Jonathan Allen

3 X NYT-bestselling author, 2 X #1 | order ‘FIGHT’ at link below | senior national politics reporter, @nbcnews | @amieparnes' intern | retired amateur pitcher

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

When the thing has been waiting for the right moment for several years…

[Kevin Madden @KevinMaddenDC]

"You’re either alive or dead. Those are the only two ages."

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

NEW @CookPolitical: 2026 mid-decade redistricting has yielded a House map that's more Republican and less elastic. We're out w/ our new PVI scores, and Dems now need to win 57 of 77 seats in the R+5 to D+5 range (74%) to win a House majority. https://t.co/DEZQLimSBL

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

“Dr. Fauci’s diary reads like a black comedy of manners in which a 79-year-old social-climbing scientist becomes the face of the government’s response to a pandemic and then the toast of the town — the toast of this town. As the death toll rises, so too does the doctor’s status and self-regard. He falls in with a fast crowd and becomes consumed by his own image”

- @ShawnMcCreesh

https://t.co/mY56GttcC1

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

@NR_Garrett I was referring to the DNC fight.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

It’s remarkable that the Democratic elite are more fractured than the Republican elite at a time when the GOP president’s ratings have been in the toilet for most of his term, the nation’s in another unpopular war and most Americans are pessimistic about the future.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

@BradOnMessage I’d argue that a) you’re basically right. But also it doesn’t make sense for presidents or donors to invest in the national party committee in the modern era. The only reason for a president to direct donors there is to avoid a Biden fate: where his SuperPACs turned and choked $.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

Many things can be true:

* Martin haters waited to pounce.
* He totally f-ed up autopsy.
* He’s too insular.
* No reason for donors to give to DNC, esp in a midterm. Party Coms outdated. Tough gig.
* Still $ is wow weak.
* d’s hate DNC (h/t Bern)
* state coord is best use of DNC

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

The Democratic Party of Georgia just announced it will have 30 field offices open by early August along with 60 full-time field organizers and more than 100 coordinated campaign staffers — the biggest operation the party has ever had at this stage. #gapol https://t.co/b9AIH90U5c

[Alex Roarty @Alex_Roarty]

“I mean, consultants shouldn’t have main character energy. We have lost the plot when consultants are doing PR tours for themselves, for their own redemption, and that is what this felt like.”

Genevieve McDonald, Platner’s former political director who’s butted heads with Katz before, did not appreciate Morris Katz’s interview w/@ezraklein

https://t.co/dkxAK4pl1C

[Sources Say News @SourcesSay_News]

Hill Staffers Can Now Anonymously Rate Their Bosses, the Reviews Are Already Wild https://t.co/TkA81mAeRZ

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

Isn’t this the conceit of “Friends”?

[Matthew Cooper @mattizcoop]

No shit! So many people have stories of someone of means who pay little to live on Park Avenue or somesuch.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

A few years back, the Nationals had to trade Juan Soto mid-season because they weren’t going to re-sign him.

They dealt him to the Padres. Nats got back CJ Abrams and James Wood, among others.

Here’s how that looks now

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

@nick_field90 I think it’s “cool kids” not cool kids. Like mean girls, not “Mean Girls.”

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

This is a steal for a team scoring a ton of runs and in bad need of pitching help in short and long terms. A 24-year-old who has been stellar at every level — and a local guy to boot. Great get, Nats!

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

BREAKING: The Boston Red Sox are trading left-hander Connelly Early to the Washington Nationals for infielder Curtis Mead, sources tell ESPN.

[Scott Wong @scottwongDC]

INSIDE THE TRUMP-GRAHAM MEETING: Lots of previously unreported details about POTUS's 45-min Oval Office meeting with newly sworn-in Sen. Darline Graham days after her brother's sudden death, according to two sources in the room.

— The roughly 12 names of potential SC Senate special primary candidates Trump ticked through, including Gov. Henry McMaster, Gowdy & House members.

"Some he liked, some he hated," a senior official in the room said.

— How Trump informed Graham he was endorsing her in the special election, and how she reacted.

— The parade of top Trump officials who walked into the meeting to express condolences to Graham

w/@Mdixon55 4 @NBCNews

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

“I’m not drinking my own bullcrap,” Haley Stevens told me. “I’m just working my ass off. That’s all you can do.”

That’s from her 2022 primary.

https://t.co/8kmwfGCh0y

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

Turned on an episode of Friends on Netflix and got a prompt to “skip the intro.”

Blasphemy.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

In the old days, American public officials believed in courts passing judgment on what constitutes criminal behavior. Here the mayor of NY says Netanyahu is a criminal and *then* calls for a trial.

When Trump does this, the left goes nuts.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Jonathan Allen @jonallendc]

@emzanotti *week?*

That epic poem is gonna need a long prologue.

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Scoop: WI Dem Gov candidate David Crowley once set up an X burner account called 'Dirt McGirk' that made crude references about women and LGBTQ.

He says he shared account & didn't write the controversial messages.

w/@BenjaminGoggin @abedelman

https://t.co/5XKnrLIPdZ