Rachael Bade

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Rachael Bade
Born
Tipp City, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Dayton (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Years active2010–present
Employer(s) Politico , CNN


Rachael Bade is an American journalist. She is Politico's Senior Washington Correspondent and author of the morning newsletter, Playbook [1] [2] . She currently serves as ABC News Contributing Political Correspondent as well [3] , appearing on "This Week," [4] "Good Morning America" [5] and the network's streaming platform [6]

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A member of the congressional press corps for over a decade, Bade is also the author of UNCHECKED -- The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, a book that blames Democrats as much as Republicans for the failed impeachments of Trump [7] . Published by William Marrow and co-written with her one-time colleague Karoun Demirjian, her book won plaudits from the Washington Post [8] , the Wall Street Journal [9] , The Guardian [10] , among others. [11]

Early life and education

Bade was raised in Ohio, and received a BA in political science and journalism from the University of Dayton in 2010. Before her journalism career, she was a classical ballet dancer, training during summers with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Austin and American Ballet Theatre.[ citation needed ]

Career

Bade started her journalism career in 2010 as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call . She joined Politico in 2012 to cover tax policy, a beat that launched her career when the IRS tea party targeting controversy broke. Bade covered the House Republican investigation of the IRS's scrutinization of conservative tax-exempt groups and was the only reporter to interview Lois Lerner [12] , the IRS leader at the heart of the scandal who asserted her Fifth Amendment right to Congress, refusing to answer investigators' questions [12] .

Bade later covered the Republican Party's investigation of the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack and the party's subsequent probe of Hillary Clinton's private email use ahead of the 2016 election. She was promoted to Politico's Congress team in early 2016, where she covered the GOP's transformation under Donald Trump from her perch on the Hill, specializing in stories about Republican infighting about the direction of the party. [13] [14] [15] [16]

She ultimately won an award for her coverage of Speaker Paul Ryan [17] [18] , who, she writes, was torn between a desire to land policy wins — and a private concern about Trump's moral compass.

Bade joined The Washington Post as a congressional reporter in 2019 to cover House Democrats' oversight of the Trump administration. [19] She helped lead the publication's coverage of the Trump impeachment inquiry [20] before starting on her book, Unchecked.

News from her book, as well as excerpts therein, appeared in The Washington Post, [21] Politico Magazine, [22] [23] The Atlantic, [24] , Fox News, [25] Playbook, [26] and mutliple other publications. [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

Personal life

In February 2022, Bade announced that she was expecting a baby girl in the summer of 2022 after undergoing five rounds of in vitro fertilization. [32]

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