Election 2024

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Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton will headline the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.

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AP VoteCast: How Americans voted in 2020, and what it could mean for 2024

As Election Day draws nearer, Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to maintain the racially diverse coalition of voters who were driven four years ago by fierce opposition to Donald Trump and anxiety over a surging, deadly pandemic.

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Yes, voter fraud happens. But it’s rare and election offices have safeguards to catch it

Florida will vote on marijuana, abortion in an election that will test GOP’s dominance

A presidential campaign unlike any other ends on Tuesday. Here’s how we got here

Harris team warns CEOs that Trump is a threat to economy, while Trump says tariffs can drive growth

Harris and Trump set sights on Pennsylvania in final push before Election Day

Here’s what to watch on Election Day in the US

Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes can proceed, a Pennsylvania judge says

A look at the weather expected in battleground states on Election Day

In dash across Michigan, Harris contrasts optimism with Trump’s rhetoric without uttering his name

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters after delivering remarks at a church service at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris won’t say how she voted on California measure that would reverse criminal justice reforms

Battleground states: President

Battleground states: U.S. Senate

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order to return Maryland man from El Salvador

FILE - Pennsylvania Senate candidate Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., takes part in a debate at the WPVI-TV studio, Oct. 15, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

FILE - Pennsylvania Senate candidate Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., takes part in a debate at the WPVI-TV studio, Oct. 15, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Updated - Democrats in Pennsylvania had a horrible 2024 election. They say it’s still a swing state

The drubbing Democrats took in Pennsylvania has prompted vows to rebound. But there are also lingering doubts about whether it might be leaving the ranks of swing states for a right-leaning existence more like Ohio’s.

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Sports betting wins narrow approval in Missouri after high-dollar campaign

Updated bulleted list - Democrats in Pennsylvania had a horrible 2024 election. They say it’s still a swing state

One of the last undecided 2024 races is going to court

The election for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is one of the last unresolved 2024 races in the country. One voter whose ballot has been challenged calls it “tantrum politics.” (AP video/Allen Breed)

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Kamala Harris to oversee certifying her 2024 election loss to Donald Trump

Next steps for Trump’s White House return involve Harris helping certify her election loss

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FILE - Senate Elections Committee Chair Jenifer Branning, R-Philadelphia, explains a facet of an absentee-ballot bill during floor debate at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., June 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

State Sen. Jenifer Branning wins a Mississippi Supreme Court seat

State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens. The Associated Press on Friday declared the race for Branning as counties reported official results from the Nov. 26 runoff election.

Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii, after a meeting about President-elect Donald Trump's planned Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elon Musk funded a super PAC comparing Trump’s position on abortion to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s

Elon Musk was the sole funder of a super PAC that focused on advertising likening Donald Trump’s stance on abortion to that of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

FILE -Central Valley Assembly members, Democrat Adam Gray, of Merced, center, and Republican Heath Flora of Ripon, right, confer during the Assembly session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Unlikely battleground California plays key role -- again -- in setting US House’s political balance

Democrats and Republicans agreed on at least one thing before November’s election: California would play a central role in determining which party controls the U.S. House. Indeed it did.

Supporters look on as Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AP PHOTOS: Harris supporters show range of emotions as she gives concession speech

Many held up cellphones and appeared to be recording history as Harris told them she had lost her race against Trump. When Harris took the stage at her alma mater, she saw a sea of America flags and serious faces.

Voters line up outside the Gallatin County Courthouse on Election Day in Bozeman, Mont., on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Tommy Martino)

Free pizza and a DJ help defrost Montana voters lined up until 4 a.m. in the snow to vote

Waiting to vote tested the willpower of hundreds of people in an hourslong line that stretched outside a county courthouse in a Montana town. Polls closed at 8 p.m. in Bozeman, Montana, but the last ballot wasn’t cast until 4 a.m.

Colorado postal carrier and a friend accused of forging stolen mail ballots to test voting security

A postal worker and her friend have been arrested in connection with the forging of stolen mail ballots in Colorado in an alleged attempt to test the security of the state’s voting system.

FILE - In this Saturday, June 29, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

China is bracing for fresh tensions with Trump over trade, tech and Taiwan

Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump waves after speaking at the Palm Beach County Convention Center during an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Control of the US House hangs in the balance with enormous implications for Trump’s agenda

The majority in the U.S. House hangs in balance. It was teetering Wednesday between Republican control that would usher in a new era of unified GOP governance in Washington or a flip to Democrats as a last line of resistance to a Trump second-term White House agenda.

