Follow the latest updates on the 2024 election. The presidential race just keeps getting tighter. With three weeks to go, The New York Times’s polling average shows Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump essentially tied across the seven key battleground states, with the two separated by less than one percentage …
Read More »How Door Knocking Is Going in a Wisconsin Swing County
Nancy Kidd, a coordinator with the Democratic Party of Door County in northeast Wisconsin, was willing to brave a door-to-door canvass for Democratic votes during a soaking rain in October. “I don’t melt,” she said, gathering her things at the party’s office in downtown Sturgeon Bay. But knocking on the …
Read More »Kamala Harris Sets an Interview With a Not-So-Friendly Outlet: Fox News.
Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview with Fox News, the network said on Monday. The interview, with Fox News’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, will take place near Philadelphia on Wednesday, shortly before it airs at 6 p.m. Eastern on Mr. Baier’s program, “Special Report.” Ms. Harris …
Read More »How Wall St. Is Subtly Shaping the Harris Economic Agenda
When two of Vice President Kamala Harris’s closest advisers arrived in New York last month, they were seeking advice. The Democratic nominee was preparing to give her most far-reaching economic speech, and Tony West, Ms. Harris’s brother-in-law, and Brian Nelson, a longtime confidant, wanted to know how the city’s powerful …
Read More »In a Tight Presidential Race, Third-Party Candidates Present a Wild Card
With a month to go before what is widely expected to be an extraordinarily close election, an extra element of unpredictability looms: In every battleground state, there is at least one third-party or independent presidential candidate on the ballot. None of these candidates will come anywhere close to winning the …
Read More »Opinion | When Trump Rants, This Is What I Hear
I’ve never considered “immigrant” my calling card, even though it’s one I’ve always carried. I arrived here first as a 3-year-old boy in the mid-1970s, settling with my family in Northern California, in a small town with trees so thick that their branches mingled high over the roads. My mother …
Read More »Opinion | Lawyers Should Not Assist Trump in a Potential Power Grab
As the presidential campaign begins its final sprint, Donald Trump has made crystal clear how he will respond if he loses. He will refuse to accept the results; he will make baseless claims of voter fraud; and he will turn, with even more ferocity than he did in 2020, to …
Read More »Trump Hits Coachella, Campaigning Once Again in a Blue State
Both presidential campaigns agree that seven swing states are likely to determine the outcome of this year’s election. California, which has not voted for a Republican in a presidential race since 1988, is not one of them. But that did not prevent former President Donald J. Trump from heading there …
Read More »John F. Kennedy Jr.’s 1990s-Era Magazine Is Back, With a QAnon Twist
On a Saturday morning in August, a few hundred people gathered at a convention center in Hot Springs, Ark., paying between $145 and $475 to hear from a cast of far-right speakers. They included a body builder-turned-pundit who carries a tomahawk and promotes an antisemitic conspiracy theory, and a pro-Trump …
Read More »Opinion | This Election Will Need More Heroes
True political courage — the principled stand, the elevation of country over party pressure, the willingness to sacrifice a career to protect the common good — has become painfully rare in a polarized world. It deserves to be celebrated and nurtured whenever it appears, especially in defense of fundamental American …
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