Liz Goodwin

Washington, D.C.

Congress reporter

Education: Harvard College, BA in history and literature

Liz Goodwin is a Congress reporter for The Washington Post. Goodwin joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where she covered national politics since 2018, most recently serving as Washington bureau chief. Before joining the Globe in 2018, Goodwin wrote about national politics and national affairs for Yahoo News, covering Congress, the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, immigration, and criminal justice, among other topics. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Daily Beast. As a reporter, Goodwin is known for capturing the human side of politics — writing revealing profiles of candidate
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Democrats target GOP over reproductive rights as election nears

Democrats are seeking to spotlight Republicans’ unpopular stances on reproductive rights a few weeks before the 2024 election with a Senate vote and campaign messaging.

September 17, 2024
Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senate Democrats arrive for a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Valerie Plesch for The Washington Post)

Senate Republican candidates are trailing Donald Trump

Republicans running in critical Senate races are lagging behind Trump in polls as their Democratic opponents enjoy a cash advantage.

September 15, 2024
Former president Donald Trump speaks in support of Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno at Dayton International Airport. Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris for president in polling the state, but Moreno has been trailing Sen. Sherrod Brown, his opponent.

Larry Hogan features ‘horror’ of Jan. 6 in new Maryland Senate ad

The ad is part of the Republican’s nearly $8 million blitz in the deep-blue state this fall.

September 2, 2024
Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan is billing himself as “the face” of the “anti-Trump GOP” in a new ad blitz as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate.

As China’s power grows, candidates use it as attack line

Democrats and Republicans are aggressively tying their opponents to China in the final months of the 2024 campaign, hoping that invoking the nation that many Americans blame for mishandling the covid-19 pandemic, the deadly opioid crisis and U.S. economic woes will boost their own chances at the ballot box.

September 1, 2024
Republicans are making unfounded attacks on Tim Walz for his interest in China, where he traveled as a young English teacher and later as a congressman.

Slotkin gets a boost from Harris at top of ticket

Harris rocketing to the top of the ticket has dramatically shaken up the race for Senate Democrats, who are seeking to hold onto their narrow 51-49 majority in the chamber as they face a daunting electoral map that has them playing defense in 23 states — many of them red or purple

August 19, 2024
Rep. Elissa Slotkin addresses the crowd after clinching the nomination for Senate in the 7th District at the Hotel Saint Regis in Detroit on Aug. 6.

Harris's policy agenda, and Dems’ down-ballot dreams

Vice President Kamala Harris has made significant gains in the polls and the Democratic Party is riding high. What policy agenda is she staking out now, and how will it play on the campaign trail?

August 16, 2024

The Campaign Moment: Dems’ down-ballot dreams

Vice President Kamala Harris has made significant gains in the polls and the Democratic Party is riding high. What policy agenda is she staking out now, and how will it play on the campaign trail?

August 16, 2024

The 8 races and 3 long shots that could determine Senate control

Republicans are all but guaranteed to pick up at least one seat, putting even more pressure on Democrats to win seven other highly competitive races, including two in red states.

August 16, 2024

Kamala Harris honed her Senate identity as a Trump foil

In the minority throughout her tenure, Harris had a liberal voting record and did not play a key role in any major legislation that was signed into law. Instead, she channeled the left’s anger at the Trump administration from her perch on several powerful Senate committees, creating a reputation as a sharp questioner that fueled her own presidential campaign to unseat him in 2020.

August 12, 2024

Harris’s whirlwind, high-pressure VP process that landed on Walz

Kamala Harris faced a dramatically compressed timetable for choosing a vice-presidential nominee as powerful Democratic factions jockeyed for their favorite

August 6, 2024