Eli Stokols and Jonathan Lemire

Eli covered the 2016 election for POLITICO, starting out with the Jeb Bush campaign before turning his reporting lens on Donald Trump. He’s covered the White House ever since Trump took office in 2017. For the last four and a half years, that’s been at the Los Angeles Times, his hometown paper. Prior to all that, Eli had stints at local television news outlets in Louisiana and then Denver, where he forced stories about Colorado politics and government into nightly broadcasts for many years, while also penning several long-form pieces, including for, yes, POLITICO Magazine.