Reid Wilson
Reid Wilson is editor-in-chief of National Journal Hotline, Washington's premier daily tip sheet on campaigns and elections. He regularly contributes analysis of the national political environment in his weekly column, On The Trail, to National Journal Daily and to National Journal Magazine, as well as writing for 2012 Decoded. He regularly appears on MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN and is a political contributor to Sirius-XM Radio.
Before becoming editor-in-chief, Wilson was editor of Hotline On Call, Hotline’s political blog. He has also served as a staff writer at The Hill newspaper, where he covered Congress, politics, campaigns and elections. He has covered the Supreme Court, the Federal Election Commission and top political races as they develop across the country.
Reid spent the 2008 election cycle authoring a popular political blog at RealClearPolitics.com, where he covered the presidential caucuses in Iowa, the primaries in New Hampshire and several debates around the nation. Also during the 2008 cycle, Wilson hosted a nationally-broadcast political talk show on XM Satellite Radio, on which he hosted the top newsmakers, reporters and analysts in the nation.
In 2006, Wilson covered polls and polling for The Hotline. He has also written for The New Republic, the Arizona Capitol Times, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has appeared as a guest analyst on dozens of radio shows across the nation.
A native of Seattle, Wilson graduated from The George Washington University. He and his wife, Veronica, live on Capitol Hill, the best neighborhood in the country.
