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Opinion US news Mail-in voting will suppress Native Americans’ votes in November Indigenous households on reservations disproportionately lack mail delivery and policymakers must recognize the limitations of vote-by-mail People gather for a Navajo Nation voter registration event in 2018. Photograph: Jeremy Miller/The Guardian Native communities have spent centuries battling for voting rights. Indigeneous Americans couldn’t […] More

The fight to vote Donald Trump The president falsely cited the risk of voter fraud in tweeted threats to defund Nevada and Michigan, both 2020 swing states Staff of the Franklin County Board of Elections sort through, and de-stub both mail in ballots and provisional ballots on April 28, 2020 in Columbus, Ohio on the […] More

President says number of US cases is good news Trump threatens to withhold funding from Michigan and Nevada over vote by mail Trump suggests hosting G7 in person Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data ‘to support reopen plan’ Coronavirus – latest global updates Get a fresh perspective on America […] More

US elections 2020 In an election year where door-to-door campaigning is limited, strategists are having to explore new ways of rallying voters Donald Trump at the White House earlier in May. The Trump campaign has been much more aggressive about offering various groups for supporters. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Diving into the campaign […] More

Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, the US president’s oldest sons, have attracted fierce criticism for attacking Joe Biden and Democrats in terms most observers considered beyond the pale even in America’s current toxic political climate. Trump Jr posted to Instagram a meme which baselessly insinuated that Biden, his father’s probable opponent at the polls […] More

US elections 2020 Intelligence director releases names in Flynn surveillance case Obama alumni dismiss ‘sideshow’ as distraction effort Opinion: Trump is seeking to distract from his failures Joe Biden’s name was on a list of Obama officials said to be involved in ‘unmasking’ Michael Flynn. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump has ratcheted […] More

US elections 2020 Mike Garcia will replace Hill, who resigned amid scandal in 2019 after securing the first Democratic victory in district in decades People vote at a voting station for the special election between the Democratic state assemblywoman Christy Smith and Republican businessman and ex-navy pilot Mike Garcia, in Santa Clarita, California. Photograph: Mark […] More

Play Video 0:37 The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said Barack Obama should have ‘kept his mouth shut’ instead of criticising Donald Trump, and called his intervention ‘classless’. McConnell was speaking to Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump in an online fundraiser on Monday night McConnell tells Obama to ‘keep his mouth shut’ after Trump criticism More