Gregory Krieg

Bio

Greg Krieg is a senior staff writer at Mic, covering politics. He is based in New York and can be reached at greg@mic.com.
The media and voters don't always see eye-to-eye on the results of high-stakes political debates. But following Wednesday night's CNBC-moderated showdown in Boulder, Colorado, there seems to be a rare consensus, at least on the question of how…
It's been called the worst job in American politics. When first floated as a replacement for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner a couple weeks ago, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) dismissed it out of hand. The post was seen as a professional dead end. The…
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio took a serious swipe at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday night during the third Republican primary debate. Calling the mainstream media a "super PAC" dedicated to protecting liberals, Rubio told the CNBC…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush lectured his former pupil Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) during a tense exchange at the third Republican debate on CNBC over Rubio's recent absences from a series of votes in the Senate.  On Wednesday, the editorial board of…
Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner can finally pack his bags.  After weeks spent trying to find a replacement, the Republican conference in the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to nominate Rep. Paul Ryan (Wisc.) to succeed Boehner, who…
The stage will be crowded again, but the race for the Republican presidential nomination is narrowing as the candidates gather for the third debate of this tumultuous 2016 primary campaign on Wednesday night in Boulder, Colorado. For the first time,…
After four months of nearly uninterrupted dominance of the Republican primary field, Donald Trump is losing his edge and, according to a new poll, his lead among GOP voters.  But like so much else in this oddball race, the candidate poised to topple…
As Donald Trump tells it, his bravest journey hasn't been from the penthouse to whiffing distance of the White House, but in bringing the family business from Queens and Brooklyn, New York City's two largest boroughs, to gilded Manhattan.  "It's not…
The young pharmaceutical CEO who purchased a little-known generic drug used primarily by AIDS and cancer patients, then spiked its retail price by 5,000% — only to see another company waltz in on Thursday to undersell him and undermine his big…
Carson fever is rising in Iowa. In a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released Friday morning, Dr. Ben Carson jumped to the head of the pack of Republican candidates in the Hawkeye State, surpassing Donald Trump, with 28% support to…
For more than three months, from the early part of July through early fall, Donald Trump has led the Republican primary field. Now, as the contest enters the crucial final months before voting begins early next year, the boisterous billionaire is…
Vice President Joe Biden has been agonizing over a run for the Democratic presidential nomination for months now, but with one debate already gone and the other candidates steadily building support and reinforcing campaign apparatuses, the time for…
Donald Trump is driving Jeb Bush down a dangerous road.  Trump's rise in the Republican presidential primary has been a consistent source of angst and frustration to the former Florida governor. But their latest tête-à-tête, rooted in Trump's…
Las Vegas — More than seven years after Hillary Clinton's final debate with then-Sen. Barack Obama, she returned to the stage Tuesday night and proceeded to deliver the commanding performance her campaign and supporters had been thirsting for after…
Las Vegas — The scrappy primary duel no one predicted is set to escalate Tuesday night, as the Democratic candidates for president descend on the Nevada desert for the opening debate of this increasingly unruly nominating contest. Hillary Clinton…
David Brock's entry into Bill and Hillary Clinton's inner circle is one of the more remarkable turns in the political narrative of the past 25 years. During his time as a reporter for the American Spectator in the mid-1990s, Brock was at the center…
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy abruptly dropped out of the race to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) during a private meeting with the Republican conference Thursday afternoon. McCarthy announced the decision to a closed door…
Hillary Clinton's once-rapturous support of President Barack Obama's 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is officially a casualty of the Democratic primary season. The former secretary of state said Wednesday she could not support the…
As their candidate continues to climb in the polls and cut into Hillary Clinton's fundraising advantage, the team behind Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) insurgent primary run has begun the more nuanced work of plotting a path to the Democratic…
The star of Hillary Clinton's first nationally televised ad of the 2016 presidential cycle is a powerful Republican congressman who went on Fox News and linked his colleagues' Benghazi panel with the candidate's slip in the polls. Questioned about…