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Seema Mehta is a veteran political writer who is covering the 2024 presidential race as well as other state and national contests. She started at the Los Angeles Times in 1998, previously covered multiple presidential, state and local races, and completed a Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2019.
Melissa Gomez is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered education and the 2020 presidential campaign at The Times. A native Floridian, she graduated from the University of Florida.