John Wagner
Washington, D.C.
Editor overseeing national political breaking news
Education: Stanford University, BA in Political Science
John Wagner is The Post's national political breaking news editor. He previously was a reporter on the breaking news team. Prior to that, John covered the Trump White House. During the 2016 presidential election, he focused on the Democratic campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley. He also chronicled Maryland government for more than a decade, a stretch that included O’Malley’s eight years as governor and part of the tenure of his Republican predecessor, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
He came to The Post from the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where he served as the paper