Aaron Blake

Washington, D.C.

Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix

Education: University of Minnesota

Aaron Blake is senior political reporter, writing for The Fix. A Minnesota native, he has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Hill newspaper.
Latest from Aaron Blake

What a Manchin third-party bid in 2024 might mean

Manchin keeps dropping hints. But where would his votes come from?

May 11, 2023

CNN town hall lays bare Trump’s very unpopular agenda

Say what you will about CNN granting Donald Trump its platform, but it reinforced how strongly unpopular many of his 2024 positions are.

May 11, 2023

How Republicans feel about Trump and sexual misconduct

Polls have shown a significant degree of concern about former president Donald Trump and these issues. But they've also shown Republicans unconvinced Trump went too far.

May 10, 2023

The seemingly damning indictment of Rep. George Santos

A look at the charges against Rep. George Santos and the compelling paper trail that allowed investigators to piece the case together so quickly.

May 10, 2023

4 takeaways from the E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump

Parsing the verdict and the political fallout.

May 9, 2023

What the detente between Trump and a top antiabortion group suggests

Three weeks after a harshly critical statement, the group is saying nice things about Trump — despite little indication that he's changed his position that abortion “should be decided at the state level.”

May 9, 2023

Biden’s mental sharpness polling decline

It’s not just the new Washington Post-ABC News poll. This is a liability — and notably, on an issue that was a wash in 2020.

May 8, 2023

Durbin ups the pressure on Feinstein — gently

The Senate Judiciary Committee chair’s CNN interview suggested patience is beginning to run short amid calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign.

May 8, 2023

Trump’s affair was huge tabloid news. Now it’s apparently news to him.

Trump claimed in a deposition that he couldn’t remember if he was seeing Marla Maples before his divorce from Ivana Trump. It would be quite a thing to forget.

May 6, 2023

The brazen explanation for concealing the Ginni Thomas payment

That people can be “malicious and gossipy” apparently trumped their right to know who paid a Supreme Court justice’s spouse.

May 5, 2023