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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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed Robert Mueller to oversee the growing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible ties to Trump associates. -
The White House pointed to Comey's handling of Clinton's email server as the reason for his firing, but Democrats argued it was designed to derail the investigation into Russian election interference.
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Tuesday's speech to Congress is a chance to reset a tumultuous first month. Administration officials say President Trump will strike a more optimistic tone than he did in his inaugural address. -
The presidential candidates traded barbs over their economic and trade plans, national security and race relations in the U.S.
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Clinton made history on Tuesday as the first woman to become the presumptive nominee of a major party in the U.S. Bernie Sanders vowed to stay in the race until next week's D.C. primary.
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Although the de factor GOP presidential nominee had seemed open to the idea when asked by TV host Jimmy Kimmel, "it seems inappropriate that I would debate the second-place finisher," he says now. -
The split in Tuesday night's close Democratic primaries leaves the state of the race 鈥� and Hillary Clinton's pledged-delegate lead 鈥� relatively unchanged with few contests left to go.
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The Mountaineer State played to many of Sanders' strengths with white and independent voters. But he won't cut into Hillary Clinton's delegate lead much even with his victory.
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Ted Cruz ended his campaign after losing must-win Indiana. Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton, but she keeps a large lead in pledged Democratic delegates.
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Donald Trump is projected to win all five states that voted Tuesday. Hillary Clinton wins in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, while Bernie Sanders is victorious in R.I., per The Associated Press.
