Republicans Gain Early-Vote Leads in at Least 4 Battleground States: Election Lab

While returns in Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan are inconclusive, those in Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Nevada are trending the GOP’s way. Republican voters appear to be running up big leads during the opening stages of early voting in at least four of seven battleground states, in some cases not only chipping into mail-in ballot

Federal Judge Orders Virginia To Reinstate Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to reinstate 1,600 noncitizen voter registrations that Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R.) removed this year in an effort to disqualify illegal noncitizens from voting in the November election. U.S. district judge Patricia Giles, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, granted the Department of Justice’s request for an injunction

WATCH: Morning Joe Melts Down Over Trump’s Transgender Ad

MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough fumed over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s recent transgender ad airing in battleground states, saying the Harris campaign “is blind to” the ad’s impact in the final days before the election. “They’ve run that 30,000 times during football games. It’s having an impact,” Scarborough said Friday of the ad,

Federal Judge Blocks Virginia Plan to Purge Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

The plan violated a 90-day quiet period preventing systematic changes before an election, the judge said. ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A federal judge in Virginia has halted the commonwealth’s recent program to purge noncitizens from its voter rolls in an expedited fashion, holding that the policy comes too close to the November election. Virginia’s program, announced on Aug.

Trump, Harris to Hold Dueling Events in Texas to Spotlight Key Issues

Trump will focus on border security in Austin while Harris will advocate for abortion access in Houston, sharing the stage with Beyoncé. HOUSTON, Texas—As the 2024 presidential election enters its final stretch, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will hold dueling campaign events in Texas, a Republican stronghold, on Friday, focusing on

JD Vance’s Michigan Town Hall: 5 Key Moments

Sen. JD Vance promoted former President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs and border security in the key swing state. Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) addressed questions from a cross-section of voters during a NewsNation town hall moderated by Chris Cuomo in the key swing state of Michigan on Thursday. Vance spoke on

Early Voting Data Indicate Mail-In Voting Won’t Be as Prominent in 2024

Despite setting first-day records in several states, early voting patterns appear similar to those in recent elections cycles. Nearly 70 percent of the more than 154.6 million Americans who voted in the 2020 election did so by “non-traditional means” with 43 percent voting by mail and 26 percent casting ballots in-person prior to Election Day