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The election is over. But the story has just begun. Michael Barbaro, who has covered the last two presidential races for the Times, hosts our twice-weekly conversation about the biggest stor...

A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving. Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk...

President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and major appointments — which have arrived quickly in the days since he won the election — are mor...

For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question: Who are you going to vote for and wh...

For months now, “The Run-Up” has been traveling around the country talking with people, trying to ensure that when today came, whatever happ...

One phenomenon that’s been getting a lot of attention during this election is the growing gender gap among young people. Young men are leani...

For most of this year, we’ve been focused on the race for president, the messages coming from both parties’ nominees and their reception amo...

There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania. It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its fli...

Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year. Come election nig...

On Tuesday night, with three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump was in Georgia. In 2020, he lost the state by around 12,000 votes,...

We are less than a month from Election Day. That means our polling colleagues are busy. And that they are well positioned to help answer som...

Tim Walz, a former high school football coach from a tiny town, has folksy sayings and a camo cap. JD Vance shot to fame with “Hillbilly Ele...

At one point, he supported the presidential aspirations of Donald Trump, a fellow reality TV star and businessman. But now Mark Cuban — perh...

This year, Democrats and Republicans are both fighting to convince voters that their party alone can fix what both parties say is a big prob...

There’s a message that Kamala Harris and the Democrats are trying to send in these final weeks: The Democrats are patriots too. It was all o...

For the people still on the fence about 2024, Tuesday night’s debate was an important data point. How would Vice President Kamala Harris dif...

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off in Philadelphia on Tuesday night for the second presidential de...

Former president Trump frequently takes credit for helping to overturn Roe v. Wade. But in recent weeks, he has posted on Truth Social, his...

This election, like a lot of elections before it, may come down to which candidate voters think might help them with their grocery bills and...

On the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage and formally accepted her party’s nomi...

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention tonight, formalizing her rapid ascent to the top of the Democratic...

After two days of the Democratic National Convention, one thing is clear. Democrats are united behind their new nominee. And Kamala Harris h...

Last night, thousands of people gathered in Chicago for the first night of the Democratic National Convention. And the crowd at the United C...

The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago today, less than a month after Democrats changed their nominee in a remarkable polit...

For much of the 2024 presidential election, it felt like there were pretty ideal conditions for a third-party candidate. Republicans and Dem...

On Tuesday afternoon, just hours after Vice President Harris announced that Tim Walz , governor of Minnesota, would be her running mate, Ast...

It has been less than two weeks since President Biden dropped his re-election bid and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris....

Warning: this episode contains strong language and mentions of sexual abuse. Since 2019, our host, Astead Herndon, has been reporting on Kam...

When it finally happened, it felt both inevitable, and unfathomable. President Biden was out of the 2024 presidential race. Shortly after ma...

Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” has become former President Donald J. Trump’s unofficial theme music on the campaign trail . Here at...

On the second day of the Republican National Convention, a collection of Donald Trump’s former challengers took the stage. There were people...

Republicans had a big day on Monday. Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance as his running mate. Two days after surviving an assassination attempt,...

You’ve seen the image by now: Former President Donald J. Trump has blood running down the side of his face. He’s being escorted off his rall...

President Biden is telling people to Google it . Former president Donald J. Trump is distancing himself from it. Even the actress Taraji P....

The latest national poll from The New York Times and Siena College shows former President Donald J. Trump leading President Biden by nine pe...

As you may have heard, Thursday night was the first debate between President Biden and former president Donald J. Trump. In short, it was no...

We don’t know exactly what will happen when President Biden and former president Donald J. Trump take the debate stage in Atlanta tonight. W...

For decades, the mainstream Republican position on abortion rights was clear: Overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue back to the states. Bu...

Arizona is a battleground state that both parties are desperate to win in November. And right now, supporters of abortion rights in the stat...

In the days since a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts, people have mostly been asking one big question. Will this...

While the political world waits for a verdict in Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, we wanted to take a moment to remember how we g...

As he runs for re-election, President Biden is talking about one specific issue a lot: the economy. He emphasizes the nation’s low unemploym...

If the 2024 presidential election were a road trip, we would now be at the part where you start to wonder: Are we there yet? The matchup is...

Here’s what we know when it comes to the antiwar protests on college campuses and electoral politics: President Biden does seem to have a pr...

For years, Wisconsin has been one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country, with legislative districts that overwhelmingly fa...

The stakes of the 2024 presidential election could not be more serious. But in this matchup of two old, largely unpopular candidates, there...

In a close election, every vote matters. But in the 2020 presidential race, there’s a good argument that young voters mattered a lot — and h...

Right now, President Biden’s clearest path to re-election in November seems to run through the middle of the country. Here’s what that would...

Last week President Biden, flanked by former Presidents Obama and Clinton, came to Radio City Music Hall for what Biden’s campaign called “t...

The people who don’t vote are often left out of the political conversation. Campaigns don’t spend much money on them, and the media doesn’t...

This week, the Democratic National Committee formed a unit to push back against third-party candidates and independents. At the same time, a...