Seema Mehta is a political writer who is covering the 2022 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. She previously wrote about the 2020, 2016, 2012 and 2008 presidential campaigns, as well as several gubernatorial, Senate, congressional and mayoral races. Mehta was a Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan for the 2018-19 academic year, an opportunity she used to study automation and artificial intelligence – developments that could spur the next iteration of the Industrial Revolution, indelibly changing the nation’s identity, policies and politics. The Syracuse University graduate and East Coast native swore when she joined The Times in 1998 that she would only spend a few years on the Left Coast. Many years, a husband, a house and a few cats later, she can’t imagine living somewhere she couldn’t golf year-round.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces that she backs Rep. Adam Schiff’s Senate bid as long as Dianne Feinstein doesn’t run for reelection.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel beats back an insurgent challenge from conservative California lawyer Harmeet Dhillon in the race to lead the national GOP.
Vice President Kamala Harris joined in what has become a nightly ritual in Monterey Park as hundreds gathered in front of a dance studio where 11 people were killed.
The insular GOP fight will take place in Dana Point this week as the party tries to regroup after three disappointing elections.
Kevin McCarthy serves a reliably red California district. But conservatives voters there, who criticize him as being an establishment Republican, cheered the standoff over his House speakership.
Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland, a seasoned progressive with more than three decades immersed in California politics, on Wednesday told congressional colleagues she plans to run for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat in 2024.
Rep. Katie Porter of Orange County announces she’ll run for the Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein, who at 89 is not expected to seek reelection.
Rep. Katie Porter of Orange County announces she’ll run for the Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein, who at 89 is not expected to seek reelection.