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 moderate focused his campaign on New Hampshire, but showed little upward momentum throughout his run. -
The Iowa Democratic Party said Tuesday that "the underlying data" collected at caucus sites "was sound" despite the smartphone app malfunction. The party expects to report results later Tuesday. -
Tom Steyer is likely the final Democrat to qualify ahead of Friday's deadline. He'll join Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren onstage in Iowa. -
Lawmakers took to the House floor in roughly six hours of debate Wednesday before passing two articles of impeachment against the president. -
The committee convened to mark up the legislation that the House would use to impeach President Trump, possibly by Christmas. -
The requirements for the Nov. 20 debate, hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post, were stricter than they have been 鈥� and December's bar is even higher. -
A possible late entry into the Democratic primary by Michael Bloomberg less than three months before the Iowa caucuses would shake up the still-crowded field. -
Former Vice President Joe Biden called the president's remarks "a grotesque choice of lies over truth and self over the country." -
The Oct. 15 debate will feature more candidates together on one night than in previous months. Billionaire activist Tom Steyer and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will join 10 candidates who appeared in September. -
The shrinking field will please those who worry about Democrats' chances of defeating President Trump. But some candidates are already complaining party leaders are trying to manipulate the process.
