Niall Stanage is White House columnist for The Hill, the nonpartisan political newspaper and website based in Washington, D.C.  A native of Belfast, Niall has lived in the United States since 2003.

He has covered four presidential elections and is a frequent TV commentator on both sides of the Atlantic, most commonly for MSNBC, Sky News and the BBC.

Niall wrote extensively about the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, reporting first-hand from the first caucuses in Iowa, through the party conventions and presidential debates, and onto Election Day itself. 

He is also the author of Redemption Song, a critically-acclaimed Irish bestseller about Barack Obama’s 2008 quest for the White House.

Niall was educated at Methodist College, Belfast and Oxford University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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