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Kerry Picket

Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.
Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.
Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows.
She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

Democrats deflect on Platner accusations despite ‘believe all women’ past

Democratic lawmakers deflected Sunday when asked about misconduct allegations against Graham Platner, refusing to condemn the Senate candidate despite previously championing the Democrats' "Believe all women" mantra.

June 7, 2026

GOP senators push new legislation to incentivize states to clean up voter rolls

Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Lindsey Graham are pushing a bill that would incentivize states to cross-check voter rolls quarterly against a Department of Homeland Security non-citizen database, citing election fraud concerns and President Trump's election-integrity agenda.

June 7, 2026

Jeffries evades talk about N.J. Democratic candidate’s link to 1993 WTC bombing mastermind

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday declined to condemn New Jersey Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamawy, despite being shown trial transcripts showing Mr. Hamawy testified as a defense witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh" who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

June 7, 2026

Trump lashes out at ‘Meet the Press,’ calls NBC ‘crooked’ over California’s vote-counting process

President Trump lashed out Sunday at NBC's 'Meet the Press," calling the news talk show "crooked" and ending an interview early over questions about recent elections in California.

June 7, 2026

Trump expresses support to funding Anti-Weaponization Fund but not committed to reviving it

President Trump expressed support Sunday for the now-defunct $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who say they were targeted by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of government but stopped short of committing to revive it.

June 7, 2026

Trump vows relief for struggling farmers at Wisconsin roundtable

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisc. -- President Trump told Wisconsin farmers that his administration has delivered tax relief and record export growth, while he promised that surging fertilizer and energy costs from the Iran war will reverse within 90 days.

June 5, 2026

Platner’s ex-girlfriend says New York Times softened bombshell account about him

Lyndsey Fifield, an ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner, pushed back on The New York Times for whitewashing her account of him, saying it was a "gift" to the embattled Maine Senate Democratic hopeful.

June 5, 2026

GOP lawmaker introduces bill to bar predators from obtaining surrogate children

Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, introduced two bills aimed at closing what he calls a glaring legal loophole that leaves surrogate-born children vulnerable to predators and foreign exploitation across most of the U.S.

June 4, 2026

New polls show Maine Senate race tightening between Collins and Platner

A pair of new polls on embattled Maine Senate Democratic candidate Graham Platner show him losing some of his lead against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

June 4, 2026

Trump: Democratic-run cities following in the footsteps of communist countries

President Trump on Thursday declared that Democratic-run cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are following the same destructive path as communist countries -- promising voters everything for free until the money runs out and chaos takes hold.

June 3, 2026

Platner, Senate Democrats heckled by protesters over Maine candidate’s KiK account

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner was heckled Tuesday for sexual depravity and called a "freak" when he arrived at a meeting of Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill.

June 2, 2026

Schumer stands by embattled Senate candidate Platner

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer refused Tuesday to address mounting controversies surrounding presumptive Senate candidate Graham Platner, deflecting every question about the embattled Maine hopeful with a single talking point while insisting Democrats will defeat Sen. Susan Collins.

June 2, 2026

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

Democrats deflect on Platner accusations despite ‘believe all women’ past

GOP senators push new legislation to incentivize states to clean up voter rolls

Jeffries evades talk about N.J. Democratic candidate’s link to 1993 WTC bombing mastermind

Trump lashes out at ‘Meet the Press,’ calls NBC ‘crooked’ over California’s vote-counting process

Trump expresses support to funding Anti-Weaponization Fund but not committed to reviving it

Trump vows relief for struggling farmers at Wisconsin roundtable

Platner’s ex-girlfriend says New York Times softened bombshell account about him

GOP lawmaker introduces bill to bar predators from obtaining surrogate children

New polls show Maine Senate race tightening between Collins and Platner

Trump: Democratic-run cities following in the footsteps of communist countries

Platner, Senate Democrats heckled by protesters over Maine candidate’s KiK account

Schumer stands by embattled Senate candidate Platner

John Boehner, other GOPers ask Trump to pardon former congressman convicted of insider trading

D.C. GOP calls for end of federal income tax for city’s residents

Leftists bemoan protests going viral online but failing to achieve real-world political wins

Bessent says IRS and FBI investigation into antifa has made ‘substantial progress’

New poll shows Democrat Platner leading GOP Sen. Collins by 9 points in Maine

House Republicans demand Boston officials hand over sanctuary city records by June 10

NRA readies lawsuit against Maryland’s new ‘Glock ban’

House probes California’s digital tablets for inmates amid reports of porn, sex exploitation