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1796 episodes transcribedVice President Harris and former president Donald Trump are focused on the same thing: the unprecedented ways he has promised to use the presidency.Tr...
Elon Musk has gone all in on Trump and put $75 million into a super PAC he created to support the candidate. He's also assisting with get-out-the-vot...
Former President Donald Trump has talked about using the Department of Justice to go after those he sees as disloyal, raising concerns about democrat...
The House of Representatives is currently narrowly controlled by Republicans, but with both Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem...
Both candidates were together in Michigan this weekend started their weekends in Michigan, where Vice President Harris made use of Republican validato...
As Election Day nears, the campaigns of both Kamala Harris & Donald Trump kicked into high gear. Both are holding rallies & making media appearances t...
As campaign season started, many American voters expressed a dislike of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump. With Biden's exit from the presidential race,...
Between a competitive Senate race, a measure to liberalize abortion rights & a measure concerning immigration, Arizona voters have a lot on their ball...
Polls ahead of Election Day show an ever tightening race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. We look at their camp...
Voting looks a little different in 2024 than it did during the last presidential election. In this encore of a September episode, we explore some of t...
Donald Trump campaigns in Aurora, Colorado today, a city that he's targeted with the brand of anti-immigrant rhetoric that has propelled his reelectio...
After hurricanes Helene and Milton battered the south, both former President Trump and Vice President Harris have made disaster response part of their...
They vote in large numbers. They're a part of the electorate that usually gets courted heavily. But older voters say this time around, presidential ca...
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are both leveraging popular entertainment media to reach voters who might not follow traditional news sources.Our cover...
This presidential cycle is the closest in recent memory and, despite what feels like an never-ending stream of unprecedented news, has remained nearly...
Vice President Harris traveled to the birthplace of the Republican Party in Wisconsin this week to campaign with a one-time senior Republican congress...
Voters in a record number of states, including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching chan...
Democratic under-performance in New York state cost the party control of the House of Representatives in 2022. Now, a new coordination strategy has th...
This vice presidential debate in New York City, hosted by CBS News, is the only time Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz face off before vo...
NPR's live special coverage of the CBS News Presidential Debate Simulcast begins Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and is available on your local mem...
