Hill to the White House, on K Street and the campaign trail=
, and everywhere in between.=C2=A0

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As a staffer to Harry Reid, I witnessed up close the transactional nature o=
f political
power=E2=80=94an education that I poured into my second career as a journal=
ist. Now, as chief Washington correspondent for Puck, I=E2=80=99m delving d=
eeper than ever into the (mostly) smokeless back rooms of the Hill, where t=
he second Trump era will come alive.=C2=A0

Leigh Ann Caldwell ( https://puck.news/author/leigh-ann-caldwell/?utm_campa=
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When I was finishing up college at North Carolina State, I found myself at =
a crossroads
that I thought would determine the rest of my life: I could either move to =
rural North Carolina and work as a journalist at a local radio station, or =
shelve those plans and instead go to work for one of the most powerful peop=
le in Washington. Worried that I might never be promoted to reporter, I put=
 journalism aside, and joined the staff of Senator Harry Reid, the former b=
oxer turned power broker who represented my home state of Nevada. It was, a=
s it turns out, a fateful decision that ultimately led me to Puck, where I=
=E2=80=99ll be covering Capitol Hill.

=C2=A0

I=E2=80=99d never been to Washington. When I arrived, the atmosphere was ex=
traordinarily charged, perceptible even to a 21-year-old political novice. =
The Supreme Court had just handed George W. Bush the election and the Senat=
e was split 50-50. From my perch as assistant to Susan McCue, Reid=E2=80=99=
s glass-ceiling-shattering chief of staff, I acted as a gatekeeper to the g=
atekeeper and witnessed first-hand how power,
soft and hard, was wielded.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

Reid was a transactional dealmaker, a real creature of the chamber, obsesse=
d with his own power and whatever benefited Nevada. At the time, he=E2=80=
=99d somehow persuaded Senator Jim Jeffords, a moderate Republican disgrunt=
led with his party=E2=80=99s conservative turn, to drop his party affiliati=
on and vote with the Democrats, a masterstroke that gave Democrats the majo=
rity
and the ability to slow Bush=E2=80=99s agenda, quickly putting Reid on the =
path to becoming leader.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

It was, in many ways, the perfect training ground for a political reporter.=
 Riding shotgun with McCue, I observed the inside machinations of Reid=E2=
=80=99s yearlong, round-the-clock strategy sessions to persuade, arm-twist,=
 and barter with enough senators to kill the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste r=
epository in Nevada=E2=80=94a NIMBYist move
that pitted most of the country against my home state.

=C2=A0

My extremely low-paying but eye-opening job left me uninterested in partici=
pating in partisan battles, but it also armed me with a new understanding o=
f how the most powerful people operate. It was an awareness that would keep=
 pulling me back to Capitol Hill. After I left Reid=E2=80=99s office, I mov=
ed to New York to pursue the career I actually wanted:
journalism. I interned and freelanced, but mostly waited tables. Eventually=
, I became a radio reporter during Bush=E2=80=99s lame duck years and the b=
eginning of Barack Obama=E2=80=99s term, when the economy was crashing and =
the wealthy got rewarded=E2=80=94seeds of the populist backlash that led to=
 Donald Trump.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

During the 2016 presidential campaign, at NBC News, I covered Republican
donors and grassroots organizers. Power and influence had been flipped on i=
ts head: Wealthy G.O.P. fundraisers who had driven the party=E2=80=99s agen=
da and played huge roles in determining its presidential nominee were late =
to the game. It was the populist base that fell in line behind Trump and dr=
ove his success=E2=80=94the same base that he continues to use and manipula=
te to his everlasting advantage.

