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Capping their first week as a ticket, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), appeared together Friday to sign official documents related to accepting the party’s nomination at next week’s Democratic National Convention. At an event this afternoon, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/14/trump-biden-live-updates/#link-KEL7N56AKVFRJEFVICNGLVPYUA" target=_blank>Harris praised Biden’s</a> “audacity to choose a Black woman to be his running mate.”

The Biden-Harris ticket won an endorsement from the letter carriers union, which decried the Trump administration for seeking to “undermine” the U.S. Postal Service.

President Trump spent the morning retweeting attacks on Biden and Harris, as well as praise of himself. He then left for a weekend at his private golf resort in Bedminster, N.J. In the evening, he’ll speak to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association, the largest police union representing New York City law enforcement.

Trump’s opposition to additional funding for the<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mail-voting/2020/08/13/3eb9ac62-dd70-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html" target=_blank> </a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mail-voting/2020/08/13/3eb9ac62-dd70-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html" target=_blank>Postal Service </a>puts at risk the nation’s ability to administer the Nov. 3 elections.

The Biden campaign<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-early-momentum-harris-to-focus-on-connecting-with-minorities-activists-women-in-swing-states/2020/08/13/2063e834-dd77-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bidenharris-915pm-1-duplicate%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans" target=_blank> plans to deploy</a> Harris to swing states in the coming weeks to connect with Black voters, young activists and suburban women.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/discontent-with-mccarthy-rises-as-gop-considers-a-possible-post-trump-world/2020/08/13/ec04786a-dd8f-11ea-b4af-72895e22941d_story.html" target=_blank>future is uncertain</a>, as some Republicans worry he has put loyalty to Trump above the GOP conference.

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump told law enforcement supporters Friday that Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) is “probably worse, worse” than Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Trump mispronounced the Democratic vice-presidential pick’s first name three times during a campaign event at his private golf club here. First it came out “Koom-uh-luh,” and later, twice, “Ka-mall-uh.” In between, he pronounced it correctly.

“They always say Kamala,” he said to laughter.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson also mispronounced Harris’s name repeatedly on air Tuesday, drawing criticism of sexism and disrespect.

Trump called Harris far left but did not point to specific policies or actions. Harris is a former prosecutor and former state attorney general.

Trump collected a police union endorsement Friday at the rally-style event, which featured law enforcement personnel in street clothes and red Make America Great Again hats standing outside Trump’s club. Some wore masks but were not standing as far apart as recommended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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Election 2020 Kentucky Fancy Farm

Voters in Kentucky who are concerned about contracting or spreading the coronavirus will be eligible to cast mail ballots for the general election, one of several policy changes aimed at making voting safe and accessible in the state during the pandemic.

Under a bipartisan plan announced Friday by Gov. Andy Beshear (D) and Secretary of State Michael Adams (R), voters will have expanded options for casting ballots, including a three-week early-voting period. Absentee ballots will be available for request through an online portal that will go live by the end of next week, and they will be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day and received by Nov. 6.

The plan builds from the state’s successful experiment with wider voting options — including a massive expansion of absentee voting — during its summer primary.

Every county will offer at least one voting “supercenter” similar to the ones that allowed people in Louisville and Lexington to socially distance while voting in June, Beshear said. The state’s voter ID requirements will be relaxed for both absentee voters and in-person voters who could not obtain photo identification because of the pandemic. County clerks will also offer a more robust process for voters to “cure” problems with absentee ballots to ensure they are counted, the officials said.

Both the governor and the secretary of state praised the agreement as an example of effective bipartisan cooperation.

“I don’t really think that this was too much of a negotiation going back and forth,” Beshear said at a news conference Friday afternoon, thanking Adams for “putting ideology on the shelf.” 

“I think we both wanted a successful election where we could protect people’s health and get what we believe will be one of the larger turnouts we’ve seen because there are so many options to vote.”

Adams said that from the beginning of their discussions, he and Beshear “put party aside completely and looked at the facts rationally.” He emphasized that the choice to vote absentee will be a “subjective decision” for voters based on their concerns about the coronavirus, with no age cutoff or particular health status needed to qualify.

Elise Viebeck

Kanye West has filed a petition to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate for president in Iowa, the state’s secretary of state, Paul Pate, tweeted late Friday.

Pate indicated that state officials are still reviewing the petition to see whether it included the requisite number of signatures to qualify under state law, which requires collecting 1,500 signatures from at least 10 Iowa counties.

