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US election
2024

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5 November 2024

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Highlights

  • US Poll Tracker 9-20-2024

    2024 polls
    Presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

  • Early Voting

    US elections 2024
    Voting is under way in the 2024 US election. Here’s what to know about early voting and mail-in ballots

  • a side-by-side image of Donald Trump and JD Vance

    Donald Trump
    ‘A very old political trope’: the racist US history behind Trump’s Haitian pet eater claim

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    The Stakes
    Sign up for The Stakes: a free newsletter on the 2024 US presidential election

Latest news

  • Trump speaks at rally

    Trump tells supporters at campaign rally ‘if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing’ – as it happened

  • Trump points at rally crowd

    Pennsylvania crucial to White House hopes, Trump says at campaign rally

    Ex-president gives meandering address in swing state and paints dark vision of America under Democratic rule
  • The FBI seal outside of a building with tree shadows

    FBI confirms US murders declined in 2023, contrary to Republican claims

    Murder dropped by more than 11% in largest single-year decline in decades while rape and other crimes also fell

  • Republican bid to change Nebraska voting rules to help Trump fails

  • Democrats worried about polls undercounting Donald Trump’s support

  • US Congress agrees to funding deal to avert shutdown in blow to Trump

  • Top staffers on Mark Robinson campaign quit after reports of offensive remarks

  • Did Trump fail to deliver on this landmark project? The answer could decide the election

  • Jane Fonda rallies disaffected young US voters: ‘Do not sit this election out’

  • As the election looms, the Harris campaign juggles joy with gravity

    Osita Nwanevu

  • Harris calls out Trump again for ‘looking for an excuse’ to avoid a second debate

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Features

  • A man in a blue shirt looks forward

    ‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump

  • americanpsyche-02

    How did ‘learned helplessness’ become commonly used to describe US voters?

    The psychology term is now a political expression as Americans across party lines report feeling powerless
  • two men in blue suits and red ties stand next to each other

    Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

    From Vance’s penchant to ‘create stories’ to Trump’s false claims, lies are brazenly flaunted as a tactic to win support

  • Saginaw: the swing county in the swing state that could decide the election

  • Is Donald Trump a fascist?

  • ‘People should be making their contingency plans, like, right away’: America’s leading forecaster on the chances of a Trump win

  • Hillary Clinton: ‘It would be exhilarating to see Kamala Harris achieve the breakthrough I didn’t’

  • How Janice Johnston is ‘laying the groundwork for chaos’ in Georgia’s elections

  • ‘We are staying in this race’: behind the unraveling of Mark Robinson’s campaign in North Carolina

Analysis

  • a side-by-side image of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    Harris ups lead over Trump, although presidential race still on knife-edge

  • close-up of man wearing blue suit and red tie

    Violence and instability have become a feature, not a bug, of US political life

  • People in chairs in auditorium seen from behind watching large-screen TV high up on wall.People at the U.S. presidential debate media filing center watch a live broadcast of the first presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia, the United States, on Sept. 10, 2024. Harris and Trump on Tuesday night faced off here for the first time in the 2024 U.S. presidential debate. u.s. Philadelphia Harris Trump Presidential Debate - 10 Sep 2024

    Real v fake: how the Harris-Trump debate laid out different takes on AI

  • a side-by-side image of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    What debate? Harris and Trump back to brutal grind of swing state campaigns

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Explainers

  • A graphic of the US Capitol building with red and blue circles

    The key US Senate races that could determine who controls the chamber

  • Entrance to the golf club

    Trump golf course ‘assassination attempt’ – a visual guide

  • Police outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida following a shooting incident at former US president Donald Trump's golf course.

    Apparent Trump assassination attempt: what we know so far

  • Kamala Harris debates Donald Trump

    Factchecking Trump’s debate claims: from abortion to Project 2025

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Opinion

  • Donald Trump and JD Vance

    The Guardian view on Trump’s attacks on migrants: smirking racism is no less dangerous

  • Stephen Marche

    Nebraska may change its electoral system at the last second to help Trump win

    Stephen Marche
  • Margaret Sullivan

    JD Vance is factually challenged – and morally deficient

    Margaret Sullivan

  • With their lies about Haitian immigrants, Trump and Vance have reached a new low

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • JD Vance’s obsession with cats is bizarre. He needs to stop spreading fake mews

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • The American right is inciting a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Ohio

    Moira Donegan

  • We live in an era of political violence. The rich and famous aren’t the primary targets

    Moira Donegan

  • Melania Trump has a memoir coming out – and she’s acting pretty strangely

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president

    David Daley

Anywhere but Washington

  • Less than a week after a failed assassination attempt, Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Milwaukee. But supposed nods to national unity gave way to partisan falsehoods, as the former president was anointed at a moment of national crisis

    10:40

    Inside Trump’s alternative reality. Behind the scenes at the RNC - video

  • In the vital swing state of Michigan, growing fractures among the Democratic base could spell trouble for Joe Biden in the November election. As party loyalists canvas in the run up to a primary vote, a protest movement against the president’s support for the war in Gaza gains momentum. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone visit the state.

    10:41

    Is Joe Biden's bid for re-election in trouble?

  • Despite facing multiple criminal charges, Donald Trump remains the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. But in South Carolina, a traditionally conservative southern state, a split is opening up between Trump loyalists and more moderate Republicans who are fearful of what their party has become

    12:38

    Why are Republicans still supporting Donald Trump? - video

  • In Arizona, all of the statewide Republican candidates for the midterm elections have falsely claimed the 2020 election result was not legitimate. As these conspiracy theories spread, Oliver Laughland travels to Phoenix to meet Adrian Fontes, the Democrat trying to defeat Trump loyalist and election denier Mark Finchem in the race for secretary of state

    13:13

    How Donald Trump's legacy poisoned Arizona’s fragile democracy - video

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