“Why should you pay more taxes than Donald Trump?” Joseph R. Biden Jr. asked as he took aim at the president’s taxes and tax policy.
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.
With every election cycle, the same question comes up: Is this the year the Lone Star State changes its color?
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.
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.
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.
Something has to be done about the technology sector. Here’s what to keep in mind.
Statues of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore and a Union Army colonel in Madison, Wis., will be repaired.
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
Las encuestas más recientes revelan que Joe Biden lleva una ventaja al presidente Donald Trump en uno de los estados cruciales para las elecciones de Estados Unidos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“Mr. Trump’s manliness is a version embraced by the couch potato bully,” a reader writes. Also: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; “pride in America.”
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.
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.
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.
Why we agreed to grant current and former aides to President Trump anonymity for Ron Suskind’s Op-Ed.
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.
America has to be a functioning democracy before it can be an exemplary one.
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.
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.
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.
“It feels like we’re all Charlie Brown going to kick the football, but we know at the last second Lucy’s gonna give us coronavirus,” Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday.
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.
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.
President Trump campaigned in Tampa, Fla., Thursday boasting about third-quarter economic gains, and assailing the news media as “the enemy of the people.”
Campaigning in South Florida, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, called on Latino voters to reject President Trump, and promised to reverse Trump’s hard-line Cuba policy.
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.
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 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.
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.
De Estados Unidos a la Argentina, las sociedades están polarizadas. A políticos como Joe Biden, quien ha prometido recuperar el centro y unir a la ciudadanía, les toca recrear utopías. Y eso no ocurrirá solo con una victoria electoral.
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.
On Wednesday night at a rally in Arizona, President Trump rushed Senator Martha McSally on stage as she fights to hold on to her seat.
New details of the Justice Department’s handling of the accusations against Halkbank reveal how Turkey’s leader pressured the president, prompting concern from top White House aides.
A victory by the Democrats would herald the arrival of a formidable multiracial coalition in the country’s largest red state.
The president leans into denial for his closing argument: This is your morning tip sheet.
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.
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.
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 country let some of the worst fears of the founders come true.
It has become impossible for democracies to believe it is in their interest to take Trump’s America seriously.
Ballots are broken. So we redesigned them.
Representative Elise Stefanik’s strenuous defense of the president has enabled her Democratic opponent to raise $5 million. Ms. Stefanik has raised even more.
The “Tonight Show” host joined his late-night colleagues in chastising President Trump for stranding supporters in near-freezing temperatures after a Tuesday rally in Omaha.
The president has continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing. The surge in new cases across the country says: Not so.
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.
The moves could severely restrict the flow of remittances from abroad and worsen a profound economic crisis on the island.
At this point, I’m thinking less about polling averages and more about a few key variables that we can’t predict.
The president has continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing. The surge in new cases across the country says: Not so.
The moves could severely restrict the flow of remittances from abroad and worsen a profound economic crisis on the island.
The total cost of the races for the White House, the Senate and the House is expected to hit nearly $14 billion.
El exfuncionario, cuyas críticas al presidente Trump en un artículo de opinión en The New York Times, y en un libro posterior, sacudieron a Washington y enfurecieron a Trump, renunció al gobierno el año pasado y apoya a Joe Biden desde este verano.
Now is our chance to put an end to this presidency.
On Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee for president, addressed President Trump’s rally he held in Nebraska that left his supporters standing out in the cold for hours.
Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump, resigned from the administration last year and endorsed Joe Biden this summer.
Joe Biden is counting on voters to view him as a safe and steady alternative to a president who regularly dismisses virus precautions. But his measured campaign pace may be scrutinized if he loses.
After Virginia passed gun laws, conservatives began invoking the state’s colonial-era constitution, which calls for a “well regulated militia.”
A Biden victory could bring economic relief for Palestinians and friendlier relations with Washington, though not a return to 2016. A Trump win? They’d rather not think about it.