West, who in the past publicly praised President Trump and met recently with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, has sought inclusion on the ballot as an independent candidate representing the “Birthday Party” in a handful of states. Some, such as Oklahoma and Vermont, are likely not in play in the November election. But in recent weeks, his campaign has filed in several swing states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and now Iowa.

In at least five states, The Washington Post <a href="//www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kanye-west-ballot-campaign-gop/2020/08/09/bfc8e58a-d8ce-11ea-9c3b-dfc394c03988_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_28">has found</a> that his efforts to appear on the ballot were assisted by Republican activists and operatives, including some who had until recently publicly supported Trump. Some Democrats fear that Republicans are using West, who has said he struggles with bipolar disorder, as a way to try to siphon votes from Democrat Joe Biden. The Billings Gazette in Montana <a href="//www.billingsgazette.com/news/local/group-working-to-get-kanye-west-on-state-ballot-to-help-trump/article_9a6f6ef1-80c8-568c-8d4d-3b65852903f8.html">reported this week</a> that an organizer collecting signatures for West outside a courthouse there was openly asking passersby to sign if they wanted to “help Trump.”

“We’re trying to take votes away from creepy Uncle Joe,” the organizer said.

West’s petition has been challenged in Wisconsin, which was decided by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016. The state’s election commission will meet next week to consider challenges to his inclusion on the ballot.

Rosalind Helderman

A union representing nearly 300,000 current and retired letter carriers has endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket, praising Joe Biden as a “fierce ally and defender of the United States Postal Service” at a time when the coronavirus pandemic “threatens [its] very survival." 

National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando decried the Trump administration for seeking to “undermine” USPS since 2018, when a White House task force urged raising postage rates, cutting mail service and reducing wages and collective bargaining rights for postal workers.

“And now, our country struggles to withstand the public health and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 virus,” Rolando said in a statement Thursday. “This pandemic threatens the very survival of USPS. Yet, while postal employees are on the front lines providing essential services to the public every day, the current administration refuses to provide the necessary financial relief that would strengthen the agency during this pandemic." 

The endorsement was announced on the same day that Trump acknowledged he was blocking emergency funding for USPS to reduce the number of Americans who can vote by mail this fall. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that mail voting invites widespread fraud.

Rolando also praised presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala D. Harris for “[putting] letter carriers and working families first” since she became a senator in 2017.

Hours after signing the documents that made her nomination official, Sen. Kamala D. Harris sat for her first interview since being named Biden’s running mate earlier this week.

With Biden/Harris logos dotting a blue background behind her, Harris <a href="https://19thnews.org/2020/08/kamala-harris-applauds-bidens-audacity-to-choose-a-black-woman-to-be-his-running-mate/" target="_blank">told the 19th</a> the fact that she is the first woman of color on a major party’s ticket speaks to Biden’s character — and was in no way the safe choice, even as many wings of the Democratic Party are prioritizing representation more than ever.

“Joe Biden had the audacity to choose a Black woman to be his running mate. How incredible is that, and what a statement about Joe Biden that he decided that he was going to do that thing that was about breaking one of the most substantial barriers in our country,” Harris said. “and that he made that decision with whatever risk that brings. I think that more than anything makes a statement about the man who is going to be the next president of the United States.”

Harris (D-Calif.), the only Black woman in the Senate and only the second in history, called the lack of Black women in Congress “inexcusable” and said Biden’s selection “pushed forward something that might have otherwise taken decades” based on the progress she has seen Black women in politics make so far.

“The significance [of the choice] is an understanding by Joe and in what will be, God willing, our administration, about the need to be conscious about the disparities that exist, to be conscious about the systemic racism that exists, and be conscious about the active and affirmative acts that must take place to actually get closer to an equitable and fair society,” Harris said.

“This [ticket] is a statement about the fact that we’re not gonna just wait for somebody to give us permission. We’re not gonna just wait for some broad consensus where everyone feels like ‘Oh, yeah, that’s normal. I’m comfortable with it.’ Sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zone to move forward.”

Chelsea Janes

Democratic presidential candidate Biden and vice presidential candidate Harris sign nomination documents in Wilmington, Delaware

Biden and Harris sat at socially distanced desks for a photo op of them signing official requests to be on state ballots as the Democratic Party ticket. For the cameras, Biden signed Delaware and Harris signed California, their home states.

The documents act as their consent to receive the Democratic nomination next week, signify that they are qualified to hold the offices and request that they be on the state ballots as the Democratic ticket. The documents are required by every state and the District of Columbia.

Harris finished signing first, and while she waited for Biden, a reporter asked her about being the target of attacks in the days since being named Biden’s running mate.

