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Change in votes compared with 2020 It may seem like a clear story: Donald Trump won the election by winning the most votes. He improved on his totals, adding about 2.5 million more votes than four years ago. But just as consequential to the outcome were Kamala Harris’s losses: She earned about 7 million fewer […] More
Let me ask you a few questions:If the Democrats nominated a woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among female voters than the guy who ran in her place four years before?If the Democrats nominated a Black woman to run for president, would you expect her to do better among Black voters than the white candidate who ran in her place four years before?If the Republicans nominated a guy who ran on mass deportation and consistently said horrible things about Latino immigrants, would you expect him to do worse among Latino voters over time?If the Democrats nominated a vibrant Black woman who was the subject of a million brat memes, would you expect her to do better among young voters than the old white guy who ran before her?If you said yes to any of these questions, as I would have a month ago, you have some major rethinking to do, because all of these expectations were wrong.In 2024, Kamala Harris did worse among Black voters than Joe Biden did in 2020. She did worse among female voters. She did much worse among Latino voters. She did much worse among young voters.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
The other day I was supposed to visit a friend who had been released from prison. He had to cancel to rescue his sister, who is using drugs again.Another old friend needed a ride: It turned out that his car had broken down again, and until his next paycheck came, he couldn’t afford a $2 bolt to fix it.I think of friends like these here in rural Oregon, in an area that mostly supports Donald Trump, when people ask me why America’s working class rejected the Democrats on Tuesday. My neighbors, struggling to pay the rent and buying gas five dollars at a time, often perceive national Democrats as remote elites more eager to find them pronouns than housing. Election postmortems have been dissecting Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, but the challenge for Democrats goes far beyond any of that.For several decades, voters have identified more with the Democratic Party than with the Republican Party. But in some polls this year, more people have affiliated with the Republican Party than with the Democratic Party. Looking ahead at the specific Senate seats that will be in contention in 2026 and 2028, it’s not easy to see when the Democrats will have a chance to recover the chamber.I see the disenchantment with Democrats in my hometown, Yamhill, which traditionally was dependent on timber, agriculture and light manufacturing. But then good union jobs left, meth arrived and everything changed. Today more than a third of the kids on my old No. 6 school bus are dead from drugs, alcohol, suicide and reckless accidents.Here’s an astonishing statistic from Bureau of Labor Statistics data: Blue-collar private-sector workers were actually earning more on average in 1972, after adjusting for inflation, than they are now in 2024. So today’s blue-collar workers are on average earning less in real dollars than their grandparents were 52 years ago.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
El martes, decenas de millones de votantes acudieron a ayuntamientos, iglesias y gimnasios de secundarias de todo el país para depositar su voto.Se unieron a los más de 80 millones de estadounidenses que votaron anticipadamente, aunque las escenas variaron según el estado. En algunos estados, como Texas y Nueva York, muchos votantes pudieron entrar y salir rápidamente, mientras que en algunas zonas de Míchigan y Pensilvania, algunos votantes esperaron en largas filas. Muchos estados registraron una alta participación.Más allá del poder ejecutivo, también está en juego el control del Congreso, estrechamente dividido, junto con medidas electorales que incluyen la inclusión de la protección del derecho al aborto en las constituciones estatales, la legalización de la marihuana y el fin de la manipulación partidista.Los resultados empezaron a llegar el martes por la tarde, aunque se esperaba que recuento de los votos se prolongara más allá de la noche electoral, y se dijo que podrían pasar días antes de que finalizaran los resultados de la carrera presidencial.Nick Hagen para The New York TimesVotantes en la Woodworth Middle School de Dearborn, Míchigan. Dearborn es la ciudad de EE. UU. con mayor población árabe estadounidense.Jordan Gale for The New York TimesUna carpa electoral en un parque local de Las Vegas, NevadaWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
On Tuesday, tens of millions of voters showed up at town halls, churches and high school gymnasiums across the country to cast their ballots.They joined the more than 80 million Americans who voted early, though the scenes varied by state. In some states, like Texas and New York, many voters were able to get in and out quickly, while in some areas of Michigan and Pennsylvania, some voters waited in long lines. Many states reported high turnout.Beyond the executive branch, control of the narrowly divided Congress is also at stake, along with ballot measures that include adding abortion-rights protections to state constitutions, legalizing marijuana and ending partisan gerrymandering.The results began rolling in on Tuesday evening, though the counting of the votes will extend beyond election night, and it could be days before the results of presidential race are finalized.Nick Hagen for The New York TimesVoters at Woodworth Middle School in Dearborn, Mich. Dearborn has the largest Arab American population of any U.S. city.Jordan Gale for The New York TimesA polling tent at a local park in Las Vegas, Nev.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
