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NYC breaks record with more than 1 million New Yorkers voting early in 2024 election
More than 1 million New York City residents voted early in this week’s high-stakes election — a new record, according to city officials.
Four years after ‘Stop the Steal,’ an organized army emerges online
Brandon Matlack, a coordinator for a group boosting former president Donald Trump’s election effort, was camped outside an election office in Pennsylvania’s Northampton County when he posted a video Tuesday on the social network X asking his 3,000 followers for help identifying a “very suspect” man he’d seen just drop off “an insane amount of ballots.”
Can Harris win the election? Here are her possible paths to victory.
A little over a month ago we looked at the most likely paths that Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have to win the presidency with the help of The Washington Post’s polling average. Now, the day before Election Day, we revisit their paths to the White House. Spoiler alert: Not much has changed for either Harris or Trump. Their paths remain largely the same.
Trump escalates false claims of fraud, setting stage to cry foul if he loses
Donald Trump, who blamed his 2020 defeat on false claims of vast election malfeasance, has spent much of the final week of his third presidential campaign trying to discredit the legitimacy of this year’s election.
Investors from stocks to crypto brace for U.S. election swings
Just before a hotly contested US election considered a toss-up, options traders across markets appear to be reducing risk and bracing for more volatility.
For 40 years, this Washington county has picked the winning candidate for president, the longest streak in the nation
The last time Clallam County voters picked a losing presidential candidate by popular vote was in 1976, when they chose Republican Gerald Ford who narrowly lost the national election to Democrat Jimmy Carter. Since then, the county’s voters have picked the winners in every presidential race.
Panic buttons, drones, snipers among plans to guard a high-risk election
Eager to reassure nervous Americans that their votes will be protected, authorities are touting unprecedented security plans designed to withstand violence and other nightmare scenarios on Election Day and in a potentially uncertain aftermath.
Trump says he doesn’t mind someone shooting at journalists at rally
Donald Trump told a crowd on Sunday that he wouldn’t mind if someone shot at the news media present at his rally here, escalating his violent rhetoric at one of his closing campaign events where he repeatedly veered off-message.
In a bathroom stall, a simple message: Vote Harris, no one will know
In swing states and Republican strongholds, on college campuses and in sports arenas, sticky notes have appeared reminding women that their votes are confidential - kept private even and especially from the men in their lives.
Analysis: 13 ways Democrats will steal the election (according to Trump)
“It’s the only thing they do well, they cheat. Their policies are no good. Their government is no good. Their management is no good, but they cheat like nobody can cheat.” - Former president Donald Trump, remarks about Democrats in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sept. 21
Harris joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ in last-minute campaign surprise
Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in New York, making a surprise last-minute appearance that culminates a string of events designed to showcase Harris before voters who do not typically engage with traditional political media.
Spin Control: With Election Day almost here, we offer help and answers for waiting voters
About half of Washington’s registered voters – and at least half of the voters who are going to cast ballots – had turned them in by Friday.
Women’s March draws thousands to D.C. to support Harris, abortion rights
In speeches, signs and chants, thousands of women gathered in Washington on Saturday to drive home one message days before the election: “We won’t go back.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Trump will seek to remove fluoride from drinking water
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that among the first acts of a second Trump administration would be to “advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” a stunning potential reversal of what is widely considered one of the most important public health interventions of the past century.
Trump renews vow to ‘protect women’ as he clashes with Harris in North Carolina
Donald Trump spent his last Saturday of the presidential race making a trio of meandering, profane speeches in which he spoke repeatedly about women - saying they have to be protected “at home in suburbia,” complaining he is not allowed to call women beautiful and calling himself the “father of fertilization.”
Women’s March protesters gather to support Harris in run-up to Election Day
In speeches, signs and chants, thousands of women gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to drive home one message days before the election: “We won’t go back.”
Harris camp grapples with anger over Gaza up to race’s final days
Events of the last week highlight how divisions within the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza continue to hang over a bitterly contested presidential election into its final days.
U.S. spy agencies issue new warning on Russia’s election misinformation campaign
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia is behind a video that appeared on social media this week falsely claiming that Haitians illegally voted multiple times for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia.
Harris calls Trump’s violent language about Liz Cheney ‘disqualifying’
Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that Donald Trump had disqualified himself from serving as the nation’s chief executive by suggesting that Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, should be put on a battlefield “with nine barrels shooting at her.”
Donald Trump will again hold his final campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan
For the third straight presidential election, Republican nominee Donald Trump will hold his final rally before polls open on Election Day in Grand Rapids, according to a spokesperson for his campaign.