Vice President Kamala Harris will not attend next month’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York City, her campaign has told organizers, opting instead to stump in a battleground state on October 17, less than three weeks before the election.

Some state averages started later in 2024 because of a lack of sufficient early polling. Source: Averages by The New York Times; polls collected by FiveThirtyEight and The Times. Nate CohnChief political analyst Despite a strong debate performance,

The latest news and updates on the 2024 election, as Harris campaigns in Georgia and Wisconsin and Trump raises money in Florida.

The country’s next president will need a friendly Congress to make their policy dreams a reality, but control of the two chambers remains deeply uncertain with just weeks until Election Day — and whether the outcome will be a party trifecta in the nation’s capital.

In a campaign that has seen two attempted assassinations of one of the candidates, gun policy has still not been a factor.

Georgia election officials are requiring poll workers to tally the number of ballots by hand. The State Election Board voted 3-2 on Friday to approve the new rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office,

Attempts by conservatives to purge state voter rolls ahead of the November election, including from Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, are ramping up, prompting concern from the Justice Department that those efforts might violate federal rules governing how states can manage their lists of registered voters.

CNN’s Michael Smerconish discusses how Americans are distracted by salacious headlines about the 2024 presidential election despite a new report from the Commission on the National Defense Strategy that warns about a “near-term major war” the US could face and numerous dangers abroad.

Since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket in July, Harris has been met with a flood of donations, bringing in $200 million in her first week as a presidential candidate, Axios reported. She also raised $47 million in the first 24 hours following her first debate with Trump, which took place last week in Philadelphia.

Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday afternoon, a state that is crucial to Trump’s most plausible paths to victory in the electoral college. Embattled North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson is not expected to attend Trump’s rally Saturday,