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US election
2024

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5 November 2024

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Highlights

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    2024 polls
    Presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

  • Composite image of black-and-white images of Donald Trump on left, and Kamala Harris on right.

    Explained
    Where do Harris and Trump stand on the key election issues?

  • A graphic of red and blue paper airplanes going into a black box as hands reach out

    US elections 2024
    Voting is under way in the 2024 US election. Here’s what to know about early voting and mail-in ballots

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Latest news

  • ‘I voted’ stickers

    Monday briefing: The Trump acolytes planning to interfere with November’s election

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Why can’t politics in the UK or US get to grips with Taylor Swift? Because she is a force in her own right

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Donald Trump makes an election campaign appearance working the drive-thru at McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania

    US presidential election updates: Trump goes to McDonald’s while Harris delivers 60th birthday sermon

    Kamala Harris sings with Stevie Wonder in Georgia and invokes the Good Samaritan, while Donald Trump serves fries in Pennsylvania and Elon Musk continues cash giveaway

  • How the US border became a toxic issue for voters – podcast

  • Kamala Harris visits church on birthday as Trump repeats ‘enemy within’ rhetoric

  • Trump visits battleground Pennsylvania as Harris campaign attacks rival as ‘unhinged and angry’ – as it happened

  • Musk pledges $1m each day in apparent bid to galvanize Republican voters

  • North Carolina grapples with holding election in hurricane disaster zone

  • Incarcerated Californians can’t vote. A prison held an election anyway

  • A Pennsylvania town is thriving with Haitian immigrants – and is the latest target of Republican hate

  • Gender is going to be a huge factor in this election. Here’s what the data shows

    Celinda Lake and Cate Gormley
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Features

  • a broken up dollar bill

    Biden’s economic legacy could decide the presidential race in Scranton

  • Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally in Riverside Park on Friday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

    From Fox News to Call Her Daddy: how Kamala Harris turned up election heat in pivot to media blitz

    Once interview-shy VP plunged into podcast populism and interview with shock-jock Howard Stern after polls showed her slipping against Trump
  • Two women sit in chairs facing each other with microphones, a 'Call Her Daddy' decal on the wall

    Call Her Daddy to Theo Von: how podcasts became a vital election tool

    Both Harris and Trump have been giving long interviews on a range of podcasts, signaling a shift in campaign strategy

  • ‘I’m all about the straight talk’: Kamala Harris trades barbershop campaign stops for a blitz of Black media

  • A Democratic ex-mayor is running for Senate in one of the most Republican US states. Does he have a chance?

  • Two rulings restore calm to Georgia elections rules – for now

  • Are you better off than four years ago? Why US voters should – but can’t – say yes

Analysis

  • Former president Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania<br>epaselect epa11669773 Former US president Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA, 19 October, 2024. Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, are campaigning across the swing state of Pennsylvania in the closing weeks of the presidential election. EPA/JUSTIN MERRIMAN

    Bob Woodward’s new book War is a sober but alarming must-read

  • Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk speaks about voting in Folsom, Pennsylvania on 17 October.

    As Silicon Valley eyes US election, Elon Musk is not the only tech bro to worry about

  • A man with a shaved mohawk sitting in crowd wearing T-shirt that says Proud Christian Nationalist, among people in red hats.

    Why experts say Christian nationalists’ rhetoric may spur violence

  • A collaged illustration of Kamala Harris holding a cannabis leaf

    Kamala Harris promises full marijuana legalization – is that a gamechanger?

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Explainers

  • Usher campaigns for Kamala Harris in Atlanta, Georgia. With 17 days until polls open in the 2024 US presidential election, Harris and Donald Trump made appearances in battleground states.

    US presidential election updates: Stars turn out for Harris while Trump tells story about Arnold Palmer’s ‘anatomy’

  • illustration of blue and red states cutouts coming out of black-and-white photo of building

    How can the candidate with most votes lose? The US electoral college explained

  • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Michigan, with weeks to go before polls in the presidential election open on 5 November.

    US presidential election updates: Trump and Harris spar over stamina in Michigan

  • Trump speaking at charity dinner with others looking at him

    US presidential election updates: Trump’s insults draw laughs at Catholic charity dinner as Harris appears remotely

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Opinion

  • A women holds a sign reading MY BODY MY CHOICE! during a demonstration near traffic in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2024.

    Gender is going to be a huge factor in this election. Here’s what the data shows

    Celinda Lake and Cate Gormley
  • Simon Tisdall

    Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?

    Simon Tisdall
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    First he urged women to put family first. Now Harrison Butker’s the latest angry rich guy with a Pac

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • A week before the election, Trump will hold his most unsettling spectacle yet

    Sidney Blumenthal

  • I visited a small, struggling, climate-ravaged town in Louisiana. Why is Donald Trump certain to win here?

    Oliver Laughland

  • ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him

    Emma Brockes

  • Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism

    Margaret Sullivan

  • Are Black voters abandoning the Democratic party?

    Steve Phillips

  • I’m one of the few doctors providing abortions in Arizona. This could be the issue that turns our state blue

    Gabrielle Goodrick

Anywhere but Washington

  • Why are many of the communities that are being battered by natural disasters still choosing to back Donald Trump, a vocal climate denier?

    11:11

    Why hurricane survivors in Louisiana still believe in Donald Trump - video

  • With border crossings reaching record highs in recent years, US immigration has returned as the election’s most toxic issue. As Donald Trump continues to push a policy of mass deportation, and Kamala Harris responds by shifting further to the right, what happens to the people caught in the middle trying to seek a better life? The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Arizona’s southern border with Mexico to investigate

    13:10

    ‘We’ve been dehumanised’: how the US immigration debate became so toxic - video

  • In a new series of Anywhere but Washington, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to the crucial swing state of Georgia, where election deniers and rightwing conspiracy theorists are facing a new generation of Gen Z candidates and voters who could tip the race in favor of the Democrats&nbsp;

    10:42

    Can Kamala Harris defeat Trump’s election lies in battleground Georgia? – video

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