Immigration was a defining issue for President Trump in 2016. It’s less dominant in 2020, and it is motivating his critics as well as his supporters.
Mr. Trump won the presidency in 2016 after making more than 100 promises. Here’s where some stand four years later and what some of his supporters think of them.
Trump ganó la presidencia en 2016 haciendo más de cien promesas. Cuatro años después, este es el avance de algunos de esos compromisos y lo que piensan algunos de sus seguidores de ellos.
On the ground and in TV ads, the candidates are in an intense and surprising battle for Black male voters, who are crucial for Democrats trying to win back Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
As President Trump urges supporters to watch for fraud at polling places, people inside the polls already are keeping watch — and usually not finding much.
“Mr. Trump presented himself as a class traitor who would bring the billionaires to heel,” but did the opposite, a reader says.
Over the past four years, The New York Times has independently obtained and published information on several decades of Donald J. Trump’s taxes.
No matter who wins the presidency, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Maybe even scared. But it’s no time to act rashly.
Peter Hamby hosts “Good Luck America” on Snapchat. “My North Star is really the low-information news consumer,” he says. “That’s not an insult.”
President Trump has complained this week of what he calls a media obsession with the coronavirus pandemic. The message from Democrats has been united — all coronavirus, all the time.
It’s not hope or change. It’s not making anything great. It’s just about making it through.
President Trump turned American foreign policy inside out, to the benefit of some nations and consternation of others. Now both groups are watching attentively to see which direction the U.S. goes next.
Republicans are battling to hold off losses by warning of the risks of unified Democratic power in Washington, but they concede their majority is in peril.
Anxious but determined, Americans are pushing through challenges like the pandemic and long lines to cast their ballot. The country is on course to surpass 150 million votes for the first time.
Complicated ballot counts and a president’s baseless claims of vote-rigging are two of the challenges facing TV anchors and executives.
And so would nearly every company out there this year.
Representative John Katko has managed to keep his seat in Central New York by distancing himself from the president. Will that be enough this year?
Young staff members are adjusting to a campaign trail altered by the coronavirus, working long hours from their childhood bedrooms.
Surprise victories in the Midwest catapulted President Trump to victory four years ago, and the region again looms as the critical battleground. Both candidates are focusing on it in the final days.
As 2020 lurches to a close, it seems more people are waking up at this ghastly liminal hour, unclaimed by neither night nor day.
The social media company’s head of cybersecurity policy on “perception hacks” and what it will take to have an authentic election.
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
Hunter Biden’s business dealings have provided President Trump with plenty of political ammunition, while making an already complicated father-son relationship even more so.
The coronavirus and battered economy are focal points in national campaigns. But in many local elections, systemic racism and police reform have emerged as dominant themes.
At his rally in Green Bay, Wis., President Trump maintained that Black voters are not supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, because of his support of the 1994 crime bill.
White evangelicals have time and again offered uncompromising support for President Trump when he needed it the most.
We share a big announcement and look back on a year in the field.
About one in 10 voters could still be considered “volatile,” half the number as at this point in 2016, but this time around, most of them have an unfavorable opinion of Donald J. Trump.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. slammed President Trump on Friday for trade policies that have “cost farmers and manufacturing so badly.”
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Join us on a sonic journey back through the presidential campaign in preparation for Election Day.
Polls suggest some retirees are shifting from having supported President Trump to voting for Joseph R. Biden Jr. But they are rare in Florida’s Republican heartland.
President Trump and his campaign have been calling for an army of poll watchers on Election Day. What is poll watching, and when does it cross the line? We look at how a federal consent decree restricted the Republican Party for decades, and why its expiration could make a difference in 2020.
President Trump called Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, “politically correct” for wearing a mask during his rally in Michigan on Friday.
Following Kanye West, 50 Cent and Ice Cube before him, the rapper faced criticism on social media after posting a seeming endorsement of the president.
Following Kanye West, 50 Cent and Ice Cube before him, the rapper faced criticism on social media after posting a seeming endorsement of the president.
The photo-sharing site said it would temporarily remove its “recent” tab to slow the spread of harmful content before Tuesday’s election.
The photo-sharing site said it would temporarily remove its “recent” tab to slow the spread of harmful content before Tuesday’s election.
Halloween decorations, Harry Styles and a QAnon-adjacent missing children story broke up a wall of pre-election political news.
