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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At the Rainbow PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago, the former vice president said he "never opposed voluntary busing" — though he did oppose mandatory busing policy.
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Here's what you need to know about the second half of the first debate of the 2020 election cycle, including Sen. Kamala Harris' exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden. -
Just catching up? Here is what you need to know about the first night of the Democratic debate in Miami. -
The president told supporters that Democrats want to "destroy" the country, turning up the heat on opponents in a speech that mostly picked up where the 2016 campaign left off. -
President Trump filed official paperwork to run for a second term on Inauguration Day. Since then, he's held dozens of rallies, but his campaign says Tuesday's event in Florida will be "historic."
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President Trump dismissed such outreach as "oppo research" and contradicted his own FBI director, saying he would "maybe" notify the bureau — "if I thought there was something wrong." -
De Blasio is the 23rd Democratic candidate, and not the only mayor. He won current office from the back of a big primary pack, something he is mindful of as even allies have warned against a 2020 bid. -
The last three sitting presidents to lose reelection — George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford — all faced strong opponents within their parties. But Trump has strengths they did not. -
The mid-June interview will be limited in time, although no topics are off limits and it is expected to focus heavily on the proposed Trump Tower Russia project and a 2016 meeting, a source tells NPR. -
"I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives," the congresswoman said.
