Seema Mehta is a veteran political writer who is covering the 2024 presidential race as well as other state and national contests. She previously wrote about the 2020, 2016, 2012 and 2008 presidential campaigns, as well as multiple gubernatorial, Senate, congressional and mayoral races. Mehta was a 2018-19 Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied how automation and artificial intelligence are 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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April 13, 2024
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April 10, 2024
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April 8, 2024
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March 20, 2024
Biden is appearing in Nevada and Arizona, two swing states, with a focus on Latino voters and pocketbook issues.
March 19, 2024
Trump’s shadow over the 2024 election will remain through November, and only increase Adam Schiff ‘s chances of becoming California’s newest U.S. senator.
March 7, 2024
Haley was soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday. Her departure leaves Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.
March 6, 2024
Democratic Rep. Adam B. Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey advance to the general election in the contest to succeed the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
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