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Swing State Whip Around | State of the Race
Pocketbook Issues: Deciding Factor | Chris Cillizza of the "So What" Substack
Border Impacts in AZ | Stephanie Murray of AZ Central
Keyed in on Western WI | Will Kenneally of Channel 3000 Madison
Mark Robinson Drama Shocks NC | Morgan Fogarty of WCCB Charlotte
Courting Black Male Voters | Brakkton Booker of Politico
Economic Challenges in NV | Jessica Hill of the Las Vegas Review Journal
Trump IVF & Reproduction Shift | Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico
It will take 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election. Click states on the interactive Battleground map to create your own forecast. The Expert Consensus map is what the pros think as they look to November. For a look at 'if the election was today', use the Based on Polling map. The 2020 Actual map reflects the Biden vs. Trump result that year, using 2024 electoral votes for each state.
Nate Silver's latest election forecast shows two key swing states have shifted in former President Donald Trump's favor over the past week, although Vice President Kamala Harris remains the favorite to win in November.
As more streamers discuss politics, including major events like Tuesday’s debate, they have become the focus of intense interest for both presidential campaigns.
JD Vance's criticisms of professional women – as childless cat ladies or “miserable” women who prioritize career over children – might suggest his own spouse would be a model traditional housewife.
Former President Trump is seeking to put Vice President Harris on the back foot as both candidates respond to the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene.
Some Minnesota Democrats wonder how Walz will handle the barrage of attacks from Vance, given the governor’s tendency to shut down conversations when he’s pressed about missteps in private.
The 500-milelong path of destruction cut by Hurricane Helene has scrambled the politics of three battleground states that could determine control of the White House and Senate: North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Vice President Kamala Harris is neck-and-neck with former President Donald Trump in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new survey shared first with POLITICO. Harris is winning 49 percent of likely voters, compared with 47 percent for Trump and 2 percent for other candidates, the poll done by a bipartisan team for AARP found. Three percent are undecided.
Early voting, by mail and in person, surged in the 2020 presidential election — driving a massive increase in overall turnout and helping Joseph R. Biden Jr. secure his victory.
Lawmakers in both parties are bracing themselves for a messy aftermath to Election Day as polls show the race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is so close in several battleground states that it could take days to determine the winner.
Vice President Harris pledged to sign a new version of the failed bipartisan Senate border deal at a campaign event in Douglas, Ariz., on Friday, touting a law enforcement vision of border management and panning former President Trump for politicizing the issue.
With less than six weeks until the general election, former President Donald Trump holds an edge over Vice President Kamala Harris in the key battleground state of Arizona, according to an exclusive new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.
Federal law requires counties with high concentrations of Native speakers to provide translations of the ballot. But what they leave out can be as important as what they put in.
Election day is 47 days away, and while the political climate can feel very divisive, a new survey says Arizona voters agree more than disagree on several issues.
Iranian hackers sent people associated with President Joe Biden’s campaign unsolicited information that was stolen from former President Donald Trump’s campaign, but the overture was ignored, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a candidate for president Wednesday, although both parties sought the support of the nation’s largest union.
Arizona officials say nearly 100,000 registered, full-ballot voters may not have provided citizenship documents in accordance with state law, but were miscategorized on the voter rolls because of a coding glitch in the state's motor vehicle database.
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake stood onstage Friday with Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a former Republican rival she called a “total coward” only months ago, but now they both praised the importance of police in society.
The U.S. Secret Service reportedly opened fire at a man pointing an AK-style rifle into Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as he was on the course, law enforcement officials said.
The race for a west Phoenix district will pit four candidates — including two state lawmakers and a former council member — against one another, with the majority of the Phoenix City Council on the ballot in November.
The former president’s campaign event at a 2,500-seat venue in Savannah on Tuesday fueled false claims from his supporters that he was forced to use the small venue
Georgia Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to compel Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to hold a hearing over three Georgia State Election Board members after the Democrats issued ethics charges against them.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
Georgia voters are increasingly confident that the 2024 presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey shows.