Stores are making plans for how to deal with potential civil unrest stemming from Tuesday’s election.
Readers urge congressional Republicans to repudiate the president, castigate President Obama for breaking a norm and explain why an Orthodox Jew is voting for Joe Biden.
In close elections, rain or snow can suppress turnout. Friday morning’s snow, however, is expected to melt before Nov. 3.
To be in today’s Republican Party requires a particularly gross form of self-abasement.
Many of Wisconsin’s swing voters live in and south of Green Bay, a region of old mill towns and farms burning with coronavirus infections and personality-driven politics.
The real estate industry has long enjoyed uniquely favorable tax treatment — thanks in part to Mr. Trump’s actions before and after he became president.
The former vice president has been an intermittent consumer of the arts, but cultural leaders credit him as a key source of government financial support.
No habrá brindis en la Casa Blanca después de la elección: ni el presidente Donald Trump ni Joe Biden consumen alcohol.
China’s approach to keep Covid-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen. But it is a strategy steeped in authoritarianism.
As attorney general for six years, Kamala Harris took a moderate, realpolitik approach to going after big business, aides say.
It may be tempting, one economist says, to think that if your side wins, the economy will be all right. But no matter who wins, it may not be as good or as bad as you think.
Joe Biden has cut into President Trump’s edge among suburbanites and older voters, but his support from Latino voters appears weaker than Hillary Clinton’s was.
British voters who opted in 2016 for leaving the European Union seem ready to move on from the president, who is widely disliked despite his cheerleading for that cause.
In the swing state’s conservative retirement communities, some voters have switched sides. And some of them have reason to worry about what the neighbors might think.
About 50 million Americans have already voted by mail. Here’s what processing those ballots looks like in a crucial swing state.
En los días previos a la elección presidencial, los funcionarios electorales y los expertos en ciberseguridad monitorean los diversos métodos que podrían usar los gobiernos extranjeros y grupos de piratas informáticos para interferir.
Amid a large gender gap among voters, one version of masculinity stresses toughness and the other a duty to protect the weak.
Donald Trump has made America exceptional all right — exceptionally off track.
Oakland County, Mich., a Republican stronghold 12 years ago that is now solidly Democratic, is a prime example of the political evolution taking place in many of the nation’s suburbs.
Current and former Trump administration officials are worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.
Spirits may be low around the country, but don’t expect them to be raised in the White House after the election; neither President Trump nor Joseph R. Biden Jr. partakes in alcohol.
Trump unleashed our inner Scrooge.
In Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds, both parties are succeeding in coaxing infrequent voters off the sidelines. The all-important question is who does it better.
Many Americans have lost the comfortable bliss of not paying attention to politics.
The Democratic nominee is seeking to balance experience and diversity in preparing a team for a potential administration if he wins in November.
Many of the worst things the president has said and done were said and done by his predecessors.
The 2016 election should have forced change on all our factions. With Trump’s help, they’ve all reverted back to type.
Latino communities haven’t forgotten Obama’s promise.
Under Trump, the politics of resentment now govern the Republican Party.
Trump may have beaten Hillary Clinton, but the story doesn’t end there.
America has become just as cynically transactional in its foreign dealings as Russia and China.
His corrosiveness has caused friends to lose trust.
With just days left until Election Day, Michelle Goldberg and Ross Douthat are joined by the Time magazine columnist and senior editor of The Dispatch, David French.
It’s full of tricks and optical illusions.
The presidential rivals both appeared in Tampa, confronting their vulnerabilities and courting a range of voters, a clear sign that both see their political fortunes tied to the state.
Here’s what you need to know.
We’re learning not to underestimate the guy.
The administration has raced to build the president’s promised border wall and block migrants from entering the United States, but the future of those policies will be determined by the election.
Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
Is this the year that Texas turns blue? Even if not, there’s no denying the political shift in the Lone Star State.
For years, Republicans have made it harder and harder for Americans to vote. Is that strategy backfiring?
Here are some of the key local and statewide races and measures to watch in California.
While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five recent disputes, delivering victories to both Democrats and Republicans.
Walmart said the move was motivated by protests and looting that have roiled Philadelphia this week after police killed Walter Wallace Jr. on Monday.
Los registros financieros ocultos del mandatario ponen en duda varios de sus compromisos caritativos y muestran que la mayor parte de sus donaciones provienen de acuerdos de tierras que compensan sus ingresos.
