David Lauter writes the Saturday Los Angeles Times Politics newsletter from Washington, D.C. He began writing news in Washington in 1981 and has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and six U.S. presidential campaigns. He served as Washington bureau chief from 2011-20. Lauter lived in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2011, where he was The Times’ deputy Foreign editor, deputy Metro editor and then assistant managing editor responsible for California coverage.
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Trump won in 2016 by appealing to conservative white Americans. This time, his advantage comes from Black and Latino voters.
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The Biden administration soon will take a big step toward bringing federal policy on weed more in line with what the public says it prefers.
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The Trump and Biden campaigns are both acting as if Kennedy poses a small, but significant threat to Biden’s reelection.
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Biden still leads among young voters, but there’s now a big gap between young men and young women, a Harvard polls found.
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