Jim VandeHei

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CEO/Co-Founder of Axios; Chairman/Co-Founder Axios HQ; Co-Founder Politico; Order my new book:

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1Apr 28, '23🚨🚨Some White House officials say it's difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends: The vast majority of Biden72.7×3.3M1.2k447113
2Aug 13, '24🚨🚨 The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publish64.6×3M8.7k3.8k1.4k
3Oct 25, '24🚨🚨Dems fear they're blowing it - a surprising number of people close to Harris and her swing state operations tell us they FEEL she will lose even though polls SHOW a legit 50-5049×2.2M1.7k434341
4Dec 7, '23🚨🚨 Trump’s loyalty-first cabinet. EXCLUSIVE details: 1. Melania wants @tuckercarlson for VP. 2. Stephen Miller 4 Attorney General. 3. Tucker pushing Steve Bannon as Chief of Staf47.5×2.2M2k820364
5Jun 30, '24New-> Joe Biden's close aides have carefully shielded him from people inside and outside the White House since the beginning of his presidency.39.5×1.8M725260143
6Aug 14, '24🚨🚨 Harris won't say it this bluntly in public, but her advisers do so privately: She wants to break with Biden. First up: rising prices. This is part of a highly choreographed ef39.2×1.8M887322184
7Nov 8, '24🚨🚨Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky39.1×1.8M805389166
8Feb 2, '24🚨🚨Scoop: Biden “obsessed” with @morningjoe. Staff plot 7 am appearances to reach POTUS…Biden calls Joe for advice, to vent, and aides are in regular contact with his panel…lots o33.9×1.6M788195298
9Oct 26, '24🚨🚨 Biden aides and allies privately have trash-talked the vice president during the past 3½ years — and Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and others in her inner circle know i33.4×1.5M1.5k349356
10Sep 19, '25🚨🚨 AOC and her team are positioning her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.32.8×1.5M3.3k357350
11Sep 26, '23🚨🚨Scoop: Biden don't-let-him-trip strategy - new shoes, balancing exercises, shorter stairs32.7×1.5M1.1k41984
12Jun 29, '24🚨🚨Scoop: If Biden stays in, it's for the same reason he decided to run again: He and the oligarchy believe he has a much better chance of beating former President Trump than Vice28.9×1.3M49999167
13Jul 18, '24🚨🚨🚨 Several top Democrats privately tell us the rising pressure of party congressional leaders and close friends will persuade President Biden to decide to drop out of the presi28.9×1.3M1.4k455134
14Nov 8, '24👀One person involved with Harris' team told Axios: "The 107-day Harris campaign was nearly flawless. The Biden campaign that preceded it was the opposite." A former Biden staffer 28.7×1.3M3.7k624414
15Jul 1, '24🚨🚨 A massive political, PR and personal campaign is underway to reject calls for President Biden to drop his re-election race — and rally Democrats to move on from public debate 28.4×1.3M532150157
16Nov 15, '25🚨🚨 The Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar - tariffs were cut soon after… by @MarcACaput26.3×1.2M785239121
17Oct 27, '24🚨🚨Trump’s MAGA speakers unleash racist, sexist, crass rhetoric at Trump's big final-lap MSG rally22.9×1M83331086
18Jul 2, '24🚨🚨NEW -> Former President Trump, if re-elected, plans to immediately test the boundaries of presidential and governing power, knowing the restraints of Congress and the courts21.6×992k1.5k968343
19Dec 14, '24🚨🚨Trump inauguration set to face "substantial" boycott from Democrats, lawmakers tell ⁦@axios⁩18.9×866k1.1k12941
20Jan 19, '25🚨🚨Scoop: We've learned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — has scheduled a closed-door briefing for U.S. government officials on Jan. 30 - with people inside and out of gov’t telling us AI i18.2×835k1.3k324547
21Feb 12, '24🚨🚨Exclusive: Biden adviser Susan Rice referred to HHS Sec. Becerra as a "bitch-ass" and privately called him an "idiot," according to multiple sources. •During one meeting when B17.8×818k735231172
