Battleground News is the source for 2024 election news as it pertains to the seven swing states and their 93 electoral votes. With local sources, we cover how voters in each swing state district are thinking about the issues and the candidates.
2024 Presidential Election
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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It will take 270 electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election. Click states on the interactive Battleground map to create your own forecast. The Expert Consensus map is what the pros think as they look to November. For a look at 'if the election was today', use the Based on Polling map. The 2020 Actual map reflects the Biden vs. Trump result that year, using 2024 electoral votes for each state.
With just weeks until the general election, Vice President Kamala Harris made her case to Latino voters – a key demographic that Democrats are slightly losing ground with.
Vice President Harris is struggling to confront a rapidly worsening crisis in the Middle East as she seeks to balance unwavering support for Israel with appeals to progressive and Arab-American communities.
The world’s richest man has gone full “dark MAGA” in his bid to put former President Donald Trump back in the White House. Voter turnout in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will test his influence.
For the first time in 13 years, Wisconsin Democrats are contesting a number of local races. Even a few thousand voters energized by the candidates at their door could make a difference in a tight presidential contest.
With Biden gone from the Democratic ticket, Trump is betting he can win more votes in the reddening region of Northeast Pennsylvania where the president was raised.
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake, in a tense, televised interview, challenged the integrity of government data, refused again to acknowledge her 2022 gubernatorial loss and cast her Democratic challenger Ruben Gallego as a nuisance employee years ago.
Vice President Harris pledged to sign a new version of the failed bipartisan Senate border deal at a campaign event in Douglas, Ariz., on Friday, touting a law enforcement vision of border management and panning former President Trump for politicizing the issue.
With less than six weeks until the general election, former President Donald Trump holds an edge over Vice President Kamala Harris in the key battleground state of Arizona, according to an exclusive new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.
Federal law requires counties with high concentrations of Native speakers to provide translations of the ballot. But what they leave out can be as important as what they put in.
Election day is 47 days away, and while the political climate can feel very divisive, a new survey says Arizona voters agree more than disagree on several issues.
Iranian hackers sent people associated with President Joe Biden’s campaign unsolicited information that was stolen from former President Donald Trump’s campaign, but the overture was ignored, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a candidate for president Wednesday, although both parties sought the support of the nation’s largest union.
Arizona officials say nearly 100,000 registered, full-ballot voters may not have provided citizenship documents in accordance with state law, but were miscategorized on the voter rolls because of a coding glitch in the state's motor vehicle database.
U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake stood onstage Friday with Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a former Republican rival she called a “total coward” only months ago, but now they both praised the importance of police in society.
The U.S. Secret Service reportedly opened fire at a man pointing an AK-style rifle into Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as he was on the course, law enforcement officials said.
Just one day after former President Donald Trump visited Augusta to tour storm damage there, his campaign surrogates embarked on a statewide bus tour to drum up much-needed support in the critical swing state.
Lawsuits seeking to overturn the hand-count rule have been filed by the Democratic Party, a former Republican state legislator and Cobb County’s election board
The former president’s campaign event at a 2,500-seat venue in Savannah on Tuesday fueled false claims from his supporters that he was forced to use the small venue
Georgia Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to compel Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to hold a hearing over three Georgia State Election Board members after the Democrats issued ethics charges against them.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
Georgia voters are increasingly confident that the 2024 presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey shows.
Many Georgia lawmakers and politicians were reluctant late Sunday to immediately weigh in on what the FBI said was an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reached out for comment.
Vice President Harris is facing growing signs that Arab American and Muslim voters are souring on her in the key battlegrounds of Michigan and Georgia as anger rises over the expanding conflict in the Middle East.
In a Metro Detroit rematch that features the same characters in a familiar storyline, Republican U.S. Rep. John James is facing another challenge from Democrat and former Macomb County prosecutor Carl Marlinga, who is plotting an upset.
Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance would not commit a second Trump administration to honoring the Biden administration's $500 million federal grant to General Motors Co. to convert a Cadillac sedan assembly plant in Michigan into a future electric vehicle plant.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will campaign in Flint on Friday, and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance will hold two events in Michigan on Wednesday.
Details of a suspected vandalism incident in Washtenaw County, which recently were posted on social media and reported by a metro Detroit TV station, have stirred concerns of political violence and stoked outrage in a string of online comments.
After roughly an hour of touting his running mate Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, JD Vance wrapped his message to a crowd of northern Michigan supporters Wednesday with these instructions: Get out and vote early in the 2024 presidential election, and take your friends.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, has accelerated his preparations for his Oct. 1 debate with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), participating in policy sessions and mock debates in his home state and on the road.
As Detroit's automotive brass worries how it can compete against a Chinese juggernaut, former President Donald Trump came to the birthplace of General Motors and the Sit-Down Strikes this week with a message: Don't bother.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris told a crowd in suburban Detroit Thursday that people are finding the American dream "far more elusive than it's been" and the country needs to "deal with that."
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate for president, to have his name removed from Michigan's Nov. 5 ballot.
Among the most intriguing elections in Michigan this fall is a test of just how far a once reliably Democratic-leaning region around Flint, Bay City and Saginaw has shifted toward Republicans under the populism of former President Donald Trump.
Michigan state Rep. Jim DeSana, a Republican, suggested, during a political event in July, that some people don't perceive Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris as "authentically Black," according to a recording obtained by The Detroit News.
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden's campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump's campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
Lori and Richard Stade built their dream retirement home off a canal where they fished for bass and bluegill and took their grandchildren boating in what was known as "pontoon alley."