The Postal Service’s performance has not been as bad as initially feared, but handling of mail ballots has been inconsistent enough that some people are choosing to vote in person.
President Trump campaigned in Tampa, Fla., Thursday boasting about third-quarter economic gains, and assailing the news media as “the enemy of the people.”
From a distance, with an elbow tap instead of a hug, the former vice president is getting a version of the in-person campaigning he loves.
Peter Diamond, a 2010 Nobel laureate in economics, suggests an improvement over the current electoral system. Also: Betsy Gotbaum on voting in New York City; honoring the poll workers.
La polarización que vimos en Venezuela migró con nosotros. Quienes podemos votar, debemos considerar el modo en el que Trump ha tratado a nuestra comunidad, dentro y fuera del país.
Venezuelan-Americans need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way he has treated our community in the U.S.
We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way he has treated our community in the U.S.
Our vote could play a key role in November. We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way Trump has treated our community in the U.S.
Our vote could play a key role in November. We need to see beyond the bluster, and look at the way Trump has treated our community in the U.S.
A lightly populated area in the critical swing state of Wisconsin serves as a microcosm for the way coronavirus politics is worsening partisan schisms across America.
Readers discuss Joe Biden’s debate comment about transitioning away from dependence on oil.
A presidential order would almost certainly face a legal challenge. But if elected, Joseph R. Biden Jr. would have other levers at his disposal to make mask wearing a cultural norm.
Covid, climate, paychecks: A cross-section of women share what’s top of mind as they cast their votes. Hear them in their own words.
Joe Biden and Cal Cunningham both led their Republican rivals by three points, a Times/Siena College survey found. Perhaps most notably, 64 percent of respondents said they had already voted.
As Americans vote amid a pandemic, misleading election information seems to be everywhere.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she had already made preparations for the Democratic nominee’s presidency.
The fatal shooting of Mr. Wallace, a 27-year-old Black man, set off protests, looting and violent clashes with the police in Pennsylvania, a swing state, days before the presidential election.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.
Mr. Biden has sought advice across the Democratic Party’s ideological spectrum, but his core advisers on the coronavirus, economics, foreign policy and climate change are familiar figures.
Saboreando claramente la oportunidad de contraatacar a su sucesor, el expresidente ha estado dispuesto a lanzar golpes en nombre de la campaña de Joe Biden, enfocada en la unidad.
The Biden campaign, according to advisers, is concerned over possible perception of foreign meddling in the election — or any comparison to Russian interference on President Trump’s behalf in 2016.
The coronavirus pandemic and new requirements in Republican-led states created voting obstacles for college students this year. Yet youth participation appears to be on the rise.
A victory by the Democrats would herald the arrival of a formidable multiracial coalition in the country’s largest red state.
Echoes of the past are spooking investors.
The president leans into denial for his closing argument: This is your morning tip sheet.
The election anxieties of Americans across the political spectrum are visible in an alarming place: gun sales figures.
The president isn’t a throwback to old-school masculinity. He’s a he-man specifically engineered for our image-based, sensation-saturated times.
In a letter to Alex M. Azar II, the health secretary, House Democrats detailed how a $265 million public relations campaign tried to bolster President Trump.
From Philadelphia to Sonoma County, Calif., election officials said they were working marathon hours to fight a flood of falsehoods.
Trailing in the polls, President Trump and his campaign are pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively suppress the mail-in vote in the critical state of Pennsylvania.
There’s a new political fashion statement in town, just in time for the election. Should you wear it?
How this president invaded our brains and destroyed American culture.
What I lost in the Trump years was a kind of innocence.
And it won’t come back even if and when he’s gone.
The United States should threaten to retaliate — and I’m not talking about economic sanctions or legal indictments.
The country let some of the worst fears of the founders come true.
Singles are putting their political affiliations front and center as they search for partners who share their views, or at least accept them.
Ballots are broken. So we redesigned them.
Counting votes by mail involves multiple steps, and in several critical swing states, that process doesn’t begin until Election Day or very close to it.
In the final days of voting, election officials and cybersecurity experts are keeping a close eye on a range of possible ways foreign governments and other hackers could interfere.
Some of the president’s moments are unforgettable, even if you try.
A lifelong Republican and a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Taylor took a leave of absence from his job at Google this summer to campaign for Joseph R. Biden Jr.