Maegan Vazquez

Washington, D.C.

Politics breaking news reporter

Education: New York University, BA in journalism and social and cultural analysis

Maegan Vazquez is a reporter on National’s politics breaking news team. She joined The Washington Post in 2023. She previously worked at CNN for five years, writing for CNN.com as a breaking news reporter and then a White House reporter. She grew up in Laredo, Tex., and now resides in Washington.
Latest from Maegan Vazquez

Trump chips away at Harris’s national advantage, two new polls show

The latest polls show that the race is still neck-and-neck, but some sentiment, such as on deportation of undocumented immigrants, has shifted in Trump’s direction.

October 13, 2024
Supporters of Trump/Vance display their sign as a Harris/Walz bus drives past CBS Studios in New York ahead of the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 1.

Trump urges using military to handle ‘radical left lunatics’ on Election Day

In an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News, Trump said the military should be deployed on American soil against those he labeled “the enemy from within.”

October 13, 2024

Right-wing site Gateway Pundit acknowledges inquiry cleared two Georgia election workers

The statement comes a few days after Gateway Pundit reached a settlement in a defamation case filed by two Georgia election workers.

October 12, 2024
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a former Georgia election worker, with her mother, Ruby Freeman, right, during a House hearing on June 21, 2022.

Obama makes direct appeal to Black men to support Harris

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

October 10, 2024

Trump touts article claiming he was ‘man of the year.’ It’s been corrected.

The former president flaunted a printout of an Oakland Press article as proof he received the honor. The newspaper, however, says the original story was inaccurate.

October 10, 2024
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a story from the Oakland Press as he speaks to the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday.

Trump returns to Pennsylvania, with a stop in Biden’s hometown

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

October 9, 2024

Vance calls $500 million federal grant for Michigan electric vehicle plant ‘table scraps’

The Harris campaign said Vance’s comments Tuesday about a project that would save 650 jobs and create another 50 shows the Republican ticket is “out of touch with Michigan.”

October 9, 2024
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) campaigns in Detroit on Tuesday.

Harris appears on ‘The View,’ with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert

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October 8, 2024

Trump, Harris mark anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel

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October 7, 2024

Trump appears in Georgia with Gov. Kemp; Harris campaigns in Michigan

Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.

October 4, 2024