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News Articles: Elections

Former President Donald Trump greets people after announcing he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2022 as his son, Barron Trump, watches.

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  • Elections

Barron Trump declines to serve as a Florida delegate at the GOP convention

Barron Trump, who turned 18 in March, has largely been kept out of the spotlight — until now. His mother's office said he had "prior commitments."

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jeongyoon Han
Retired K-9 Kona, formerly of the Liberty County Sheriff's Office, has been at the center of a controversy roiling the election for Liberty County sheriff.

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  • Elections

Who’s got a dog in Liberty’s sheriff election fight?

A retired Liberty County Sheriff’s Office drug dog got dropped off at the local animal shelter last week. The female Dutch Shepherd quickly got adopted and is living in a good home. What should have been a good news story however has become one of the more wild Coastal Georgia primary election issues of 2024 and the focus of online misinformation during a hotly contested race for Liberty County sheriff.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jake Shore
Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee leans against a 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood that has been in his family for years, while campaigning at a parade in Atlanta on April 27. McAfee, the trial judge in the Georgia election interference case, is up for reelection this month in a nonpartisan race.

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  • Elections

The judge and the prosecutor in the Georgia Trump case are running for reelection too

The judge overseeing Donald Trump's Georgia election interference case is running for reelection this month. So is the case's top prosecutor. It's a unique subplot to an unprecedented case.

May 09, 2024
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally on May 1 at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Mich.

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  • Politics

Trump's speeches follow a familiar playlist, featuring greatest hits among new tunes

Donald Trump's campaign speeches are like his signature rally playlists — never the same topics in the same order, heavy on the greatest hits but with room to riff on what's popular.

May 09, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Junior Lopez, owner of JL Boxing Academy in Phoenix, stands outside his business with his wife, Mayrelis Gomez, and their young son.

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  • Elections

Latino voter turnout is growing in Arizona. Senate hopefuls are trying to win support

Nearly 1 in 4 Arizona voters in the upcoming elections is expected to be Latino, according to recent projections by NALEO. But many say they are often overlooked by political campaigns.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Ben Giles
In this file photo, migrants board a plane in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023 for deportation to Venezuela.

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  • Politics

Biden is tweaking an asylum rule to speed up deportation for some migrants

President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Yajaíra Peñaloza (left) and Marian Araujo pose with their children while waiting for their ride at the Casa Alitas shelter in Tucson, Ariz., on March 26.

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  • National

Migrants claiming asylum can be allowed into the U.S. Here's how it works

Asylum rules in the U.S. paired with millions of cases backing up immigration courts are causing a major headache for the country.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Ally Schweitzer
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis listens during the final arguments in her disqualification hearing on March 1 in Atlanta. She was allowed to remain on the case if a special prosecutor she hired resigned.

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  • Elections

Georgia appeals court will review decision on Trump case DA, bringing another delay

The Georgia Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments after former President Trump appealed a decision allowing Fulton County DA Fani Willis to stay on the criminal case involving him and others.

May 08, 2024
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  • Sam Gringlas
Álvaro Enciso places crosses at sites where migrants are known to have died in the borderland, this cross represents the death of Nolberto Torres-Zayas just east of Arivaca, Arizona on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Torres-Zayas died of hyperthermia in 2009, not far from a Humane Borders water cache that had been vandalized and drained.

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  • National

Is it easy for migrants to enter the U.S.? We went to the border to find out

Morning Edition spoke to migrants hoping to enter the U.S. and the border agents tasked with keeping them out.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Ally Schweitzer
 Georgia Election Board member Janice Johnston, far right, on May 7 said it’s a “travesty” that the board did not further investigate a complaint about the recount and preservation of several thousand ballots cast in Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia oversight panel ruminates on 2020 election hiccups as 2024 showdowns loom

The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election for violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • Elections

Here are Indiana's 2024 primary election results

Voting concludes Tuesday in Indiana's presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and gubernatorial primary contests. Follow the live results.

May 07, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
President Biden arrives to speak at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on May 7.

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  • Politics

Biden decries surge of antisemitism since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel

President Biden spoke out against harassment of Jewish students on college campuses, part of what he called a "ferocious surge of antisemitism" seen since Oct. 7.

May 07, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., spoke with students as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at college campuses across Wisconsin, a state that had the highest youth turnout in the country in the 2022 midterms.

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  • Elections

Six months out from the election, Wisconsin students weigh voting for Biden

Wisconsin's young voters — who have turned out in big numbers in recent elections — are key for either candidate to win the state. But Biden is facing some skepticism on the state's college campuses.

May 05, 2024
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By:
  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han
A "Vote Here Tuesday" sign is seen in Burlington, Vt., in 2020. In 2023, the city voted to allow non-U.S. citizens who are in the country legally to vote in local elections. But their turnout remains low.

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  • Elections

Some cities allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Their turnout is quite low

Some cities, like three in Vermont, allow non-U.S. citizens to vote in local elections. In these places, noncitizen turnout has remained low, as noncitizen voting is a contentious national issue.

May 04, 2024
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By:
  • Mikaela Lefrak
Actor Mark Hamill, wearing a pair of aviator shades he said he got from President Biden, makes a surprise appearance in the White House daily press briefing on May 3.

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  • Elections

In time for May the Fourth, Mark Hamill of 'Star Wars' stopped by the White House

Mark Hamill is known for obsessively posting about President Biden (he's a fan) and also about former President Donald Trump (he's really not a fan.) On Friday, he met Biden in the Oval Office.

May 03, 2024
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  • Franco Ordoñez
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