Daniella Diaz is a congressional reporter for POLITICO.

Before joining POLITICO in February 2023, she was a CNN congressional reporter. In 2020, she traversed the country as a CNN campaign embed covering the campaign efforts of then-Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Her coverage at CNN also has taken her to Tijuana, Mexico, to report on deported veterans, as well as to Havana for reporting on U.S.-Cuba relations.

Previously, Daniella covered the 2018 midterms for CNN, focusing mainly on races in Florida, and reported on daily Hill breaking news for CNN Digital as well as breaking news on the 2016 election for CNN Politics.

But her first job after college was at POLITICO as a web producer in 2014.

A proud Texan, Diaz hails from McAllen and graduated from The University of Texas — Rio Grande Valley. She is fluent in Spanish and, when she’s not at Hill stakeouts, working on a master’s degree in creative writing nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.