Anita Kumar, POLITICO's White House Correspondent

In quite the role reversal for Anita Kumar,  Simi interviews the White House Correspondent and Associate Editor at POLITICO.

An expert on the institution of the presidency, Anita Kumar is currently covering her third president, Joe Biden, following eight years reporting on Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Prior to moving to POLITICO in 2019, she covered the White House for McClatchy’s, one of the country’s biggest local news companies.

She began her career in local and state politics, writing for the Washington Post and the Tampa Bay Times. She reported on Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020, Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016 and Obama's reelection campaign in 2012. Anita also became the first Indian American journalist elected to the board of the White House Correspondents' Association. In this episode, we leave few stones unturned. We chat about why Anita doesn't usually lean into her South Asian identity and what life covering the presidency really looks like -- from the White House greens to Air Force One. Don't miss it!

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