Inside Biden’s Veepstakes

[View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair HIVE PS]( Inside Biden’s Veepstakes Good Saturday morning, dear reader! As ever, we implore you to forgive the intrusion as you peruse the many works of Houellebecq, say, or perhaps you opt for Finkielkraut. But we simply couldn’t deprive you of the latest episode of Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan’s Inside the Hive podcast, or Chris Smith’s inside look at Joe Biden’s vice presidential selection process. We hope you are enjoying what you’re reading (and listening to). And don’t forget to [subscribe to Vanity Fair.]( Joe Hagan [Can Negative Ads Alone Beat Trump in November?]( [Lincoln Project guru John Weaver weighs in on Trump vs. Biden and has a message for Democrats: “beat the shit out of him now.”]( [Listen]( From the Archive: Marie Brenner [Deal With the Devil]( [In 1973, a brash young would-be developer from Queens met one of New York’s premier power brokers: Roy Cohn, whose name is still synonymous with the rise of McCarthyism and its dark political arts. At 27, Donald Trump took the ruthless attorney as his sometime guide, learning many of the tactics that would inexplicably propel him to the White House. Marie Brenner untangles the symbiosis that bound them until Cohn’s death from AIDS in 1986.]( [Read More]( Chris Smith [Inside the Final Days of Joe Biden’s V.P. Choice]( [Obama insiders and others are pushing their favored candidates (Kamala? Susan Rice? Val Demings? Karen Bass?)—but Biden is looking for someone who will be to him who he was to Barack.]( [Read More]( [ELSEWHERE] [Dr. Anthony Fauci Thinks He’s “Pretty Effective”]( [From InStyle]( [Read More]( [COVID Conversations With the Uber Rich]( [From Bloomberg]( [Read More]( [Twitter and the Death of Debate]( [From Slate]( [Read More]( [From Dream Job to Nightmare at the NFL]( [From the Washington Post]( [Read More]( [(image) Condé Nast Spotlight | What you need to read now. All in one place. The most popular stories from Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest and more. GO NOW]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by HIVE PS. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.