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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

Pennsylvania Supreme Court sides with GOP, orders officials not to tally undated ballots

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has ordered state election officials not to count mail-in and absentee ballots arriving in envelopes that are undated or incorrectly dated.

November 1, 2022

Democrats circle wagons to boost Hochul in final week of campaign

New York Democrats are doing some last-minute scrambling to head off a potential upset against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul.

November 1, 2022

Niece of GOP lawmaker dies in South Korea Halloween crowd surge

The niece of Rep. Brad Wenstrup was among the scores of young people killed in a crowd surge at a Halloween party in South Korea over the weekend.

October 31, 2022

Republicans in hot races put Democrats on defense over strict COVID-19 policies

It's been nearly three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and Republicans are turning unpopular mandates and lockdowns imposed by Democrats into a political vulnerability ahead of the midterm elections.

October 31, 2022

New York attorney general’s race gets a second look as polls tighten

The Republican statewide surge in New York due largely to the party's law-and-order platform has extended to the attorney general's campaign, according to recent polls that show the race tightening.

October 28, 2022

Arizona Senate race moved to ‘toss-up’

The Arizona Senate election between Republican Blake Masters and Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly has become a dead heat in recent weeks, according to campaign analysts.

October 27, 2022

Arizona Rep. Gosar invites Zelenskyy, Putin to Arizona for Ukraine-Russia peace talks

Rep. Paul Gosar is stepping into the international diplomacy ring, offering his home state of Arizona as a location for peace talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

October 27, 2022

GOP House super PAC buys $11 million in advertising for final two weeks

The Congressional Leadership Fund, the House GOP super PAC aligned with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, has purchased $11 million in new advertising in 16 House districts from California to Rhode Island to recapture the lower chamber.

October 26, 2022

Zeldin, Hochul trade accusations over New York’s crime problems

The issue of crime took center stage at the New York gubernatorial debate Tuesday night with Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin accusing Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for being soft on violent law-breakers.

October 25, 2022

Rubio calls out Chase CEO Jamie Dimon over concerns the financial giant is targeting conservatives

Sen. Marco Rubio questioned JPMorgan Chase and Co. CEO Jamie Dimon Tuesday about "politically-motivated de-banking" after the country's largest banking company terminated the account of a conservative nonprofit.

October 25, 2022

DOJ pressed to reveal Biden’s secret plans to boost voting

Lawmakers are prodding the Justice Department to reveal how it plans to carry out President Biden's order for all federal agencies to "promote access to voting."

October 24, 2022

Reelection race for House Democrats’ campaign chief now a ‘toss-up’

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who is leading his party's effort to elect more House Democrats, is now in more perilous waters for his own reelection race with just two weeks before Election Day.

October 24, 2022

Ex-FBI official to face Congress about claims of W.H. pressure to inflate domestic extremism numbers

A former top FBI official will testify before Congress to address claims that the Biden administration pressured agents to label cases as domestic extremism or a White supremacist threat even if it did not meet that criteria, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday.

October 20, 2022

House GOP preps bills for first 100 days if Republicans capture majority

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik says legislation on energy production, gun rights, and parents' rights already has been drafted in expectation of the GOP taking the House majority in the midterm elections.

October 18, 2022

Polling shifts N.Y. governor’s race to ‘toss up’ as incumbent Hochul loses ground to GOP Rep. Zeldin

The New York governor's race has moved to the "toss up" category as Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin closes the gap against Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.

October 17, 2022

GOP presses National Archives on possible coordination with Dems over Mar-a-Lago raid

House Republican leaders have called on Debra Steidel Wall, acting archivist of the U.S., to answer questions about possible coordination with Democratic lawmakers in getting officials at the National Records Administration (NARA) to investigate former President Donald Trump's handling of presidential records.

October 14, 2022

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