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'Hillary Clinton likens Trump to Hitler and warns he would end democracy.' --The Guardian, November 9, 2023 'Trump's ramped-up rhetoric raises new concerns about violence and authoritarianism' --PBS News Hour, [...]

Pink. An ovular rose. Big and smooth. A complex commonplace instrument. And, as far as these things go, a rather nice one. Isolated from the head and all that roils [...]

The term "October surprise" was coined by then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's campaign manager in 1980. Since then, depending on who's got the goods up their sleeve, the last-minute reveal is [...]

A stunning cascade of events in June and July saw President Biden fall out of favor among his elite supporters and withdraw abruptly from the presidential race, to be replaced [...]

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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE at the courthouse!' Jason Miller told me. A former aide to Rudy Giuliani, Miller was a Republican operative well known in New York and Washington, D.C., [...]

Bernie Sanders has made plenty of history as a democratic socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, an independent U.S. Representative, and then a U.S. Senator. He was a contender for the [...]

Depends on what you mean by 'better.' And depends on what you're using it for. We dug into the latest science on how your neurocognitive functions change as you get [...]

What if you kept holding the same election until everybody was sick of it? The story of 2024 is also the story of 1892. Eight American presidents before Donald Trump [...]

What happened As candidates for Congress embarked on their last flurry of campaigning this week, Republicans appeared primed to retake the Senate, while the fight for the House of Representatives [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore On March 12, the presidential contest was locked into place. On that day, (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-prison-election.html) Donald Trump clinched his third presidential nomination and (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/dnc-day-1-democratic-convention-highlights-live.html) Joe Biden (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-clinches-2024-democratic-nomination) clinched [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4635041c-b381-4368-9985-a7c508be651c_673x497.webp) Artist's rendering of the state of the Trump campaign. Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a long look by the always-well-sourced-in-wingnut-land Tim Alberta at the last few months of [...]

Kamala Harris could become the first woman to serve as president of the United States. Instead of a first lady, Doug Emhoff could carry out traditional hosting duties as first [...]

For many Americans, the most important focus heading into a presidential election is how the winner will impact their wallet. Whatever your financial priorities, Business Insider has you covered with [...]

Election Day is just two days away. Harris and Trump are campaigning in swing states as they make their final appeals to voters. Results could reveal a historic gender gap, [...]

In any neighborhood in Jackson County, Ohio, somebody's bound to have a story about U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) helping them. That's what Lisa Parker, the chair of the Democratic [...]

DAN OSBORN, a candidate for the Senate in https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/10/30/could-a-mechanic-in-nebraska-determine-control-of-the-senate, has a fable he recounts on the campaign trail. First told by a Canadian trade unionist in the 1960s, Mr Osborn's [...]

THE END of America's election season always coincides with Halloween. That can make for some deeply weird campaigning. Democrats in Las Vegas, Nevada, staged a 'Project 2025 haunted house' by [...]

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE:NRSC Chair Confident of GOP Majority, Avoids ‘Prediction Game' NRSC Chair Steve Daines built the Senate GOP's campaign strategy by 'playing favorites in primaries, muscling out weak [...]

Byline: Sean Michael Newhouse While most of the 2024 election attention is focused on the presidential race, the ability of the winner to enact his (https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/09/trumps-second-term-agenda-breaking-bureaucracy/399533/) or her (https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2024/07/unpacking-kamala-harris-record-federal-workforce-issues/398226/) agenda [...]

Elon Musk's ownership has shifted X's political stance, affecting Democratic ad spending. Some Democratic ad campaigns still see opportunities in ads on X, formerly known as Twitter. X switched political [...]

Election Day is fast approaching, and the way you vote can influence every part of your life -- even your cycling experience, whether you ride to work or race on [...]

Byline: Gabriel Debenedetti First, the West Wing actor Bradley Whitford (https://x.com/BradleyWhitford/status/1849172563965911509) put it on X. Not long after, New Hampshire congresswoman Annie Kuster was saying it. Soon, with October winding [...]

In This Issue / Trading Betting on politics... the key Senate races Despite widespread criticism of Trump’s latest rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden, punters still think he is [...]

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump both delivered their final messages to voters, but with some hiccups. Both presidential candidates delivered their closing arguments this week, culminating a [...]

Happy Halloween from Hotline! With less than a week to go until Election Day, we've entered the witching hour where wins become losses, and losses become wins. As we've https://go2.nationaljournal.com/NTU2LVlFRS05NjkAAAGWgjlAssYcjmZdDN8w31BmxDGlHM5AUfeovLcKLZM6rmhO-8fY2aRn8E973GfJnGgv7B2Wcfs=, [...]

PLUS:Georgia's fragile democracy draws deep concern in Washington, and House coronavirus committee refers Andrew Cuomo for prosecution. With only days remaining before Election Day, artificial intelligence has yet to influence [...]

The 2024 election has been full of memorable moments and unexpected twists. It began as a Trump-Biden rematch, then Biden dropped out and endorsed Kamala Harris. Photos show key moments [...]

'That department should be abolished,' said President Ronald Reagan about the Department of Education in 1983, echoing a campaign promise. In 1995 while running for president, Lamar Alexander, a former [...]

Republicans are poised to win the majority. The Senate map looks largely the same as the campaign season nears its end, and Republicans' chances of winning the majority stay strong. [...]

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE:Where to Watch on the Senate Map 'Entering with a slim 51-49 majority, Senate Democrats face a tougher map compared to 2020 and 2022. The caucus has [...]

GENERAL ELECTION:Look to the Southeast for Early Signs North Carolina and Florida might provide early clues of where the presidential race is going, 'as results arrive quickly in this pair [...]

Sign up for (https://in.chalkbeat.org/newsletters/subscribe) Chalkbeat Indiana's free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County's township districts, and statewide education news. Members of the Lawrence Township school [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b630554-c50a-4d2f-97de-3961f1744ab3_2456x1276.png) Closing arguments for Kamala Harris and against Donald Trump continue to stack up! (https://www.wonkette.com/p/kamala-harriss-magnificent-ellipse) Harris did her speech at the Ellipse last night, making the case herself, and then [...]

Home to a university, Madison is a left-leaning city in a swing state. But if you happened to find yourself at the Kollege Klub on a recent Saturday night, where [...]