Roberta Rampton

Roberta Rampton is NPR's White House editor. She joined the Washington Desk in October 2019 after spending more than six years as a White House correspondent for Reuters. Rampton traveled around America and to more than 20 countries covering President Trump, President Obama and their vice presidents, reporting on a broad range of political, economic and foreign policy topics. Earlier in her career, Rampton covered energy and agriculture policy.

Jimmy Carter and Biden's relationship goes back decades

Scott Detrow, Roberta Rampton, Lexie Schapitl

One of the first sitting senators to endorse Jimmy Carter's run for office in 1976 was a young upstart from Delaware named Joe Biden. We explore the relationship between the two men over the years.
Women ran for president in the U.S. and Mexico. Each election had different results

Eyder Peralta, Scott Detrow, Roberta Rampton, Deepa Shivaram, Gabriel J. Sánchez
Why Biden gave a speech about abortion rights

Mara Liasson, Alejandra Marquez Janse, Sarah Handel, Roberta Rampton, Ailsa Chang

President Biden gave a speech about abortion rights Tuesday, billed as a political event ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
For Latinos, the Uvalde shooting has an extra layer of grief and trauma

Mary Louise Kelly, Alejandra Marquez Janse, Roberta Rampton

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maria Maldonado-Morales, clinical social worker at Texas Children's Hospital, about the way Latinos have felt after the shooting in Uvalde.