Aloha, selamat malam, and welcome to The Best & The Brightest: Impolitic, coming at you again tonight from Gotham City on the heels of an eventful week at the podcast outpost of the Impolitic prefecture, where we played host to Biden campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon for her first extended, on-the-record interview since she moved in January from Washington to Wilmington to take command of the president’s reelection operation. The highest of the many highlights from that conversation make up the main body of this week’s dispatch.

But first…

🎙️Pre-debate J.O.D. deep dive: If you want to get the full picture of where Bidenworld’s collective head is at on the eve of what many insiders suspect will wind up being the only onstage tête-à-tête between the current POTUS and the former guy, make sure to dial up Impolitic With John Heilemann and download last Friday’s episode, and strap in for a rollicking and wide-ranging J.O.D. colloquy about the state of the race, Biden’s standing in the battleground states, and his likeliest path to 270 electoral votes.

And, hey, while you’re poking around the podcast universe, go ahead and follow/subscribe to the show (it’s free!) so you won’t miss out on any of the piping hot action we’ve got percolating—including a new episode we’re dropping on Tuesday featuring the one and only...