James Hohmann is a national political reporter for POLITICO.

He came from The Washington Post, where he covered public transportation and Loudoun County. Previously he wrote for The Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau, The Dallas Morning News and The San Jose Mercury News. 

Hohmann regularly offers expert political analysis on television and radio. 

An Honors graduate of Stanford University, Hohmann studied American political history. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Stanford Daily and wrote an award-winning thesis about the 1976 Republican primaries and the political ascendancy of Ronald Reagan. 

Hohmann grew up in Apple Valley, Minn. He traveled to all 50 states before his 18th birthday. He’s visited nearly 400 congressional districts and set foot inside 48 state capitols.