Steve Kornacki is a national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, reporting on the latest political developments across all platforms. For MSNBC’s election coverage, he provides real-time analysis of voting patterns, exit polls and electoral data. Kornacki is the author of “The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism” and host of “The Revolution,” a seven-part podcast series that tells the story of the rise of Newt Gingrich and the first Republican House majority in 40 years.
Kornacki was the host of “Up with Steve Kornacki” and was a co-host of MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” He also wrote for The New York Observer and covered Congress for Roll Call.
Kornacki spent three years in New Jersey, chronicling the state’s political world for a website and co-hosting a weekly show on News 12 New Jersey.
His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast and at Capital New York, where he’s written a series of deeply-researched profiles of prominent New York political figures. He is a native of Groton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Boston University.