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Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.

Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington.


Latest from Jonathan Allen

Biden primary challenger Dean Phillips won't run for re-election to Congress

Rep. Dean Phillips, a longshot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, announced Friday that he will not seek election to a fourth term representing Minnesota's Third District in the House.

Ron DeSantis' team was going after Nikki Haley. They turned on each other instead.

Nikki Haley's rise has posed an existential threat to Ron DeSantis' candidacy, and his team has struggled in how to counter it.

Biden tells two different stories about the Israel-Hamas war in letters to Americans

President Joe Biden is delivering different messages on the war in the Middle East to pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel Americans, according to copies of official White House correspondence obtained by NBC News.

Haley secures former Tim Scott donors as her money momentum continues

Nikki Haley’s 2024 bid started to pick up momentum in the debates. Now, she is starting to vacuum up money, as GOP donors see her as a good Trump alternative.

Democratic lawmakers press Biden on Israeli violence in the West Bank

Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Dan Goldman are asking Joe Biden to press Israel to crack down on violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Republican presidential primary campaign is heavy on bloodlust

Republican presidential hopefuls are out for blood — literally.

Trump rivals drop out and fade away, pitting Nikki Haley versus Ron DeSantis for second

Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley's aggressive moves, and Tim Scott's dropout, bolster the assertion that the GOP primary is consolidating behind Trump.

The war for second place got hot, but the third GOP debate didn't dent Trump

Trump's top two rivals for the Republican nomination criticized him gingerly at an NBC News debate as they continued to separate themselves from the rest of the field.

Trump says the primary's over. But he's still fighting his rivals like it's not.

As the rest of the Republican field gathers for an NBC News-sponsored debate in Miami on Wednesday, the former president hasn't taken his eye off them.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Trump at his Florida rally this week

Arkansas. Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to endorse Donald Trump's presidential bid Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Trump's rivals say he can't beat Biden. Polls say he can.

Trump's rivals have pledged to support him if he wins the Republican nomination, but increasingly they're arguing to GOP voters that he can't beat Biden in a rematch.