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Election Day is 14 days away. Every day of the countdown, Times Insider will share an article about how our election coverage works. Today, the editor of the Politics team offers a bird’s-eye view.

Covering a presidential election isn’t new territory for David Halbfinger. But the 2024 race may be his biggest challenge yet.

Mr. Halbfinger, the editor of the Politics desk at The New York Times, served as the deputy politics editor during the 2016 presidential election. After a stint as the Jerusalem bureau chief, he returned to the States in 2021 to lead The Times’s politics coverage, diving headfirst into preparation for the 2022 midterms.

And not long after that, he started planning for the biggest news moment of 2024: the presidential election.

Of course, thanks to a whiplash of events no one could have anticipated — assassination attempts on former President Donald J. Trump; President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race; and Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascent to the top of the ticket — those plans inevitably changed. And changed again.

Then there have been all the headline-making moments in between: arguments between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden over golf handicaps; Ms. Harris’s fund-raising records; and false claims by the Republican presidential ticket about Haitian immigrants eating pets.