Our readers suggest a wide range of scenarios that include landslides, pardons, claims of fraud, violence and the courts.
While President Trump counted Michigan as one of his most surprising victories in 2016, he is struggling to maintain support among white voters in the state this year.
David Correia was charged with duping investors in a start-up he founded with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani.
Even before the pandemic, Social Security’s finances were under growing pressure. The next president and Congress will play a crucial role in what happens next.
Let’s look at where the candidates stand on pre-existing conditions, Medicare, Medicaid and more.
Seventy million votes are now cast, over half of total 2016 turnout: This is your morning tip sheet.
Four years of a joke president is long enough.
In a positive but highly unscientific sign for the president, orders for his campaign materials outpace those for his rival’s at a major market for banners, caps and other souvenirs.
No one is quite sure.
As Democrats eye the Southern battleground, high turnout will be crucial for them, and that means persuading nonvoters to participate. But experts warn that changing electorates is hard and complicated.
Racial and ethnic divides? Actually, Biden is making gains with white voters, and Trump with nonwhite ones.
Our political culture isn’t ready to deal with climate change.
Intentionally inane, “Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald’s?” satirizes the business of podcasting.
They may even still vote for him, but they are under no illusions about his presidency.
There was once a bare minimum standard of public behavior.
In 2016, he benefited from voters’ fear of terrorism. But this year, Americans are more worried about threats closer to home.
“Technically, yes, they’re swapping one Black man for another, but good luck on making the playoffs next season,” Noah joked on Tuesday’s “Daily Show.”
In the rural hills of Georgia, a state he is seeking to win, Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for “healing” and “restoration,” and a commitment to a common purpose to meet the challenges of the coronavirus.
What the contents of our refrigerators say about our politics — and our assumptions.
What the contents of our refrigerators say about our politics — and our assumptions.
Their animosity is likely to be on full display at a hearing on Wednesday with the leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter.
When his skyscraper proved a disappointment, Donald Trump defaulted on his loans, sued his bank, got much of the debt forgiven — and largely avoided paying taxes on it.
The defacement lasted less than 30 minutes, and the hackers appeared to be looking to generate cryptocurrency.
We’ve forgotten what it’s like to have a truth-teller and a healer in the White House.
Ignoring cries of blatant hypocrisy, the Senate leader pushed through pre-election approval, capping off his reshaping of the judiciary.
If elected, Joe Biden plans to spearhead a repudiation — in policy and tone — of President Trump’s legacy in the region.
Amy Coney Barrett fue confirmada como magistrada de la Corte Suprema solo ocho días antes de las elecciones presidenciales.
President Trump lashed out at Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, during his rally in Lansing, Mich. Tuesday criticizing her for imposing too many restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The administration is imposing new limits on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would undercut action against global warming.
House Democrats are training their resources on once-solid Republican footholds in affluent suburban districts where voters feel alienated by President Trump.
Politics is about power, and the left will have more under a Biden presidency.
“Trump is guilty of presidential malpractice, and for the sake of the country should not be re-elected,” two readers write. Also: Migrant children; the lawsuit again Google.
They show Joe Biden clinching crucial counties. So why does it feel so different on the ground here?
Former President Barack Obama delivered remarks in Orlando, Fla., on behalf of Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday, and criticized how the White House has handled the coronavirus pandemic.
An incomplete list of reasons you must not sit this one out.
Readers worry that the Supreme Court is becoming increasingly partisan rather than an independent body.
Joe Biden has a six-point advantage in the latest New York Times/Siena College poll of Nevada, where unemployment has soared amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Los nuevos inmigrantes cubanos, que antes tenían poca participación en la política estadounidense, han empezado a identificarse como republicanos de Trump. Esto podría darle al presidente un impulso en un estado clave.
A judge in Manhattan has rejected the Justice Department’s move to intervene in Ms. Carroll’s suit against President Trump, whom she has accused of rape.