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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

GOP Rep. Marcus Molinaro loses reelection to Democrat Josh Riley

Rep. Marcus Molinaro of New York, a Republican in a swing congressional district, lost his reelection late Tuesday night to Democrat Josh Riley.

November 6, 2024

Republican Rep. Brandon Williams loses bid for reelection in New York

Rep. Brandon Williams of New York, a Republican in a swing congressional district, lost his re-election Tuesday to Democratic State Sen. John Mannion.

November 5, 2024

Hung Cao strikes deal with NBC to air political ads in key time slots after Kaine appears on ‘SNL’

Virginia Republican Senate candidate Hung Cao struck a deal with NBC to receive free political ad time in a key time slot Monday night after his opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, recently appeared on "Saturday Night Live."

November 4, 2024

Kamala Harris refuses to say how she voted on California’s tough-on-crime initiative

Vice President Kamala Harris won't say how she voted on California's Prop 36, a measure to impose harsher sentences on criminals.

November 4, 2024

Trump calls U.S. an ‘occupied’ country

Former President Donald Trump proclaimed Sunday at a rally in Kinston, North Carolina, that the U.S. is occupied by illegal immigrants who want to do harm to Americans.

November 3, 2024

Prized ‘blue wall’ voters give divergent reasons for Harris, Trump choice at close of tight race

Voters in the "blue wall" states -- Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin -- are expected to largely determine who will be the next U.S. president, and these voters are evenly split with dramatically opposing views on the candidates and what matters in the election.

November 3, 2024

N.J. GOP congressman mailers trashed by USPS worker at Pennsylvania supermarket

The U.S. Postal Service launched an investigation into one of its workers for allegedly trashing about 300 direct mail pieces advocating for Republican Rep. Thomas Kean, Jr. of New Jersey in a dumpster at a Pennsylvania supermarket.

November 2, 2024

Trump warns of depression if Harris wins

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped Vice President Kamala Harris over this week's poor jobs numbers, warning if he's not elected the country will collapse economically.

November 2, 2024

Trump doubles down on chicken-hawk comments about Liz Cheney at Michigan rally

Former President Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his remarks about former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming being incapable of surviving the same kind of war zones she usually wants to send U.S. troops into.

November 1, 2024

New York GOP files complaint against U.S. Postal Service over destroyed political mailers

Over 200 political mailers advocating for GOP congressional candidate Alison Esposito were dumped by a creek in New York's Hudson Valley, and the Republican Party filed a complaint with the U.S. Postal Service alleging election interference.

November 1, 2024

Harris leans in on abortion messaging in final days of campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris, in a closing message on the campaign trail out in Nevada, leaned in on making abortion completely legal in all 50 states.

October 31, 2024

Harris looks for Philly’s Black voters to deliver must-win Pennsylvania

Black voters in the state's most densely populated county aren't as enthusiastic for Vice President Kamala Harris as they were for past Democratic presidential candidates, and it could dampen her chances of winning the state.

October 31, 2024

Trump proclaims MAGA ‘greatest political movement’ in U.S. history

Former President Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to make a final appeal to Keystone State voters and their 19 Electoral College votes, calling MAGA the "greatest political movement" in American history.

October 29, 2024

Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI ‘honey pot’ spies infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign

The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.

October 29, 2024

WATCH: The American dream priced out of reach? Michael Burkentine joins Kelly Sadler

WATCH: Ranked choice voting is coming to D.C. — here’s how it works

Will Graham Platner derail Democrats’ 2026 hopes? Tim Constantine & David Bozell