Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling Obama's final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.
She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.
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We talk about the takeaways from the Republican National Convention as well as what lies ahead for President Biden, as more of his fellow Democrats ask him to step down from the race.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bill Briggs, a political consultant who worked in advanced planning for events under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with former FBI agent, Kenneth Gray, about the bureau’s investigation into the assassination attempt on Former President Donald Trump.
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We look at the political fallout resulting from the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Republican Congressman Mike Lawler of New York about yesterday's assassination attempt at former president Donald Trump's campaign rally.
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The political landscape changed with a shooting at former President Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening leaving Americans waking up Sunday with more questions than answers.
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Last night, former President Trump was shot during a rally in Butler, Pa. The area, north of Pittsburgh, is known for it's strong support for Trump.
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We'll bring you the latest on the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump's rally yesterday, in Butler Pennsylvania.
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We'll bring you the latest on the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. The incident took place at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Arizona rancher Mike Gannuscio about why the number of the nation's beef cow herd are at their lowest in 63 years.