President Trump declined for a second day to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election, while Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, implicitly rebuffed him, promising an “orderly transition.”
His strongman threats are scary. But don’t forget that he’s weak.
Opinions about the Supreme Court vacancy and the coming fight over filling it seem poised to split along partisan lines.
Square plans to put $100 million into programs to bolster Black communities, joining the likes of Netflix and others.
A Times poll shows Biden and Trump neck and neck in three states: This is your morning tip sheet.
Close races in Georgia, Iowa and Texas show President Trump’s vulnerability and suggest that Joseph Biden has assembled a formidable coalition, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll.
Long lines of mourners waited outside the Supreme Court to pay their respects, but President Trump again made clear he would not honor her dying wish that filling her seat wait until the next president was chosen.
So much talent, if you really enjoy exasperation.
Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, defended his record at a Senate confirmation hearing and flatly denied he suppressed intelligence that could have embarrassed President Trump.
Asked by reporters about two issues of deep importance to Democrats, the party’s nominee was circumspect. The Biden campaign later released a fuller statement about Ms. Taylor.
With John F. Kennedy in 1960, Catholic America achieved a long-sought victory and lost something in return.
An edited version of a video has been shared by people close to the president, including his son Eric Trump.
An edited version of a video has been shared by people close to the president, including his son Eric Trump.
The report delivered on Wednesday appeared to be little more than a rehashing of unproven allegations that echoed a Russian disinformation campaign.
The predominantly white neighborhoods outside Wisconsin’s largest city, among the nation’s most racially segregated suburbs, could be a key part of President Trump’s narrowing path to re-election.
A stopgap bill will still need Senate and Oval Office approval: This is your morning tip sheet.
Interestingly, the suburban vote may not be one of them.
A Supreme Court case could eliminate the Affordable Care Act, and the president should be judged for recklessly supporting it.
The G.O.P. has sought to help Green Party candidates in previous election cycles to siphon votes from Democrats. This year is no different — but it hasn’t always worked.
The widow of Senator John McCain praised Joe Biden’s “character and integrity” and noted that both he and her family had children who had served in the military.
The president claims you have to make a choice, but you don’t.
Olivia Troye, the latest Republican to leave the administration and speak out against President Trump, called the statements seeking to undermine her credibility “a bald faced lie.”
The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
Hay formas de hablar del racismo y el clasismo que son más efectivas en una campaña política.
The assessment, which the agency has moderate confidence in, buttresses earlier findings that the Russian president supports President Trump’s re-election.
The president often criticized the Defense Production Act as anti-business. Now he’s campaigning on having frequently used the law to ramp up production of medical gear.
Some in China believe Biden, if elected, might do damage to the nation’s ambitions, taking a harder line on human rights and rallying allies to stand up to Beijing.
Warning that this election is an “extremely dangerous moment” for the country, he said in an interview that he would aggressively push to try to stop President Trump from delegitimizing the vote.
Warning that this election is an “extremely dangerous moment” for the country, he said in an interview that he would aggressively push to try to stop President Trump from delegitimizing the vote.
A reversal erodes trust as Trump barrels forward with a nomination: This is your morning tip sheet.
A reversal erodes trust as Trump barrels forward with a nomination: This is your morning tip sheet.
A court battle is beginning just weeks before Election Day. Here’s what that could mean for the campaigns in key states.
An expert retail politician has become perhaps the most conspicuous practitioner of social distancing in America.
A group of more than 60 donors is urging Joe Biden to renounce advisers with ties to the fossil fuel industry.
An expert retail politician has become perhaps the most conspicuous practitioner of social distancing in America.
A watchdog filed a complaint over the Education Department distributing a Fox News clip of Secretary Betsy DeVos criticizing Joe Biden, potentially in violation of the Hatch Act.
The Democratic nominee, in Wisconsin, tried to place himself on the side of American workers, while Mr. Trump used a trip to Ohio to blame his opponent for job losses there.
The event in Statuary Hall will follow two days in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in repose at the Supreme Court, but outside, because of pandemic precautions.
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has only raised the stakes.
Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, appealed to voters in Manitowoc, Wis., who had supported Barack Obama but backed President Trump in 2016.
¿Qué escenarios enfrentan las campañas de Trump y Biden al abrirse una vacante en la Corte Suprema a dos meses de las elecciones?
Chris Wallace de Fox News, Steve Scully de C-SPAN y Kristen Welker de NBC News conducirán los eventos televisados.
Rather than spend his money on TV ads, Michael Bloomberg can re-enfranchise thousands of formerly incarcerated people in the state by paying off debts tied to their sentences.
The president’s determination to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election set lawmakers on a collision course as Congress deals with other major issues.
The former vice president and the Democrats were $187 million behind President Trump and the Republicans this spring. Now they are entering the final stretch of the campaign with a $141 million advantage.
The battle over the Supreme Court brings back a volatile issue with political risks for both sides, even as it energizes parts of their bases.
The Democratic nominee, speaking in Philadelphia, said the Senate should wait until after the election to decide on the nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Democratic nominee, speaking in Philadelphia, said the Senate should wait until after the election to decide on the nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
There’s no escape from juristocracy except through political conflict.
