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News Articles: Elections

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talk during a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2022.

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  • Elections

European allies praise Biden's decision to step aside

European leaders list Biden's accomplishments while in office in recognizing the difficult decision he made. Zelenskyy praises Biden's support during Ukraine's "most dramatic moment in history."

July 22, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
President Biden ended his run for a second term in office, a bombshell decision less than four months before Election Day, bowing to pressure from his party.

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  • Politics

Want to know what Biden said when he dropped out? The full letter is here

Read the full text of President Biden's letter withdrawing from the race to be the Democratic nominee and his endorsement of Vice President Harris to represent the party instead.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han
President Biden and Vice President Harris stand on stage at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. After deciding to no longer seek the Democratic nomination, Biden endorsed Harris to be the Democratic nominee and take on Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

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  • Elections

Kamala Harris pledges to 'earn and win' the nomination after Biden's endorsement

After President Biden announced he would no longer seek the Democratic nomination for president, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris said she wants to unite the Democratic Party.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Vice President Harris and President Biden depart the East Room after delivering remarks on artificial intelligence at the White House on Oct. 30, 2023.

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  • Elections

Biden drops out of 2024 reelection race, endorses Harris for nominee

President Biden announced that he will discontinue his campaign to seek a second term in the White House, throwing the Democratic race for 2024 wide open.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
President Biden exits Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after he had to leave the campaign trail due to testing positive for COVID.

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  • Politics

Biden is still sidelined with COVID, but the debate over his campaign rages on

President Biden is stuck in Rehoboth Beach, Del., with COVID. Vice President Harris was out raising money for the Biden-Harris campaign. And Democrats continue to weigh who should lead their party.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith,
  • Asma Khalid,
  • and 1 more
President Biden does some retail campaigning at Mario's Westside Market in Las Vegas, alongside Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., on July 16. A case of COVID took Biden off the trail the following day.

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  • Politics

More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week

It's been a rough few weeks for President Biden. On Friday, more Democratic lawmakers said he should step aside. His campaign says he'll be back on the trail next week.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram,
  • Deirdre Walsh,
  • and 3 more
A photo of the floor of the Republican National Convention.

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  • Politics

What we saw at the RNC in Milwaukee

Four days, dozens of speakers and many balloons later, the 2024 Republican National Convention is officially over.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Grace Widyatmadja,
  • Keren Carrión,
  • and 1 more
Courtroom (Pexels)

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  • News

Lawsuit charges State Election Board with meeting illegally

A nonprofit nonpartisan watchdog group filed a lawsuit Friday charging the State Election Board with violating Georgia’s Open Meetings Act after meeting last week without legally required public notice or a quorum.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
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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By:
  • Jennifer Shutt
Balloons drop as the final day of the Republican National Convention ends.

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  • Elections

The RNC is over. Here are 5 things you need to know.

With Trump's speech Thursday night, Republicans capped off a four-day celebration in Milwaukee that established the future of the party as completely in the MAGA mold.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Blake Marnell, delegate from California, shows us his Make America Great Again hat signed by Donald Trump on the third day of the Republican National Convention.

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  • Elections

Fashion meets politics on the RNC's red carpet

Every four years, party conventions bring together delegates from across the country, many of whom make sure their outfits sparkle. And this year, they showed off their looks on the Republican National Convention's red carpet.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han and
  • Grace Widyatmadja
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introduced during the final night of the Republican National Convention.

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  • Elections

Trump paints a familiar vision for his 2nd term at the Republican convention

For the first time, the former president recounted in detail the assassination attempt on his life, before turning to divisive rhetoric he has long used on the campaign trail.

July 19, 2024
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By:
  • Ben Giles
Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, speaks on stage  on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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  • National

J.D. Vance's hometown, Middletown, Ohio, reacts to his VP nomination

Some in Middletown, where Vance grew up with his grandparents, said he has never been an advocate for them. Even so, Vance’s roots could be enough for folks eager to see the “hometown kid” succeed.

July 18, 2024
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By:
  • Tana Weingartner
President Biden steps off Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on July 17 as a case of COVID forced him off the campaign trail.

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  • Politics

'We can't catch a break.' How the Biden crisis looks from the inside

Hit by a rolling series of punches – turmoil after Biden's disastrous debate, a drip-drip of damaging leaks, and now a presidential case of COVID – people inside the Biden campaign are discouraged.

July 18, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Top Democrats in Washington are carefully avoiding denying reports that they have called for President Biden to step aside as the party's nominee for president.

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  • Politics

Top Democrats in Washington walking a careful line on Biden amid party panic about his candidacy

Top Democrats in Washington are mired in crisis over President Biden's continued candidacy — exacerbated by his COVID diagnosis. Biden has said he expects to be the party's nominee and is undeterred.

July 18, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Tamara Keith
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