Naftali Bendavid

Naftali Bendavid is the deputy campaign editor for The Washington Post covering the 2020 United States presidential election.^[1] He was a former Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal,^[2] the deputy Washington bureau chief, White House correspondent and Justice Department correspondent for the Chicago Tribune,^[3] as well as a reporter for the Miami Herald and Legal Times.^[4] He is also published in the Los Angeles Times,^[5] has appeared on NPR's Diane Rehm show^[6] and PBS' Washington Week, and is the author of The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution.^[7] He also edited Obama: The Essential Guide to the Democratic Nominee.^[8]

Bendavid graduated from Columbia University in 1985 with a BA in political science,^[9] and has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.^[2]