Mr. Biden has spent months assailing President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. With a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle looming, he will seek to link the vacancy to the pandemic and the future of health care.
Mr. Biden has spent months assailing President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. With a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle looming, he will seek to link the vacancy to the pandemic and the future of health care.
Plans for a commemoration and services have yet to be made final, but large crowds are expected to pay their respects for a justice who became a feminist icon and liberal hero.
Republicans want to push forward. Democrats are seething. A bitterly divided nation gets more so as a Supreme Court nomination fight looms.
The president is likely to nominate a successor this coming week to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, but Senate Republicans are weighing whether they have the votes to confirm his choice before the Nov. 3 election.
In the hours following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, people gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court to honor her life and legacy.
In the hours following Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, people gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court to honor her life and legacy.
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump’s right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump’s right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump’s right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
The news arrived late Friday night while Joe Biden and President Trump were both campaigning in Minnesota.
In surveys before Justice Ginsburg’s death, he led by a slightly wider margin on choosing the next justice than he did over all against President Trump.
In surveys before Justice Ginsburg’s death, he led by a slightly wider margin on choosing the next justice than he did over all against President Trump.
Democrats warn Republicans to follow the precedent they set in 2016, when they refused to consider President Barack Obama’s choice for the court on the grounds that it was an election year.
The nation was divided enough already.
The nation was divided enough already.
In announcing long-awaited aid for the storm-ravaged island, President Trump seemed to have his eye partly on the Puerto Ricans who now make up an increasingly critical voting bloc in Florida.
Shortly after President Trump started speaking at a rally in Bemidji, Minn., the news broke of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, with the potential to upend the 2020 race.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden traveled to Minnesota, a battleground state, as its residents began to head to the polls.
They said the administration’s policies were driving away technology talent and could do long-term damage to their industry.
Key demographics are tilting Democratic. Frustration with President Trump’s virus response is high. And there are two big differences from 2016: Pollsters have made adjustments, and voter enthusiasm is high.
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine’s Senate race.
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine’s Senate race.
President Trump has sought to fan fears about lower property values and crime, but polls suggest his general statements are not resonating locally.
Campaigning during a pandemic is an experiment for everyone.
Some ways of talking about race and class are more effective politically. And not just with Hispanics.
At a town hall event near Scranton, Pa., the Democratic nominee played up his local roots as he sought to connect with voters after many months off the campaign trail during the pandemic.
The party still has a strong vibrant center.
Growing numbers of Americans say they wouldn’t take a coronavirus vaccine if it were available today. If you’ve been watching the presidential campaign, that’s not surprising.
The Democratic presidential candidate warned Britain’s prime minister that any deal with the European Union must protect the Irish peace agreement.
It’s not about freedom or culture. It’s cynical politics.
Los incendios no solían ser un tema en las campañas presidenciales. Hasta ahora: Biden está posicionando el asunto para atraer votantes preocupados por el cambio climático.
Readers urge more attention to Joe Biden and discuss why the president’s supporters like him.
On Tuesday night, President Trump told a town-hall-style meeting he had a health plan to replace the Affordable Care Act that’s “all ready,” a pitch he has delivered for four years.
As President Trump’s campaign barrels ahead with crowded rallies and in-person door-knocking, some Democratic officials in battleground states are warning that Joe Biden may not be doing enough to excite voters.
Trump’s former director of national intelligence on how to firmly and unambiguously reassure all Americans that their votes will be counted.
“I assume the night started with each of them being roused from a coma,” Colbert said of the uncommitted audience at President Trump’s Philadelphia town hall.
Thrusting the issue of a coronavirus vaccine to the center of the campaign, Joe Biden said he trusted vaccines, but not a politicized development process. His comments came as the president publicly rebuked the top federal scientist.
Joe Biden, who for months bet on the president’s campaign to self-destruct, may need to make more of a case for himself.
E.U. leaders are still learning to navigate a world ever more dangerous for them, while relations with the United States grow more and more awkward.
Listing potential justices may distort how we see the judiciary and how it behaves. Joe Biden should stick to “no names.”
Some of the working-class voters Biden must appeal to are sometimes enthralled by President Trump’s transgressions.
An issue that has always been on the sidelines in presidential campaigns may be coming to the forefront as Joseph Biden seeks to cast climate change, not violence, as the real and immediate threat to the suburbs.
The former vice president sought to engage a broad range of voters with stops in Tampa and Kissimmee, speaking at a veterans event and unveiling a plan to support Puerto Rico.
The margin is expected to be razor thin between President Trump and Joe Biden in this hotly contested state, here’s how the campaigns’ recent television and radio ads there are characterizing their opponent.
Readers mourn the closing of the legendary department store. Also: Mike Bloomberg’s campaign money; police accountability; misuse of algorithms; hostages in the Trump era.
In California, the president blamed forest management for the fires: This is your morning tip sheet.
One example of how things have changed: A Latino outreach group estimated in January that it would register 21,000 new voters in the state by Labor Day. It’s at around 6,000 now.