“I’m signing this because I am in this race to win with that guy right there, and we’re going to get it done,” she said.

The duo left the room without taking any more questions.

Colby Itkowitz

Trump used his presidential Twitter pulpit to urge Congress to pass a bill to erect a statue in honor of the women who fought for voting rights 100 years ago, which was granted by the 19th Amendment.

“I have done more for WOMEN than just about any President in HISTORY! As we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of women’s voting rights, we should build a BEAUTIFUL STATUE in Washington D.C. to honor the many brave women who made this possible for our GREAT COUNTRY,” Trump tweeted. “Congress should send me H. R. 473 ASAP and make this happen! It will INSPIRE all women to continue being bold and brave in achieving to DREAMS!”

The bill to authorize federal land for such a statue commemorating the women’s suffrage movement passed the Democratic-led House unanimously in February and is awaiting action by the Republican-led Senate.

Polls have shown a growing deficit for Trump with female voters, who have soured on his job as president.

Trump has tried to appeal to “suburban housewives” by promising to “preserve” their way of life by keeping low-income housing out of their neighborhoods, a racist trope that does not align with today’s diverse suburbia.

It is difficult to win swing states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan without support from the aggressively sought after suburban women vote — the definition of which is somewhat vague, but typically encompasses moms who are worried about their children’s safety and future.

An NPR/PBS News/Marist <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-TABLES_202008121039.pdf#page=3" target=_blank>poll released Friday</a> found Trump’s support lagging among suburban women. Some 71 percent surveyed hold an unfavorable view of the president, and 69 percent disapprove of the job he is doing in the White House.

On issues of race relations, 72 percent of suburban women say Biden would handle it better compared with 23 percent who believe Trump would. And 79 percent believe Trump increased tensions during the summer’s protests against racial injustice.

Barack Obama

Former president Barack Obama accused the Trump administration of trying to suppress votes by sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service, the latest in an escalating battle over the integrity of the upcoming election.

“Everyone depends on the USPS. Seniors for their Social Security, veterans for their prescriptions, small businesses trying to keep their doors open,” Obama <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1294284824325300225?s=20" target=_blank>wrote Friday on Twitter</a>. “They can’t be collateral damage for an administration more concerned with suppressing the vote than suppressing a virus.”

Obama linked to a podcast interview he did with his former campaign manager David Plouffe, in which he criticized President Trump’s management of the pandemic and praised former vice president Joe Biden for his selection of Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as a running mate.

“Kamala is somebody I’ve known for years. She is smart. She is tough,” Obama said in an <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/campaign-hq-with-david-plouffe/id1479487160#episodeGuid=93c43ebc-dd9c-11ea-85ce-2f7f5d8e89c4" target=_blank>interview with Plouffe’s “Campaign HQ” podcast</a>. “She is somebody who I think will be able to share the stage with Mike Pence, or whoever else, and dissect some of the terrible decisions that have been made over the last four years that have helped create worse problems than were necessary in the midst of this pandemic.”

Obama cited a combination of factors he believed should encourage voters to turn out in large numbers to vote in the weeks leading up Nov. 3, including fears that the Trump administration and Republicans would try to undermine the voting process because of a “consuming hatred of government.” Still, Obama warned that record turnout was not a given.

“The one thing we can control is voting,” he said. “We can cast our ballots like we never have before. And I do think maybe there’s one aspect of this that I should probably address, and that is voting among young people, in particular.”

Citing traditionally low turnout among younger voters, Obama encouraged young people to increase their level of participation by voting early and volunteering to work at polling places during the pandemic.

Toluse Olorunnipa

Former vice president Joe Biden's presidential campaign announced Friday it would host virtual "watch parties" for the Democratic National Convention next week.

Party conventions are typically raucous affairs, carefully planned and choreographed to energize voters and to kick off the final sprint toward Election Day. In the past, Democratic groups across the country that were unable to travel to the convention in person would organize viewings at bars or in living rooms. But the coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for groups to gather as in past years, dampening the sense of community party officials are hoping to elicit.

Each of the 50 states will have a designated virtual event hosted by prominent Democratic officials and activists. Actor Alyssa Milano and Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis will host a watch party for Colorado viewers, for example, and Minnesotans can tune in with Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang.

Jose Del Real

New Jersey will conduct its general election mostly by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic, sending ballots to voters while also providing the option to vote in-person, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Friday.

In an interview with CNN, Murphy said the state piloted a hybrid voting model during its July 7 primary. He touted the experiment as “not perfect, but overwhelmingly a success,” even though President Trump seized on an alleged voter fraud scheme in Paterson, New Jersey’s third-largest city, during a special election in May.

