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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Sept. 19, 2024
A cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT, was a controversial part of Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul.
Sept. 18, 2024
Sean Hannity said he spoke with the former president after the second assassination attempt on Trump, who recounted being shielded by Secret Service agents.
Sept. 15, 2024
The Secret Service said that it was investigating and that the incident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. “The former president is safe,” the agency said.
Sept. 15, 2024
Former President Trump presented a dystopian image of California as a warning about what would happen to the nation if Kamala Harris is elected president.
Sept. 13, 2024
Abortion quickly emerged as a flashpoint in the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Sept. 10, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are neck and neck in the 2024 presidential contest.
Sept. 10, 2024
Newsom heads to New York to raise money for Harris — then to Pennsylvania, where she’ll debate Trump
The California governor and Kamala Harris both launched their political careers in San Francisco two decades ago. Now, he’s fundraising and promoting her run for the White House.
Sept. 8, 2024
Former President Trump is scheduled to head fundraisers in Los Angeles and Woodside next week. The latter is hosted by relatives of the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Sept. 6, 2024
Former President Trump noted that he received roughly a quarter of the Jewish vote in the 2020 election and said he expected to receive about 50% in November against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Sept. 5, 2024