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 Politicsand 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 embattled Supreme Court nominee published an op-ed on the Wall Street Journal website Thursday evening while key GOP senators whose votes will be decisive continued to weigh their decision. -
Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake provided the critical vote to move the nomination out of committee while proposing the limited investigation. The Senate held a procedural vote on the nomination Friday. -
A day after the president said he would be watching, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gave a fiery defense in response to testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual assault. -
One thing was clear after the president spoke with the media for nearly 90 minutes Wednesday: There's a lot riding on this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied allegations of sexual misconduct against him. "I'm not going to let false accusations drive us out of this process," Kavanaugh said in a TV interview. -
NPR reached out to candidates in the major 2018 Senate races, including Democrats facing pressure to support Brett Kavanaugh and GOP candidates raising doubts over timing of the sexual assault claim. -
The former president, who received an ethics award at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is urging people to vote in the midterms.
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There were a record 430 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates this year running for office at every level of government, almost entirely on the Democratic side. -
Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki and Lindsey Graham tried to make the best of it as they were relegated, yet again, to an earlier debate instead of the main prime-time stage. -
In the majority of states that have already held primaries, results showed massive increases in Democratic turnout as opposed to often a minimal uptick — or even noticeable dip — among GOP voters.
