Reporting on Trump, Kavanaugh and the women reshaping politics

The Guardian’s Washington political correspondent discusses Brett Kavanaugh, the surge in female candidates, and why she won’t be making any predictions for the midterm elections

I didn’t expect to live in Donald Trump’s Washington. After two years of covering Hillary Clinton, I expected to move to the nation’s capital to cover the administration of America’s first female president. Instead, I find myself both a resident and journalist in Trump’s Washington, covering a presidency that has exhausted the word “unprecedented”.

For Washington’s residents, and I suspect for readers as well, this president has produced something of a sensory overload, where time moves at warp-speed and entire news cycles are swallowed by ever wilder and unexpected plot lines.

I’ve paid close attention to the impulses reshaping the Democratic party and they are most certainly female

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