The candidates crisscrossed two of the key “Blue Wall” states Mr. Trump won in 2016.
El presidente Trump se ha quejado esta semana de lo que él llama una obsesión mediática con la pandemia del coronavirus. El mensaje de los demócratas ha sido unánime: todo coronavirus, todo el tiempo.
“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.
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.
In western Colorado, the election is about “not having the government think for us, the right to protect ourselves.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Ballots are broken. So we redesigned them.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clearly relishing the chance to strike back at his successor, the former president has been willing to throw punches on behalf of Joe Biden’s unity-focused campaign.
President Trump’s norm-shattering ways now extend to a refusal to tell voters how he will spend another four years in the White House.
President Trump and his party pushed Justice Barrett’s confirmation through in record time. But they could find that satisfied voters, who no longer fear the specter of a liberal court, are also complacent.
The G.O.P.’s politicians, activists and voters are still figuring out what that means.
His commitment to endangered political manners goes hand in hand with one of his rarer qualities: an almost painfully keen awareness of his own inadequacies.
An unlikely scenario with serious consequences.
More than 64 million Americans have already cast their ballots, with about half of them in states that will ultimately decide who wins the Electoral College.
The vote capped a brazen feat for Republicans, who pushed through a Supreme Court nominee in little more than five weeks with the election looming.
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election.
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election.
In a “Fox & Friends” interview, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser also criticized protesters as more concerned with what he called “virtue signaling” than in coming up with “solutions.”
He was barely seen in public today, just eight days before the election — but that’s all part of the strategy.
Appearing newly emboldened, the Democratic nominee also said he thought he would win Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, three critical battleground states.
The Trump administration is trying to fortify its campaign of maximum pressure against Iran from being reversed by a potential Biden administration.
A recent rally in Wisconsin was typical. In 90 minutes, President Trump made 131 false or inaccurate statements.
Joe Biden could win the state because Republicans have failed to keep up with its diverse population and shifting suburban politics.
Readers are outraged that the president and the vice president continue to hold rallies where people are packed together and often maskless.
President Trump mocked Senator Kamala Harris during a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday and said, “She will not be the first woman president — you can’t let that happen.”
Large Democratic gains among white suburbanites suggest risks down the ballot for Republicans in congressional and state House races, our poll shows.
Large Democratic gains among white suburbanites suggest risks down the ballot for Republicans in congressional and state House races, our poll shows.
Several Black Democrats are running competitively in conservative states, and they are doing so by talking explicitly about race.
El discurso divisionista del presidente Trump ha movilizado millones de votos pero también le plantea a las minorías el desafío de construir una visión conjunta del país.
Fewer people want to date those with different political views. But couples are also talking through political issues more.
Just posing the question gives us the willies.
The 2016 Democratic candidate was certain she’d win four years ago. Now, she’s even more bullish that Biden will.
Six re-election strategies and their dark roots.
From the beginning, the president has turned mask wearing and other preventive measures into a loyalty test. He and his aides have taken the same approach inside the White House.
Eleven people were arrested, and protesters screamed at Rudy Giuliani. Separately, a police officer was suspended for voicing support for the president on the job.
This group will continue to fight for Trump and he knows that.
There is no evidence that the former vice president was involved in or profited from a joint venture pursued by his son and brother.