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Trump must win North Carolina. He’s losing there. Absentee ballots start getting mailed to North Carolina voters in just 33 days, and a new CBS News/YouGov poll reveals ominous news for President Donald Trump in the Tar Heel state. Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a narrow 48% to 44% …

Donald Trump needs Florida. The purple state has voted for the winner in all but one presidential election since 1964, and no Republican has won the presidency without Florida in nearly 100 years. Trump won the battleground state by about 112,000 votes in 2016. Now several recent major polls show …

As Joe Biden nears the announcement of his vice presidential choice, the top contenders and their advocates are making final appeals. The campaign hasn’t finalized a date for naming a running mate, but three people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans said a public announcement likely …

In a remarkable move by a sitting president, US President Donald Trump for the first time Thursday morning suggested delaying the presidential election over his persistent false attacks that mail-in voting would lead to the “most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which …

As President Donald Trump’s support in the U.S. suburbs erodes amid concerns about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, he has returned to a familiar campaign theme: trying to scare voters away from backing Democrat Joe Biden in November. From deploying federal agents to confront protesters in cities such as …

Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 7 points in the key swing state of North Carolina, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll, with voters also favoring Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates and saying by 2 to 1 that the state was right to balk at the Trump administration’s …

More Americans are pessimistic about the direction of their country than at any point during Donald Trump’s presidency, as the nation continues to struggle with the coronavirus, protests against police brutality that have at times turned violent, and a venomous presidential election that has exposed deep political divides. Roughly eight …

With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump’s presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position as his reelection bid against Democrat Joe Biden enters a pivotal stretch. A new poll from …

“Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” President Trump again sought to showcase his mental fitness on television by reciting, over and over again in an interview broadcast on Wednesday evening, what he said was a sample cognitive testing sequence. For the better part of a month, Mr. Trump, 74, has made …

Joe Biden called Donald Trump the “first” racist elected as United States president, despite several owning slaves. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments on Wednesday came during an online campaign event organised by the Service Employees International Union when one participant complained about Mr Trump’s alleged racism over Covid-19. Mr …

The majority of undecided voters asked who they would choose if they had to pick President Donald Trump or Joe Biden at the polls opted for the Democratic candidate, according to new polling. A Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll gave Biden an 8-point lead over the president among registered voters asked, with …

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have criticized Donald Trump’s leadership, in a teaser for a filmed discussion between the pair. The former president and vice president filmed a socially-distant conversation about challenges facing the US, in Obama’s office in Washington, DC earlier this month, that will be streamed on Biden’s …

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Monday he was considering four Black women to be his running mate, and has been receiving extensive vetting briefings about each potential candidate. “I am not committed to naming any (of the potential candidates), but the people I’ve named, and among them there …

US President Donald Trump has once again accused his predecessor Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden of spying on his administration. Speaking in an interview with Fox News Sunday, which is set to air, Trump claimed if he were to pull a similar stunt, then he would face …

Public preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic has soared since March in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, boosting Biden – along with other measures – in the race for the White House. Three and a half months ago the two candidates …

US President Trump walked onto the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday to applause from supporters as he prepared to tout his efforts to roll back regulations. He was flanked on one side by a blue truck weighed down by “years of regulatory burden” and on the other …

Biden, who committed to choosing a woman for the job he held for eight years under President Barack Obama, said this week he expected the background vetting process to conclude around July 24. He would then interview each finalist before making a decision, expected by early August. The selection of …

As President Donald Trump vies for reelection this November, polling data indicates most voters think he is pushing for division in efforts to win. More than half of the individuals who participated in a new YouGov poll responded that they believed that to be the case. The poll, which surveyed …

US President Donald Trump continues to trail Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in a slew of key battleground states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida—which voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 then flipped red in 2016. The current averages of state-level polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight show …

Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump may refuse to leave office if he is defeated in November – and that voter suppression tactics are a key part of his strategy. “I think it’s a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses he’s going to …