Rachel Scott is the senior political correspondent for ABC News,
reporting on President Trump’s second term, his administration and
Capitol Hill across all programs and platforms, including “Good
Morning America, “World News Tonight with David Muir,”
“Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,”
“20/20,” ABC News Live, ABC News Digital and ABC Audio.

Scott also serves as the network’s lead campaign correspondent. She
crisscrossed the country, reporting throughout the Republican primary,
and extensively covered the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
Scott has covered every moment of an unprecedented campaign cycle: She
reported live on the ground from Butler, Pennsylvania, moments after
the attempted assassination of Trump; she anchored the network’s
live coverage of President Biden dropping out of his reelection race;
and she was one of few reporters inside the federal courtroom for
Trump’s felony trial.

Scott has conducted several exclusive interviews with leaders from
both parties, including Donald Trump and two sitting vice presidents
— Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.

Her questioning of political and world leaders has driven the news
cycle. Scott was also part of the international press pool traveling
with President Biden for his first official meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Scott pressed Putin on human rights abuses,
stating, “The list of your political opponents who are dead,
imprisoned, or jailed is long … So my question is, Mr. President,
what are you afraid of?” She followed up when he did not answer her
question: “You didn’t answer my question, sir…If all of your
political opponents are dead, in prison, or poisoned, doesn’t that
send a message that you don’t want a fair political fight?”

Her reporting on the far-reaching impacts of the landmark Roe v. Wade
decision was recognized by the esteemed Peabody Awards program twice
in two years — selected as a winner in 2021 for “Nightline: The
Appointment” and as a finalist in 2023 for “IMPACT x Nightline: On
the Brink” with anchor Diane Sawyer. Her reporting with Sawyer for
“On the Brink” was recognized with the 2024 Emmy® Award for
Outstanding Health and Medical Coverage.

Scott’s first day covering Capitol Hill as the incoming
congressional correspondent was Jan. 6, 2021. From the moment rioters
stormed the Capitol, Scott provided extensive live reports as the
insurrection unfolded. In the following weeks, she led the network’s
coverage of Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial. She
has also been front and center of coverage on several major stories,
including covering the longest battle for House speaker since the
Civil War, confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji
Brown Jackson, negotiations over the 2021 historic bipartisan
infrastructure package, and the 2022 passage of the most significant
gun safety legislation in decades.

Before covering Capitol Hill, Scott was a White House correspondent
and a Washington, D.C., correspondent. In 2020, she provided
extensive, on-the-ground coverage of the nationwide protests over
police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on communities
of color. Additionally, on the presidential campaign trail in 2020,
she traveled thousands of miles touring the country to cover both the
Democratic Party primary and the Trump campaign, often in the same
week.

Scott’s reporting has been featured on several ABC News primetime
specials. She has been recognized with several additional prestigious
honors in journalism, including an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia
University Award, a Peabody and multiple Emmy and Edward R. Murrow
Awards.

Scott received the inaugural Emmy Award for the Emerging Journalist
category. She has also been recognized as the 2024 Washingtonian’s
Outstanding Journalist in Broadcast Television. Scott was named the
NABJ Emerging Journalist of the Year in 2020 and listed on Forbes’
“30 under 30” list that same year. She has received awards from
the New York Press Club Journalism, Society of Professional
Journalists and the National Institute for Health Care Management’s
Television Award. She recently received the RTCA Joan Shorenstein
Barone Award for her Congressional coverage and the WABJ Young
Journalist of Excellence Award.

Her career began at ABC News as a production associate for ABC News
Live in 2016. While working full-time as a producer for “GMA”
Digital, Scott took on an additional role as a weekend general
assignment reporter for WTNH-TV, ABC News’ New Haven, Connecticut,
affiliate. Scott is a native of Southern California and a graduate of
the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the
University of Southern California.
