Politics

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Washington (CNN) — American voters are divided in many ways – by gender, by race, by region – and any of these can be used to explain the current state of politics. More women support Democrats, a gender gap that seems likely to widen as the fall of Roe v.

By Eric Bradner and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is highlighting former President Bill Clinton’s comment Sunday that Georgia nursing student Laken Riley’s death “probably wouldn’t have happened” if migrants, including her alleged killer, had “all been properly vetted.” Clinton’s remark came as he lambasted Trump for scuttling a bipartisan

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.” “I think the bigger problem are the people from

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is once again pledging to save American manufacturing and bring back jobs by rewriting a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. But this time, instead of replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA, which he has often described as the “worst

By Annie Grayer and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Black state lawmakers in Michigan have called on the state’s attorney general and a county prosecutor to investigate Tom Barrett, a GOP candidate for the US House, over a newspaper advertisement in a Black-owned newspaper that listed the wrong date for Election Day. The complaint from

By Arit John, CNN Ridgefield, Washington (CNN) — Dozens of families lined up outside the Clark County Fairgrounds here on a recent Saturday, their young kids eager to ride on tractors, toss balls into massive vacuum truck hoses and add new stickers to their tiny construction hats. Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez stood before the

By Ebony Davis and Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled new proposals targeting Black men as she seeks to strengthen her coalition ahead of Election Day. The announcement comes as Harris lags behind President Joe Biden’s numbers with Black voters in 2020, especially men, though recent polling suggests she

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — In Arizona’s third most-populous county, a Republican supervisor who is responsible for certifying November’s election results has argued that fellow county officials conspired to manufacture his lopsided defeat in the primary for sheriff, a contention recently shot down by independent investigators. Still, when the time came to sign off on

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Alayna Treene, CNN Prescott Valley, Arizona (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump announced a new plan on Sunday to increase the number of United States Border Patrol agents and retain existing talent as he makes immigration and the border a key part of his closing message against Vice President Kamala Harris.

By Michelle Watson, Rashard Rose and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A man was arrested on state gun charges Saturday near Donald Trump’s rally in California, but the former president “was not in any danger,” the US Secret Service said in a joint statement with the FBI and the Department of Justice. The man, who authorities say

KCRA, KGO, KPIX, CNN By Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Kyung Lah and Daniel Medina, CNN (CNN) — When Kamala Harris famously refused to seek the death penalty against a young gang member accused of killing a cop two decades ago, she said then that her opposition to capital punishment was well-reasoned and absolute. Even under pressure from

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — With the election less than a month away, the public’s attention has shifted to the candidates’ responses to hurricane season, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the presidential nominees throughout the campaign. Former President Donald Trump’s

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump suggested using the military to handle what he called “the enemy from within” on Election Day, saying that he isn’t worried about chaos from his supporters or foreign actors, but instead from “radical left lunatics.” “I think the bigger problem are the people from within.

By Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Kyung Lah and Daniel Medina, CNN (CNN) — When Kamala Harris famously refused to seek the death penalty against a young gang member accused of killing a cop two decades ago, she said then that her opposition to capital punishment was well-reasoned and absolute. Even under pressure from the late Democratic Sen.

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US will send an advanced anti-missile system — and US troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” the Pentagon said Sunday. It is not the first time the

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — America and the world have a lot riding on who wins in November. So does Barack Obama. And that’s part of what is powering what people familiar with Obama’s plans told CNN will be the most active closing weeks of an election the former president’s had since his own last campaign.

By Katie Lobosco and Annette Choi, CNN Washington (CNN) — When President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, tariffs are likely to once again play a major role in his policy agenda. Since winning the election, Trump has promised to put a new 25% tariff on all products coming from Mexico and Canada, as

By Nikki Carvajal and Michael Williams, CNN St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) — President Joe Biden made yet another trip to a community devastated by a hurricane with his Sunday visit to Florida, where he announced more than half a billion dollars in projects for electric grid resilience, as costlier and more frequent storms continue to

By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s campaign is making a last-minute push to advocate for early and mail-in voting, methods the former president has falsely vilified for years as dangerous and fraudulent. With less than a month to go in a tight race, Trump’s campaign is urging people

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Michelle Shen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republicans in the nation’s toughest House districts are making a major pivot on abortion with a surprising result — they’re starting to sound like Democrats. GOP candidates in suburbs of places like Tucson, Des Moines and Syracuse are going public with vows never