Alex Thompson
About the Author
Alex Thompson is a National Political Correspondent for Axios and a CNN contributor. He won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for overall excellence in White House coverage for his reporting on Joe Biden in 2024. Before that, he created POLITICO’s “West Wing Playbook” newsletter and worked at The New York Times and Vice News. A Harvard graduate, he lives in Washington, DC. He has no pets, but is a proud uncle.