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 two front-runners easily bested their competition. Ted Cruz, unlikely to pick up any delegates, finished third behind John Kasich, and Bernie Sanders fell further behind in pledged delegates.
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Both Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders notched wins over their party's respective front-runners as they aim to close the delegate lead and push for a contested convention.
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Ted Cruz hopes support from Scott Walker and the state's influential talk radio contingent can help him topple Trump. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders hopes the state's progressive bent bends for him. -
Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz each notched victories in Tuesday's Western contests, but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won big in Arizona, the most populous state voting Tuesday.
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Ted Cruz looks to stop Donald Trump in Utah and pull off an upset in Arizona. Bernie Sanders could notch wins in Idaho and Utah, but Clinton has an advantage in Arizona, the big prize of the night.
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Tuesday night meant the end of the road for Marco Rubio, but it doesn't mean the GOP race got that much clearer. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton added to her wins over Bernie Sanders.
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Cruz and Trump each won two contests on Saturday, but the Texas senator emerged with the most delegates. And while Sanders won more states, a big Clinton win in Louisiana gave her the delegate edge.
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After a bruising loss in the Palmetto State eight years ago, Clinton crushed rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by nearly 50 points in the Democratic primary.
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The real estate mogul's victory gives him his third big win in the past two weeks. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio finished far behind. -
Donald Trump will get 50 delegates from his Palmetto State win, but both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz tried to spin their finishes as a victory as the field winnowed with Jeb Bush's withdrawal.
