The US elections of 2024
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J.D. Vance is now the heir apparent to the MAGA movement
What Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick suggests about how he would govern
The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
The left thinks the shooting was just a performance; the right sees an inside job. Will the truth matter?
Fortunately, Donald Trump’s would-be killer failed. What next?
Politicians should try to lower the political temperature
Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
The shooting is a dark turn in an already chaotic presidential campaign
Gretchen Whitmer would like to be America’s first woman president
Could abortion rights and “fixing the damn roads” take Michigan’s governor to the White House?
The disorganisation of the Democratic rebels against Joe Biden
Why the party is failing to mount a concerted push to replace its nominee
Republicans
The Republicans’ policy platform previews the coming campaign
Social conservatives and fiscal hawks will be disappointed. Opponents of immigration will not
Donald Trump’s return is making Hollywood nervous
News and politics are being left out of the streaming boom
A second Trump term: from unthinkable to probable
Introducing our 2024 American election forecast model
What Donald Trump’s 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
Come election season, it could be Hunter Biden’s trial that hogs the headlines
Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
Congressional Republicans are already considering the art of the possible
What Republicans make of Donald Trump’s conviction
The party is never as unified as when its members are defending the former president
Democrats
How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?
The uproar over his candidacy reveals dysfunction afflicting both major parties
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise
Democratic bigwigs are starting to call for Joe Biden to step aside
A sitting congressman has broken ranks
Joe Biden is fooling only himself
A president who prides himself on the common touch is insulting everyone’s common sense
Joe Biden’s horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
The president had one job and he utterly failed at it
In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back
But the defeat of one progressive congressman shows how deep the party’s divisions run
Lexington
Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
They were “warriors”—that’s the problem
Politics is the law in Texas
A governor’s pardon implies that courts cannot be trusted, just as Donald Trump says
Why the Republicans will convene in a forge of American socialism
Donald Trump has made gains with Wisconsin’s working class, but Joe Biden could still win there
Joe Biden is practising some Clintonian politics
But he needs to do more than crack down on “junk fees” to woo swing voters
Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump
And disturbing evidence of how he destabilises reality for Americans
Are American progressives making themselves sad?
Conservatives seem more excited about change
What’s at stake
What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
The Supreme Court weakened regulators and created uncertainty, inviting a “tsunami of lawsuits”
How America’s presidential debates are changing this year
Will the Trump-Biden showdowns be an institution’s last gasp, or a new start?
Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
America’s presidential race is no coin flip, says our forecast
America’s billionaires should resist the urge to support Donald Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
The undoing of Roe v Wade has created a mighty political movement
The power of women with clipboards
Rural white voters in Wisconsin could decide America’s election
They are less enthusiastic about Donald Trump than their counterparts elsewhere
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