Melanie Mason is a political reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the 2020 presidential campaign. She first began working for the Times in 2011 in Washington, D.C., where she covered money and politics during the 2012 presidential campaign. She then covered state government and politics in The Times’ Sacramento bureau, where she covered the 2018 governor’s race and did award-winning coverage of sexual harassment in California politics. She is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Georgetown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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A USC Dornsife postelection poll showed growing damage to voters’ confidence in the integrity of the presidential election.
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President-elect Joe Biden won his race by performing strongly in suburbs, building large margins among Black voters and chipping into Trump territory.
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Kamala Harris will be the first female vice president, as well as the first Black and Asian American person to occupy that post.
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As election 2020 results continue to be tallied in key states, Joe Biden stands just shy of the electoral votes to win the presidency with leads in Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
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Presidential results watch: From election night onward, the drip of results has united Republican and Democratic voters in an emotional whiplash.
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With victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, the former Vice President is just shy of claiming the White House as counts continue in a handful of states.
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President Trump unfurled bitter grievances — including complaints about polls — while Joe Biden vowed ‘an end to a presidency that’s divided this nation.’
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President Trump is on the defense as he and Joe Biden campaign in the Midwest on Friday, and Kamala Harris makes a play for a newly competitive Texas.
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For all the talk of hidden Trump support — what the president likes to call a “silent majority” — there are also Biden backers preferring to keep it quiet.
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Trump is trailing Biden in Wisconsin and other Midwestern states where hospitalizations for COVID-19 have surged to record levels. He blames the media and suggests the disease will disappear the day after voting ends.