Election 2024

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the State of the State address in the House of Representatives at the Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the State of the State address in the House of Representatives at the Capitol Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature

Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs knows she is outnumbered this legislative session as Republicans expanded their statehouse majorities in the last election.
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Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts

West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor

As Biden joins the former presidents club, here are some ideas for his retirement to-do list

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, left, speaks to state Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax on the first day of the legislative session, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025, in Richmond, Va. (Mike Kropf/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia elections signal no major shift in voter sentiment in a state watched closely for clues

  1. Kansas’ top elections official is running for governor after pushing back on conspiracy theories

  2. Virginia Democrats keep control of Statehouse in first elections after Trump win

GOP wins control of Congress

  1. Lawyers collecting $148 million judgment from Rudy Giuliani say World Series rings must be given up

  2. North Carolina justices block certification of election outcome in race for one of its own seats

  3. Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win, without the Jan. 6 mob violence of four years ago

  4. Lawmakers brace for Trump’s promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint

  5. Which US elections are happening in 2025? Here’s a look at upcoming primary and general contests

Trump is named Time’s Person of the Year for the second time

President-elect Donald Trump was recognized for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. Before he was set to ring the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell, a first for him, Trump called it “a tremendous honor.”
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The Trump and Biden teams insist they’re working hand in glove on foreign crises during transition

Donald Trump is returning to the world stage. So is his trolling

AP VoteCast

Young Black and Latino men say they chose Trump because of the economy and jobs. Here’s how and why

Black and Latino voters moved toward Republican Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election, and some of the biggest shifts were among men under age 45, and that helped expand his margin over Democrat Kamala Harris.
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AP VoteCast: Voter anxiety over the economy and a desire for change return Trump to the White House

Democracy was a motivating factor for both Harris and Trump voters, but for very different reasons

AP VoteCast: How Donald Trump built a winning 2024 coalition

How 5 key groups voted in 2024: AP VoteCast

AP VoteCast: Voters who focused on the economy broke hard for Trump

AP VoteCast: Harris voters motivated by democracy, Trump supporters by inflation and immigration

How AP VoteCast works, and how it’s different from an exit poll

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Election workers process ballots for the 2024 General Election, Nov. 5, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin audit of Trump win finds not a single voting machine error

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Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at the New York City District Council of Carpenters while campaigning for mayor of New York City, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

What to know about Andrew Cuomo

Blythe Gonzalez, right, asks a question of a Jackson, Miss., precinct worker, unseen, while her husband Jorge Gonzalez, left, waits with his paper ballot, to accompany her to a voting kiosk, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Rogelio V. Solis, File)

GOP pushes ahead with citizenship voting bill. Some state election officials say it’s problematic

Vice President JD Vance, right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, as President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

JD Vance gets his long-awaited moment to admonish Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump embraces former candidate Vivek Ramaswamy at a campaign event in Atkinson, N.H., Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump’s early backing of Ramaswamy for Ohio governor seen by some as meant to avoid a nasty primary

Republican Heather Hill, a 2026 candidate for Ohio governor, smiles during an interview with The Associated Press in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos)

Republican Heather Hill, Appalachian entrepreneur, is inspired by tragedies to run for Ohio governor

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers the 2025 State of the State address Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Mich. (Katy Kildee/Detroit News via AP)

Michigan Democratic Gov. Whitmer makes direct appeal to young men after sharp shift in election

Voting machines fill the floor for early voting at State Farm Arena, Oct. 12, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Georgia election board drops suit after group fails to produce ballot-stuffing evidence

Kandiss Taylor, a thne-Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate, participates in a Republican primary debate on Sunday, May 1, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool, File)

A Georgia Republican known for her `Jesus, Guns and Babies’ slogan is running for Congress

Chevron President in Venezuela, Javier La Rosa, left, attends a signing agreement ceremony between Venezuela and the California-based Chevron, in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Trump cuts financial lifeline for Venezuela’s government by ending permit to export oil to US

A election worker holds an election envelope during a tour of Utah County's elections equipment and review processes for administering secure elections, April 19, 2022, in Provo, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah Republicans move to overhaul election operations, starting with universal mail-in voting

People wait in line to vote on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Boston ordered to change its elections practices following ballot problems in November

Alabama State Auditor, Andrew Sorrell speaks during the inauguration ceremony on the steps of the Alabama State Capital, Jan. 16, 2023 in Montgomery, Ala.. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Alabama auditor Andrew Sorrell is running for secretary of state

President Donald Trump speaks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, as he arrives at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., Oct. 13, 2018, to travel to Richmond, Ky., for a rally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Kentucky Senate hopeful Daniel Cameron praises Trump, criticizes his mentor, Mitch McConnell

Friedrich Merz, right, member of the German Christian Democratic Party, arrives for a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Who is Friedrich Merz, the man on course to take Germany’s top job after election?

Vivek Ramaswamy announces his candidacy for Ohio governor, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in West Chester Township, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kareem Elgazzar)

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy joins the Ohio governor’s race

A Delaware County secured drop box for the return of vote-by-mail ballots is pictured, May 2, 2022, in Newtown Square, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

3 politicians are accused of faking mail-in ballots in a 2021 mayoral race in a Philly suburb

Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the N.C. Supreme Court listens to testimony in Wake County Superior Court on Friday, February 7, 2025 in Raleigh, N.C. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)

North Carolina justices don’t fast-track challenge over election for seat on their court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is silhouetted by window light as he heads to the chamber to begin the week, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Scramble for McConnell’s Senate seat underway with signs of a bruising GOP primary ahead

New election official picked in Arizona county where leaders embraced conspiracy theories

Elon Musk arrives before President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Group backed by Musk pours money into ads on behalf of GOP candidate in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz., on Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Arizona governor vetoes bill to speed up counting of election results in the swing state

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Georgia Republicans advance a plan to leave a bipartisan voter data group, despite warnings

Alabama's Secretary of State Wes Allen speaks during the inauguration ceremony on the steps of the Alabama State Capital Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announces he’ll run for lieutenant governor

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks at a news conference in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023, as officials announced that the closure of poppy fields at Walker Canyon until the wildflower bloom subsides. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File)

Riverside County sheriff becomes the first major Republican to say he’ll run for California governor

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., appears on stage at the 50th annual NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, March 30, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Former Vice President Kamala Harris to be honored by NAACP with its Chairman’s Award

Emergency and law enforcement agencies respond to a possible hazmat situation at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash., Nov. 8, 2023. Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders — including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl — while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday's election. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling

The download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump Media says it lost more than $400 million last year

Biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with reporters ahead of a town hall, Sept. 19, 2024, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Vivek Ramaswamy will kick off his bid for Ohio governor in Cincinnati on Feb. 24

A cyclist rides past the Wisconsin State Capitol July 30, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf, File)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Wisconsin’s spring primary