Eli Stokols is a White House correspondent and co-author of West Wing Playbook. He rejoined POLITICO in 2022 after nearly five years covering the White House for the Los Angeles Times. Prior to that, he covered the 2016 election at POLITICO.

A southern California native, Stokols began his journalism career in Louisiana and Colorado. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he pitched for the Cal baseball team (whenever they had a safe lead of five runs or more); and he holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.