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2024

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5 November 2024

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Highlights

  • US Poll Tracker 9-14-2024

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

  • Kamala Harris speaks before a crowd.

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    ‘It’s such a dramatic contrast’: Harris turns North Carolina into a toss-up

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

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

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Latest news

  • Oprah hugs Kamala on stage

    Oprah hosts star-studded sit-down with Kamala Harris: ‘Hope is making a comeback’

  • Trump in front of American flag

    Trump bemoans lack of support from Jewish voters and blames ‘Democrat curse’

    In disjointed Washington speech, nominee tells audience low numbers are because of ‘the Democrat curse on you’
  • Oprah Winfrey at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee and US vice-president Kamala Harris, in Detroit, Michigan.

    Kamala Harris holds star-studded event with Oprah in battleground state of Michigan – as it happened

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  • North Carolina Republican candidate for governor called himself ‘black Nazi’ – report

  • Senate leader Schumer moves to avert shutdown after House speaker’s ‘flop’

  • Uncommitted movement declines to endorse Harris – but warns against Trump presidency

  • Confusing language on gerrymandering proposal will stay on Ohio’s ballot

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

    Stephen Marche

  • 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

  • With bombast and defiance, Trump stages first rally since apparent assassination attempt

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Features

  • Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Nassau Coliseum, New York.

    With bombast and defiance, Trump stages first rally since apparent assassination attempt

  • man wearing blue suit and red tie speaks as people around him record and look at him

    ‘Racism is embedded in our society’: how attacks on immigrants in Ohio highlight US disinformation crisis

    Donald Trump’s ‘pet eating’ conspiracy shows how falsehoods driven by political bias are spread
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    AOC calls the US Green party ‘not serious’ – can it be more than a ‘spoiler’ in the election?

    Jill Stein, the party’s presidential nominee, is polling at about 1%, and of 500,000 elected positions it holds just 149

  • Democrats face campaign dilemma after second apparent Trump assassination plot

  • Why Republicans are raising double the money in down-ballot races

  • Trump’s fantasy that migrants are eating cats proves the meme has prevailed over real politics

    Kenan Malik

  • Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up

  • The Harris campaign has seen a wave of celebrity support. How helpful is it?

    Shamira Ibrahim

Analysis

  • 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

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

    Harris regains small poll lead post-debate as US election inches closer

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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

  • Arwa Mahdawi

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

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Moira Donegan

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

    Moira Donegan
  • 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

  • Political violence and fearmongering bigotry have become too normalized

    Robert Reich

  • The world should breathe a sigh of relief that Donald Trump wasn’t harmed in Florida

    Simon Tisdall

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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