Matt Pearce is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the 2020 presidential election. He previously spent six years on The Times’ national desk, where he wrote stories about violence, disasters, social movements and civil liberties. Pearce was one of the first national reporters to arrive in Ferguson, Mo., during the uprising in 2014, and he chased Hurricane Harvey across Texas as the storm ravaged the Lone Star State in 2017. A University of Missouri graduate, he hails from a small town outside Kansas City, Mo.
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It had been four dark years for Democrats. News of Joe Biden’s election victory Saturday over President Trump changed that.
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Tell us where you were and what you did when Joe Biden won the 2020 election. We may feature your story in our coverage.
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President Trump keeps attacking the Commission on Presidential Debates. What is the commission and how and why was it formed?