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Susan Ferrechio

Susan Ferrechio

sferrechio@washingtontimes.com

Susan Ferrechio has been writing about politics and national news for more than three decades, providing coverage through six presidents and eight House speakers. She writes about politics and other top national issues for The Washington Times. Her coverage includes Congress, the presidency, elections, and energy policy with an emphasis on stories ignored by other media.
She first joined The Washington Times in 1995 then moved to The Miami Herald, followed by Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Examiner, where she served as chief congressional correspondent and provided coverage for four presidential campaign cycles and countless congressional and senate races. She returned to The Washington Times in 2022 and serves as national politics correspondent. Susan has provided commentary for Fox News, MSNBC, NEWSMAX, ABC News, NewsNation, WMAL Radio, CSPAN and the McLaughlin Group.
She can be reached at sferrechio@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Susan Ferrechio

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump reacts after speaking at a rally at Des Moines Area Community College in Newton, Iowa, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump can’t just win in Iowa — he has to win huge, analysts say

Former President Donald Trump's poll numbers in Iowa show him poised to win the first-in-the-nation contest Monday with more than 50% of the Republican vote, which would set a state record and propel him into the critical New Hampshire primary as the unbeatable leader in the presidential race.

January 11, 2024
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, waving to members of the audience at the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

As Haley surges in Iowa, DeSantis strikes with last-minute zingers

In the final debate before the first nominating contest of the 2024 Republican presidential race, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Hayley battled viciously for the position of top alternative to former President Donald Trump, who is leading the Republican pack by 35 percentage points in Iowa.

January 10, 2024
Republican presidential candidates former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis talk during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) ** FILE **

DeSantis prepares set of last-ditch Haley jabs; GOP debate aims for lowa decision

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has blanketed Iowa at the expense of all other early-voting states in a Hail Mary bid to keep his campaign alive against prohibitive front-runner and former President Donald Trump. Now Mr. DeSantis faces a surging Nikki Haley, who could steal second place from him in the Iowa caucuses.

January 9, 2024
Dr. Anthony Fauci, center, who served as the nation's top infectious disease expert before retiring last year, arrives on Capitol Hill to be interviewed by members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. House Republicans have spent the last year probing whether Fauci or other U.S. government officials took part in any sort of cover-up about the origin of the deadly virus. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP faults Fauci’s memory in private hearing on his pandemic policies, China research

A House committee examining the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci behind closed doors Monday, but lawmakers said the former chief medical adviser to the president couldn't remember many details about his advocacy of lockdowns, his flip-flopping of mask mandates and his decision to allow government funding of gain-of-function research in China that might have led to the pandemic.

January 8, 2024
This photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein, March 28, 2017. Social media is abuzz with news that a judge is about to release a list of "clients," or "associates" or maybe "co-conspirators," of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

Jeffrey Epstein court documents include new claims about Bill Clinton, other VIPs

Hundreds of pages of newly released court documents involving the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein expose tawdry allegations about former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, and name magician David Copperfield, the late pop icon Michael Jackson and former President Donald Trump, among other high-profile figures.

January 5, 2024
In this June 10, 2005, photo, workers walk past a part of Qinshan No. 2 Nuclear Power Plant, China's first self-designed and self-built national commercial nuclear power plant in Qinshan, about 125 kilometers (about 90 miles) southwest of Shanghai, China. China is ready to approve new nuclear power plants as part of ambitious plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending a moratorium it imposed because of Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011. The Cabinet on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, passed plans on nuclear power safety and development that said construction of nuclear power plants would resume "steadily." (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) **FILE**

China ramping up nuclear energy as U.S. turns to wind and solar

The United States is closing older nuclear power plants and only taking baby steps toward building new ones while China, the world's No. 2 economy, aggressively ramps up its nuclear power inventory to add 37 new reactors in the past decade.

January 2, 2024