FiveThirtyEight Politics

Former Vice President Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president on Thursday. The crew discusses the reasons he could win the nomination or come up short.

The crew discusses how the various players are positioning themselves now that the Mueller report is public. Plus, the Democratic primary field expanded again.

The podcast team reacts to the release of the redacted Mueller report.

As the first quarter of 2019 comes to a close, the crew gives an assessment of state of the 2020 Democratic primary.

Our "Model Talk" series returns briefly to discuss the performance of FiveThirtyEight's forecast models over the past decade. We crunched the numbers and the results are in!