David Kuhn
Political commentator
David Kuhn is an author and political commentator. He is currently the Chief Political Correspondent for RealClearPolitics and a senior political writer for Politico.
Previously, he held the position of Senior Political Writer at CBS. His work has appeared in many other news outlets including The Washington Post, Salon.com, the Huffington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Kuhn’s book, The Neglected Voter, received wide praise. Kuhn regularly appears on C-Span, Fox News, CNN and other news shows to discuss politics.
David Kuhn is a political analyst and writer who has written several books that have been heavily praised, including his most recent one that was named on The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2020." Kuhn has served as the chief political writer for CBS News online, a senior political writer for Politico as well as chief political correspondent at RealClearPolitics. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, National Review, New Republic, among other publications, and regularly appears on networks ranging from BBC to Fox News.
David’s most recent book, “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution“ was recognized by the New York Times as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020.”
His book is credited by famed strategist James Carville as “perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class” and in the WSJ, Senator Webb stated that Kuhn was an “unacknowledged prophet” for the “consistency” of his longtime “warnings about the reasons white working people were moving away from the Democrats [which] were largely dismissed by the news media and party elites.”
David Kuhn participated in The White Working-Class Political Revolution with Jim Webb, Charlie Cook, and Moderator Clyde Haberman on January 7, 2021. Kuhn, Webb, Cook, and Haberman discussed how the white working-class was driven away from the Democratic party and towards Republicans and how that schism continues to drive class conflict and political polarization today. The discussion also broached the Democrats inability to make inroads with this demographic and if white working-class voters support Republicans in spite of their own policy preferences.
