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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In a rare press briefing, the acting chief of staff said the president held up aid to Ukraine as part of a quid pro quo. Hours later, he changed course, saying there was "absolutely no quid pro quo." -
Lawmakers have widely criticized President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Trump says it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who had the "meltdown." -
The former vice president and 2020 candidate said, "Impeachment isn't only about what the president has done — it's about the threat the president poses to the nation if allowed to remain in office." -
An eight-page letter from the White House to House leaders heightens the political and legal standoff between the two branches of government. -
Former Vice President Joe Biden called the president's remarks "a grotesque choice of lies over truth and self over the country." -
House Democrats threatened the White House with a subpoena, saying it has refused their requests to voluntarily produce key documents as part of their impeachment inquiry. -
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. -
In a complaint released by the House intelligence committee, the person cites White House officials who say they were ordered to veer from protocol to protect "politically sensitive" information. -
The White House released a record of his July call with the Ukrainian president. But it's not quelling Congress' move toward impeachment as the president had hoped. -
"I do think that we will have to pass some laws that will have clarity for future presidents. [A] president should be indicted, if he's committed a wrongdoing," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told NPR.