Many Georgia lawmakers and politicians were reluctant late Sunday to immediately weigh in on what the FBI said was an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reached out for comment.
A high-speed chase in Rome early Saturday morning led to a tragic head-on collision that claimed the lives of two people and left a 1-year-old child critically injured. It has also led to Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming the Biden Administration.
Two Fulton County judges have disqualified independent Cornel West and socialist Claudia De la Cruz from Georgia’s presidential ballot, narrowing the field of qualified candidates in the Peach State to four.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will campaign in Flint on Friday, and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance will hold two events in Michigan on Wednesday.
Details of a suspected vandalism incident in Washtenaw County, which recently were posted on social media and reported by a metro Detroit TV station, have stirred concerns of political violence and stoked outrage in a string of online comments.
After roughly an hour of touting his running mate Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, JD Vance wrapped his message to a crowd of northern Michigan supporters Wednesday with these instructions: Get out and vote early in the 2024 presidential election, and take your friends.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road.
As Detroit's automotive brass worries how it can compete against a Chinese juggernaut, former President Donald Trump came to the birthplace of General Motors and the Sit-Down Strikes this week with a message: Don't bother.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd in suburban Detroit Thursday that people are finding the American dream "far more elusive than it's been" and the country needs to "deal with that."
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate for president, to have his name removed from Michigan's Nov. 5 ballot.
Among the most intriguing elections in Michigan this fall is a test of just how far a once reliably Democratic-leaning region around Flint, Bay City and Saginaw has shifted toward Republicans under the populism of former President Donald Trump.
Michigan state Rep. Jim DeSana, a Republican, suggested, during a political event in July, that some people don't perceive Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris as "authentically Black," according to a recording obtained by The Detroit News.
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump's campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
Lori and Richard Stade built their dream retirement home off a canal where they fished for bass and bluegill and took their grandchildren boating in what was known as "pontoon alley."
State election officials this week gave county clerks the go-ahead to begin printing election ballots for November, a Michigan Secretary of State representative said.
Republican Donald Trump pledged to eliminate taxes on overtime pay at a rally days after a shaky debate performance, as the presidential nominee looked to turn the page with a new populist tax cut proposal.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz visited Grand Rapids Thursday evening as part of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “New Way Forward” battleground tour to mobilize support in swing states.
A steady stream of Washoe County voters has been filing into the Registrar of Voters’ office this week, hand-delivering signature verification cards so their personal information is not exposed in the mail process.
“This week, interim Registrar of Voters, Cari-Ann Burgess, expressed to County Manager (Eric) Brown that she was experiencing stress related health issues,” a county spokesperson said in an email Wednesday.
In long-ranging interviews with The Nevada Independent, both candidates outlined their policies on topics such as housing, health care and school choice.
A new poll of Nevada voters shows Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump still basically tied — but they slightly expect Harris to win while also viewing her less favorably than just a month ago.
National and local politicians shared their reactions after the FBI announced the agency is investigating “what appears to be an attempted assassination” on former President Donald Trump.
The Latino population in Nevada is growing, but its political participation still lags behind other groups, underscoring the untapped potential of the bloc.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump continued to denounce the influx of immigrants into the country at a rally in Las Vegas, just days after the first and possibly only presidential debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.
On Friday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Nevada Democratic Party's lawsuit to block Green Party candidate Jill Stein from appearing on November's general election ballot.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who was on Vice President Kamala Harris’ short list as a potential running mate this summer, is coming to North Carolina to campaign for Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.
Days after a scandal upended Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor, most of his campaign staff resigned. Now much of his staff in the lieutenant governor’s office have resigned, too.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance took the stage at Raleigh’s Union Station on Wednesday afternoon to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris’ record, particularly on energy and the economy.
