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Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Greg is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.  

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November 15, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption
The elevation of Elon Musk to a key role suggests that right-wing elites are set to embark on a spree of sordid self-dealing.
November 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.
November 5, 2024
Greg Sargent
How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris Slip Away
Harris has been dinged for not focusing enough on the economy. Her swing-state advertising says dramatically otherwise—and the media largely missed it.
October 28, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument
The Madison Square Garden rally didn’t devolve into a hate fest. The hate fest was the point all along.
October 23, 2024
Greg Sargent, Michael Tomasky
“Red Wave” Redux: Are GOP Polls Rigging the Averages in Trump’s Favor?
Polling by right-leaning firms has exploded this cycle. Maybe they want to be accurate—or maybe they’re trying to create a sense of momentum for Donald Trump.
October 17, 2024
Greg Sargent
Harris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest Lie
For 10 years, Fox has built a fictional informational cocoon around Donald Trump. Kamala Harris just burst it open.
October 11, 2024
Greg Sargent
Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why
Insiders are raising some tough questions about the strategic decisions made by Future Forward, the biggest Super PAC pulling for Kamala Harris.
October 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Vance’s Fake Autoworkers Just Exposed the GOP’s Big Con
If elected, Trump plans to cancel huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the heartland. Democrats should put them on the defensive.
October 4, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Midnight Rants Face Rude Awakening: Stunning New Jobs Report
Harris has been escaping Biden’s shadow and catching Trump on economic trust—and the huge September jobs gains can only help.
October 2, 2024
Greg Sargent
JD Vance Accidentally Reveals the Darkest Truth About Trump of All
It’s not just what Vance would have done for Trump on January 6. It’s what he’ll do for him in a second term that’s far scarier.
September 27, 2024
Greg Sargent
J.D. Vance’s Stunning 2020 Admission About Trump Exposes Big MAGA Scam
In four-year-old direct messages, Trump’s veep choice admitted the truth: that Trump was a failed right-wing populist. Tim Walz, please take note.
September 25, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Hateful New Rants at Rally Are Harshly Debunked by Town Leader
In western Pennsylvania, Trump made one of his most savage anti-immigrant appeals yet. But one local official says it’s all a lie.
September 21, 2024
Greg Sargent
A GOP Gov’s Harsh Takedown of Trump and Vance Exposes MAGA’s Ugly Core
Finally, a top Republican calls on Trump to stop attacking Haitians, arguing that it’s politically backfiring. But Trump wants this debate to be as charged with hate and rage as possible.
September 19, 2024
Greg Sargent
J.D. Vance’s Weak Excuse for “Pet Eating” Lie Just Blew Up In His Face
At bottom, Vance’s whole purpose of running with this grotesque scam about Haitians has not been to draw attention to the story of Springfield, but to rewrite it.
September 13, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly Rants About Haitians Suddenly Take On a More Sinister Hue
Bomb threats have come to Springfield, Ohio. So why don’t Trump and J.D. Vance back off the demagoguery? Because supercharging all these toxic social tensions is precisely what they want.
September 12, 2024
MagazineGreg Sargent
Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism
You’ve read about the scary horrors of a Trump second term. But a legal war of attrition that harasses MAGA’s enemies and transforms government info into propaganda could prove more insidious and harder to mobilize against.
September 10, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Awful Arlington Scandal Takes Its Most Disturbing Turn Yet
House Democrats are trying to get to the bottom of the still-murky cemetery story. Is Trump going to get away with it again?
September 7, 2024
Greg Sargent
Stunning News of Trump Sentencing Delay Sends Message: MAGA Rage Works
The politics of this may play out fine for Kamala Harris. But once again, the legal system was cowed by Trump’s bullying and lawlessness.
September 5, 2024
Greg Sargent
Finally: Top Journo Erupts at Media for Ignoring Trump’s Mental State
Mike Barnicle’s throw-down Wednesday should open the floodgates: Coverage of Donald Trump’s mental fitness for office is not just fair game. It’s necessary.
August 30, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Angry New Rant Over Arlington Scandal Should Wake Up Dems
As the Arlington Cemetery plot thickens, it’s time for the Democrats to get tough and get to the bottom of this.

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