Analysis: Comparing Trump and Biden’s debate on race, immigration and climate change
Veteran Los Angeles Times journalists Seema Mehta and Eli Stokols assess Joe Biden and President Trump in their second and final debate.
Seema Mehta is a veteran political writer who is covering the 2024 presidential race as well as other state and national contests. She started at the Los Angeles Times in 1998, previously covered multiple presidential, state and local races, and completed a Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2019.
Eli Stokols is a former White House reporter based in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C., bureau.
Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.
