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Moving averages: Election results in 2016, 2020 show change from late campaign polling
If polling is to be believed, then, with just two short weeks to go, the race for the White House remains locked in a dead heat. However, an examination of past polling shows that a lot can change in the final weeks leading up to election day.
Trump says he’ll undertake the ‘largest deportation’ in US history. Can he do that?
Former President Donald Trump has promised that, if reelected, he will kick out millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
Trump has notched a list of once-unthinkable ‘firsts.’ Will they prevent him from winning?
Former President Donald Trump stands on the verge of a series of firsts that once would have seemed unthinkable. Winning a second term as president would make the Republican nominee the first occupant of the White House to be: a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual offender, a twice-impeached federal office holder and a serial denier of election results that have been certified by the courts and Congress.
Donald Trump fixates on Harris aide Ian Sams, who goads him on Fox News
In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams.
Harris to deliver closing argument speech Tuesday on the National Mall
Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to deliver her closing argument Tuesday in a speech on the National Mall, according to people familiar with the planning and a permit application obtained by The Washington Post.
First day of early voting in Florida sees long lines, website crashes
The first day of early voting in Florida on Monday saw sizable lines outside Central Florida libraries, elections offices and other voting sites, with would-be voters waiting longer than 45 minutes at one location in Winter Park.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s strategy to win Pennsylvania has spanned 50 stops and $500 million in ads
The 2024 presidential election moved into Pennsylvania and never left, an Inquirer analysis of the last year of campaigning shows. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, and their allies, have dumped more than $538 million in advertising dollars to reach Pennsylvania voters.
Obama heads to Wisconsin in Trump-Harris battle for Black voters
When early voting starts in the swing state of Wisconsin on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama will be there to urge Black residents to hit the polls and choose Kamala Harris. His job is getting tougher.
As Trump threatens mass deportations, some rural areas that back him rely heavily on immigrant labor
Dozens of calves groaned as Hermenegildo, a young Mexican farmworker, wheeled out a cart with bottles of milk. He attached the bottles to the wood pen of each calf, walking up and down the row as the animals guzzled the milk in minutes. The 600 cows on the dairy farm produce 5,000 gallons a day, which are trucked for processing into cheese at a plant owned by a Minnesota cooperative.
Mega health care merger may hang on election results, analysts say
Prospects for a potential merger between health insurers Cigna Group and Humana Inc. hinge on the upcoming US presidential election, analysts said.
McDonald’s tells workers it doesn’t endorse political candidates after Trump visit
McDonald’s Corp. said it’s not taking sides in the presidential election following Donald Trump’s visit to a Pennsylvania restaurant on Sunday.
5 times when Kamala Harris changed her stance on an issue
Vice President Kamala Harris struggled to define herself when she ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
5 times when Donald Trump changed his stance on an issue
President Donald Trump has a record of saying outrageous, contradictory and untrue things. Fact-checkers have found thousands of falsehoods he has asserted about many issues, including the state of the economy, the threats posed by immigrants and his achievements as president.
Trump repeats ‘enemy from within’ comment, targeting Pelosi and Schiff
For the third time in a week, former president Donald Trump repeated his charge that Democrats allied against him are “the enemy from within” in an interview with Fox News during which he called the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “a beautiful thing.”
Kamala Harris urges Black churchgoers to vote against ‘chaos, fear and hate’
Kamala Harris spent her 60th birthday Sunday working to turn out Black voters in Georgia, where she asked congregants at two churches to choose between a country of “chaos, fear and hate” - represented, she implied, by Donald Trump - and the “country of freedom, compassion and justice” she envisions.
Polls, campaign stops suggest reasons to trade Electoral College for popular vote
Recent reports of polls and battleground campaigning suggests there may be a better way to elect a president.
Trump, at charity dinner, sympathizes with NYC Mayor Adams over ‘persecution’ amid indictment
Former President Donald Trump chimed in on Mayor Adams’ legal woes at the Al Smith charity dinner in Manhattan on Thursday, sharing his oft-repeated claim about being persecuted by politically motivated prosecutors.
Green Party urges voters to ‘abandon Harris.’ Democrats say it will only help Trump.
Democrats are renewing efforts in the homestretch of this year’s presidential election to label the Green Party’s Jill Stein as a spoiler candidate who will only help Donald Trump, while Stein supporters are calling on Georgians to abandon Kamala Harris.
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris will campaign together in Georgia
Former President Barack Obama will join Vice President Kamala Harris for the first time on the campaign trail this election season with a rally next week in Georgia as Democrats race to turn out more Black voters.
In a close election, here are 3 legal disputes that could reach the Supreme Court
In a nail-biter election Nov. 5, expect the losing side to challenge the results in court. After former President Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, his supporters filed numerous of lawsuits nationwide raising questions about ballots, counting and deadlines. All were dismissed as lacking evidence or sufficient effect on the final tally.