A steady stream of Washoe County voters has been filing into the Registrar of Voters’ office this week, hand-delivering signature verification cards so their personal information is not exposed in the mail process.
“This week, interim Registrar of Voters, Cari-Ann Burgess, expressed to County Manager (Eric) Brown that she was experiencing stress related health issues,” a county spokesperson said in an email Wednesday.
In long-ranging interviews with The Nevada Independent, both candidates outlined their policies on topics such as housing, health care and school choice.
A new poll of Nevada voters shows Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump still basically tied — but they slightly expect Harris to win while also viewing her less favorably than just a month ago.
National and local politicians shared their reactions after the FBI announced the agency is investigating “what appears to be an attempted assassination” on former President Donald Trump.
The Latino population in Nevada is growing, but its political participation still lags behind other groups, underscoring the untapped potential of the bloc.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump continued to denounce the influx of immigrants into the country at a rally in Las Vegas, just days after the first and possibly only presidential debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris pledged ongoing federal support and praised the “heroes among us” as she visited North Carolina on Saturday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, her second trip in four days to the disaster zone.
The candidates for governor in North Carolina are Democrat Josh Stein, Republican Mark Robinson, Libertarian Mike Ross, Michael Wayne Turner of the Green Party and Vinny Smith of the Constitution Party. There is no incumbent. Get to know the candidates in our 2024 NC Voter Guide.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who was on Vice President Kamala Harris’ short list as a potential running mate this summer, is coming to North Carolina to campaign for Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.
Days after a scandal upended Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor, most of his campaign staff resigned. Now much of his staff in the lieutenant governor’s office have resigned, too.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance took the stage at Raleigh’s Union Station on Wednesday afternoon to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris’ record, particularly on energy and the economy.
The 2024 election is a “fight for our future,” Vice President Kamala Harris declared in North Carolina Thursday as she looked to cement herself as the forward-thinking candidate and “the underdog” in the race.
The Democratic presidential candidate will hold events in Charlotte and Greensboro Thursday to kick off a nationwide campaign swing following her first debate with former President Donald Trump
In a pair of lawsuits filed last month, national and state Republicans seek to purge North Carolina’s voter rolls of hundreds of thousands of registrants they say were improperly allowed to register.
Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, told an audience at Duke University on Wednesday that she is going to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
The two-term mayor saw a city council go from united in a flurry of pro-development activity to divided over numerous issues. How will the city move forward without her at the helm?
Amid presidential ballot shake-ups and gubernatorial attack ads, a neglected but consequential campaign is being waged in North Carolina politics for a seat on the state Supreme Court.
The former president, one of the party’s most popular figures, will rally in Pittsburgh for Kamala Harris, as her campaign deploys its most influential surrogates in a push to get out the vote.
Jewish voters in Pittsburgh feel squeezed by intolerance on the left and the right, and torn by presidential candidates seeking their support in a vital battleground state.
With a month before Election Day, former President Donald Trump made a dramatic return to the Western Pa. town where he survived an attempted assassination.
Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, denouncing former President Donald Trump as “the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime.”
The pending lawsuits before state and federal courts, mostly focused on Pennsylvania mail ballots, could have a major impact in the presidential race given the state's razor-thin vote margins.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania billed the campaign of former President Donald Trump $40,000 for its use of the 5,000-seat Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex for this week’s rally.
Nearly half of renters in Lancaster County are spending around a third of their income on housing, an amount considered to be cost-burdening, according to a U.S. Census Bureau survey released this month.
Joe Biden’s local ties and cultural roots kept him competitive in culturally conservative northeastern Pennsylvania. Harris’ prospects in the heavily Catholic, working-class region there are dicier.
Ten voter education organizations on Wednesday filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court seeking to allow mail-in ballots with errant dates on return envelopes to be counted.
The Democratic and Republican candidates for Pennsylvania Attorney General on Wednesday gave a glimpse into the status of their respective campaign finance accounts.
The vice president pledged to boost American industries while trying to gain voters' confidence in her ability to handle the economy, an issue Pa. voters favor Trump on.
With only one month until the presidential election, very few voters are still uncertain about their choice, but in a battleground state like Wisconsin that has flipped in the past two elections, those undecided voters could make the difference.
Of the eight congressional races on the ballot across the state on Nov. 5, only western Wisconsin’s 3rd District is expected to be competitive as Democrats look to flip control of the House.
The Madison city clerk’s office on Thursday clarified that barcodes appear on absentee ballot envelopes, not the ballots themselves, after a Republican member of Congress assailed the city’s explanation for why thousands of duplicate ballots sent out by mistake couldn’t be counted twice.
Election work is a seven-day-a-week job during election season in Wisconsin's largest city, the Milwaukee Election Commission's executive director said recently.
A group of dozens of Polish American Wisconsinites, including current and former Democratic elected officials, released an open letter Wednesday criticizing former President Donald Trump's comments about Russia's war with Ukraine
The race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump appears neck and neck among likely Wisconsin voters 50 and older, according to a poll released Wednesday by AARP Wisconsin.
As county clerks print their ballots and deliver them to the more than 1,800 municipal clerks that administer Wisconsin elections, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is still trying to get his name off them.
The Nov. 5 election is quickly approaching, and you may be seeing plenty of political ads on social media, television and elsewhere reminding you to register to vote.
Ahead of the first and only scheduled debate between Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, the heads of Wisconsin's political parties are seeking to tie the candidates to unpopular figures and platforms.
Biden spoke in Westby, about 30 minutes from La Crosse, at an outdoor event that seemed tame in comparison to recent rallies held by the Harris-Walz campaign in Wisconsin.
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