• Candidates dash to swing states as millions of Americans cast their ballots

    Candidates dash to swing states as millions of Americans cast their ballots

    Oct 27, 2020 10:55 PM EDT

    ... fundamentally changed forever. Yamiche Alcindor: The High Court is also at the center of another election-related dispute. Last night, justices ruled 5-3 that Wisconsin may not accept ballots that arrive after polls close on Election Day. That's a rejection of an appeal by the Democratic Party. It ...

  • How the AP calls races and what to expect on election night

    How the AP calls races and what to expect on election night

    Oct 27, 2020 09:08 PM EDT

    ... institute, analyzed 2016 data from seven battleground states where any voter could choose to vote by mail: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. It found that white voters and voters over the age of 65 were more likely to cast ballots by mail in those states. A ...

  • Trump's struggles in the suburbs put North Carolina in play for Biden

    Trump's struggles in the suburbs put North Carolina in play for Biden

    Oct 15, 2020 09:56 PM EDT

    ... Biden the heavy favorite in many cities, suburban voters like White in North Carolina -- and in other key battleground states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- will play an outsized role in determining the winner in November.  Both political parties have aggressively courted suburbanites for the past two decades; they ...

  • WATCH: Pence holds campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan

    WATCH: Pence holds campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Oct 14, 2020 04:10 PM EDT

    Vice President Mike Pence visited a Michigan manufacturing facility Oct. 14 for a campaign event to re-elect President Donald Trump. Watch Pence's remarks in the player above. The day before, at a campaign stop nearby in Wisconsin, Pence defended President Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S ...

  • How Trump and Biden are talking to critical Florida voters

    How Trump and Biden are talking to critical Florida voters

    Oct 13, 2020 10:45 PM EDT

    ... it's risky. It's risky. But you have got to get out. Yamiche Alcindor: Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence campaigned in another battleground state, Wisconsin.Vice President Mike Pence I think the choice in this election is whether America remains America. Yamiche Alcindor: With just three weeks until Election ...

  • In new videos for Biden, Obama and Harris make appeal to Black voters

    In new videos for Biden, Obama and Harris make appeal to Black voters

    Sep 29, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

    ... celebrity news sites featuring former President Barack Obama and Sen. Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate. Each of the videos, which were shared with the PBS NewsHour before their release, will appear on The Shade Room and The Young, Black, and Fabulous, and will include a pitch to back Biden ...

  • Trump prompts controversy with refusal to accept a potential election defeat

    Trump prompts controversy with refusal to accept a potential election defeat

    Sep 24, 2020 10:55 PM EDT

    Florida Senator Marco Rubio pledged to peacefully swear in the president in 2021. And Utah Senator Mitt Romney dismissed anything other than a peaceful transition as unthinkable and unacceptable. Former Wisconsin Governor Scott walker, however, backed the president, tweeting: "Smart candidates never concede anything before an election. They focus on ...

  • Understanding the magnitude of the U.S. coronavirus death toll

    Understanding the magnitude of the U.S. coronavirus death toll

    Sep 21, 2020 10:35 PM EDT

    ... today. All told, Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arizona have seen the most cases per capita so far. But over the last week, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah have seen the most cases per capita. New York, which suffered the worst outbreak early on, accounts for more than 16 ...

  • Battle for Iowa heats up over rural issues

    Battle for Iowa heats up over rural issues

    Sep 20, 2020 09:14 PM EDT

    ... last few weeks has been issues pertaining to ethanol. And just in the last couple days here, President Trump traveled to the neighboring state of Wisconsin to promise more money, more money for an agriculture and farm sector that has been sent a lot of money in recent years.  Hari ...

  • Biden, Trump campaign in Minnesota as its early voting period begins

    Biden, Trump campaign in Minnesota as its early voting period begins

    Sep 18, 2020 10:55 PM EDT

    Crowd: Four more years! Four more years! President Donald Trump: Thank you very much. Lisa Desjardins: At a rally in Wisconsin last night, the president painted a grim picture of what a Biden win would look like, in a more than an hour-and-a-half-long speech condemning recent ...