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Donald Trump often speaks of an America in decline. Kamala Harris counters with a rival emotional appeal centered around excitement and joy.
Trump aggressively supported fossil fuels. The Biden-Harris administration focused on replacing them with clean energy. Yet, data show the US oil and gas industries still thrived under both.
The early boost in support for the Democrat appears to have tapered off, so much now hangs on this week’s presidential debate.
It’s a difficult question that has no easy answers, even if Kamala Harris wins in November.
The unusual explosion of grassroots action, operating mostly outside the Democratic party machine, appears to have added energy – and money – to the Harris campaign.
Presidential candidate’s potential ties to an Irish slave owner complicate narratives around colonial legacies and the proper place of Black Irish identity in history.
Youth unemployment and out-of-control inequality are just two reasons voters have begun to lose patience with strongman capitalism. Voting is always the key to defeating authoritarianism.
Democrats are taking a new tone aimed at a particular weakness of Donald Trump: He hates being laughed at.
The home states of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are part of the image of each campaign.
Despite Harris’ rise in the national and battleground state polls, Trump still leads her on several critical issues – immigration, the economy and inflation.
After the Donald Trump presidency, Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden in restoring a more conciliatory tone with Canada. But it didn’t really apply to actual policy.
Union voters are particularly significant in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada, three swing states where the share of voters who belong to unions is above average.
The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 48.8–45.0. In my previous…
Of the four presidential and vice presidential candidates, only Tim Walz did not mention China in his convention speech − and he is the only one with personal knowledge of the country.
If campaign ethics are no longer important to politicians or voters, the U.S. and Canada will face more contested elections, greater political division and further erosion of trust in politicians.
The masculinity on display at the Democratic convention was groundbreaking as men − from Joe Biden to Pete Buttigieg to Tim Walz to Doug Emhoff − aimed unreservedly to lift up women as leaders.
Donald Trump may try and use the news of his court case charges to grab more television air time, and shift the energy of his campaign.
The difference between a win for Trump and a Harris White House has huge implications for the conflict.
For all the energy, creativity and money presidential candidates pour into their campaigns, it turns out that the ‘subtle power of irrelevant events’ can also shift an election’s outcome.
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