A Hillary Scribe Returns to the Campaign Trail

Katie Britt Debacle • 2024 “Coin Flip” • Formula 1’s Rise [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( A Hillary Scribe Returns to the Campaign Trail Good Saturday morning! Watching the first episode of The Girls on the Bus this week, I was struck by the realistic glimpses of life on the campaign trail, like the “press file being a disgusting tangle of power cords to the Marriott rooms all looking the same,” as cocreator and executive producer Amy Chozick [put it]( to Joe Pompeo. While visually nailing the Iowa caucuses, Chozick, The New York Times’ Hillary Clinton beat reporter in 2016, says that writing the show felt “especially cathartic when we decided there is no Hillary and no Trump in this world.” Elsewhere, in politics, Molly Jong-Fast [argued]( why Katie Britt isn’t the answer to the GOP’s woman problem; Chris Smith [explored]( Kathy Hochul’s rationale for sending the National Guard into the subway; and Brian Stelter [talked with]( Dan Pfeiffer about the power and peril of polls on Inside the Hive. Plus, Tom Kludt [chronicled]( the rise of Formula 1 in the United States. Thanks for reading and we’ll see you Monday. —Michael Calderone, editor [Image may contain: Carla Gugino, Melissa Benoist, Art, Collage, Photography, Electrical Device, Microphone, Clothing, and Hat]( [With The Girls on the Bus, a Hillary Scribe Returns to the Campaign Trail]( By [Joe Pompeo]( [Amy Chozick talks to VF about trading life at The New York Times (“It was my whole identity”) for a dream in Hollywood, and how she worked through her 2016 PTSD with the new Max show.]( [Read more button](   [Polls Schmolls: Former Obama Adviser on Why the Election Is a “Coin Flip”]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Dan Pfeiffer argues that Democrats are in denial about the president’s poor polling. But, with Donald Trump in legal limbo, he says he’d still “rather be the Biden campaign.”]( [Read more button](   [Katie Britt’s Kitchen Nightmare]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [The Alabama senator’s doomsaying and moralizing can’t fix the GOP’s woman problem.]( [Read more button](   [How Formula 1 Finally Made Inroads in America]( By [Tom Kludt]( [Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, the authors of a new book on the “world’s fastest-growing sport,” discuss F1’s stateside rise, a brewing scandal, and the chances of a Saudi takeover of the circuit.]( [Read more button](   [Image may contain: Tie, Accessories, Accessory, Electrical Device, Microphone, Human, Person, Suit, Coat, and Clothing]( [Kathy Hochul’s Subway Surge]( By [Chris Smith]( [The New York governor was heavily criticized for dispatching the National Guard to fight crime underground. But she’s also waging a political battle.]( [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]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast