Both the Biden and Trump campaigns will work to mobilize their bases and maximize turnout among their supporters. But those votes alone will probably not be enough to ensure victory.
The US is relying more on its alliances in the Middle East in order to pull back a bit. This will likely continue no matter who is in the White House next year.
Thousands of democrat voters received calls from what sounded like Joe Biden. It was a deepfake.
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Shweta Singh, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Technology could come to the rescue, protecting the integrity of elections.
Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, center, of the North Carolina Supreme Court swears in state presidential electors to cast their votes on Dec. 14, 2020.
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In the 2020 presidential election, groups of self-appointed electors in seven states met to cast votes for Donald Trump, even though Joe Biden had carried their states. Could that happen again?
Since 1992, Michigan voted reliably for Democratic presidential candidates. Then Donald Trump won the state in 2016, followed by Biden’s 2020 win in the state. Michigan is a ‘battleground state.’
The William McKinley Monument, silhouetted on the west side of the Ohio Statehouse, on April 15, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio.
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Ohio remains stuck with a deadline that won’t allow Joe Biden, running for reelection, to appear on the November ballot. The GOP-run Legislature does not appear to want to fix the problem.
Protesters across the street from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
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Former President Donald Trump has made some inroads with voters of color by appealing to law and order, conservative social values and mistrust of government.
What’s the future of democracy in the U.S.?
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One-third of Americans think that “rule by a strong leader or the military would be a good way of governing their country.” Are they losing faith in democracy?
The risk for the president is that he has not anticipated just how much his own foreign policy might undermine his message and the strength of his personal appeal.
President Joe Biden referred to Donald Trump as ‘my predecessor’ 13 times during the 2024 State of the Union.
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What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
Richard Nixon and Donald Trump may seem similar, but they have key differences.
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The parallels between Trump and Nixon are abundantly clear. Yet even Nixon acknowledged the fundamental importance of accountability in a democracy.
Donald Trump’s identity has always been closely tied to his wealth – and was also a means to roast him, such as by Comedy Central in 2011.
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There are potential threats to US democracy posed by the choices voters make in this presidential election. But the benefits of American democracy have for centuries been unequally available.
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are nearly twice the median age of the U.S. population.
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Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta.
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Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
‘We did win this election,’ said then-President Donald Trump at the White House early on Nov. 4, 2020, on what was still election night.
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Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results. But the work of others, from lawmakers to judges to regular citizens, stopped him. There are cautionary lessons in that for the 2024 election.