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Politico White House Reporter Faces Scrutiny Over Old Anti-Trump Posts

Conservative outlets resurfaced Cheyanne Daniels' student-era tweets with no public response from her or Politico.

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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 29: Cheyanne Daniels attends as Byron Allen & his Allen Media Group Celebrate Gayle King at the Washington D.C. Gala after The White House Correspondents Dinner at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Richard Chapin Downs Jr./Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Cheyanne Daniels joined Politico in May as a breaking-news reporter and is now covering the Trump White House after nearly three years on The Hill’s race and politics beat.
  • Archived posts from 2016–2021 show Daniels calling Trump a demagogue and a “racist, homophobic, sexist, misogynistic president,” and using a slur for his supporters.
  • She wrote on Nov. 7, 2020 that she cried with relief at Joe Biden’s projected victory and later criticized some Trump voters as dismissive of her life as a Black woman.
  • The Washington Free Beacon published screenshots of the posts, which were then amplified by Fox News and Breitbart as they questioned her assignment to the beat.
  • Daniels locked her X account after outreach from the Free Beacon, and neither she nor Politico has commented while she continues filing White House stories on topics like a potential government shutdown and Trump’s approach to the war in Ukraine.