PERSON: Philip Rucker

National political correspondent

Philip Rucker is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, where he has reported since 2005.
Rucker, who covered Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign and famously shouted “What about your gaffes!” at the Republican presidential nominee while he was visiting a Polish war memorial, “will keep hold of the Clinton portfolio as he takes on a broad mandate to report on the most important political races and trends ahead of the 2014 midterms and the 2016 presidential campaign,” Post editors wrote in the memo.

Rucker joins a growing stable of political reporters who are either wholly or partly dedicated to the Clinton beat, including New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, who authored last week’s “Planet Hillary” Times Magazine cover story; POLITICO’s Maggie Haberman, who recently published a landmark report on Clinton’s shadow campaign; Ruby Cramer at BuzzFeed; and Jonathan Allen, the co-author of a forthcoming Clinton bio who left POLITICO for Bloomberg News this month.

Rucker first moved to the national beat in 2008 to cover Obama’s transition to the White House, after which he covered Congress.