Washington Week with The Atlantic

This week, President Biden gave his first speech alongside Vice President Harris since he dropped out of the race. The panel discusses how Democrats are balancing running on Biden's record while trying to distance themselves from his unpopularity.

It’s less than 100 days to go until the election and everything is so different than it was at the beginning of the summer. In June, the country was facing the prospect of two elderly white men facing off in November and only one of those men was riding high. But now it’s Kamala Harris who has the momentum and Trump’s campaign seems heading for a shake-up.

The Democratic and Republican presidential tickets are finally set with Kamala Harris picking Tim Walz as her running mate. The panel discusses the election reset.

It’s clear Donald Trump would rather be facing Joe Biden and he doesn’t know quite how to counter the surge of the Kamala Harris campaign. The panel discusses his trouble with finding a new strategy.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is now free from Russian custody after one of the most complicated prisoner swaps in history. The panel discusses his release and the geopolitical implications of the exchange and the rising tensions in the Middle East between Israel and Iran.

Kamala Harris will soon name and hit the road with her running mate, but in the meantime, she's taking the fight directly to Donald Trump. Just this week, the former president questioned her racial identity and is struggling to find a way to stop Harris’s momentum.

President Biden has bowed out of the race and Vice President Harris has stepped up to take his place on the Democratic ticket. Former President Trump had a plan to defeat Biden but is facing a huge challenge with Harris. The panel discusses how the Trump campaign has been forced to build a new strategy.

With a little more than three months until the election, an entirely new race is materializing before our eyes. The panel discusses how Vice President Kamala Harris quickly locked up Democratic support after President Biden's sudden exit from the campaign.

Looming over everything in Washington is one question, will Joe Biden stay in the race and face the Caesar of the Republican Party, Donald Trump? The panel discusses the calls from Democrats for the president to exit the campaign.

This week, Donald Trump chose a running mate, dodged prosecution in a federal documents case and most dramatically of all, narrowly escaped death from a would-be assassin’s bullet. The panel discusses how Trump solidified the Republican Party and energized his base by choosing Senator JD Vance as his running mate.

Two weeks after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance, he continues to hang on to his candidacy by his fingernails. The number of Democrats calling for him to leave the race keeps ticking upwards, but it’s hardly a tidal wave. And the president’s performance at a press conference Thursday was just fluent enough to prevent a total collapse of his campaign.

On the eve of Trump’s coronation at the Republican convention, Biden seems more determined than ever to press on. But Democratic anxiety about a Trump landslide cannot be easily dismissed.

The Supreme Court wrapped up its term this week after a series of significant and contentious rulings. The panel discusses the dynamics of the court and the political implications of the polarization between the conservative supermajority and liberal dissenting voices.

It’s been a tumultuous and unsettling time in the nation's capital. A week after what could be one of the most important debates in American presidential history, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump is substantially immune to charges that he tried to overturn the last election. The panel discusses what it means for the 2024 presidential race and for the future of our democracy.

Following President Biden’s brutal debate performance, Democrats in Washington and around the country are panicking. The panel discusses what could happen next.

We just saw one of the most unusual debates in the history of American politics. One candidate, a convicted felon, made up stories, claimed achievements that aren’t his to claim, leveled insults and blustered his way past legitimate questions about his role in Jan. 6. And then there’s the guy who lost the debate. The sitting president seemed pale, tentative, befuddled, and at times incoherent.

President Biden and the man he defeated in 2020, Donald Trump, will make their respective cases to the American people in a debate next week. Both are unpopular, they are more or less tied in recent polls, and both men are older than our previous oldest president. Only one is a convicted felon, yet the pressure is on Biden to prove that he has what it takes to continue in office.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs went back and watched all of President Biden's appearances in presidential and vice presidential debates since 1987. The panel discusses how his style has evolved over the years.

Former President Trump returned to Capitol Hill and met with Republican lawmakers who are fully embracing him as the leader of the party. The panel discusses Trump's desire to expand the electoral map and how Democrats are trying to counter him and other Republicans.

Former President Trump and Republicans continue to rail against the Justice Department after his conviction on 34 felony counts in New York. Meanwhile, President Biden vows he won’t interfere after his son was found guilty on federal gun charges. The panel discusses the different ways Republicans and Democrats view the American justice system and how it could affect the election.