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Video by PBS NewsHour NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to unify a deeply divided nation, having scored a stunning victory backed by extraordinary support from working-class America. The tough-talking New York billionaire claimed victories in the nation's premier battleground states, but his appeal across ...
... in our government, our country was truly good. No Democrat or Republican can fix it. Only God can. ABBY ROSS, Black River Falls High School, Wisconsin: And I want the next president to know that women deserve equal pay to men. This is America, and we are known for our ...
... Democratic states, places that have gone Democratic in a lot of the last six elections -- in all of the last six elections, places like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. They feel better about Michigan, but the Clinton campaign is saying that they're still up there. And you have President Obama going ...
... and replace. LISA DESJARDINS: Trump's Keystone State visit is part of a final week push in states that voted twice for Barack Obama, including Wisconsin, where he is tonight. And the campaign just announced new ad buys in usually dark blue Michigan and in New Mexico, which may be ...
... ALISON STEWART, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome. The developing story about the FBI reviving its investigation into Hillary ...
... ALISON STEWART, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: For the first time in a presidential election, nine more states are enforcing new laws requiring eligible voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls. That includes New Hampshire, Virginia, Wisconsin and Texas. The laws, which have been controversial, were ...
... red, held by Republicans. What is Democrats' best chance at a Senate takeover? Well, sources in both parties believe they will pick up Illinois and Wisconsin. That would be two. In North Carolina and Missouri, incumbent Republicans are on the ropes. If they lose? That's two more Democratic pick ...
... he doesn't think Hillary Clinton has the stamina to be president, and Clinton talks about Trump's history of talking about women. Video by PBS NewsHour Trump reminded Deborath Calvanicoweinstein, a homemaker in Madison, Wisconsin, of the car repairmen who talk down to her, but not to her husband ...
Texas is back in federal court yet again defending one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws — this time against charges that the state is violating its own recent agreement to soften the rules ahead of the November election.
Nationally, the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is getting closer; an average of polls show Clinton's post-convention bounce is over. Lisa Desjardins examines both candidates' polling strengths and Carroll Doherty of the Pew Research Center and The Washington Post’s Dan Balz join Judy Woodruff for a breakdown of the electorate and how the...
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