Isaac Dovere
@isaacdovere.bsky.social
Senior reporter, CNN. Author, Battle for the Soul. Photographer, lots of animal pictures.
Here’s that moment with El-Sayed:
Isaac Dovere@isaacdovere.bsky.social · 3h agoSunday, El-Sayed said on a livestream he owns 12 black Ts but “I need one more that just says, ‘Most dangerous candidate for the US-Israel relationship.’ I’ll wear it every day.” Today, AIPAC announced more after failing to beat him w/$60M: www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...
Sunday, El-Sayed said on a livestream he owns 12 black Ts but “I need one more that just says, ‘Most dangerous candidate for the US-Israel relationship.’ I’ll wear it every day.” Today, AIPAC announced more after failing to beat him w/$60M: www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...
‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed | CNN Politics
Abdul El-Sayed’s plan as he left his last polling place stop on Tuesday afternoon was to take the stage at the Majestic Theater on Woodward Avenue as early as 10 p.m. to deliver a speech he knew had t...
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NEW from me - Michigan Dems try to move past the Senate primary, unsure they can: "while I understand that there’s rawness after a primary, I believe that they know and they will know what’s actually at stake for the country" www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...
‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed | CNN Politics
Abdul El-Sayed’s plan as he left his last polling place stop on Tuesday afternoon was to take the stage at the Majestic Theater on Woodward Avenue as early as 10 p.m. to deliver a speech he knew had t...
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on the sidelines of the DSA summit was a gathering envisioned as the start of Ocasio-Cortez 2028. But they want her signed on to their program. “Beyond just the question of yes or no, do we endorse AOC…how do we use it to keep building our own organization?” www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
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NEW from me: What happened as the Democratic Socialists of America spent a rainy weekend in Chicago preparing their next steps for taking over the Democratic Party, taking down capitalism and longterm moves like abolishing the presidency: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
‘The Democratic Party is asleep at the wheel’: Democratic socialists are strategizing for their biggest moment yet | CNN Politics
DSA has taken a strategic approach to grow its power within the Democratic Party, picking off two House incumbents already this year and potentially a third on Tuesday in Michigan. As the group’s summ...
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When Schumer called Gary Peters in his office to talk about stopping El-Sayed. Peters & Warren expressing doubts and then going different ways. Stevens' stumbles. What Slotkin's neutrality has drummed up. Sanders' advice to El-Sayed. All here: www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...
The fight for Michigan: How a marquee Senate primary became the Democrats’ latest proxy war | CNN Politics
Tuesday’s Michigan Senate primary between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed has become a bitter referendum on many of the fights Democrats are having nationally.
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NEW from me: Andy Beshear wrote a to McConnell demanding answers: “I am addressing this letter to Sen. McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not incapacitated by means of consciousness or cognition” www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/p...
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s message to Sen. Mitch McConnell: Disclose more about health or resign | CNN Politics
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a message for Sen. Mitch McConnell, his state’s senior senator: Explain his long absence from the Senate and give details about his health, Beshear is insisting, or resi...
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I wrote this week about Jewish progressives who see the anti-Israel political conversation tipping into straight antisemitism: Some responses to the Platner situation and who’s really to blame are ringing the same alarms for many of those feeling it— www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...
As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism | CNN Politics
For many liberals, longtime policy priorities like universal healthcare or stopping climate change are now intertwined with opposing Israel. An ascendant faction of the left argues there’s no such thi...
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NEW: Jewish progressives warn about American antisemitism under the guise of criticism of Israel “I don’t see this as a right or left issue. I see this as the unmasking of American antisemitism under the guise of criticism of Israel,” said Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...
As Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism | CNN Politics
For many liberals, longtime policy priorities like universal healthcare or stopping climate change are now intertwined with opposing Israel. An ascendant faction of the left argues there’s no such thi...
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New York Post editorializes against the Trump sons’ financial involvement in a mine in Kazakhstan - nypost.com/2026/06/29/o... Read more on how Jon Ossoff came to include that example in his anti-corruption speeches in my story from this morning: www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...
Hunter Biden-style sleaze is just as slimy when the Trump boys do it
It was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it.
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Ossoff: “I think we should judge these prospective presidential candidates by how much they’re doing to help us win battleground states and front-line congressional races to restore checks and balances." www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...
Sen. Jon Ossoff almost didn’t run for reelection. Now some Democrats want to draft him for 2028 | CNN Politics
Outside the frame of the viral clips – shot by two cameras carefully positioned on either side of the stage – were over a thousand people, hot under the tin roof of a converted ironworks on Saturday a...
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NEW from me - I spent time behind the scenes with Jon Ossoff, the Democrats’ sudden 2026 viral hit, talking about why he thinks his approach is working in Georgia, how having young kids changed his view of older senators, his favorite movie - and yes, 2028 www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...
NEW - Gavin Newsom, in what aides explicitly say is part of considering a 2028 run, is proposing a national billionaires tax: www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/p...
Gavin Newsom opposes a California wealth tax. He’s proposing a national billionaire tax instead | CNN Politics
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a national tax on billionaires that he says is the first part of an “economic reset for America” agenda, which aides explicitly say is part of his consi...
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A lot of New York politicians dismissed the talk of Mamdani/DSA challenges when this story ran a year ago, after his primary win: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
Some of Mamdani’s far-left allies want to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC Democrats | CNN Politics
Democratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next — and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at th...