Voters cast their ballots at the Your Vote Center in the Andalucia Shopping Center on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Albuquerque, N.M. (Gino Gutierrez/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Democrats retain hold on New Mexico despite shifting support for Republicans

Democrats may have retained their hold on New Mexico with wins in every congressional race and the presidential contest, but shrinking margins of victory show voter support is shifting toward Republicans across much of the state.

Democrats gain another statewide position in North Carolina with Rachel Hunt victory

The group of North Carolina elected executive branch positions known as the Council of State will have equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans come January.

A voter exits the polling station on Election Day at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex's Caribbean Marketplace in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP)

FACT FOCUS: A multimillion vote gap between 2020 and 2024 fuels false election narratives

Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, social media users began pushing two conflicting narratives of election fraud.

Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers discusses the medical marijuana company's product and packaging safety standards at an event in support of Amendment 3, a ballot initiative which would legalize the recreational use of pot in Florida for adults 21 years old and older, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024, at a Trulieve medical cannabis dispensary in Hallendale Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trio of ballot failures leads marijuana backers to refocus their efforts for recreational weed

The movement to legalize recreational marijuana has run into a wall of resistance. After expanding from zero states to 24 states over the past dozen years, there will be no new states added this year to the list of those allowing recreational marijuana.

Sheron Campbell wears a Kamala Harris shirt while voting on Election Day in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

AP VoteCast takeaways: Gender voting gap was unremarkable compared with recent history

If women alone had voted, Donald Trump would have lost the presidential election decisively. Men were more likely than women to support President-elect Trump, but in the end, the gender voting gap was unremarkable by historical standards.

Republican incumbent Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., running to represent Virginia's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, waits to go on stage and address supporters during a voting rally at Ballyhoos in Virginia Beach, Va., Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Democrat Vindman, known as a Trump whistleblower, wins competitive Virginia House race

Democrat Eugene Vindman has won Virginia’s most competitive congressional race, defeating his opponent in a blow to the GOP’s hopes of flipping the open House seat.

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump’s election could assure a conservative Supreme Court majority for decades

Donald Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices. In his second term, he could well have a chance to name two more, creating a high court with a Trump-appointed majority that could serve for decades.

FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens to Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council, as he tours the southern border with Mexico, on Aug. 22, 2024, in Sierra Vista, Ariz. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s return to White House sets stage for far-reaching immigration crackdown

An immigration crackdown appears imminent in a second Trump administration at a time when an APVoteCast survey shows the president-elect’s supporters largely focused on immigration and inflation — issues the Republican has hammered throughout his campaign.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy’s pillars

During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump was loud and clear on what he wants to do in another term. Some of his promises go to the core of democracy as Americans know it.

FILE - Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, attends a panel discussion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File)

No call yet in Iowa’s closely contested 1st Congressional District

The Associated Press as of Wednesday has not called the race in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District because the margin is close enough that it could prompt a recount.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, right, walks with Vice President Kamala Harris as she departs after delivering a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election on the campus of Howard University in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Election 2024 Harris Concession Speech

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People attend an Arizona Democrats watch party on election night Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Democrats enter a Trump presidency without a plan or a clear leader

Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic policies would benefit only his wealthy friends, that he was literally a fascist.

FILE - Moderators Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier appear before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a Fox News Channel town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Four years make a big difference for Donald Trump — and for Fox News

On election night 2020, Fox News sparked an internal crisis with a bold call that Joe Biden would beat Donald Trump in the crucial state of Arizona, putting the Democrat on the path to victory. This year illustrated how things have changed.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, right, hugs former Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., after speaking at a campaign stop Monday, Nov 4, 2024, in LaCrosse, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Gov. Tim Walz will face new era of divided government in Minnesota

Gov. Tim Walz faces a new era of divided government in Minnesota when he returns from the presidential campaign trail, now that Republicans appear to have broken the Democratic trifecta that helped put him on Kamala Harris’ radar.

Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick, left, arrives to speak with his wife, Dina Powell, during an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Why AP called the Pennsylvania Senate race for David McCormick

Republican David McCormick cut into Democratic Sen. Bob Casey’s support in Philadelphia and its populous suburbs and built leads in the more GOP-leaning parts of the state, foreclosing the incumbent’s pathway to victory when The Associated Press called the race on Thursday.

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