Rick Klein is the vice president and Washington D.C. bureau chief for
ABC News. He oversees bureau operations and manages all news teams
based in Washington for breaking news, daily coverage and special
events. He supervises all political coverage, including the
network’s Sunday morning public affairs program, “This Week with
George Stephanopoulos,” and drives collaboration across ABC News’
powerhouse political team and D.C.-based reporters with all divisions
and departments, as well as with ABC-owned stations and affiliates.
Klein provides regular political commentary and analysis across all
ABC News programs and platforms, including “This Week with George
Stephanopoulos,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good
Morning America,” “Nightline,” as well as ABC News Live, ABC
News Digital, ABC News Audio and ABC News affiliates.

Klein’s instincts and insights were critical throughout the past
five presidential election cycles, helping guide ABC News’ reporting
on Washington’s campaigns and political battles. He has interviewed
a wide range of key political figures, including President Donald
Trump, former President Joe Biden, Sen. Mitt Romney, former House
Speaker Paul Ryan, the late Sens. John McCain and Ted Kennedy, as well
as Ken Burns, Tom Hanks, Bradley Cooper, NBA legend Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar and a broad range of other prominent individuals.

He has helped plan and produce more than 20 debates and candidate town
halls for ABC News, in addition to the 2012 vice presidential debate,
the 2016 town-hall-style presidential debate, and town-hall forums
featuring Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the fall of 2020 on ABC.

Before becoming political director in 2013, Klein served as ABC’s
senior Washington editor for “World News with Diane Sawyer” and an
on-air political analyst. He was featured in the 2022 Hulu documentary
series “Power Trip,” which focused on the reporters covering
elections for ABC News. He previously hosted the “Powerhouse
Politics” podcast along with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, the
“Capital Games” podcast with ESPN reporter Andy Katz, and the
Webcast and Yahoo! News video series “Top Line.” Starting in 2007,
Klein authored “The Note,” a weekly tipsheet and blog at
ABCNews.com. He was a co-anchor for the network’s digital election
coverage in 2008 alongside former anchor Sam Donaldson and has been an
on-set reporter and analyst in subsequent election cycles. For several
years, Klein has highlighted polling and political geography on
“This Week” segments called “The Breakdown.” He has covered
voting results on interactive maps during network coverage of
primaries and general elections.

Klein joined ABC News in 2007 from The Boston Globe, covering the
Massachusetts State House and Boston City Hall, and later covering
Congress and national politics in the Washington bureau. He previously
worked as a metro reporter at The Dallas Morning News.

A native of Babylon, New York, on Long Island, Klein graduated with a
degree in politics from Princeton University, where he served as
editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian and broadcast athletic
events for WPRB-FM. He lives in Washington with his wife and two sons,
and the family helps raise guide-dog puppies through Guiding Eyes for
the Blind. He is an avid baseball card collector and was included as a
subject in Topps’ 2016 Allen & Ginter release.
