Jeongyoon Han Jeongyoon is a field producer and researcher with a reporting focus on the 2024 presidential election and national security.
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Jeongyoon Han

Jeongyoon Han

Jeongyoon Han is a field producer and researcher with a reporting focus on the 2024 presidential election and national security. She also produces the NPR Politics Podcast and writes the network’s election briefing books.

Her reporting has taken her to one of the world’s largest lab mice facilities, inside an anechoic chamber, the first primary in the nation, and crucial swing states.

Han has worked at New Hampshire Public Radio, Weekend Edition and WAMC Northeast Public Radio. She graduated with a degree in political science and Chinese from Williams College, where she was editor of the school newspaper. She can also recommend great hiking spots in Hong Kong, where she taught English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for one year.

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Wednesday

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday. Erin Schaff/POOL via Getty Images hide caption

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Sunday

President Biden ended his run for a second term in office, a bombshell decision less than four months before Election Day, bowing to pressure from his party. Tom Brenner/Getty Images hide caption

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Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, arrive a campaign rally on Saturday in Grand Rapids, Mich. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption

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Friday

Blake Marnell, delegate from California, shows us his Make America Great Again hat signed by Donald Trump on the third day of the Republican National Convention. Grace Widyatmadja/NPR hide caption

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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, embraces the firefighter uniform of Corey Comperatore as he speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

The stage is seen in the Fiserv Forum on the day before the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Sunday in Milwaukee. The RNC will be held in Wisconsin from July 15-18. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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Sunday

President Biden delivers an address from the Oval Office of the White House on July 14, 2024 in Washington, D.C., to call for a calming of political rhetoric a day after a shooting in Butler, Pa., left former President Trump injured at a campaign rally. Erin Schaff/Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Wednesday

Democrats have been sharing concerns about President Biden in private conversations among themselves and some of those concerns are becoming public as the week goes on. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Democrats' private fears about Biden are slowly going public

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Tuesday

Democrats remain divided on how to handle President Biden's campaign missteps. Party leaders like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, say they back Biden, but even Schumer's close deputy Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, (left), is among the members questioning Biden's ability to be the party's nominee. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Democrats in Washington are split on whether President Biden can remain at the top of the party's ticket in November. Chris Kleponis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Democrats in turmoil over Biden

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Friday

Saturday

Aid trucks of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) deliver aid to Salah al-Din Street on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in the east of Gaza City, Gaza on June 19, 2024. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

As Trump narrows VP options, a select few seem to be rising to the top

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Wednesday

With the election 5 months away, Trump has yet to pick a running mate

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Thursday

Former President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with House and Senate Republicans. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption

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TRUMP VISITS CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS

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A Ukrainian soldier takes part in a military training with French troops at a military training compound in Poland on April 4. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Thursday

Tuesday

Located less than an hour outside Madison, Wis., Columbia County has both city commuters and people in more rural, small towns. Portage, with a population of around 10,000, is the largest town in the county. Jeongyoon Han/NPR hide caption

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One voted Biden. One picked Trump. It's a tale of two counties in pivotal Wisconsin

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Sunday

President Biden speaks to graduating students at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday in Atlanta. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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At Morehouse, Biden says dissent should be heard because democracy is 'still the way'

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Friday

Thursday

Former President Donald Trump greets people after announcing he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2022 as his son, Barron Trump, watches. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption

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Wednesday

A U.S. Navy ship docks off the coast of the Gaza Valley area in the central Gaza Strip on April 29, 2024. The ship is expected to participate in the construction work of a floating naval dock to deliver more humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip announced in March. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption

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Saturday

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., spoke with students as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at college campuses across Wisconsin, a state that had the highest youth turnout in the country in the 2022 midterms. Jeongyoon Han/NPR hide caption

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Six months out from the election, Wisconsin students weigh voting for Biden

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