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Evening Report — Trump, Harris campaign outside swing states in 11th hour detour
Plus: Dems tantalized by potential for Texas-sized upset {beacon} Evening Report © Julia Demaree Nikhinson and Susan Walsh, Associated Press Trump, Harris take campaigns outside swing states ...Politics - The Hill - October 28 -
Harris campaign to hold livestream show from every swing state Monday night
Vice President Harris’s campaign will hold a national livestream show that features events from the seven battleground states on Monday night, a senior campaign official announced on Saturday. To ...Politics - The Hill - November 2 -
2024 election updates: Harris joins 'SNL,' Trump says he's 'father of fertilization'
The election campaign heads into the final weekend and both candidates are vying for the crucial votes in swing states.Top stories - ABC News - November 3 -
Watch live: Vance campaigns in key swing states on day before Election Day
Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, will rally supporters in key swing states on Monday, just hours before the first votes are cast Election Day. Vance will speak in ...Politics - The Hill - November 4 -
Voters say no more marijuana — Congress should take note
Despite pro-marijuana groups spending millions, voters in red and blue states rejected marijuana and psychedelic legalization ballot measures, indicating that drug legalization is unpopular and bad ...Politics - The Hill - Yesterday -
GOP pollster Frank Luntz: Election results should worry Democrats
Pollster Frank Lutz said President-elect Trump's victory over Vice President Harris is a monster win for the GOP's ability to win over "paycheck-to-paycheck" voters that at the same time shoudl ...Politics - The Hill - November 7 -
Kristi Noem: Democratic governors should work with Donald Trump
Kristi Noem joins NewsNation to discuss rumors she might be tapped to serve under President-elect Donald Trump.Politics - The Hill - November 9 -
House Democrat: Senators should have 'full information' before Gaetz vote
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.), who sits on the House Ethics Committee, said he believes senators should have the “full information” about their investigation and report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz ...Politics - The Hill - November 17 -
Key Democrat says the ethics report on Matt Gaetz should be made public
The top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee says a report on Rep. Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, should be made public.Top stories - NBC News - November 19 -
Top Democrat on House Ethics panel says Gaetz report should be released
Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, said she thinks the panel’s report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) should be released. Wild answered “yes” when asked ...Politics - The Hill - November 19 -
Pennsylvania appeals court rules timely mail ballots with improper dates should be counted
A Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Wednesday that the state constitution prohibits the disqualification of timely mail ballots because of a missing or improper date. Though the 3-2 majority ...Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
Can Democrats Win Back Voters From Trump on Trade Policy?
The Biden administration has pursued a big shift in trade policy, but it’s not clear whether that will be enough to win votes.Business - The New York Times - October 30 -
High-profile Democrats lean into guilt in pursuit of male voters on abortion
High-profile Democrats in the home stretch of the presidential race are laying down a guilt trip on male voters: Vote for Vice President Harris and abortion rights, or you are letting down your ...Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
Investigating Musk's far-fetched claim about Democrats importing voters
BBC Verify investigates the claim by Elon Musk that Democrats import illegal immigrants to vote.Top stories - BBC News - October 31 -
Democrats invest in American voters abroad hoping to make the difference
The votes of overseas Americans could make the difference in tight U.S. elections, and are being courted by Democrats and Republicans alike.Top stories - NBC News - November 1 -
Republicans and Democrats search for unicorns in crucial Wisconsin: undecided voters
But the Trump ground game – led by TPUSA and Elon Musk’s America Pac – might be falling behind the Harris effort. On a warm October morning in Madison, Wisconsin , Ty Schanhofer found a unicorn: ...World - The Guardian - November 2 -
Democratic voters wrestle with Harris' loss to Trump: What went wrong?
