Black voters could be pivotal in this election — here’s what they’re saying
The impact of Black voters has been heavily scrutinized in the 2024 presidential campaign. At question is whether this voting ...
A Trump Field Director Was Fired for Being a White Nationalist
Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto ...
Everyone in Congress Is Obsessed with This Book About the Post-Civil War Era
A historian who has studied the post-Civil War era reminds us that culture wars drive turnout as well as partisanship. And ...
Everyone’s an Idiot on Election Night. Don’t Be One of Them.
Calder McHugh is deputy editor of POLITICO Nightly. Don’t you want to know what’s going to happen this election cycle, just a ...
(Trump) can’t touch this
The Golden State, which has all year long pursued deals with industry and readied an army of bureaucrats to defend its nation ...
A portrait of 2024, via the voters who will decide the election
The majority of Americans do not live in a swing state. Meet some of the voters who do — and whose votes will be crucial in deciding our next president.
POLITICO’s hour-by-hour guide for watching election returns
The nation is again staring down a presidential race that could very well go into overtime. The election in 2020 introduced ...
Elon Musk goes all-in for Trump
Elon Musk is mounting a full-court press for former President Donald Trump today, deploying his platform X to get out the ...
Why Dems’ abortion messaging might not be enough to flip the NH governor’s office
CONCORD, New Hampshire — Democrats are relying on their battle-tested abortion-rights playbook to win the nation’s most hotly ...
The state races (re)shaping the energy sector
While the victor of this year’s presidential race — whether that be Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald ...
It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
In the presidential campaigns’ TV ads down the final stretch, it’s been all about the economy. A majority of ads targeting ...
Inside the House GOP’s struggle to recruit more women
House GOP women still have a numbers problem. Four years after a wave of elected conservative women reshaped the ranks of the ...