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News Articles: Elections

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Tex., as seen at the Capitol on June 5, 2024. Doggett is the first congressional Democrat to publicly call for President Biden to quit his reelection bid.

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  • Elections

Rep. Doggett calls on Biden to withdraw. He's the first Democrat in Congress to do so

Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents a safe Texas seat. He says he had hoped President Biden's debate performance would give him a boost. "It did not," Doggett said.

July 03, 2024
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Deepa Shivaram
President Biden speaks on the phone while walking to board Air Force One after a fundraiser in New Jersey on Saturday.

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  • Elections

‘I’m going to be fighting harder,’ Biden tells donors after disastrous debate

President Biden spent the weekend after the debate doing damage control, trying to convince supporters he’s still up to the job.

July 01, 2024
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By:
  • Barbara Sprunt
Douglas G. Frank speaks to a group of people about the Georgia election process as data is projected onto his body, Sunday, March 24, 2024, in Rome, Ga. Frank is among those urging people to file voter challenges using a software tool called EagleAI to get potentially ineligible voters removed from the registration rolls.

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  • News

In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges

Conservative activists in Georgia and other states are using a new software tool as part of a broader effort to scrub voters from the rolls. As part of this initiative, they're asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge.

July 01, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Greenbrier Farms on Friday in Chesapeake, Va., the day after the first presidential debate of the 2024 election.

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  • Elections

Trump team plans to pare down Republican Party platform ahead of convention

A memo obtained by NPR says the campaign wants a streamlined platform to keep a focused message. In an attempt to tamp down controversy, they also plan to sort the language behind closed doors.

June 30, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
GPB  NPR

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  • World

These are the major elections NPR correspondents are watching

2024 is an extraordinary year of global elections, with dozens of national votes worldwide. Here are some of the ones we are closely following.

June 30, 2024
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By:
  • International Desk
A sign saying “Register & vote!” is on display at the King County elections office in Renton, Wash., in 2020.

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  • Elections

Republicans are turning Biden’s voter registration order into a partisan flash point

Three years after President Biden issued an executive order for boosting voter registration, GOP officials are ramping up efforts to turn it into a partisan flash point before this fall’s election.

June 30, 2024
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
GPB  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
Posters with images or names of local candidates for the first round of the 2024 French legislative elections displayed in front of the local town hall in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Normandy, France, on June 25. France will hold an early legislative election in two rounds, on June 30 and July 7.

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  • Europe

What to know about France's high-stakes election, where the far right is gaining ground

The president called surprise legislative elections, in two rounds on Sunday and July 7, and they're shaping up to be among the country's most divisive in recent history.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a post-debate campaign rally on June 28, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Last night President Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump faced off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign.

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  • News

Biden bounces back from bad debate with energetic Raleigh rally

President Biden's feeble Thursday night debate performance in Atlanta highlighted concerns about his age that were not on display at a Friday rally in North Carolina.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler

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  • Elections

Listen to the CNN presidential debate simulcast on NPR

Listen to the CNN presidential debate simulcast on NPR that aired on June 27.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
President Biden and former President Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections at CNN's studios in Atlanta on June 27.

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  • Analysis

4 takeaways from the first presidential debate

President Biden's stumbles right from the beginning played into his biggest vulnerability, but how much will the first 2024 general election debate make an impact?

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Guests at the Old Town Pour House watch a debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday in Chicago. The debate is the first of two scheduled between the two candidates before the November election.

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  • National

Fact check: What did Biden and Trump claim about immigration in the debate?

Immigration is playing a big role in the 2024 election and was featured in Thursday night's presidential debate on CNN. NPR looks at the facts behind the candidates' claims.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Sen. Raphael Warnock praises President Joe Biden’s debate performance in the spin room at the McCamish Pavilion. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder.

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  • Elections

Georgians react to Biden-Trump debate

Democrats at Georgia Tech’s McCamish Pavilion faced a crowd of dozens of reporters from around the world shouting questions about President Joe Biden’s debate performance and whether he should remain the party’s candidate.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ross Williams and
  • Jill Nolin
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during a presidential debate hosted by CNN on Thursday in Atlanta.

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  • Elections

What to know about the key policies that got airtime in the presidential debate

Immigration, abortion and the economy were among the election-year questions the candidates were asked in the 90-minute CNN Presidential Debate. Here are a few of the issues that took center stage.

June 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
GPB  NPR

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  • Elections

Biden and Trump address economy and immigration in presidential debate

In the first debate of the presidential election, President Biden and former President Trump address economy and border security concerns.

June 27, 2024
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