“The Path to the House Majority Goes Through California”: Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy’s Home State Could Define the Midterms

Paul Rudd–John Fetterman Bromance • Trump 2024? • The First Abortion Speak-Out [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( “The Path to the House Majority Goes Through California”: Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy’s Home State Could Define the Midterms Good morning from the Hive newsroom! “There is a political poetry to the possibility that Kevin McCarthy’s battle to wrest the gavel from Nancy Pelosi could come down to the duo’s home state,” Abigail Tracy [writes](. The stakes at the polls are high in California, where Democrats lost ground in 2020 when they ceded three of the seven seats the party flipped in the 2018 anti-Trump wave. Republicans now need to flip just five seats to secure the House majority in the midterms. Elsewhere, Joy Press [writes]( about the first abortion speak-out, in a West Village basement in 1969, and how it revolutionized activism. In the latest episode of Inside the Hive, Emily Jane Fox [talks]( to the hosts of The Circus about the latest intel from battleground states in the midterms and Donald Trump’s 2024 prospects. Charlotte Klein [attended]( veteran media columnist Margaret Sullivan’s book talk about her new memoir-manifesto, Newsroom Confidential. Plus, Caleb Ecarma [heralds]( an unexpected bromance between Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and actor Paul Rudd. Thanks for reading! [Image may contain: Nancy Pelosi, Electrical Device, Microphone, Clothing, Apparel, Human, Person, Suit, Coat, and Overcoat]( [“The Path to the House Majority Goes Through California”: Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy’s Home State Could Define the Midterms]( By [Abigail Tracy]( [House Democrats lost seats in California in 2020. Will their message around democracy and abortion rights be able to win back ground in the face of $6 gas prices and massive Republican fundraising?]( [Read more button](   [How the First Abortion Speak-Out Revolutionized Activism]( By [Joy Press]( [Fifty years ago, under the banner of a group known as Redstockings, women gathered in a West Village basement to share their abortion stories, a radical act that ripples through movements today.]( [Read more button](   [“He’s Running”: Star Strategists Mark McKinnon, Jennifer Palmieri, and John Heilemann Talk Trump and ’24—But First, the Midterms]( By [Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan]( [With J.D. Vance, Kari Lake, and other “big lie” Republican candidates, America is going to go down a “rabbit hole” of chaos, according to the hosts of The Circus. Plus, Anand Giridharadas toughens up progressive messaging.]( [Read more button](   [“Don’t Be Asleep at the Switch”: Margaret Sullivan Has a Message for Journalists Heading Into 2024]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [In a talk at Cooper Union, the veteran media columnist discussed her new memoir-manifesto, Newsroom Confidential, tough times critiquing The New York Times, and now trying her hand at detective fiction.]( [Read more button](   [The John Fetterman, Paul Rudd Bromance You Didn’t Know About Is Here]( By [Caleb Ecarma]( [The duo will reenact scenes from I Love You, Man at a Wednesday fundraiser for the Senate nominee’s campaign, finally turning the candidate’s year-old wish into a reality. “Never in a million years did I imagine that it would actually end up happening,” Fetterman tells Vanity Fair.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. 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](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2022 Condé Nast