=C2=A0

Eventually,
my beat pivoted to the impact of Trump=E2=80=99s first term on the Hill. (I=
 still recall fondly the afternoon when a happy-go-lucky John McCain, just =
back from brain cancer treatment, joined a FaceTime call with my kids=E2=80=
=94hours before he provided the decisive vote against Obamacare repeal.) Tr=
ump hadn=E2=80=99t yet figured out how to mold Washington=E2=80=94the town=
=E2=80=99s rhythms and rituals were largely alien to him=E2=80=94but his st=
aff, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, knew how to mold
the Supreme Court. I covered the sexual assault allegations against Brett K=
avanaugh, his controversial confirmation hearings, and Republican efforts t=
o ensure he was confirmed. It was an extension of the #MeToo movement, wher=
e the power balance seemed to be shifting, even temporarily, away from trad=
itional centers of influence. My reporting from that era helped to reveal t=
hat the Hill=E2=80=99s version of an ethics office had shielded the accused=
 from allegations and
repercussions.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

The Trump years were a time of remarkable and initially surprising growth f=
or the media. I joined the best political reporters in the country at The W=
ashington Post, one of the most financially stable news organizations backe=
d by one of the richest men in the world. A winning combination, I thought.=
 I helmed the Post=E2=80=99s flagship morning political newsletter during a
tumultuous time in Congress, breaking news about efforts to oust then Speak=
er Kevin McCarthy and the nearly monthlong journey to find his replacement.=
 I wrote the definitive final act of the years-long power struggle between =
McConnell and Reid, my old boss.

=C2=A0

My years at the Post brought me deep into the inner sanctum of power. I det=
ailed why the earnest new speaker of the
House, Mike Johnson, was willing to lose his job to fund Ukraine=E2=80=99s =
defense against Russia. (Months later, during an interview with Johnson, he=
 asked me whether I was the person who=E2=80=99d asked him at a news confer=
ence why he=E2=80=99d put everything on the line for Ukraine. He told me it=
 was a tough question but one he appreciated and was pleased to be able to =
articulate.) I broke stories about the Democrats=E2=80=99 pressure campaign=
 during the torturous three weeks after President
Biden=E2=80=99s disastrous debate performance and his agonizing decision to=
 drop out.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

As an anchor for Washington Post Live, I chatted with Senate Democratic lea=
der Chuck Schumer about artificial intelligence, pressed Senate Republican =
leader John Thune about his relationship with Trump, and held court with Ky=
rsten Sinema, who rarely talks to the
media, for 30 minutes onstage. I hosted a show that featured Republican and=
 Democratic lawmakers, in concert with one another=E2=80=94an anomaly in th=
ese polarizing times, when so many politicians fear that a picture of bipar=
tisanship will be weaponized against them.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

These days, much of journalism is in crisis, struggling to find an audience=
 and business model to stay solvent. I loved my job, but
Puck offered something new=E2=80=94the chance to have a say in how the busi=
ness of media is run, plus the ability to report aggressively and write wit=
h abandon. Puck has a vision and a voice, and I wanted to help build its in=
fluence in Washington, D.C., in general, and on the Hill, in particular.

=C2=A0

At Puck, I=E2=80=99ll return to Capitol Hill, where I=E2=80=99ll make sense=
 of the perpetual jockeying over agendas and
status. I=E2=80=99ll be writing for Puck=E2=80=99s flagship political newsl=
etter, The Best & The Brightest, starting with a regular Sunday column that=
 captures the week=E2=80=99s inside conversations on the Hill and also pres=
ages the challenges and opportunities ahead.

=C2=A0

I=E2=80=99ll also take you inside the (mostly smokeless) back rooms of the =
Hill to provide a deeper understanding of how power is used and sometimes a=
bused. I=E2=80=99ll introduce
you to characters you didn=E2=80=99t know you needed to know. I=E2=80=99ll =
reveal the cliques, the moods, and the infighting that makes this place uni=
que. When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suddenly shifts her tone toward Johns=
on, I=E2=80=99ll tell you why. It=E2=80=99s the details and the color and t=
he conversations that most fascinate me in an institution where process is =
actually not the story.=C2=A0

=C2=A0

It=E2=80=99ll be a blast. Plus, isn=E2=80=99t Puck
everyone=E2=80=99s favorite Shakespeare character?

