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“The Run-Up” is your guide to understanding the 2024 election. Host Astead W. Herndon talks to the people whose decisions will make the difference. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.
The New York Times hosts The Run-Up, a news show with 100 episodes published.
A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving. Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk about the election and the question of Black people’s changing relationship to t
President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and major appointments — which have arrived quickly in the days since he won the election — are more than just a list of allies. The roster is a window into how he sees the missio
For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question: Who are you going to vote for and why? And on Wednesday morning, we had the answer to that question. Or at least the
For months now, “The Run-Up” has been traveling around the country talking with people, trying to ensure that when today came, whatever happened wouldn’t feel like a surprise. So as people go to the polls to cast their v
One phenomenon that’s been getting a lot of attention during this election is the growing gender gap among young people. Young men are leaning right, and young women are moving left. In recent national surveys from The N
For most of this year, we’ve been focused on the race for president, the messages coming from both parties’ nominees and their reception among voters. But that’s not all that’s on the ballot this November, and so much of
There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania. It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its flip from red to blue in 2020 helped secure the win for Joe Biden. For Kamala Harri
Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year. Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states where the polls wil
On Tuesday night, with three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump was in Georgia. In 2020, he lost the state by around 12,000 votes, and Georgia became central to his claims that the election had been stolen. Aft
We are less than a month from Election Day. That means our polling colleagues are busy. And that they are well positioned to help answer some of the biggest questions we have at this stage in the race. Like: Who has the
Tim Walz, a former high school football coach from a tiny town, has folksy sayings and a camo cap. JD Vance shot to fame with “Hillbilly Elegy,” aiming to speak for parts of rural America that felt left behind. Both part
At one point, he supported the presidential aspirations of Donald Trump, a fellow reality TV star and businessman. But now Mark Cuban — perhaps best known for his longtime ownership of the Dallas Mavericks and his perch
This year, Democrats and Republicans are both fighting to convince voters that their party alone can fix what both parties say is a big problem: the Southern border. And public sentiment on the issue is shifting. Accordi
There’s a message that Kamala Harris and the Democrats are trying to send in these final weeks: The Democrats are patriots too. It was all over the place at the Democratic National Convention, in the chants of “U.S.A.!”
For the people still on the fence about 2024, Tuesday night’s debate was an important data point. How would Vice President Kamala Harris differentiate herself from President Biden? How would former President Donald Trump
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off in Philadelphia on Tuesday night for the second presidential debate of 2024. It will be the first time the two candidates meet on a debate stag
Former president Trump frequently takes credit for helping to overturn Roe v. Wade. But in recent weeks, he has posted on Truth Social, his social media site, that his administration would be “great for women and their r
This election, like a lot of elections before it, may come down to which candidate voters think might help them with their grocery bills and housing costs — the essential stuff of everyday economics. That’s what people a
On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage and formally accepted her party’s nomination. After the balloons fell, Astead Herndon and his colleagues Maya King and
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention tonight, formalizing her rapid ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket and capping a very unusual path to the nomination. No primary. No seriou
Tom Homan
Former Acting Director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
1 appearance on this show
JD Vance
Vice-President of the United States
1 appearance on this show
Tim Walz
former high school football coach · U.S. House Oversight Committee
1 appearance on this show
Jazmine Ulloa
national political and immigration reporter for The New York Times · New York Times
1 appearance on this show
Astead Herndon
political journalist and host of the podcast “America, Actually” · The New York Times
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth Warren
Democrat senator (MA) · Massachusetts
1 appearance on this show
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