22Feb 4, '25🚨🚨Scoop: 20,000 federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says15.9×731k41110246
23Nov 15, '24🚨🚨Scoop: House Dems sick of Pelosi15.4×708k47097113
24Sep 19, '24🚨🚨Exclusive: The Harris-Walz ticket is on pace to do fewer interviews and press conferences than any major party's presidential pairing in modern U.S. history.14.7×674k88332178
25Oct 27, '24🚨🚨Scoop: Harris stiff-arms Biden…President Biden wants to campaign for Vice President Harris in the campaign's final nine days. •Harris' campaign keeps responding: We'll get back13.9×637k79723697
26Nov 5, '20🚨 🚨 scoop: McConnell, if he keeps the Senate majority, plans to prevent Joe Biden from stacking his Cabinet with liberals and force him to go with centrist options, like Lael Bra13.2×01.7k756177
27May 16, '25🚨🚨🚨AXIOS EXCLUSIVE: Amid long, uncomfortable pauses, Joe Biden struggled to recall when his son died, when he left office as VP, what year Trump was elected or why he had classi12.7×582k652211184
28Oct 29, '23🚨🚨Top WH officials privately concede things have never been worse politically since the 80-year-old took office.Biden’s dual horror shows threaten his re-election campaign10.5×482k804248117
29Jun 2, '20🚨 Senior White House official: "I’ve never been more ashamed. I’m really honestly disgusted. I’m sick to my stomach. And they’re all celebrating it. They’re very very proud of the10.4×03.2k1.3k55
31Nov 14, '24🚨🚨Sources: Trump picked Gaetz to do his legal dirty work, doesn’t care if Hill Rs are pissed, and wants him + Gabbard + Hesgeth to gut the “deep state.” Your future foretold…he w9.1×417k3.5k532110
32Aug 23, '17To family/friends who support Trump: what he said last night about reporters was despicable, extremely deceptive, dangerous...8.5×03.9k1.3k0
33Jul 7, '24🚨🚨Biden insists only God ends his race. -> But a fast-growing number of Democrats are praying for —and plotting — an earthly intervention. They want everyone from the OBAMAS t7.4×339k814228131
34Jan 16, '19🚨 Exclusive look @ Christie unleashed: Trump surrounded by “amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons”6.8×02.3k1k47
35Sep 27, '20🚨 🚨 Democrats privately fear that going too hard on Judge Amy Coney Barrett in her confirmation hearings could wind up backfiring if senators are perceived as being nasty to an a6.7×01k22753
36Jul 4, '24🚨🚨 If Biden steps aside, Harris would be almost impossible to beat for the nomination, thanks to endorsements, money, optics and 2028 politics, top officials tell us. 👀Lots of p6.5×299k44010285
37Mar 6, '22🚨 🚨 scoops -> President Biden’s advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios 6.5×01k432124
38Feb 18, '22🚨 🚨 Squad politics backfire: The push to defund the police, rename schools and tear down statues has created a significant obstacle to Democrats keeping control of the House, the6.2×078923687
39Mar 13, '24🚨🚨House Republicans panic over retiring GOP members6.0×273k3659019
40Apr 12, '24🚨🚨scoop -> DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe ** Why it matters: The payments are at odds with the Biden campaign's recent attacks on Donald Trump for spen5.8×266k1k49183
41Aug 26, '20🚨 It feels like August of ‘16 all over again. Polls show Trump losing big. Pundits proclaim he can't win. Reporters sneer at Trump voters on Twitter, cable. Why it matters: There 5.7×01.5k63684
42Dec 2, '17Astonishing. The story moved markets, set off a media frenzy, suggested worst possible outcome. This is called a massive correction, or retraction, not clarification.5.6×02k1.2k0
43Apr 23, '25🚨🚨 The CEOs of three of the nation's biggest retailers — Walmart, Target and Home Depot — privately warned President Trump in an Office meeting on Monday that his tariff and trad5.0×229k832369107
44Jul 3, '24🚨🚨 Top Democratic lawmakers tell us they're madder — and more deeply concerned — about President Biden's denial and deflection about his bad debate than about the halting perform4.9×225k73014387
