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US Election 2024 headlines with summaries.
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US election: Campaigns target overseas voters
22 Oct 2024Around 1.6 million Americans abroad are eligible to vote in seven crucial swing states, the Democrats say - but only a fraction of them return a ballot.
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Harris, Trump in dead heat across swing states - poll
22 Oct 2024Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain in a tight contest across seven battleground states with just over two weeks to go.
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Exonerated 'Central Park Five' sue Trump over 'defamatory' debate claims
22 Oct 2024Members of the 'Central Park Five' sued Trump over "false and defamatory" statements they allege he made about their 1989 case during a presidential debate.
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Trump calls Harris 'a s*** vice president' as US campaign heats up
20 Oct 2024Republican Donald Trump escalated his verbal attacks on Democrat Kamala Harris as the vice president turned to celebrities to generate enthusiasm for her campaign.
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Harris targets Trump's age after report of exhaustion
19 Oct 2024Kamala Harris questioned Donald Trump's fitness for office, as the oldest major-party White House candidate in history faced speculation that he is "exhausted".
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Trump blames Ukraine's Zelensky for starting war with Russia
18 Oct 2024The former president also slammed the Ukrainian president for not seeking peace with Moscow. Audio
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Review says US Secret Service 'complacent', needs reform
Donald Trump narrowly escaped being shot in the head at a rally in July.
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JD Vance says Trump did not lose the 2020 US election
17 Oct 2024After dodging the issue for weeks, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance said unequivocally on Wednesday local time he believes false claims that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
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Trump's all-women town hall packed with supporters
17 Oct 2024Billed as a chance for women to question Trump, Fox didn't say it had packed the audience with his supporters and edited its broadcast.
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Kamala Harris grilled on Fox News about Joe Biden's fitness for office
17 Oct 2024Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris was grilled in a TV interview on on the Biden administration's efforts to tackle a surge in illegal immigration at the southern border, and laid the blame on…
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Trump declares himself 'father of IVF' in front of all-female audience
It is unclear what precisely the former US president meant when he made the comment.
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Georgia judge blocks rule requiring hand-count of election ballots
16 Oct 2024The hand-count rule was passed by a pro-Trump conservative majority of Georgia's Republican-controlled election board last month.
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Watch: Trump rally turns into bizarre dance-a-thon
16 Oct 2024Kamala Harris has questioned Donald Trump's mental state after the 78-year-old Republican's latest televised town hall veered into a surreal, impromptu music and dancing session.
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Record number of early votes cast in Georgia as election gets underway in battleground state
16 Oct 2024Roughly 252,000 ballots have been cast, topping the 136,000 record set in 2020.
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Kamala Harris aims to shore up support among Black men
16 Oct 2024The US Democratic presidential candidate has been visiting the crucial 2024 election state of Michigan.
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Trump's extreme vision hikes pressure on Harris
15 Oct 2024Analysis - Donald Trump is invoking a White House term that would transform America and rock the world.
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Harris: Trump 'a huge risk for America, and dangerous'
15 Oct 2024The Vice President has warned warned that Donald Trump's actions could put people's freedom at risk.
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What is the 'Electoral College' and why will it decide the US election?
9 Oct 2024Explainer - You're probably hearing an awful lot about the Electoral College. But what is it? RNZ is here with a handy guide.
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Trump dominates a debate he wasn't on stage for
3 Oct 2024In the debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance, the same two words were at the top of each candidate's list.
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Trump's word explosion on the debate stage
12 Sep 2024Analysis: By sheer weight of words, Donald Trump dominated the US presidential debate. But was he outflanked? Here's what the numbers show.
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Harris-Trump debate takeaways: Dog eating, crowd sizes and abortion battles
11 Sep 2024Analysis - Trump's temper, Harris on abortion and a last-minute Taylor Swift cameo? Here's five quick takeaways from the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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Project 2025: What you need to know about America's most controversial document
13 Aug 2024Explainer - A plan called "Project 2025" has been making waves in the US presidential race. But what does it really say? RNZ is here to explain it all.
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US presidential debate: What the data shows about who said what
An RNZ analysis of the first US presidential debate shows Trump dominated the first debate by more than 1000 words.
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Biden: Age and optics just too hard to fight
22 Jul 2024Analysis - US President Joe Biden, who channelled perseverance and grit into a 50-year run in American politics, finally met a foe he could not beat.
