The Run-Up is your guide to the final months of the 2016 election. Michael Barbaro, who has covered the last two presidential races for the Times, hosts our twice-weekly conversation about the biggest stories and surprises coming out of the campaign. The show features Times political reporters, Opinion columnists and data analysts. You’ll also hear interviews with some of the election's key players. It’s the access and authority The New York Times does best.
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2024-11-21 | A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving.Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk about the election and the question of Black people’s changing relationship to the Democratic Party.This year, he... |
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2024-11-14 | President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and major appointments — which have arrived quickly in the days since he won the election — are more than just a list of allies. The roster is a window into how he sees the mission of a second term.One priority ... |
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2024-11-07 | For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question:Who are you going to vote for and why?And on Wednesday morning, we had the answer to that question. Or at least the first part.Donald Trump easily wo... |
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2024-11-05 | For months now, “The Run-Up” has been traveling around the country talking with people, trying to ensure that when today came, whatever happened wouldn’t feel like a surprise.So as people go to the polls to cast their vote for Kamala Harris, Donald Tru... |
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2024-11-02 | One phenomenon that’s been getting a lot of attention during this election is the growing gender gap among young people.Young men are leaning right, and young women are moving left.In recent national surveys from The New York Times and Siena College, y... |
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2024-11-01 | For most of this year, we’ve been focused on the race for president, the messages coming from both parties’ nominees and their reception among voters.But that’s not all that’s on the ballot this November, and so much of what any president can do in the... |
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2024-10-31 | There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania.It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its flip from red to blue in 2020 helped secure the win for Joe Biden.For Kamala Harris to prevail there this year, she ... |
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2024-10-24 | Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year.Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states where the polls will close, giving the campaigns, an... |
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2024-10-17 | On Tuesday night, with three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump was in Georgia.In 2020, he lost the state by around 12,000 votes, and Georgia became central to his claims that the election had been stolen. After his defeat, he went after Repu... |
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2024-10-10 | We are less than a month from Election Day.That means our polling colleagues are busy. And that they are well positioned to help answer some of the biggest questions we have at this stage in the race.Like: Who has the advantage between Kamala Harris an... |
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