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  • Barack Obama and Kamala Harris hug at a White House event in 2022.

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    Dock workers’ deal to end strike averts US economic misery; Barack Obama to hit campaign trail for Kamala Harris – US elections live

    Yesterday’s agreement good news for Harris as former president Obama to start tour in all-important Pennsylvania next week
  • Vance and Walz shake hands on stage.

    ‘Slick talker’ v ‘sincere and truthful’: Guardian readers respond to VP debate

  • US-VOTE-POLITICS-TRUMP<br>Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks on during a campaign event at Discovery World in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed migrant rant captured in private pitch to donors

  • Former US President Barack Obama speaks during the second night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 20 August 2024. Obama will hit the campaign trail for Kamala Harris next week.

    Barack Obama to campaign for Harris across battleground states next week

  • Republican senator Ted Cruz holding a microphone and standing in front of the US flag

    Can Republicans flip the Senate in November? – podcast

  • Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney at Wisconsin campaign event.

    Harris and Cheney pitch Republican voters – as it happened

Opinion

  • