Danielle Kurtzleben
Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on The NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the 2020 presidential election, with particular focuses on on economic policy and gender politics.
Before joining NPR in 2015, Kurtzleben spent a year as a correspondent for Vox.com. As part of the site's original reporting team, she covered economics and business news.
Prior to Vox.com, Kurtzleben was with U.S. News & World Report for nearly four years, where she covered the economy, campaign finance and demographic issues. As associate editor, she launched Data Mine, a data visualization blog on usnews.com.
A native of Titonka, Iowa, Kurtzleben has a bachelor's degree in English from Carleton College. She also holds a master's degree in global communication from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
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While Democrats hold their convention in Chicago, former President Donald Trump is traveling across the country hoping to get his message across to voters as to why they should choose him in November.
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Former President Donald Trump is traveling across the country this week to highlight what he sees as the differences between his campaign and the Harris-Walz ticket. He's in Michigan on Tuesday.
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The Trump campaign is hoping to draw some attention to the GOP candidate, and is speaking out against the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania.
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It was typical Trump fare in an X conversation between the former president and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Monday night. Starting late due to technical issues, the friendly political chat lasted two hours. -
Trump has famously been almost entirely off X since early 2021. But he has agreed to do an interview with X CEO Elon Musk.
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Former President Donald Trump gave a rambling news conference Thursday -- the first since Vice President Kamala Harris announced her running mate.
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With the selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Harris continues a trend that has risen out of her run for president: clearing the way for men to identify with their gender as they vote. -
In his first appearance after Vice President Harris announced her running mate, former President Donald Trump delivered a rambling press conference attacking her VP pick, Gov. Tim Walz.
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Campaigns don’t often reach out to male voters as men. At least on the Democratic side, that changed when Kamala Harris became the party’s likely nominee.
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The Republican National Convention wrapped up with a 90-minute nomination acceptance speech from former President Donald Trump, in which he recalled how he was wounded by gunfire on Saturday.
