Monday morning’s Politico Playbook dished a hilarious exclusive that former longtime Capitol Hill reporter Hanna Trudo — who had been until earlier this spring The Hill’s senior political correspondent — “is exploring a campaign for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire’s 1st District” after a career that also featured stops at the Daily Beast and Politico.
National politics correspondent Adam Wren contributed the scoop to The Swamp’s ultimate must-read newsletter (which now comes out multiple times a day versus just the AM).
He said she would be running in one of New Hampshire’s two House seats as the First District will be open with four-term Congressman Chris Pappas giving the open Senate seat a go. Speaking to Wren, Trudo described herself as “a fourth-generation Granite Stater … who grew up working-class.”
In a truly comical, mask-dropping moment, Trudo said she’s “a journalist who’s tired of writing the same story about how Democrats keep losing to Republicans and failing us.”
Define “us,” Hanna? You mean “Democrats?” How helpful to admit your profession largely exists to help the left succeed and ensure the right fails.”
Wren had only two other quotes from her about being “used to disrupting the status quo in D.C.” and “know how to beat the odds” since she’s “lived it” and “covered it.”
She also spoke to friends at NBCNews.com, saying she hasn’t “poll tested my pitch” but nonetheless confidence in “simply writing with the same fire I’ve spit for the past decade: Democrats must be better.”
NBC pulled this quote from her campaign memo that read like Oliver Darcy or Brian Stelter were running for Congress. At this point, they should:
Under Donald Trump’s off-brand of authoritarian politics, we are no longer free. Our First Amendment freedoms are being cruelly ripped away by Trump, Elon Musk and other obscenely rich, unelected tech lackeys who have contempt for us
Given how unsavory most D.C. journalists are, there’s no doubt her opposition file will be as thick as a copy of War and Peace.
If she were to win, she’d be representing the Granite State alongside Maggie Goodlander, who just so happened to claim she was moving back there even though she’s the wife of Biden sycophant and Swamp creature Jake Sullivan.
Our friends had some fun with this on X. First, Varad Mehta said what many were thinking: “Do journos understand this only reinforces the negative stereotypes about them as Team Blue partisans?”
Minnesota GOP executive director Andrew Wagner chimed in as well: “Journos now dropping the pretense and just running as Democrats. Perfect. Who could have predicted?”
The great Steve Guest was also sarcastically floored:
TWEET: https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1919371700640067657
