Daniel Strauss - Reporter
Daniel Strauss
Reporter
Daniel Strauss is a CNN reporter covering national politics, based in Washington, D.C. In this role, he covers the 2024 election, the political trends that emerge and the issues that are top of mind for voters.
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Trump’s pick for intel chief has deeply rooted distrust of agencies she would oversee
Nov 21, 2024
In 2020, the woman who has become Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top spymaster met with one of the most infamous leakers of all time.
Eight takeaways from the 2024 election
Nov 6, 2024
By early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump appeared poised to make a paradigm-shattering political comeback, close to winning back the White House in an election shaped more by Americans’ dissatisfaction with the direction of the country than by Democrats’ dire warnings of the threat the 45th poses to its founding principles.
Takeaways from Kamala Harris’ CNN town hall
Oct 24, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris told a Pennsylvania crowd at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night that she considers Republican rival Donald Trump a fascist.
Musk casts Democrats as a threat in first trail appearance with Trump
Oct 6, 2024
In his first appearance with Donald Trump on the campaign trail, billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday called on people to register to vote and cast ballots, casting Democrats as a threat to democracy.
Trump-endorsed Bibles meet requirements laid out for Oklahoma schools
Oct 4, 2024
Oklahoma is soliciting bids for Bible suppliers to provide their wares for the state’s education department – and the specific requirements fit Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz
Oct 2, 2024
The vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was something that’s become increasingly rare in modern American politics: Normal.
What Walz’s and Vance’s past debates may reveal about Tuesday’s high-stakes matchup
Sep 30, 2024
The only scheduled debate between the vice presidential nominees on Tuesday night – five weeks before Election Day – may also serve as the final word for the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump before a large audience on national television.
Several senior campaign officials for Mark Robinson step down in wake of CNN report
Sep 23, 2024
Several top operatives on Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, just days after a CNN report uncovered inflammatory comments the candidate made on a porn website.
Takeaways from the ABC presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris
Sep 11, 2024
Kamala Harris baited Donald Trump for nearly all of the 1 hour and 45 minutes of their first and potentially only debate on Tuesday night – and Trump took every bit of it.
Melania Trump ramps up her campaign presence by raising questions about the attack on her husband, 2020 election results
Sep 11, 2024
Former first lady Melania Trump has begun inching more back into the political spotlight on the final few months of the 2024 presidential campaign with a series of politically pointed social media videos.
Tim Walz and Kristi Noem once had a warm working relationship. Now it’s gone ice-cold
Aug 27, 2024
These days, the only thing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem seem to have in common is that they’re both former-members-of-Congress-turned-Midwestern-governors.
These Democratic senators are in some of the most competitive races of 2024. They also won’t be at the DNC
Aug 18, 2024
A trio of Democratic senators running in some of the most competitive races in the country are opting against attending the Democratic National Convention this week in Chicago, even as their party looks to display a heightened level of enthusiasm and unity for newly minted presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Harris decides on Tim Walz as running mate
Aug 7, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, capping the Midwestern Democrat’s short but swift ascent from a relative unknown to a leading driver of the party’s attacks on Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda.
Takeaways from the final night of the Republican National Convention
Jul 19, 2024
On a night Republicans projected bravado around their 2024 presidential ticket, Donald Trump started his prime-time speech by displaying a rare vulnerability.
Takeaways from the third night of the Republican National Convention
Jul 18, 2024
Two days after being tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance introduced himself to voters in a speech that highlighted the populist direction the two aim to take the Republican Party — and the nation.
RNC panel approves new Trump-backed platform softening abortion and same-sex marriage language
Jul 9, 2024
The panel charged with crafting and producing a platform for the Republican National Committee has adopted a scaled-back document that softened language on abortion and same-sex marriage, Donald Trump’s campaign announced Monday.
About
Daniel Strauss is a CNN reporter covering national politics, based in Washington, D.C. In this role, he covers the 2024 election, the political trends that emerge and the issues that are top of mind for voters.
Strauss was previously a staff writer and senior political correspondent for The New Republic magazine. At The New Republic, he covered national politics, the White House, and campaigns. He also co-founded the magazine’s marquee campaign newsletter, The Run-Up. Prior to the magazine, he was a senior political reporter for The Guardian based out of the newspaper’s Washington bureau. Strauss spent over four years at Politico where he covered every aspect of American politics and elections. Before that, he was the lead campaign reporter for Talking Points Memo.
Strauss got his start in professional journalism as a breaking news reporter for The Hill newspaper. He is a former Paul Miller fellow. Strauss graduated from the University of Michigan.
