Michael C. Bender

Political Correspondent, The New York Times

Michael C. Bender is a political correspondent with The New York Times covering President Trump and his Make America Great Again movement. He covered Trump’s first term in the White House, each of his three presidential campaigns, and interviewed him inside Trump Tower, at his Mar-a-Lago resort, aboard Air Force One and one-on-one in the Oval Office. Michael detailed much of that experience in his book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” which was an instant New York Times best seller and is now in its third printing.

He previously was senior White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, national political correspondent for Bloomberg, state politics reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and The Palm Beach Post. His first job as a journalist after graduating from The Ohio State University was at The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colorado.