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Today — 5 November 2024Main stream

Energized but Uneasy, the Campaigns Make Frantic Final Pushes

Democrats in battleground states have built a tightly structured get-out-the-vote operation, while Republicans have relied more on outside groups for canvassing.

© Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times

Thousands of volunteers across the country spent the weekend reaching out to voters. Michelle Garcia-Daniels, left, a volunteer for the Harris campaign, canvassed on Saturday in North Philadelphia, Pa.

How Americans Feel About the Election: Anxious and Scared

5 November 2024 at 04:41
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have framed the presidential race as an existential battle. Voters are heeding their warnings.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Yesterday — 4 November 2024Main stream

Right-Wing Groups Are Organizing on Telegram Ahead of Election Day

Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging followers to watch the polls and stand up for their rights, in a harbinger of potential chaos.

© Jason Andrew for The New York Times

Telegram played a small but significant role in the 2020 election as an organizing tool for planners of the Jan. 6 attack.

In Early Voting Period, Nearly 75 Million Have Cast Ballots 

4 November 2024 at 03:21
Nearly 75 million people have cast early ballots, making their voices heard amid worry about the process, the outcome and democracy itself.

© Bridget Bennett for The New York Times

Voters cast their ballots at Desert Breeze Community Center in Las Vegas during the last day of in-person early voting in Nevada on Friday.

Harris Appeals to Latino Pride, and Anger at Trump, in Final Push

Kamala Harris is hoping that backlash to the bigotry at the Madison Square Garden rally will blunt Donald Trump’s appeal with a critical group of voters.

Campaign signs in Hazelton, Pa. A pocket of industrial towns with growing Latino communities — places like Allentown, Hazleton and Reading — has become a hotbed of campaigning.

Trump Says He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ White House in 2020 at Pennsylvania Rally

Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also suggested that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Former President Donald J. Trump arriving at a rally in Lititz, Pa., on Sunday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Kamala Harris Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ for a Pep Talk With Maya Rudolph

Appearing in a mirror opposite her longtime impersonator, the vice president gave a little positive encouragement to her comedic reflection.

© Haiyun Jiang

On Saturday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris unexpectedly headed to New York to appear alongside Maya Rudolph on “Saturday Night Live.”

Harris’s Hope: Getting Right-Leaning Voters to Shift to the Left

Democrats see a narrow opening to peel away center-right voters bothered by abortion bans and by the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

© Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times

Gretchen Wolfe, of Phoenix, voted for former President Donald J. Trump twice, but cast her ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris this year.

Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race

Skewed polls and anonymous betting markets are building up Republicans’ expectations. Donald Trump could use that to challenge the result.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Greenville, N.C., this month. Partisan polls appear focused on lifting Republican enthusiasm and cementing the idea that Mr. Trump can lose only in a rigged election.
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