Asma Khalid

Asma Khalid appears in the following:

With Year-End Plea, Clinton Tries To Stop N.H. From 'Feeling The Bern'

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

So-called Clinton Country is facing an invasion from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. But Hillary Clinton is fighting back, campaigning across the state, and has support from New Hampshire's leadership.

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Why One Latino Group Is Chasing High Schoolers Ahead Of 2016

Thursday, December 24, 2015

There are more than 25 million Latinos eligible to vote, and that number is growing quickly. The bulk of that growth is not from new immigration, but rather from Latino teens turning 18.

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Under One Roof, Divergent Views On 'Black Lives Matter'

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

From Ferguson, to Baltimore, to Charleston, racially charged violence and protests dominated much of the news in 2015. While much of the country watched these events unfold, they had the deepest resonance in the cities at the center of them — going beyond the news and filtering into into family ...

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Iowa Evangelical Kingmaker Gives Ted Cruz His Blessing

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Bob Vander Plaats, the president of the conservative Christian group the Family Leader, is throwing his support behind the Texas senator. Vander Plaats has previously backed Iowa caucus winners.

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Millennials Want To Send Troops To Fight ISIS, But Don't Want To Serve

Thursday, December 10, 2015

In the wake of the Paris attacks, a majority of young Americans support sending U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS, according to a wide-ranging new poll from the Harvard Institute of Politics.

The institute has asked millennials about the idea of American boots on the ground at three ...

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How Billionaire Techies Hope To Reshape The Immigration Debate

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

This post was updated at 10:25 pm E.T.

The immigration-reform advocacy group founded by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg — FWD.us (pronounced "forward U.S.") — and funded by fellow Silicon Valley entrepreneurs including Microsoft's Bill Gates and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer — is rolling out a plan for the 2016 election that ...

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As Florida's Puerto Rican Population Booms, Political Parties Move In

Sunday, December 06, 2015

It used to be that when political experts would pontificate about "Latinos" in Florida, they were talking about Cubans. But those days are over. There are now more than one million Puerto Ricans in Florida (1,006,542 to be exact).

The state's Puerto Rican population has exploded in a relatively short ...

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Growing Puerto Rican Community Transforms Politics In Central Florida

Friday, December 04, 2015

In recent years, Puerto Ricans have begun changing the political map along the hotly contested Interstate 4 corridor in Florida. These days, about 1,000 new Puerto Rican families a mo...

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Frustrated With GOP Candidates, Muslims Recall More Welcoming Days

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Many Muslim-Americans say the current political climate is worse than the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Many Muslims who once voted Republican, say don't feel like they have a home in that party.

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Indian-Americans Feel 'Disappointed,' 'Abandoned' By Bobby Jindal

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

The Louisiana governor, who has suspended his presidential campaign, was the first Indian-American to run for the nation's highest office. But his bid didn't feel historic to many Indian-Americans.

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As The Obama Glow Fades, South Carolina's Black Voters Aren't Firing Back Up

Monday, November 16, 2015

Anton Gunn was a former college football player working as a community organizer in South Carolina when he first met that other community organizer — now known as President Obama.

Gunn was instantly impressed, so much so that when he heard that the former U.S. senator from Illinois was thinking ...

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GOP Presidential Candidates Speak At Sunshine Summit In Florida

Friday, November 13, 2015

The Republican presidential candidates are all making their pitches at the Sunshine Summit in Florida on Friday. NPR explores what is on most of voters minds and what they make of the candidates so far.

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Young Black Voters Point To Lack Of Race Discussions In Democratic Debates

Friday, November 13, 2015

They voted in record numbers for President Obama in 2008, but now they're lukewarm about any Democratic presidential candidate — saying nobody adequately addresses their big priority: racial justice.

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In The Post-Obama Age, Democrats Look To Inspire Southern Black Voters

Friday, November 06, 2015

African-American voters turned out in record numbers for Barack Obama's historic campaign in 2008 and again in 2012. As the top Democratic presidential candidates meet at a forum in S...

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Ben Carson Pushes Back On Questions About His West Point Story

Friday, November 06, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he never applied to West Point, even though in his 1990s autobiography, Gifted Hands, he wrote that he had been offered a "full scholarship" to the prestigious military academy.

Here's a key passage from Carson's book:

"Later I was offered a full scholarship ...

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Biden Touting His Bromance With Obama In 5 Clips

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

This post was updated at 12:50 p.m. ET

This week the anticipation around Joe Biden's possible bid for the White House meant any time the vice president opened his mouth, reporters wondered whether he would jump into the presidential race. The answer came Wednesday, when he announced he

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Carson And Trump Request Secret Service Protection

Monday, October 19, 2015

Two Republican presidential hopefuls — Ben Carson and Donald Trump — have asked for Secret Service protection, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to NPR.

DHS said it has received official requests from both campaigns. Those requests are now under review, but neither candidate has yet received a security ...

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South Korea? Trump's 'Where Are You From' Moment

Thursday, October 15, 2015

This post was updated at 2 p.m. ET Friday

This week, a seemingly benign Q&A turned into an awkward cultural moment on the presidential campaign trail.

Joseph Choe, a Harvard student, stood up to ask Donald Trump a question about South Korea at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in ...

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Candidates Address Convention For Those Disappointed With Partisan Divide

Monday, October 12, 2015

The Problem Solver Convention, held by the group No Labels, gathered in Manchester, N.H., on Monday. Eight presidential hopefuls, including Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, headlined ...

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Disappointment Over Politics Spurs Some Millennials To Get Involved

Thursday, October 08, 2015

In politics, the assumption is that millennials are apathetic. But for some in that generation, there's optimism that convinces them that they could change the system they despise.

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