Americans headed to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in an extraordinarily close presidential election.While millions of Americans have already voted early, millions more will vote in person. Here’s when polling places open across the country (all times Eastern):6 a.m.ConnecticutIndiana (Polling places in the Central time zone open an hour later.)Kentucky (Polling places in the Central time zone open an hour later.)Maine (Municipalities with fewer than 500 residents can open later.)New Hampshire (It varies by municipality, but polls have to be open by 11 a.m.)New JerseyNew YorkVirginiaVermont (Polling places can open as early as 5 a.m., but times vary by municipality.)6:30 a.m.West VirginiaNorth CarolinaOhio7 a.m.DelawareWashington, D.C.Florida (Parts of the Panhandle located in the Central time zone open an hour later.)GeorgiaIllinoisKansas (Polling places located in the Mountain time zone may open an hour later.)LouisianaMarylandMassachusettsMichigan (except for parts of the state in the Central time zone, where polls open an hour later)MissouriPennsylvaniaRhode Island (except for the North Shoreham municipality, where polling stations open at 9 a.m.)South Carolina8 a.m.Alabama (Parts of the state located in the Eastern time zone may open an hour earlier.)ArizonaTennessee (Some municipalities, including those in the Central time zone, may open later.)IowaMinnesota (Towns with fewer than 500 people may approve later opening times.)MississippiNorth Dakota (Polls can open as late as 11 a.m.)OklahomaSouth Dakota (Polling places in the Mountain time zone open an hour later.)Texas (Polling places in the Mountain time zone open an hour later.)Wisconsin8:30 a.m.Arkansas9 a.m.ColoradoIdaho (Some polling places, including those in the Pacific time zone, open later.)Montana (Some smaller municipalities can open later.)Nebraska New MexicoOregon (Polling places in the Pacific time zone open an hour later.)UtahWyoming10 a.m.Washington (Times vary by county.)CaliforniaNevada11 a.m.Alaska (Some polling places open at noon.)NoonHawaii More
The first polls will close at 6 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, and the last at 1 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday. In between, there will be a steady stream of closings every 30 to 60 minutes, with voting ending in the key presidential swing states between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern. Select your time zone to see poll closing times in your local area. Some polls closed All polls closed Polls closed earlier Look up poll closing times in your state: More
Over the last four months, these voters have struggled with their decision. Now, with time short, they explain who’s getting, or not getting, their vote.Over the last four months, The New York Times has been speaking with undecided voters after some of the most dramatic moments of the presidential campaign, to learn how those events were shaping their choice.The people we talked with live in states where the polling is tight, and voters like them will play an outsize role in determining the outcome. They are concerned about the cost of living, former President Donald J. Trump’s volatility and Vice President Kamala Harris’s vision for the country.They are sporadic voters, disaffected former partisans, Republicans and Democrats. Some of them shifted their decisions over the course of the campaign. Others will decide when they step into the booth.While a lot has happened over the last few months, poll numbers have remained largely stable. The vast majority of American voters have made up their minds, adding even more weight to what persuadable voters ultimately decide.Kristen Morris voted for Ms. Harris.In the spring, Kristen Morris, 60, a former Republican, was feeling deeply pessimistic about her two choices for president. She felt troubled by Mr. Biden, whom she had voted for in 2020: She worried about his cognitive abilities and was unhappy with his handling of the country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. And she was stunned that Mr. Trump continued to express no remorse over the Jan. 6 riot.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
With about a week to go before Election Day, officials from two Pennsylvania counties announced that they had found large batches of suspicious voter registration forms. While at least some of the documents appeared to be fraudulent, there is no indication that any of them are ballots, though officials clarified that they were continuing to investigate.To hear former President Donald J. Trump’s telling, Pennsylvania’s election system was already melting down.“They’ve already started cheating in Lancaster,” he said at a rally on Tuesday night in Allentown, Pa. “Every vote was written by the same person.” He made similar allegations about York County, building on claims that he made on social media earlier in the day about “Really bad ‘stuff,’” in the two counties. “Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!!”, he insisted.But contrary to Mr. Trump’s incendiary claim that fake ballots had been cast, there were no reports of actual ballots being among the two batches of documents. And on the ground, away from the high-strung channels of social media, law enforcement was already doing its job.Neither a representative for the Trump campaign nor the state G.O.P. immediately responded to requests for comment.Thousands of voter registration forms, as well as some mail-in ballot applications, were submitted in large batches by out-of-state canvassing groups. Some of the paperwork raised suspicions among county election workers, and officials from both counties said any forms that appeared to be fraudulent would be turned over to local prosecutors.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