For many Democratic voters, Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump was disappointing but not surprising, they said in interviews, agreeing that their party hadn't done enough to talk ...Politics - NBC News - November 6 -
Former Obama adviser: Democrats must realize 'our democracy' angers voters
Former Obama White House aide Ben Rhodes argues that Democrats have lost touch with the anger people feel at government and must focus on what they stand for and how they tell their story.Politics - The Hill - November 8 -
Democrats' bet on a generation of liberal voters has backfired badly
Latino, black and younger voters once helped Obama win power - Trump made gains with all three groups this election. Why?Top stories - BBC News - November 10 -
Muslim voters once abandoned the GOP. Now they may leave the Democrats.
Arab and Muslim voters moved away from the Democratic Party this year in ways that led some community leaders to warn of a lasting shift from a voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic for two ...Politics - NBC News - November 10 -
Voters rejected a 'woke' America — time for Democrats to listen and learn
Kamala Harris’s version of freedom was a caring kind of freedom, but it was also a technocratic, policy wonk kind of freedom — and many Americans are now deeply disillusioned with government and ...Politics - The Hill - November 11 -
To correct course, Democrats need to listen and change the way they talk to voters
Joe Cunningham, former representative of South Carolina's 1st District, argues that the Democratic Party's failure to listen to voters and speak to them in a respectful manner led to a predictable ...Politics - The Hill - November 11 -
Some Black Voters Ask, What Have Democrats Done for Us?
In interviews, these voters, especially men, questioned what dividends have come from their loyalty: “I’m just kind of over it all.”Top stories - The New York Times - November 12 -
Democrats won 'highly engaged' voters and struggled with everyone else in 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats convinced frequent voters and highly engaged voters to stick with them in the 2024 presidential election.Top stories - NBC News - November 18 -
For Minority Working-Class Voters, Dismay in Democrats Led to Distrust
In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy.Top stories - The New York Times - November 19 -
Alito rejects Cornel West’s appeal to tell Pennsylvania voters he is write-in option
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday rejected Cornel West’s ask for an emergency order requiring signs be posted at Pennsylvania polling places next week telling voters they can write in ...Politics - The Hill - October 31 -
Harris maintains polling lead among young voters as both candidates ramp up appeals
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have ramped up their courtship of young voters to push their candidacies over the finish line.Top stories - ABC News - November 4 -
Therapy-speak and 80s hairstyles: will Harris’s Brené Brown sit-down swing white female voters?
The Democrat’s cozy chat with the vulnerability expert was largely apolitical – which could play well with a key demographic. In the quest to win over white female voters – 53% of whom showed up ...World - The Guardian - October 28 -
Most swing state voters believe Trump will not accept defeat if he loses election
Survey in seven battleground states finds most fear Trump supporters would use violence to install him in power. US elections live – follow updates A majority of voters in swing states do not ...World - The Guardian - October 30 -
Elon Musk seeks to move $1M swing state voter giveaway case to federal court
Elon Musk is attempting to move to federal court a lawsuit challenging his $1 million daily giveaways to registered voters in swing and battleground states, throwing into question a scheduled ...Politics - The Hill - October 31 -
Nevada is in a profound economic rut. Its working-class voters could swing the election
Workers have been struggling to keep up with rising costs. Trump and Harris are hyper-focused on winning them over. Urbin Gonzalez could be working inside, in the air conditioning, at his regular ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
What the early voting data shows about new voters — a group that could swing the election
With nearly 60 million ballots already cast, everyone interested in the presidential election is trying to figure out where the race stands.Politics - NBC News - November 1 -
‘I hope our voices are heard’: illustrated interviews with swing state voters in Pennsylvania
An artist talks to – and draws – people in a crucial state and asks what the election means to them. Last week, I made a short trip to Pennsylvania from New York to talk to people in this crucial ...World - The Guardian - November 4 -
Elon Musk can keep giving $1m to US voters in swing states, judge rules
The giveaway is not a lottery-like contest and the recipients are not chosen randomly, his lawyer said.Top stories - BBC News - November 5