Happy Monday. I’m Eriq Gardner.

Welcome back to The Rainmaker! Today, I’m having a conversation with the one and only Tara Palmeri, Puck’s resident political guru. Before she became our business partner, I followed her work—first at ABC News and later at Politico—and I’ve long admired her ability to suss out how power brokers in the nation’s capital are really positioning their chess pieces. She now writes The Washington Mall, which you can sign up for here.

Tara and I talk about the coming election, and we touch on everything from D.C. job-switching to how the midterms are impacting prosecutors in big cities. Plus, what’s the policy agenda moving forward? We’ll get into it...

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Tara Palmeri: Well, you’re seeing Kevin McCarthy staffers and allies being actively recruited by K Street firms, which suggests to me that the corporate world expects that the Republicans will retake the House. Will Dunham, McCarthy’s former chief of staff, recently headed to...