Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid is a White House correspondent for NPR. She also co-hosts The NPR Politics Podcast.
Khalid is a bit of a campaign-trail addict, having reported on the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 elections.
She joined NPR's Washington team in 2016 to focus on the intersection of demographics and politics.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, she covered the crowded Democratic primary field, and then went on to report on Joe Biden's candidacy.
Her reporting often dives into the political, cultural and racial divides in the country.
Before joining NPR's political team, Khalid was a reporter for Boston's NPR station WBUR, where she was nearly immediately flung into one of the most challenging stories of her career — the Boston Marathon bombings. She had joined the network just a few weeks prior, but went on to report on the bombings, the victims, and the reverberations throughout the city. She also covered Boston's failed Olympic bid and the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger.
Later, she led a new business and technology team at the station that reported on the future of work.
In addition to countless counties across America, Khalid's reporting has taken her to Pakistan, the United Kingdom and China.
She got her start in journalism in her home state of Indiana, but she fell in love with radio through an internship at the BBC Newshour in London during graduate school.
She's been a guest on numerous TV programs including ABC's This Week, CNN's Inside Politics and PBS's Washington Week.
Her reporting has been recognized with the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Gracie Award.
A native of Crown Point, Ind., Khalid is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington. She has also studied at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the American University in Beirut and Middlebury College's Arabic school.
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With no results declared in Iowa's caucuses Monday night we discuss the implications, and look forward to New Hampshire, as candidates flock to that state for the Feb. 11 primary.
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A year ago, many progressives told NPR they weren't so sure they wanted to see the Vermont senator run for president again. But now, it appears those voters are coming back.
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Democratic senators were off the campaign trail with the impeachment trial underway, but they still managed to argue about substance and style. Meanwhile, the race in Iowa remains volatile.
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Nearly a third of Iowa's 99 counties swung from voting for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Republican Donald Trump in 2016. Howard County saw the biggest swing.
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Iowans say he's charismatic, but polls suggest they're not willing to caucus for him. Why has the New Jersey senator not taken off in the Democratic presidential primary?
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As a late entrant in the Democratic presidential primary, Michael Bloomberg is not campaigning in the first primary states and is instead marshaling his billions of dollars into advertising.
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President Trump downplayed North Korea's threat of a "Christmas present" if the U.S. doesn't roll back economic sanctions by the end of the year. Also, Notre Dame won't hold a Christmas mass.
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Part of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' resiliency this campaign cycle is thanks to his popularity with Latinos. Multiple polls show Sanders leads the field with Latino support.
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Part of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' resiliency this campaign cycle is because of his popularity with Latinos. Polling indicates Sanders is the preferred candidate for a plurality of Latinos.
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