Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races. During her tenure she has covered seven presidential elections — in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Prior to her current assignment, Liasson was NPR's White House correspondent for all eight years of the Clinton administration. She has won the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage in 1994, 1995, and again in 1997. From 1989-1992 Liasson was NPR's congressional correspondent.
Liasson joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. From September 1988 to June 1989 she took a leave of absence from NPR to attend Columbia University in New York as a recipient of a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism.
Prior to joining NPR, Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco. She was also managing editor and anchor of California Edition, a California Public Radio nightly news program, and a print journalist for The Vineyard Gazette in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Liasson is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a bachelor's degree in American history.
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The election for the chair of the Democratic National Committee is coming up. The winner will play a big role in helping to determine what the what presidential election looks and sounds like.
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With controversial nominations and threats to push their appointments through, Donald Trump is already pushing Constitutional norms.
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Donald Trump's moves after his election victory indicate he may be more efficient and less erratic than he was last time as he stands up his administration.
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President Biden said he's committed to a smooth transition of power -- and gave a pep talk to Democrats disappointed in the election results.
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Trump won the election fair and square -- he won the electoral college vote and is expected to win the popular vote as well. He improved his margin in every county in the country.
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As the campaign comes to a close, Kamala Harris is delivering a more consistent closing message than Donald Trump, who is making erratic attacks.
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We sort through the heated rhetoric over "garbage," Liz Cheney and Trump's outreach to Arab Americans.
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The presidential candidates are forming their "closing arguments" to voters as Election Day approaches. We'll discuss why they have landed on those strategies.
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With just over two weeks until Election Day and voters casting ballots now, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are making their closing arguments.
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NPR returns to 12 swing voters who disapproved of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump back in May to find out where they've landed with Kamala Harris as the nominee and the election just weeks away.