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News Articles: Elections

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event in Oakland, Calif. on March 26.

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  • Elections

The Kennedys endorse Biden, not their family member RFK Jr.

The Kennedys have been critical of Robert F. Kennedy's third-party run, which has the potential to draw votes away from President Biden — who the family endorsed Thursday.

April 18, 2024
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  • Elena Moore

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  • Elections

We, The Voters — The Left. The Right. The Disillusioned.

We, The Voters — The Left. The Right. The Disillusioned is a special series from NPR exploring the issues most important to you when choosing your next leader.

April 18, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

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  • Politics

Poland's president visits Donald Trump as allies eye a possible return

Former President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Polish President Andrzej Duda, the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as they brace for the possibility of a second Trump term.

April 18, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President Biden speaks during a campaign event in Scranton, Penn, on April 16 during the first of three days in the battleground state.

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  • Politics

Biden tells Pittsburgh steelworkers he wants to hike tariffs on Chinese steel

The White House says China uses subsidies and government programs to undercut U.S. steel. President Biden wants to hike tariffs on the imports and take other new steps to curb imports.

April 17, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at an event in Los Angeles on March 30.

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  • Elections

Some independent candidates start their own political parties to ease ballot access

Some states make it much easier to get on the ballot as a minor-party presidential candidate, compared with running as an independent. That's why RFK Jr. and Cornel West have made their own parties.

April 17, 2024
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  • Ashley Lopez
A Smartmatic representative demonstrates his company's system, which has scanners and touch screens with printout options, at a meeting of the Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections Commission, on Aug. 30, 2018, in Grovetown, Ga.

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  • Elections

Voting technology company settles lawsuit against OAN over 2020 election claims

The settlement between Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies targeted by fraud claims related to the 2020 election.

April 17, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Voters head to the polls in Alabama's newly drawn 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday. That district includes Montgomery, Ala., seen here on June 5, 2018.

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  • Elections

Figures, Dobson advance in Alabama's runoffs for new House district

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District was reshaped to give Black voters more political power and followed a lengthy legal battle that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

April 17, 2024
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  • Kyle Gassiott
 A video surveillance image taken on Jan. 19, 2021, shows former Coffee County Republican Party chair Cathy Latham, bottom right, welcoming forensic computer analysts with Atlanta-based SullivanStrickler to the county elections office. Screenshot from Coffee County video

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  • Politics

Georgia election officials probe claims of Bibb County voting machine security breach

An election security analyst with ties to an alleged breach of the Coffee County voting system is now being investigated by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office for recently claiming that he also examined voting equipment in Macon-Bibb County.

April 16, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A group of women who attend the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona speak to NPR on March 18.

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  • Elections

These Mormon women are rejecting Trump, fraying GOP support in a key state

In this swing state, every voting bloc can make a difference. That includes Maricopa County's LDS community, where Republican women have been turning away from former President Donald Trump.

April 16, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Organizers say that more than 1,000 people were in attendance at a rally for abortion rights in Orlando, Fla. on Saturday, April 13.

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  • National

Florida voters will decide on abortion rights this fall. Here's what some are saying

The campaign to amend Florida's constitution to protect abortion rights kicked off in Orlando, attracting voters on both sides of the issue. The ballot question needs 60% approval to pass.

April 16, 2024
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  • Danielle Prieur
Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Alabama's congressional districts, poses for a portrait on Government Street in Mobile, Ala., on April 1.

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  • Politics

In new congressional district, Black voters weigh what representation really means

Alabama could soon have a U.S. House delegation that more closely matches its diversity after a redistricting lawsuit. For Black voters, the change has greater significance than who holds the seat.

April 15, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Former President Donald Trump appears with his legal team ahead of the start of jury selection Monday at Manhattan criminal court. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial.

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  • Law

Trump's criminal trial, a first for a former president, has begun in New York

Jury selection is underway for Donald Trump's hush-money trial — the first time in U.S. history a former president is being tried on criminal charges. A decision could come by summer.

April 15, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A citizen deposits a ballot into a box at the county clerk's office in Erie, Pa., on Oct. 15, 2020.

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  • Politics

This Pennsylvania county picks presidents. Here's what it can tell us about 2024

Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024.

April 15, 2024
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  • Don Gonyea and
  • Lexie Schapitl
Former President Donald Trump stands with former first lady Melania Trump after voting in 2022.

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  • Elections

If convicted this year, Trump could lose the right to vote for himself

In a year of unprecedented political developments, the New York hush money trial could mean one fewer vote for Donald Trump in Florida.

April 15, 2024
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  • Miles Parks
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Schnecksville, Pa., Saturday, April 13, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump attacks judge and prosecutors in his hush money case in last rally before trial

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday lit into New York prosecutors and the criminal hush money case they brought against him during his last rally before his trial begins Monday.

April 14, 2024
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