Jessica Taylor
Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.
Before joining NPR in May 2015, Taylor was the campaign editor for The Hill newspaper. Taylor has also reported for the NBC News Political Unit, Inside Elections, National Journal, The Hotline and Politico. Taylor has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and she is a regular on the weekly roundup on NPR's 1A with Joshua Johnson. On Election Night 2012, Taylor served as an off-air analyst for CBS News in New York.
A native of Elizabethton, Tennessee, she graduated magna cum laude in 2007 with a B.A. in political science from Furman University.
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The GOP governor will challenge Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. Scott is a multimillionaire who will spend heavily to win, putting Democrats on defense amid a tough 2018 Senate map. -
The president intends to nominate Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. -
Bolton takes the job as two major foreign policy challenges come to a head, in North Korea and Iran. He replaces H.R. McMaster, becoming the third man to hold the position under President Trump. -
The Alabama Democrat said recent student protests remind him of the civil rights movement. He called for tighter control of gun purchases and expressed respect for the Second Amendment.
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4 Questions Ahead Of The Special Election In PennsylvaniaPresident Trump won the congressional district by 20 points in the 2016 election. But the race is close, and Republicans are spending heavily to try to stave off a public relations disaster. -
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will only happen once the country shows a commitment to denuclearization. -
In the first 2018 primaries, Democrats put up their best numbers in Texas since at least 2002. Republican totals were higher in the end, after lagging in early voting. -
In a freewheeling talk with Republican and Democratic lawmakers on curtailing gun violence, President Trump appeared to throw his support behind efforts that are opposed by the powerful gun lobby. -
The son of the Vermont senator and 2016 presidential candidate is seeking a congressional seat in New Hampshire. Sanders' stepdaughter is running for mayor of Burlington, Vt., an office he once held. -
NRA executive Wayne LaPierre gave a defiant speech about "elites" taking advantage of last week's Florida shooting to foster socialism at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.
