“There's been no end to the grief Mitch McConnell's taken for his declaration early in Barack Obama's first term that his party's top goal was to make Obama a one-term president.”

American political journalist, writer, and television presenter

Steve Kornacki is an American political journalist, writer, and television presenter. He is a national political correspondent for NBC News and has become widely associated with election coverage on cable news. Kornacki has written for Salon, The New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, and The Daily Beast. He also served as the multimedia anchor for much of MSNBC's "The Place for Politics" campaign coverage, leading the network's analysis of voting results on U.S. Election Day from 2014 to 2024.