Coppins began his career at
Newsweek and broke the story that
Jon Huntsman Jr., would resign his ambassadorship in China and
run for President. Coppins joined
BuzzFeed to cover the 2012 presidential race, becoming an important source on Governor
Mitt Romney's
Latter-day Saint (Mormon) faith. In 2012, Coppins was one of the "30 under 30" media pundits in
Forbes magazine and also listed along with three other young
BuzzFeed News journalists as one of
Politicos "ten breakout reporters of 2012." He is a regular contributor to
CNN and
MSNBC. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential primaries, Coppins became embroiled in a public
Twitter feud with Republican candidate
Donald Trump after writing articles suggesting that Trump was running a "fake" campaign. In November 2016, he announced he was leaving
BuzzFeed to join
The Atlantic as a staff writer. In 2015, Coppins published ''The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House
. Walter Russell Mead favorably reviewed the book in Foreign Affairs'', writing that it was "[w]idely sourced and compellingly written." He has an acrimonious relationship with President
Donald Trump after he called his presidential aspirations a "sham"; Trump in response called him a "dishonest slob". Coppins released a biography of Mitt Romney called
Romney: A Reckoning on October 24, 2023. The book covers 25 years of American politics, based on 45 interviews with Romney and thousands of private emails, text messages, and diary entries. ==Personal life==