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Election Day is 13 days away. Every day of the countdown, Times Insider will share an article about how our election coverage works. Today, a reporter covering the Harris campaign explains what life is like on the road and aboard Air Force Two.

Since July, Nicholas Nehamas, a political correspondent for The New York Times, has been crisscrossing the United States with one purpose: to report on Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

“We go where she goes, we track what she says, we watch all her media appearances,” said Mr. Nehamas, who is following the vice president on the campaign trail alongside his colleague Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent.

In 2023, Mr. Nehamas, who was based in Miami at the time, joined the Politics team at The New York Times as a reporter covering the presidential campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. After Mr. DeSantis dropped out of the race in January 2024, Mr. Nehamas began covering the Biden campaign. Then six months later, his job took yet another turn when President Biden dropped out and Ms. Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket.

Before coming to The Times, Mr. Nehamas was an investigative reporter at The Miami Herald. There he was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team that brought to light a trove of confidential files known as the Panama Papers, which exposed the offshore bank accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, including associates of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Since he began covering the Harris campaign this summer, Mr. Nehamas has flown on Air Force Two with the vice president (she sometimes comes to the back of the plane to chat with reporters off the record); visited the seven most crucial battleground states, reporting from Wisconsin’s farm country and Arizona’s southern border; and spent more than 40 days on the road with the candidate.