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Daniel Strauss

Daniel Strauss is a staff writer at The New Republic. He previously was a senior political reporter for The Guardian. Before that he spent four and a half years as a politics reporter at Politico. He has also been a reporter for Talking Points Memo and The Hill newspaper.

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July 17, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Wagons Circle Around No Labels as Big-Name Group Forms Super PAC
Dick Gephardt–led group will raise money to block No Labels from helping Donald Trump.
July 13, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
The Race to Defeat Ted Cruz Is Getting Crowded
PLUS: Why Jamie Raskin isn’t running for the Senate
July 12, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Mark Penn on No Labels: “No Role, Real or Imagined”
The former Democratic pollster and current Trump booster says he’s not part of the “Unity Ticket” group run by his wife. Some Democrats are skeptical.
July 7, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
Mondaire Jones’s Plan to Win Back a Seat in Congress
PLUS: Some eye-popping fundraising numbers—both good and bad.
June 29, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
The Powerful Democratic Senator Who Wants to Race Harleys With Mike Pence
Gary Peters is revving Dems’ engine for 2024. Plus, a new political group is pushing a universal basic income.
June 28, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Gallego’s Newest Recruit to Retire Kyrsten Sinema: Nancy Pelosi
Sinema was once a member of Pelosi’s caucus. But those were different times.
June 26, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Meet the Democrat Who Warned Us About Kyrsten Sinema
Andrei Cherny, whom Sinema beat more than a decade ago, is running in one of the country’s most competitive House races.
June 23, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
Chris Christie’s Weird Appeal Among Democrats
PLUS: The politics of abortion, a year after the Dobbs ruling
June 21, 2023
Daniel Strauss
OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates
Here’s who OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush has donated to.
June 20, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
June 16, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
What If Trump’s Indictment Doesn’t Change a Thing?
PLUS: Congress tackles A.I., and GOP senators stay neutral.
June 12, 2023
Daniel Strauss
No Labels’ Latest Recruit: The North Carolina Ex-Governor Behind the Infamous “Bathroom Bill”
Pat McCrory oversaw the most contentious, divisive four years in the Tarheel State’s modern history. This is transpartisanship?
June 9, 2023
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
The Republicans’ Ballooning 2024 Field
PLUS: How to save democracy, according to David Pepper
June 8, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Bennie Thompson Lashes Out at Jan. 6 Text-Message Deleting Trump Administration Holdover
The former Jan. 6 committee chairman hasn’t stopped policing the insurrection beat.
June 5, 2023
Daniel Strauss
House Republicans Go on an Earmarks Orgy, and Democrats Aren’t Invited
Exclusive: Republican members made fewer earmark requests than Democrats—and got nearly three times as much in terms of dollars approved.
June 1, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
Who Wants to Crown Ron DeSantis?
PLUS: debt ceiling fatigue and Chris Christie chronicles
May 25, 2023
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
Inside the Debt Limit Blame Game
PLUS: Mississippi’s hottest political race, and a conversation with Ben Terris
May 18, 2023
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
Tim Scott Tiptoes Toward 2024
PLUS: Lawmakers eye A.I., and a quick and dirty election round-up.
May 18, 2023
Daniel Strauss
No Labels’ Old Allies Agree: The Group Is “Dangerous” and Must Be Stopped
Al From and Mark Penn were once close pals. You wouldn’t know that from the way From is talking today.
May 12, 2023
Daniel Strauss
Here’s Why Team Biden Is Going All In on Kamala Harris
The veep has not won a ton of converts with her performance so far. But there are reasons—two—why she might yet be an asset.

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