National Politics

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Spring House, Pennsylvania (CNN) — First lady Jill Biden stood at a church roughly 10 miles from the Philadelphia suburb where she grew up Sunday morning, making an urgent plea before several hundred churchgoers, many of whom held fans with a picture of the woman at the top of the Democratic

CNN By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, who said in Pennsylvania on Sunday that he regrets leaving the White House in 2021, is ending the 2024 campaign the way he began it — dishing out a stew of violent, disparaging rhetoric and repeated warnings that he will not accept defeat

By Gregory Krieg and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, who said in Pennsylvania on Sunday that he regrets leaving the White House in 2021, is ending the 2024 campaign the way he began it — dishing out a stew of violent, disparaging rhetoric and repeated warnings that he will not accept defeat if

By Ethan Cohen and Way Mullery, CNN (CNN) — Millions of Americans have voted early, in person or by mail, and millions more will be voting on Election Day. Every state has a different process and set of rules for counting ballots. Here’s when the last polls will close in key states on election night,

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Michigan’s West Coast (CNN) — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, much of the most discussed news around former President Donald Trump revolved around fascism and french fries, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential nominees. Conversations

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Voters in eight states, most of them heavily Republican, will approve ballot measures to require US citizenship to vote, CNN projects, even though it is already illegal for noncitizens to cast ballots in federal elections. The victorious ballot measures in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump on Sunday expressed tentative support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to order the removal of fluoride from water supplies during a potential second Trump term, saying that it “sounds OK to me.” “Well, I haven’t talked to him about it yet, but it sounds

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Michigan’s West Coast (CNN) — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next few

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day. Trump has made repeated false claims that Democrats are cheating in the election, and he’s

By Terence Burlij, CNN (CNN) — Entering Election Day on Tuesday, the battle for control of the US House of Representatives rests on a knife’s edge, with a historically small universe of competitive races poised to determine the chamber’s majority in the next Congress – an outcome that could have far-reaching consequences for the next

By Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — Senate control is for grabs Tuesday. And although Republicans are well positioned to win the majority, Democrats cannot be counted out entirely. That’s because their well-funded candidates have consistently overperformed the top of the ticket in polling of many of the most important races. And even as the Senate

CNN By Samantha Waldenberg and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” making a surprise stop during the show’s last episode before Election Day to give her fictional self some advice ahead of the presidential election. “You got this,” Harris told her “SNL” alter ego, Maya Rudolph. The

By Samantha Waldenberg and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” making a surprise stop during the show’s last episode before Election Day to give her fictional self some advice ahead of the presidential election. “You got this,” Harris told her “SNL” alter ego, Maya Rudolph. The cold

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters in the final Iowa Poll before Election Day from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom. That margin falls within the poll’s 3.4 point margin of sampling error and suggests no clear leader in

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters in the final Iowa Poll before Election Day from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom. That margin falls within the poll’s 3.4 point margin of sampling error and suggests no clear leader in the

CNN By Annie Grayer and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson might have put a significant dent in the reelection hopes of one of the GOP’s most vulnerable congressional incumbents on Friday and later backtracked comments where he said he would consider repealing the CHIPS Act. Earlier in the day at a

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Scranton, Pennsylvania (CNN) — In front of a few dozen union carpenters here this weekend, President Joe Biden was getting worked up. “Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it’s macho guys,” Biden said, alluding to his onetime rival, former President Donald Trump, who is courting male

WHSV, WTKR, WUSA, WWBT, CNN By Rene Marsh and Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — This week the Supreme Court revived Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to purge 1,600 people he says are suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls using records from the Department of Motor Vehicles. But the practice, critics say, is

By Rene Marsh and Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — This week the Supreme Court revived Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to purge 1,600 people he says are suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls using records from the Department of Motor Vehicles. But the practice, critics say, is haphazard given those DMV records