En Florida, las elecciones se ganan aumentando la ventaja en los territorios favorables y con derrotas reñidas en los distritos hostiles. El martes, Joe Biden visita ese estado por primera vez desde que reclamó la nominación demócrata.
The president visited California after weeks of silence on its wildfires and blamed the crisis only on poor forest management, not climate change. “I don’t think science knows” what is happening, he said.
President Trump and Joe Biden can both point to advantages in our new poll of Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Republicans are already acting as if there’s no next year.
Elections in Florida are won by running up margins in favorable terrain while losing more closely in hostile precincts. Joseph Biden visits the state on Tuesday for the first time since claiming the nomination.
Days before the start of mail voting, the state’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Green Party’s candidate to reprint thousands of ballots so that his name could be added. The decision could help Joe Biden.
The former vice president prepares for a voting battle: This is your morning tip sheet.
With two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers, the Biden campaign is bracing for an extended legal battle and hoping to maintain trust in the electoral process.
The president unloaded his regular, inaccurate onslaught against Joseph R. Biden Jr., and there were no signs of any attempts at social distancing at the event.
The move came as polls show a tight race in Florida, and after criticism that the New York billionaire had not delivered on his promise to put his fortune behind defeating President Trump.
The announcement came after the president acknowledged a wildfire season that so far has claimed at least 20 lives and destroyed millions of acres of land in California, Oregon and Washington.
Bernie Sanders has been sounding more direct notes of caution to the Biden campaign, saying the centrist former vice president should work harder to appeal to young voters and Latinos.
President Trump has leveled scathing law-and-order attacks on Joseph Biden for weeks. But a new poll shows Mr. Biden ahead in three states Mr. Trump hopes to pick up, and maintaining a lead in Wisconsin.
Worries about law and order have become so prevalent that likely voters say it’s just as important as solving the coronavirus pandemic. But voters aren’t favoring Mr. Trump on the issue.
College sports leaders aren’t thrilled to see football assume a role in the presidential campaign, but they’re not surprised.
As new polling continues to give clues toward the states in play for the presidential campaign, President Trump was once again at the center of two story lines that consumed the news.
This year’s 9/11 ceremony captured not just a city still grieving those lost nearly two decades ago, but one enduring a pandemic that has claimed many more lives.
Politicians gathered at the Sept. 11 memorial in Lower Manhattan to remember a national crisis on the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
An authoritative new study on 2018 midterm voters shows how despite his strong position, Joe Biden is lagging behind the rates at which some key demographics broke for the Democrats two years ago.
A podcast debate over the political future of the growing demographic of voters.
Joe Biden traveled to ground zero and then to Shanksville, Pa., where he and the president separately honored the victims of the hijacked plane that crashed after passengers fought back.
With early voting about to begin in some states, the days President Trump can afford to be consumed by crises of his own making are dwindling. But he has spent the last week in reaction mode.
China is also growing more adept at targeting campaign workers. But contrary to Trump administration warnings, Beijing is mostly aiming at Biden campaign officials.
Andriy Derkach has released information intended to hurt former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., which President Trump has promoted.
A day after revelations that President Trump had knowingly downplayed the virus, Joe Biden’s surrogates attacked that response, while the Trump campaign tried to deflect blame back on the former vice president.
China is also growing more adept at targeting campaign workers. But contrary to Trump administration warnings, Beijing is mostly aiming at Biden campaign officials.
People often engage in “projection,” assuming a preferred candidate shares their view, even on a key issue like masks during a pandemic.
The president is the coronavirus vaccine’s worst hype man.
Next time your lawn needs a rehab, you know whom to bill.
With hyperbole and falsehoods, the president has increased stops at airports that resemble campaign rallies, his favorite type of politicking. But Nevada said the events violated health restrictions and canceled two rallies there.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. accused President Trump of lying to Americans about the dangers of coronavirus, citing a forthcoming book by the journalist Bob Woodward.
Before sketching out a plan to keep more jobs in the United States, the former vice president denounced his rival over revelations in a new book that the president knowingly minimized the coronavirus’s dangers.
Also this week: They led the E.P.A. as Republicans. Now, they’re backing Biden.
Extracting political power from racism and fear is a Trump specialty, but will it work in 2020?
And no, New York and California would not dominate a popular vote.
Trump or Biden?
President Trump traveled to Florida to declare himself “a great environmentalist,” extending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling that his administration had moved to end.
Many Americans felt the 2016 election discredited the whole business of electoral forecasting. But that’s not how some pollsters see it.
Mr. Emhoff, the husband of Senator Kamala Harris, has a long record as a litigator at two of the nation’s top firms, posing potential conflicts that could draw scrutiny.
Assessing the Japanese conglomerate’s market-moving bets.
Harris and Pence come to Wisconsin bearing two very different messages, while Biden and Trump accuse each other of politicizing the virus.
Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s. The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.
The unofficial Labor Day kickoff to the fall campaign centered on Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two pivotal states for both the president and Joseph R. Biden Jr.