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2024-04-18

  The Youngest Voters and the Oldest President

In a close election, every vote matters. But in the 2020 presidential race, there’s a good argument that young voters mattered a lot — and helped tip the scales for President Biden.This year, though, things seem much less straightforward. Polling data ...
  The New York Times author
2024-04-11

  Nebraska Was Minding Its Business Until Charlie Kirk Came Along

Right now, President Biden’s clearest path to re-election in November seems to run through the middle of the country.Here’s what that would look like: Biden wins the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — plus the other state...
  The New York Times author
2024-04-04

  Biden Is Winning the Money Race. Does It Matter?

Last week President Biden, flanked by former Presidents Obama and Clinton, came to Radio City Music Hall for what Biden’s campaign called “the most successful political fund-raiser in American history.” The former Presidents, alongside celebrities like...
  The New York Times author
2024-03-28

  What About the People Who Don’t Vote?

The people who don’t vote are often left out of the political conversation. Campaigns don’t spend much money on them, and the media doesn’t devote much coverage to them. But to understand a presidential contest like the 2024 race — one that threatens t...
  The New York Times author
2024-03-21

  Don’t Ask RFK Jr. About Being a Spoiler

This week, the Democratic National Committee formed a unit to push back against third-party candidates and independents. At the same time, a number of Biden allies have formed a super PAC called Clear Choice, which plans to do the same, signaling the s...
  The New York Times author
2024-03-14

  Why It Had to Be Trump

On Tuesday night, Donald J. Trump won another four nominating contests and officially became the presumptive Republican nominee. That’s despite the criminal charges, the judgments made against him in defamation and sexual abuse cases, the hundreds of m...
  The New York Times author
2024-03-07

  Why It Had to Be Biden

With Super Tuesday behind us, this week is the end of one chapter of this campaign.On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump’s only remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, is out of the race. And on the Democratic side, President Biden has so fa...
  The New York Times author
2024-03-05

  Everything You Need to Know About Super Tuesday

It’s Super Tuesday. That means that people in 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia) and one territory (American Samoa) are go...
  Amy Walter author
2024-02-29

  MAGA Thinks the Game Is Rigged. Will They Play?

For a lot of his most loyal supporters, Donald Trump isn’t just the former president or even the potential next president. He is, in their view, the true president — because many of them believe the 2020 election was stolen.So with Mr. Trump marching t...
  The New York Times author
2024-02-22

  ‘What If Someone Dies?’ And Other 2024 Questions, Answered

For the past few months, we’ve been asking our listeners to write in with questions, and we’ve gotten some great ones. Things like: How does polling work? Does Joe Biden’s stance on Gaza present a campaign challenge? And who might Donald Trump select a...
  The New York Times author