US elections

We spoke to Lindy Li, a top Democratic fundraiser and strategist.

Then we went to Philadelphia. There was no red carpet for the stars descending here: Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson and the mayor of Philadelphia, Cherelle Parker.

One of the things that makes US elections so intriguing – and unpredictable – is the somewhat peculiar system of the electoral college.

We spoke to Albert Eisenberg, a Republican political strategist and a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

It’s the legendary venue he’s always wanted to play: Donald Trump’s first and likely only night at Madison Square Garden was meant to be his last big pitch to undecided voters.

It’s the legendary venue he’s always wanted to play: Donald Trump’s first night at Madison Square Garden was meant to be his last big pitch to undecided voters. But much of the focus since has been on the support acts: speakers who told racist jokes about Latino and Black voters and now risk alienating the very voters he needs to win over.

Matt Frei is joined by a Democratic politician and a pro-Trump strategist in Pennsylvania where the race for the White House is now so close that both sides are in the fight for their political lives.

Arizona is important because a special measure on voters’ ballots there will decide if abortion access is protected up to about 24 weeks of pregnancy, from 15 weeks currently. 

Donald Trump has lodged a complaint after his team picked up a social media post by the Labour party appealing for volunteers to travel to America to help the Democrat campaign.

In the US, Kamala Harris has called Donald Trump ‘unhinged and unstable’ after hearing of claims from his former chief of staff John Kelly that the former president said Hitler ‘did some good things’.

We’re joined by Peter Loge, who was a senior advisor in the Obama administration and is now a professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University.

In the vital swing state of Pennsylvania, the race seems to be closer and more consequential than anywhere else.

If Donald Trump is to retake the White House in November, he needs to win in key battleground states like North Carolina. But that may just have got a bit harder.

We spoke to New York Times tech reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, who’ve written a book that goes behind the scenes of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, called Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.

He said it was a joke, but that didn’t stop the White House from slamming Elon Musk as “irresponsible” for musing on X about why no one had tried to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, after the attempt against Donald Trump.