Election 2024

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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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President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Hagerstown Regional Airport, in Hagerstown, Md., on his was to Camp David, Md., Sunday, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Judge blocks administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders

Members of Wisconsin's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Members of Wisconsin’s Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Wisconsin Republicans will cast electoral votes for Trump in line with federal, not state, law

Wisconsin Republicans will meet on Tuesday as required under federal law to cast the state’s Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump, not a day earlier as state law calls for.

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Republican protests in close North Carolina races dismissed by elections board

Another recount won’t be ordered in a North Carolina court race, but protests are ahead

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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North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Allison Riggs speaks to reporters after the State Board of Elections dismissed protests filed by her Republican opponent in last month's court election and by three GOP legislative candidates on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024 in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

A trailing North Carolina Supreme Court candidate asks the court to get involved in his race

A trailing candidate in a very close election last month for the North Carolina Supreme Court has asked that court to get involved legally in his race.

FILE - Stickers for voters sit in a roll on top of a ballot box at a voting drop-off location, Oct. 25, 2024, in Washington Park in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Investigator finds Colorado voter system passwords were not intentionally posted online

An investigation has found a series of inadvertent and unforeseen events resulted in Colorado voting system passwords being posted on the Secretary of State’s website earlier this year.

Members of Wisconsin's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump

Wisconsin Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to resolve a discrepancy between state and federal law about what date the state’s presidential electors must meet to cast Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College votes for President-elect Donald Trump.

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

This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

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.

Republican Rylee Linting greets a voter as she campaigns hoping to unseat Democratic State Rep. Jaime Churches, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Gibraltar, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Democrats lose trifecta in Michigan, hobbling Gov. Whitmer’s agenda

Michigan Democrats will lose their historic trifecta after Republicans gained a majority in the state House of Representatives.

North Carolina state Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, speaks while North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, listens at a news conference reviewing Tuesday's general election results at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

North Carolina’s next governor could have a more potent veto with even a small Democratic gain

North Carolina Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Stein’s veto could become more effective than outgoing Gov. Roy Cooper’s stamp has been recently, should the margin in a legislative district election hold.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump serves french fries as an employee looks on during a visit to McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa., Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

AP VoteCast: Voters who focused on the economy broke hard for Trump

President-elect Donald Trump tapped into deep anxieties about an economy that seemed unable despite its recent growth to meet the needs of the middle class.

FILE - The West Virginia Capitol with its dome framed by turning sugar maples leaves is seen, Nov. 3, 2014, in Charleston, W.Va. (Tom Hindman/The Daily Mail via AP, File)

GOP tightens its strong grip on the West Virginia Legislature, where women also lost seats

Republicans have tightened their hold on the West Virginia Legislature, notching election wins that will relegate Democrats to an even smaller fraction of the chamber’s 134 seats and giving themselves one of the country’s largest legislative supermajorities.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends the final night of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump reverted to familiar playbook, sowing doubts about the voting until results showed him winning

President-elect Donald Trump and his Republican allies spent months seeding doubt in the integrity of American voting systems and priming supporters to expect a 2024 election riddled with massive and inevitable fraud.

Voters monitor results during an election night watch party, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Ohio Democratic Rep. Emilia Sykes wins reelection as Rep. Kaptur’s race remains too early to call

U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes has won reelection to a second term representing a northeast Ohio district targeted by Republicans, but fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur’s race remains too early to call.

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump waves as he walks with former first lady Melania Trump at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP PHOTOS: Donald Trump’s historic comeback campaign in pictures

Donald Trump’s decisive presidential victory this week caps a turbulent four years out of office for the Republican leader.

FILE - The Kentucky Capitol is seen, Jan. 14, 2020, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Republicans easily keep legislative supermajorities in Kentucky

Republicans will maintained their supermajorities in Kentucky’s Legislature when the new session begins in January. Suburban GOP incumbents won Tuesday’s election in neighborhoods that Democrats had targeted in hopes of capitalizing on Gov.

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

With Trump’s win, some women wonder: Will the US ever see a female president?

Voters had the chance this election to break the highest glass ceiling in American politics by electing Kamala Harris the nation’s first female president.

FILE - Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Special counsel evaluating how to wind down two federal cases against Trump after presidential win

Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down the two federal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office in light of longstanding Justice Department protocol that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

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