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News Articles: 2024 presidential election

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Gwen Walz, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and presidential candidate Kamala Harris walk across the tarmac at Philadelphia International Airport after their first rally together on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

What to know about Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz

Gwen and Tim Walz met while teaching high school in the '90s, and she's now a vocal advocate for expanding educational opportunities in prisons. Here's what else to know about Minnesota's first lady.

August 08, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, speaks with diners at the Park Diner in St. Cloud, Minn., on July 28.

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  • Politics

What to know about Usha Vance, JD Vance's wife

Usha Vance grew up in San Diego and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after Yale Law School. Here's what else to know about the wife of the Republican vice presidential candidate.

August 08, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Sofia Nelson — a former friend and law school classmate of JD Vance — has made public dozens of email and text exchanges with the vice presidential candidate.

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  • Politics

JD Vance is unrecognizable to his former friend, who shared their emails and texts

Sofia Nelson — a former friend and law school classmate of JD Vance — has made public dozens of email and text exchanges with the vice presidential candidate.

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Jonaki Mehta,
  • and 1 more
President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff view a Fourth of July fireworks display over the National Mall from the Blue Room Balcony, Thursday, July 4, 2024, at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)

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  • Elections

DNC panel to meet in public to set ‘transparent, fair’ framework to pick presidential nominee

The Democratic National Committee will move forward with the process to formally nominate a presidential candidate Wednesday when one of its committees meets in public amid ongoing efforts to set up a virtual roll call vote ahead of the convention, States Newsroom has been told.

July 23, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Shutt
Trump supported Harris' reelection bid when she was serving as attorney general of California, one of many political donations he gave to Democrats over the years.

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  • Politics

Donald Trump has donated to Kamala Harris twice, but she didn't keep the money

Trump donated a total of $6,000 to support Harris' bid for reelection as attorney general of California in 2014. Years later, Harris' team said she had given that money to a human rights nonprofit.

July 22, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
President Joe Biden looks on at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 16, 2024. Photo by Tom Brenner/Reuters

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  • Elections

UPDATES: Georgia voters react to Biden dropping out of election

Across the state, GPB reporters asked voters their thoughts and concerns with Biden stopping his bid for reelection. Stay tuned to GPB's blog here for more reactions!

July 22, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Unused privacy booths are seen at a voting site in Tripp Commons inside the Memorial Union building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Election Day in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, U.S. November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan

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  • Elections

If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?

The Electoral College could help Democrats avoid a complicated situation in the event President Joe Biden withdraws from the race after his name is printed on ballots. States Newsroom reporters and editors in the network’s 39 states explored how a presidential candidate could be replaced on ballots — should the nominee drop out or become unable to continue their campaign following the party conventions.

July 19, 2024
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  • Jennifer Shutt
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio shakes hands with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Delaware, Ohio in 2023. Vance has ties to tech billionaires who are endorsing his vice presidential nomination.

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  • Technology

Five things to know about J.D. Vance’s ties to tech billionaires

Vance, who has become a darling to the Silicon Valley elite, made inroads in tech and venture capital circles during a stint in San Francisco. Now, Vance is tapping that network to supercharge the Trump re-election bid.

July 17, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes the stage at the Des Moines Register soapbox Aug. 12, 2023. Jay Waagmeester/Iowa Capital Dispatch

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  • Elections

Third party candidates Kennedy Jr. and West take a big step to appearing on Georgia ballot

When Georgians head to the polls in November to help pick the next U.S. president, most of them will probably pull the lever for President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

July 10, 2024
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By:
  • Ross Williams
 First lady Jill Biden speaks to supporters in Columbus on Monday as part of a three-stop swing in battleground states to launch Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • Elections

Jill Biden rejects calls for president to step aside at rally near Georgia’s largest military base

First lady Jill Biden rallied Democrats in a west Georgia community that’s home to one of the country’s largest military bases Monday as the Biden-Harris campaign works to tamp down concerns after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance in Atlanta more than a week ago.

July 09, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
On his long bike ride from St. Augustine, Fla., to New Orleans, John Burnett was often joined by his wife Margaret Justus, who pedaled part of the route and drove a support vehicle the rest of the way.

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  • National

Cyclist discovers voices of hope and anxiety on a 700-mile ride across the Gulf South

Reporter John Burnett biked for two weeks through the Gulf South, asking people he met along the way about their major concerns in this election year.

July 04, 2024
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By:
  • John Burnett
GPB News NPR

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  • Elections

Can Biden come back from a bad debate the way Reagan did in 1984?

After President Biden’s surprisingly weak debate performance this week, some defenders have pointed to other incumbents who stumbled in their first debate but recovered to win reelection.

June 29, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Gina Palmer, owner of She Salon, is flanked by Senator Jon Ossoff (right) and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, spoke of having to watch many of her friends close their small businesses during the Trump administration. “I have seen my friends close their businesses because they were struggling to get by,” Palmer said. “Because of the Biden-Harris administration we are making a comeback.” Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice

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  • Elections

Biden and Trump surrogates set sights on the Black vote in Georgia

With the 2024 presidential election just a little more than four months away, surrogates for both the Biden-Harris administration and for former United States President Donald J. Trump are hitting the campaign trails throughout Georgia. 

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Donnell Suggs
In 2016, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, left, and his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence celebrate after accepting the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

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  • Politics

Will Trump give the familiar VP storyline a new makeover in Milwaukee?

Our system has long ago absorbed the lesson that vice presidents are chosen largely for effect, despite all the rhetoric about someone being the “most qualified person” to be “a heartbeat away.”

June 24, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Former President Donald Trump gives the keynote address at Turning Point Action's "The People's Convention" on June 15, 2024, in Detroit, Mich.

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  • Politics

6 things Trump says at his rallies and what they really mean

Former President Donald Trump loves acronyms, but his sayings have become increasingly varied. NPR analyzes six of Trump’s most common catchphrases on the campaign trail in 2024.

June 20, 2024
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  • Clayton Kincade
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