The Run-Up

<p>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.</p><p>But that’s not all that’s on the ballot this November, and...

<p>There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania.</p><p>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...

<p>Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year.</p><p>Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states where the...

<p>On Tuesday night, with three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump was in Georgia.</p><p>In 2020, he lost the state by around 12,000 votes, and Georgia became central to his claims that the election had been...

<p>We are less than a month from Election Day.</p><p>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...

<p>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...

<p>At one point, he supported the presidential aspirations of Donald Trump, a fellow reality TV star and businessman.</p><p>But now Mark Cuban — perhaps best known for his longtime ownership of the Dallas Mavericks and...

<p>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.</p><p>And public sentiment on the issue is...

<p>There’s a message that Kamala Harris and the Democrats are trying to send in these final weeks: The Democrats are patriots too.</p><p>It was all over the place at the Democratic National Convention, in the chants of...

<p>For the people still on the fence about 2024, Tuesday night’s debate was an important data point.</p><p>How would Vice President Kamala Harris differentiate herself from President Biden? How would former President...

<p>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...

<p>Former president Trump frequently takes credit for helping to overturn Roe v. Wade.</p><p>But in recent weeks, he has posted on Truth Social, his social media site, that his administration would be “great for women...

<p>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.</p><p>That’s...

<p>On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage and formally accepted her party’s nomination.</p><p>After the balloons fell, Astead Herndon and his colleagues...

<p>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.</p><p>No primary...