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NEW from me: Many NYC politicos who tried to be Mamdani allies are unhappy. Early endorser Rep. Nydia Velázquez wouldn't answer when asked if she regretted her support. The new powerbroker's take: This is what a revolution looks like - on his terms. www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...
The new power broker: How Zohran Mamdani muscled NYC’s Democratic establishment | CNN Politics
New York politics and the Democratic Party have a new power broker after Zohran Mamdani’s picks swept three US House primaries. Hakeem Jeffries, the Brooklyn-based House Democratic leader, is losing t...
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NEW from me: What is there to teach a Kennedy about politics? According to Jack Schlossberg, as his name will appear on the ballot in Tuesday’s Democratic primary: Somehow, pretty much everything. A look at the closing days of his NY primary run: www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...
What is there to teach a Kennedy about politics? As Jack Schlossberg has found out, a lot | CNN Politics
If multiple polls and the wariness of friends who have been helping him are proven right, Jack Schlossberg is facing not just potential rejection in Tuesday’s primary but the prospect of letting down ...
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Obama in Chicago last night on the eve of his library opening, talking about why he doesn’t like “nostalgia”: “It lets us off the hook, bc it makes us feel like, ‘Well, you know, that was wonderful, but now, this is the reality, and there’s not much we can do about it.’” www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...
Barack Obama confronts the work that remains for Democrats — and for him | CNN Politics
Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline.
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not interested in being a protest candidate or backing any, @aoc has been drilling into data & where she resonates. Her win record is big (incl: Rabb, Forstag, Villegas), but who she hasn't backed is also a choice (incl: Platner, Steyer, Chakrabarti): www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...
The road test: Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s strategy ahead of a potential 2028 campaign | CNN Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly undecided about what she’ll do in 2028, when she can run for president or for the seat held by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But Ocasio-Cortez is positioning herself to try to ...
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NEW from me: expect to see a lot of more @AOC campaigning this fall, as she road tests her appeal and her appetite for her 2028 options. With details about what she’s been doing in figuring out endorsements, building bridges back in DC… and knitting: www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...
The road test: Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s strategy ahead of a potential 2028 campaign | CNN Politics
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly undecided about what she’ll do in 2028, when she can run for president or for the seat held by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But Ocasio-Cortez is positioning herself to try to ...
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NEW from me: after his (yet again uncontested) primary win, I talked with Josh Shapiro on what how he says Pennsylvania proves a lot of the posters and pundits wrong when it comes to calling him too centrist, too buttoned up and too Zionist www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/p...
just some of the people who were not spoken to for the DNC's autopsy of the 2024 election include... (also on this list, top campaign aides like Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, Ian Sams and Liz Allen, or Biden aides Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal). www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...
You wanted to see the long hidden DNC autopsy report of the 2024 election loss. Here it is, and the convoluted never reported story of how it became an existential crisis of Ken Martin. The autopsy of the autopsy: www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...
Autopsy of the autopsy: How the DNC’s 2024 post-mortem turned into a crisis | CNN Politics
CNN is publishing in full a copy of the DNC’s 2024 autopsy, along with never-before-reported details of what went wrong in compiling it. The autopsy continues to hang over the Democratic Party a year ...
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NEW from me, from San Francisco: the Democratic infighting microcosm in the race to succeed Pelosi… with news on how Wiener is trying to hold strong, what actually went down with Chakrabati and AOC, and how Pelosi’s nudging toward Chan (+a Chonkers cameo) www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/p...
Democrats’ internal fights sway the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco | CNN Politics
With just weeks to go in the first round of the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco-based district, an iconic center of liberalism is trying to figure out what comes next. As the Democra...
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NEW from me: with fears of being locked out of the top 2 spots in the governor’s race lessened but still looming, CA Democrats are going with a behind the scenes strategy rather than trying to endorse a favorite — “people are not passive,” Newsom tells me: www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/p...
‘People are not passive’: Newsom and top California Democrats move behind the scenes in governor’s race | CNN Politics
California Democratic leaders have shifted their strategy to prevent their party from being locked out of the governor’s race: Instead of thinking about consolidating the field, they have turned to be...
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Attending the state dinner tonight for King Charles III: Supreme Court Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett (and their spouses). Not attending: Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Kagan or Jackson.
Warren, Bannon, Buttigieg and — at least as of a few years ago — Vance have agreed on this: A short, ultra-private antitrust lawyer plotting a war on tech companies & monopolies understands what Americans are demanding out of their government: www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...
Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN Politics
Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...
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NEW from me: Lina Khan's phone has been ringing w/prospective 2028 Dems, as she pushes for an even more aggressive anti-trust stance, adding tools from Trump. @ewarren: “If you’re a leader who wants to deliver on affordability, it’s a smart move to call" www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...
Why Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN Politics
Lina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...
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A little video of Mitch Landrieu joining in some tap dancing on the street in New Orleans, as we talked last week about his potential interest in running for president: www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/p...
NEW - I walked New Orleans w/its former mayor Mitch Landrieu, who sketched out why he’s thinking about a 2028 run — seeing America like the city after Katrina when they rebuilt it to “the city it should have been if we had gotten it right the first time.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/p...
Coming in the morning: my conversation with a surprise Democrat looking at a 2028 presidential run … will be up on www.cnn.com/politics
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