45Oct 14, '20🚨 🚨 Joe Biden is the luckiest, least scrutinized frontrunner. ->Biden has answered < half as many questions from media as Trump — 365 compared with 7534.8×060523720
46Oct 13, '19🚨 🚨 SIX sources: Trump's Erdoğan bluff led to Turkish invasion4.6×01.4k92580
47Nov 1, '20🚨 🚨 scoop: Trump plans to declare premature victory if he appears "ahead" on election night, 3 sources tell @jonathanvswan4.5×087632958
48Dec 6, '20🚨 President Trump is considering a made-for-TV grand finale: a White House departure on Marine One and final Air Force One flight to Florida for a political rally opposite Joe Bid4.4×065422335
49Aug 10, '20🚨 🚨 More than 100 million people viewed part or all of the “Axios on HBO” interview between @realdonaldtrump and @jonathanvswan @axios on all platforms. We offer this same interv3.9×02.3k35211
50Jan 13, '21🚨 scoop - McConnell leans toward convicting Trump in an impeachment trial - one of the most shocking and damning votes in the history of American politics3.8×02.4k34111
51Feb 11, '18Either the White House spokespeople or the president's chief of staff is lying. It's a stunning display of incompetence that five days after the initial story broke, they still can3.7×01.7k6442
52Nov 24, '20🚨 🚨 Charles Koch, in first TV interview in years, tells Axios on HBO he"screwed up by being partisan" and hits GOP officials for going more radical than promised3.7×076319060
53Nov 13, '24🚨🚨MAGA media waged its first war - and lost badly. Scott eliminated on first ballot. John Thune wins Senate Republican leader race. He’s the closest thing to an establishment fig3.6×166k91423344
54Mar 6, '18This is one of the reasons America hates the media. Our entire industry lit itself on fire because a troubled Trump hanger-on made an ass of himself — live.3.5×01.1k4013
55Aug 22, '18GOP's midterm nightmare: Party "looks like a criminal enterprise"3.4×01.4k53411
56Nov 6, '20🚨 via @jonathanvswan Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might3.3×01.7k28430
57Jul 22, '24🚨🚨Scoop: Biden doubted Harris' election chances3.0×138k45617673
58Jul 5, '24🚨🚨Trump Advisers worry Harris bigger threat than he thinks - younger ticket, bigger abortion emphasis, dangers of attacking minority woman on stage…biggest fear: a new non-Harris2.9×131k955172134
59Oct 11, '20🚨 🚨 Buzz grows around New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as Biden's attorney general pick2.8×055513416
60Jan 30, '18New: This strategy is working better than you think. Trump portrayed Hillary Clinton as an enemy of the state, and she lost. He turned the media into an enemy of the state w GOP. A2.8×06735810
61May 21, '18Exclusive: President Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, recommended appointing Stefan Halper, an academic and suspected FBI informant on the Trump campaign, to a senior role2.7×074054720
62Jan 13, '21🚨 Top Republicans want to bury President Trump, for good. But they are divided whether to do it with one quick kill via impeachment, or let him slowly fade away.2.7×074623427
63Jul 10, '21🚨 A growing number of Democrats are ringing the alarm that their party sounds — and acts — too judgmental, too sensitive, too "woke" to large swaths of America.2.6×069714060
64Jul 15, '18🚨 via @jonathanvswan - President Trump no longer doubts the basic intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — he just seems incapable of taking it seriou2.6×066545619
65Dec 19, '20🚨 🚨 Top officials tell ⁦@jonathanvswan⁩ officials Trump is spending too much time with people they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant abuses of 2.5×01.2k28115
66Nov 6, '20🚨 President Trump is pinning his hopes — and presidency — on a wild, relentless war against reality and truth, falsely claiming several states are stealing the election by adherin2.5×01.4k26024