“You never can say you bat 1,000, but I’m pretty sure we have a higher probability of being hit by lightning than we do uncovering voter fraud,” the governor said.

The announcement makes New Jersey the fifth state, and the first highly populated state on the East Coast, to decide to mail ballots to voters before the November election as a way of protecting public health. Five other states -- Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington -- already conduct universal mail elections.

As roughly 20 states ease or expand access to mail voting for the fall, Trump and the Republican National Committee have focused their attacks on states where voters will receive ballots in the mail without specifically requesting them, claiming without evidence that the practice will lead to widespread voter fraud.

A Post analysis of states with universal mail voting found a minuscule number of potentially fraudulent ballots in recent elections, undercutting Trump’s claims about the risk of election tampering in mail voting systems.

One of President Trump’s closest congressional allies, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), firmly refuted the false conspiracy theory fanned by Trump and other conservatives that Harris might be ineligible to run for president despite having been born in the United States.

“There are plenty of issues to find disagreement with <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris">@KamalaHarris</a> regarding her record as Senator or as a Vice Presidential nominee. She is consistently rated one of the most liberal members of the U.S. Senate, fully embracing a radical Democratic agenda,” Graham tweeted. “However, there is no issue as to whether or not she is an American citizen. She was born in the United States in 1964 to parents who were legally present. Under the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, she is unequivocally an American citizen.”

After Trump on Thursday stoked the unfounded theory that Harris, by being the U.S.-born daughter of two immigrants, might not be eligible to run for vice president, other White House officials, including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, did not bat back the racist claim.

Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, did not denounce the birther conspiracy theory when asked during an appearance on “CBS This Morning” about the president’s comments about Harris’s eligibility.

“He just said he had no idea whether that’s right or wrong. I don’t see that as promoting it,” Kushner said. “But look, at the end of the day, it’s something that’s out there.”

Pressed on whether Kushner “accepted” that Harris was eligible — under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution she undoubtedly is — he said, “I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.”

Over on Fox Business, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, was asked whether Harris was “up to the job.” He responded with rhetoric that leaned into the idea that she somehow was not American.

“We can celebrate the fact that a daughter of two immigrants has had such a celebrated political career, to be elected statewide and now be the nominee for the Democrat Party,” he said. “I think what’s more concerning is some of the socialist ideas she seems to have imported from overseas as well.”

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that Republicans do not support withholding funding from the U.S. Postal Service and, in a break with Trump, urged voters to cast ballots by mail.

“The Postal Service will have the funding that it needs,” McCarthy said in an interview on CNBC. “We will make sure of that. We want to make sure we have an accurate election. I think any Republican that gets their ballot in the mail should vote and make sure their vote is counted.”

McCarthy noted that Trump on Thursday said he would not veto legislation that does contain the extra funding to support the Postal Service even as he rails against it.

In an interview Thursday with Fox Business Network, Trump said he opposes a $25 billion emergency injection sought by the U.S. Postal Service, as well as a Democratic proposal to provide $3.6 billion in additional election funding to the states. Both of those requests have been tied up in congressional negotiations over a new coronavirus relief package.

Former first lady Michelle Obama celebrated Harris’s place as the first woman of color on a major party ticket, writing that little girls today will “take it for granted that someone who looks like them can grow up to lead a nation like ours.”

“You get used to it, even as a little girl — opening the newspaper, turning on the TV, and hardly ever seeing anyone who looks like you. You train yourself to not get your hopes up. And sometimes it’s a battle just to keep telling yourself that you might deserve more,” Obama <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CD1zRSJANkN/" target=_blank>wrote in an Instagram post.</a> “Because no matter how much you prepare, no matter what grades you get or even how high you rise at work, it always feels like someone is waiting to tell you that you’re not qualified. That you’re not smart enough. That you’re too loud or too bossy. That there’s just something about you … you’re just not quite the right fit.”

Obama, who recently began her own podcast to open up about her experiences and worldview, said Harris’s selection is a sign of progress, adding that she “may be the first, but she won’t be the last.”

With Harris on the ticket, the Biden campaign hopes to solidify its support among women and minorities.

People close to Biden and Harris said the campaign is still deciding exactly how to deploy her but that just having her on television and at events with Biden will showcase a different face of the Democratic Party. One is a 77-year-old longtime Irish American pol, and the other is a 55-year-old first-term senator whose mother and father emigrated from India and Jamaica, respectively.