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See you soon,

Leigh Ann

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7f" target=3D"_self" style=3D"color:#d40000;text-decoration:none;">Leigh An=
n Caldwell</a>
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<table width=3D"100%" border=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" role=
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;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:150%;text-al=
ign:left;mso-line-height-alt:25.5px;"><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0p=
x;">When I was finishing up college at North Carolina State, I found myself=
 at a crossroads
that I thought would determine the rest of my life: I could either move to =
rural North Carolina and work as a journalist at a local radio station, or =
shelve those plans and instead go to work for one of the most powerful peop=
le in Washington. Worried that I might never be promoted to reporter, I put=
 journalism aside, and joined the staff of Senator<strong> Harry Reid</stro=
ng>, the former boxer turned power broker who represented my home state of =
Nevada. It was, as it turns out, a fateful decision that ultimately led me =
to Puck, where I=E2=80=99ll be covering Capitol Hill. </p><p style=3D"margi=
n:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0
</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">I=E2=80=99d never been to Wash=
ington. When I arrived, the atmosphere was extraordinarily charged, percept=
ible even to a 21-year-old political novice. The Supreme Court had just han=
ded <strong>George W. Bush</strong> the election and the Senate was split 5=
0-50. From my perch as assistant to <strong>Susan McCue</strong>, Reid=E2=
=80=99s glass-ceiling-shattering chief of staff, I acted as a <em>gatekeepe=
r </em>to <em>the gatekeeper</em> and witnessed first-hand how power,
soft and hard, was wielded.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px=
;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">Reid was a transactio=
nal dealmaker, a real creature of the chamber, <em>obsessed</em> with his o=
wn power and whatever benefited Nevada. At the time, he=E2=80=99d somehow p=
ersuaded Senator <strong>Jim Jeffords</strong>, a moderate Republican disgr=
untled with his party=E2=80=99s conservative turn, to drop his party affili=
ation and vote with the Democrats, a masterstroke that gave Democrats the m=
ajority
and the ability to slow Bush=E2=80=99s agenda, quickly putting Reid on the =
path to becoming leader.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=
=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">It was, in many ways, th=
e perfect training ground for a political reporter. Riding shotgun with McC=
ue, I observed the inside machinations of Reid=E2=80=99s yearlong, round-th=
e-clock strategy sessions to persuade, arm-twist, and barter with enough se=
nators to kill the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada=E2=80=
=94a NIMBYist move
that pitted most of the country against my home state.</p><p style=3D"margi=
n:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=
My extremely low-paying but eye-opening job left me uninterested in partici=
pating in partisan battles, but it also armed me with a new understanding o=
f how the most powerful people operate. It was an awareness that would keep=
 pulling me back to Capitol Hill. After I left Reid=E2=80=99s office, I mov=
ed to New York to pursue the career I actually wanted:
journalism. I interned and freelanced, but mostly waited tables. Eventually=
, I became a radio reporter during Bush=E2=80=99s lame duck years and the b=
eginning of <strong>Barack Obama</strong>=E2=80=99s term, when the economy =
was crashing and the wealthy got rewarded=E2=80=94seeds of the populist bac=
klash that led to <strong>Donald Trump</strong>.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margi=
n:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=
During the 2016 presidential campaign, at NBC News, I covered Republican
donors and grassroots organizers. Power and influence had been flipped on i=
ts head: Wealthy G.O.P. fundraisers who had driven the party=E2=80=99s agen=
da and played huge roles in determining its presidential nominee were late =
to the game. It was the populist <em>base</em> that fell in line behind Tru=
mp and drove his success=E2=80=94the same base that he continues to use and=
 manipulate to his everlasting advantage.</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bo=
ttom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">Eventually,
my beat pivoted to the impact of Trump=E2=80=99s first term on the Hill. (I=
 still recall fondly the afternoon when a happy-go-lucky <strong>John McCai=
n</strong>, just back from brain cancer treatment, joined a FaceTime call w=
ith my kids=E2=80=94hours before he provided the decisive vote against Obam=
acare repeal.) Trump hadn=E2=80=99t yet figured out how to mold Washington=
=E2=80=94the town=E2=80=99s rhythms and rituals were largely alien to him=
