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A few moments later, Piker bids them good night.

“I’ll be suited up and booted up to cover the Trump inauguration, the first day of the apocalypse,” Piker says.

All this access has given Piker’s show a sense of beltway authority that it never quite had during the Biden era—evidence of a fledgling effort to make him more central to Democratic messaging.

Piker didn’t endorse Biden at the dawn of the 2024 cycle.

Piker wears it on the rare occasions he approves of a Trump decision.