Biden’s campaign views Harris as a potentially <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-early-momentum-harris-to-focus-on-connecting-with-minorities-activists-women-in-swing-states/2020/08/13/2063e834-dd77-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_bidenharris-915pm-1-duplicate%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&itid=lk_inline_manual_106" target="_blank">strong voice in swing states </a>— particularly around predominantly African American cities such as Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. But the campaign also hopes that she will motivate voters in immigrant-rich communities in Arizona, Florida and Texas.

Matt Viser

More than half of voters intending to support Biden are primarily motivated to cast a vote against Trump.

<a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/08/13/perceptions-of-trump-and-biden/" target=_blank>A Pew Research Center poll asked </a>voters to describe in their own words why they were backing or leaning toward Biden or Trump. For 56 percent of Biden voters, their main reason for supporting the former vice president is that he’s “not Trump.”

An additional 19 percent said they were supporting Biden because of his “leadership,” and 13 percent cited his “temperament/personality.”

There was not one overwhelming reason Trump voters named for backing the president. The top reasons were his leadership (23 percent), his policies (21 percent) and that he is not Biden (19 percent).

Trump and first lady Melania Trump have requested <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/14/trump-mail-ballot-florida/?itid=lk_inline_manual_113" target=_blank>Florida absentee ballots</a>, as the president simultaneously opposes more funding for the U.S. Postal Service to help it handle the swell of mail-in ballots this fall.

Trump has tried to make a distinction between absentee ballots, in which people who are away from their home state vote by mail, and the decision by many states to allow anyone to vote by mail if they’re afraid to vote in person because of coronavirus health risks.

“Absentee ballots, by the way, are fine,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “But the universal mail-ins that are just sent all over the place, where people can grab them and grab stacks of them, and sign them and do whatever you want, that’s the thing we’re against.” 

There is no evidence that voting by mail leads to significant fraudulent voting.

Jaclyn Peiser

Hofstra University, BA in print journalism and political science

Colby Itkowitz is a national politics reporter for The Washington Post. She joined the Post in March 2014. Before coming to the Post, Colby was the D.C. correspondent for The (Allentown) Morning Call and a reporter at Congressional Quarterly.

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Allegheny College, BA in English and History

Anne Gearan is a White House correspondent for The Washington Post, with a focus on foreign policy and national security. She covered the Hillary Clinton campaign and the State Department for The Post before joining the White House beat. She joined the paper in 2012.

Claremont McKenna College, BS in government

Elise Viebeck is a political enterprise and investigations reporter. She joined The Washington Post in 2015.

Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, 2022, for coverage fo the attack on Jan. 6

George Polk Award, 2022, for coverage of the attack on Jan. 6

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference 

George Polk Award, 2018, for coverage of Russian interference 

George Polk Award, 2014, for coverage of the Virginia governor's interactions with a wealthy donor

Harvard University, BA in history

Rosalind Helderman is an investigative reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post. She was part of teams awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2022 and the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018. She joined The Post in 2001. 

Yale University, B.A. History and International Studies, Stanford University, Master's in Communication

Chelsea Janes is the national baseball writer in sports. She was The Washington Post's beat writer for the Washington Nationals from 2014 to 2018 and was a sports intern for The Post in 2013. She also previously covered the 2020 presidential campaign. 

2023 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, 2022 National Book Awards finalist, Lukas Book Prize Finalist; Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2023; George Polk Award for Justice Reporting, 2021; Peabody Award 2021; Shaufler Prize from Arizona State University

His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Stanford University, BA in Sociology

Stanford University, MA in Sociology

Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa is the White House Bureau Chief of The Washington Post, and the co-author of "His Name is George Floyd," winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. He joined The Post in 2019 and has covered the last three presidents. Previously, he worked at Bloomberg News and the Miami Herald, reporting from Washington and Florida.

Jose A. Del Real is a reporter for The Washington Post. He travels the country to write in-depth feature stories about American life and politics.

White House Correspondents' Association's Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage, 2023

Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, 2021

White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award, recognizing presidential news coverage under deadline pressure, 2016

Finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for national reporting, 2014

Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, 2013, "Broken City" series

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Matt Viser is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in October 2018, covering the midterms and the 2020 presidential election before moving over to the White House to cover President Biden's administration. He was previously deputy chief of the Washington bureau for the Boston Globe.

Goucher College, BA in American Studies, BA in Communications and Media Studies

Columbia University, MS in Journalism

Jaclyn Peiser covers retail for The Washington Post. She previously worked overnight on The Post's Morning Mix team and covered the media industry for the New York Times. 

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