American journalist and former CNN chief domestic correspondent. Previously served as CNN's chief White House correspondent during the Trump and Biden administrations, where he had notable confrontations with President Trump. Author of The Enemy of the People, a memoir about covering the Trump White House. Left CNN in 2025.
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Jim Acosta
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editorial · last refreshed 5/26/2026.Bio, position statements, and per-vote analysis are editorial work — see ROADMAP M4/M5 for the corpus expansion plan.