Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s late-campaign television ads are littered with deceptively edited and misleadingly described quotations. Multiple Trump ads omit critical words from quotes by and about Vice President Kamala Harris on the subject of tax policy. One Trump ad misleadingly depicts comments about fracking from Trump’s campaign

CNN By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that SpaceX founder and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022. The report, which said the SpaceX founder has discussed “personal

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that SpaceX founder and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022. The report, which said the SpaceX founder has discussed “personal topics,

CNN By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The race for the White House rests on a razor’s edge in the final nationwide CNN poll before votes are counted. The poll, conducted by SSRS, finds 47% of likely voters support Vice President Kamala Harris and an equal 47% support former President Donald Trump.

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — The race for the White House rests on a razor’s edge in the final nationwide CNN poll before votes are counted. The poll, conducted by SSRS, finds 47% of likely voters support Vice President Kamala Harris and an equal 47% support former President Donald Trump. CNN

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday halted a Virginia program that purged the state’s voter rolls based on indications that a person might be a noncitizen and ordered officials to restore the registrations of roughly 1,600 people who had been removed under the process. The ruling, from US District Judge Patricia

By Gregory Krieg, Priscilla Alvarez and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris, after being endorsed and embraced onstage in Houston by music superstar Beyoncé, warned voters across the country Friday night that Texas-style abortion bans would end up in their states if Donald Trump returns to the White House. Harris has leaned

CNN By Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — During a special election in Wisconsin over the summer, a group of partisan poll watchers showed up at a handful of precincts in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee, and created chaos by contesting every absentee ballot that was cast. After they were reminded repeatedly about

By Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — During a special election in Wisconsin over the summer, a group of partisan poll watchers showed up at a handful of precincts in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee, and created chaos by contesting every absentee ballot that was cast. After they were reminded repeatedly about the

By Majlie de Puy Kamp, Danny Freeman and Sarah Boxer, CNN Erie, Pennsylvania (CNN) — For a Republican canvasser going door-to-door to get out the vote in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the address on East Lake Road in Erie must have seemed like Heaven-sent evidence of the sort of widespread voter fraud many in

By Matt Holt and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Staring down the prospect of losing the Senate and amid a tight race for the House, Democrats are burning through cash in the final sprint to Election Day, new federal filings show. The pre-general election reports, which cover the first sixteen days of October, are

By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk plowed nearly $44 million in October into a super PAC working to restore Donald Trump to the White House – pushing the billionaire’s total donations to the group he established to benefit the former president to nearly $119 million, new campaign

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s super PAC awarded two $1 million prizes to registered voters in Michigan and Wisconsin on Thursday, after being warned by the Justice Department that the payments might be illegal. These are the first giveaways by the pro-Donald Trump super PAC after news broke Wednesday that the Justice Department had

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that former President Donald Trump is now “more unhinged, more unstable” and more dangerous than when she faced him in the 2016 presidential election. “I think he’s more unhinged, more unstable,” the losing 2016 Democratic nominee told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that former President Donald Trump is now “more unhinged, more unstable” and more dangerous than when she faced him in the 2016 presidential election. “I think he’s more unhinged, more unstable,” the losing 2016 Democratic nominee told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins

By Kate Sullivan and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump said Thursday the US is “like a garbage can for the world” as he railed against illegal immigration at a campaign rally in Arizona. “We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world. That’s what’s happened,” Trump said at

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday it has closed its investigation into Robert F. Kennedy Jr., finding that an allegation he decapitated a dead whale carcass two decades ago was unfounded. Last month, Kennedy said at a campaign event in Arizona he had received a letter

By Priscilla Alvarez, Jeff Simon and Gregory Krieg, CNN Clarkston, Georgia (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama used their first joint campaign appearance, on Thursday night in this Atlanta suburb, to issue parallel warnings about the dangers facing the country if Donald Trump is elected again to lead it. Battleground Georgia is the latest stop in a late-campaign