=E2=80=94but his staff, and Senate Majority Leader <strong>Mitch McConnell<=
/strong>, knew how to mold
the Supreme Court. I covered the sexual assault allegations against <strong=
>Brett Kavanaugh</strong>, his controversial confirmation hearings, and Rep=
ublican efforts to ensure he was confirmed. It was an extension of the #MeT=
oo movement, where the power balance seemed to be shifting, even temporaril=
y, away from traditional centers of influence. My reporting from that era h=
elped to reveal that the Hill=E2=80=99s version of an ethics office had shi=
elded the accused from allegations and
repercussions.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p>=
<p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">The Trump years were a time of rem=
arkable and initially surprising growth for the media. I joined the best po=
litical reporters in the country at <em>The Washington Post</em>, one of th=
e most financially stable news organizations backed by one of the richest m=
en in the world. A winning combination, I thought. I helmed the <em>Post</e=
m>=E2=80=99s flagship morning political newsletter during a
tumultuous time in Congress, breaking news about efforts to oust then Speak=
er <strong>Kevin McCarthy </strong>and the nearly monthlong journey to find=
 his replacement. I wrote the definitive final act of the years-long power =
struggle between McConnell and Reid, my old boss.</p><p style=3D"margin:0;m=
argin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">My ye=
ars at the <em>Post </em>brought me deep into the inner sanctum of power. I=
 detailed why the earnest new speaker of the
House,<strong> Mike Johnson</strong>, was willing to lose his job to fund U=
kraine=E2=80=99s defense against Russia. (Months later, during an interview=
 with Johnson, he asked me whether I was the person who=E2=80=99d asked him=
 at a news conference why he=E2=80=99d put everything on the line for Ukrai=
ne. He told me it was a tough question but one he appreciated and was pleas=
ed to be able to articulate.) I broke stories about the Democrats=E2=80=99 =
pressure campaign during the torturous three weeks after <strong>President
Biden</strong>=E2=80=99s disastrous debate performance and his agonizing de=
cision to drop out.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=
=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">As an anchor for Washington=
 Post Live, I chatted with Senate Democratic leader <strong>Chuck Schumer <=
/strong>about artificial intelligence, pressed Senate Republican leader <st=
rong>John Thune </strong>about his relationship with Trump, and held court =
with<strong> Kyrsten Sinema</strong>, who rarely talks to the
media, for 30 minutes onstage. I hosted a show that featured Republican <em=
>and</em> Democratic lawmakers, in concert with one another=E2=80=94an anom=
aly in these polarizing times, when so many politicians fear that a picture=
 of bipartisanship will be weaponized against them.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"ma=
rgin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px=
;">These days, much of journalism is in crisis, struggling to find an audie=
nce and business model to stay solvent. I loved my job, but
Puck offered something new=E2=80=94the chance to have a say in how the busi=
ness of media is run, <em>plus</em> the ability to report aggressively and =
write with abandon. Puck has a vision and a voice, and I wanted to help bui=
ld its influence in Washington, D.C., in general, and on the Hill, in parti=
cular.</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"ma=
rgin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">At Puck, I=E2=80=99ll return to Capitol Hill, wh=
ere I=E2=80=99ll make sense of the perpetual jockeying over agendas and
status. I=E2=80=99ll be writing for Puck=E2=80=99s flagship political newsl=
etter, The Best &amp; The Brightest, starting with a regular Sunday column =
that captures the week=E2=80=99s inside conversations on the Hill and also =
presages the challenges and opportunities ahead.</p><p style=3D"margin:0;ma=
rgin-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;margin-bottom:0px;">I=E2=
=80=99ll also take you inside the (mostly smokeless) back rooms of the Hill=
 to provide a deeper understanding of how power is used and sometimes abuse=
d. I=E2=80=99ll introduce
you to characters you didn=E2=80=99t know you needed to know. I=E2=80=99ll =
reveal the cliques, the moods, and the infighting that makes this place uni=
que. When Rep. <strong>Marjorie Taylor Greene</strong> suddenly shifts her =
tone toward Johnson, I=E2=80=99ll tell you why. It=E2=80=99s the details an=
d the color and the conversations that most fascinate me in an institution =
where process is actually not the story.=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;marg=
in-bottom:0px;">=C2=A0</p><p style=3D"margin:0;">It=E2=80=99ll be a blast. =
Plus, isn=E2=80=99t Puck
everyone=E2=80=99s favorite Shakespeare character?</p></div>
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