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鈥楨lection Day is not results day鈥: Get ready for a wait to find out who鈥檚 president
WASHINGTON 鈥 Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Monday hopscotched across swing states and prepared for what could be an exceedingly tense election night watch as the 2024 presidential election sped to a close. So far, more than 80.6 million Americans have voted, according to the University of Florida鈥檚 Election Lab. In […]
Trump could claim victory no matter results, Harris camp says
WASHINGTON 鈥 Vice President Kamala Harris鈥 campaign is expecting former President Donald Trump to declare victory on election night no matter the actual results, a senior official told reporters on a Friday call. The senior official for the Democrat鈥檚 presidential campaign said Trump, the Republican candidate, would likely repeat his move in the 2020 election […]
Where do Harris and Trump stand on 10 major policy issues?
WASHINGTON 鈥 As the last weekend before Tuesday鈥檚 presidential election approaches, voters who want more insight on where the candidates stand on major policy issues can get up to speed through a States Newsroom Washington Bureau series. In these 10 articles, States Newsroom reported on the policy positions taken by Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris […]
Rallying on the Ellipse, Harris calls on voters to reject Trump鈥檚 鈥榗haos and division鈥
WASHINGTON 鈥 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, with the White House as her backdrop, gave what she called her closing argument Tuesday evening, pressing voters to support her bid over that of 鈥渦nstable鈥 Republican candidate Donald Trump. The 30-minute speech on the Ellipse was the same location where Trump, then president, held a rally nearly […]
U.S. Justice Department stresses protection of voters鈥 rights
WASHINGTON 鈥 With less than a week before the polls close on Nov. 5, the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday reiterated its efforts to protect voters鈥 access to the ballot box through its civil rights, national security and criminal divisions. 鈥淧rotecting the right to vote, prosecuting election crimes, and securing our elections are all essential to […]
Final results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest, anxious election officials warn
WASHINGTON 鈥 As an exceedingly bitter, tight and dark campaign for the presidency moves into its last moments, apprehensive election officials and experts warn Election Day is only the first step. The closing of the polls and end of mail-in voting kick off a nearly three-month process before the next president of the United States […]
Asian American and Latino voters prized in an excruciatingly tight presidential campaign
DURHAM, N.C. 鈥 As a weekend morning in late September dips into the afternoon, Annar Parikh finally gets an eligible voter to answer the door. After Parikh gives a rundown of some of the local candidates in North Carolina鈥檚 election, she asks the woman if she plans to vote in the presidential election. 鈥淚t鈥檚 personal,鈥 […]
Poll of Latino voters finds growing support for Harris; Trump tours N.C. storm damage
WASHINGTON 鈥 A new poll released Monday by a civic engagement group found that Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris continues to grow her support with Latinos in critical battleground states. In a tight presidential race, both campaigns have tried to court the Latino vote 鈥 one of the fastest-growing voting blocs. The poll for Voto […]
Trump courts Latino voters at Univision town hall, and Harris ventures onto Fox News
WASHINGTON 鈥 With less than three weeks to Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent last week zeroing in on undecided voters, in a race that polls have in a dead heat. In Doral, Florida, Trump made his pitch to undecided Latino voters for an hour-long聽Univision town hall聽and […]
Guns: Where do Trump and Harris stand?
WASHINGTON 鈥 A mass shooting at a Georgia high school in September thrust the issue of gun violence to the forefront of the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump agree that gun violence is a major problem, but they offer strikingly different views on how to address it. Two 14-year-old […]
Harris campaign stresses 鈥榯he threat that Donald Trump is to Latino communities鈥
WASHINGTON 鈥擳op advisers to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign held a Wednesday press conference including children who were separated from their parents under the highly criticized Trump administration immigration policy, as a warning of what a second term under the former president could bring for the Latino community. The press conference in Doral, Florida, came […]
In battleground North Carolina, both parties struggle to turn out the youth vote
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. 鈥 North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton opened a pack of shiny stickers and passed them out to young volunteers getting ready to canvass for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The stickers have a tie-dye color scheme that reads: 鈥淒onald Trump is weird.鈥 It鈥檚 a reference to how Harris鈥 running mate, […]