67Feb 3, '18Exclusive poll: GOP turns on FBI bigtime. Never underestimate Trump’s power to reshape GOP views. He did it on Russia. Then Mueller. Now the FBI. Not long ago: the GOP loathed Russ2.5×07184950
68Dec 22, '20🚨 🚨 Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid or disloyal — and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress2.2×081729229
69Sep 21, '17Ya can't make it up: Spicer warns of legal action because @mikeallen asks him about story...2.2×07194540
70Mar 7, '20Donald Trump Jr. interview at Oshkosh tavern airs Sunday on 'Axios on HBO'2.2×01.1k2726
71Dec 9, '18What we now know about Trump and Russia2.2×081640084
72Nov 12, '19🚨 🧠 🚨 scoop: House GOP will argue Trump's "state of mind" will save him From impeachment2.2×043919016
73Jan 24, '21🚨 "We're eating sh*t for breakfast, lunch and dinner right now," a McCarthy aide told @axios2.1×083217024
74Jul 23, '22🚨 @jonathanvswan PART 2 Trump's revenge — Rep. Jim Jordan, his close ally, “'Fire everyone you're allowed to fire. And [then] fire a few people you're not supposed to, so that the2.1×059138093
75Nov 20, '20🚨 There is no bigger crisis for media, politics and society than the growing number of people who do not believe facts and verifiable figures. If we do not collectively solve this1.9×061716335
76Nov 7, '20Scoop: Biden announcing COVID task force on Monday1.9×07312047
77Oct 17, '17Read this list of things Trump said that simply aren't true. "Trump spreads fake news while calling real news fake"1.9×06294320
78Jul 10, '18🚨 Brutal poll: Democrats' Senate dream slips away1.7×044621610
79Jan 15, '21🚨 The post-Trump Republican Party has been gutted in almost every way imaginable1.7×084818815
80Feb 24, '20Lots of Democrats are in full panic that Bernie Sanders will win the nomination and get clobbered in the general election — and bring the party down, too. But the evidence, particu1.6×061519721
81Feb 7, '24🚨🚨 Even in an era of ousted speakers and wild, daily internal disarray, Tuesday night's back-to-back defeats for House Republicans were epic.1.5×67k56814811
82Nov 9, '17Wow: Sean Parker, former president of Facebook, tells @axios Mark Zuckerberg, others knowingly hooked/harmed minds1.5×03803670
83May 27, '18🚨 🚨 Can you imagine joking about John McCain dying and then accusing your boss of leaking in front of the President of the United States. Kelly Sadler did BOTH. And still has a j1.4×06042694
85Jan 7, '18Exclusive: Bannon says "I'm sorry"1.3×03361800
87May 10, '20Exclusive: Pence says he'd be "happy" to see Michael Flynn back in government - Axios1.3×05251592
89Jan 7, '21🚨 It is an ironic, poetic ending to the raucous reign of Donald J. Trump: Enabled — and enabling — Republicans put the final knives in their beloved, besieged, beaten president.1.1×066611310
90Jan 5, '18We have had many of the same conversations with the same sources Wolff used. We won't betray them, or put on the record what was off. But, we can say that the following lines from 1.1×03612600
92Dec 18, '20🚨 🚨 Scoop: Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings - Axios1.1×03711699
94Dec 21, '18Scoop: Trump privately griping about Mulvaney: “(he) called me a terrible human being”1.0×04131284
96Oct 28, '20🚨 Trump’s GOP relies almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (white men), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people with shrinking income1.0×047611320
97Jan 7, '21There are no heroes here — courage brimmed only at the precipice. But a few people who watched the system breach, in the end, did not allow it to break. Only in time will we learn 1.0×05591075
98Nov 12, '18🚨 new — Democrats load "subpoena cannon" with 85+ Trump targets - expect fight to reach Supreme Court and lead to impeachment0.9×03531565
99Jan 18, '21🚨 🚨 episode 4 via @jonathanvswan Attorney General Bill Barr tells Trump his election claims are “bullshit”0.6×03468415

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