The 2024 election is a “fight for our future,” Vice President Kamala Harris declared in North Carolina Thursday as she looked to cement herself as the forward-thinking candidate and “the underdog” in the race.
The Democratic presidential candidate will hold events in Charlotte and Greensboro Thursday to kick off a nationwide campaign swing following her first debate with former President Donald Trump
In a pair of lawsuits filed last month, national and state Republicans seek to purge North Carolina’s voter rolls of hundreds of thousands of registrants they say were improperly allowed to register.
Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, told an audience at Duke University on Wednesday that she is going to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
The two-term mayor saw a city council go from united in a flurry of pro-development activity to divided over numerous issues. How will the city move forward without her at the helm?
Amid presidential ballot shake-ups and gubernatorial attack ads, a neglected but consequential campaign is being waged in North Carolina politics for a seat on the state Supreme Court.
Vice President Kamala Harris could become only the second Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina in more than 40 years as the state has slowly shifted more to the left over the past decade—thanks in part to a growing high-tech corridor.
The first name North Carolina voters will see on their ballot this year is Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat running for the office of President of the United States.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania billed the campaign of former President Donald Trump $40,000 for its use of the 5,000-seat Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex for this week’s rally.
Nearly half of renters in Lancaster County are spending around a third of their income on housing, an amount considered to be cost-burdening, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey released this month.
Joe Biden’s local ties and cultural roots kept him competitive in culturally conservative northeastern Pennsylvania. Harris’ prospects in the heavily Catholic, working-class region there are dicier.
Ten voter education organizations on Wednesday filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court seeking to allow mail-in ballots with errant dates on return envelopes to be counted.
The Democratic and Republican candidates for Pennsylvania Attorney General on Wednesday gave a glimpse into the status of their respective campaign finance accounts.
The vice president pledged to boost American industries while trying to gain voters' confidence in her ability to handle the economy, an issue Pa. voters favor Trump on.
Harris has a commanding 63-point lead over Trump in Philadelphia, according to an Inquirer/New York Times/Siena College poll. But there is some nuance to her support within the city.
Shapiro remains an unusually popular first-term Democratic governor in one of the most important states in the presidential election, according to the Inquirer/New York Times/Siena College poll.
Most Pennsylvania voters say Harris won last week’s debate. But the presidential race in the state remains close — and its Senate contest is tight, too, according to a Washington Post poll.
The Madison city clerk’s office on Thursday clarified that barcodes appear on absentee ballot envelopes, not the ballots themselves, after a Republican member of Congress assailed the city’s explanation for why thousands of duplicate ballots sent out by mistake couldn’t be counted twice.
Election work is a seven-day-a-week job during election season in Wisconsin's largest city, the Milwaukee Election Commission's executive director said recently.
A group of dozens of Polish American Wisconsinites, including current and former Democratic elected officials, released an open letter Wednesday criticizing former President Donald Trump's comments about Russia's war with Ukraine
The race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump appears neck and neck among likely Wisconsin voters 50 and older, according to a poll released Wednesday by AARP Wisconsin.
As county clerks print their ballots and deliver them to the more than 1,800 municipal clerks that administer Wisconsin elections, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still trying to get his name off them.
The Nov. 5 election is quickly approaching, and you may be seeing plenty of political ads on social media, television and elsewhere reminding you to register to vote.
Ahead of the first and only scheduled debate between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, the heads of Wisconsin's political parties are seeking to tie the candidates to unpopular figures and platforms.
Biden spoke in Westby, about 30 minutes from La Crosse, at an outdoor event that seemed tame in comparison to recent rallies held by the Harris-Walz campaign in Wisconsin.
Republican former President Donald Trump will return to Wisconsin on Saturday to hold a rally in Mosinee, a city in the central part of the state near Wausau and Stevens Point.
With two months left in his bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Republican businessman Eric Hovde toured a metal fabrication facility in Dane County and fielded questions from employees.
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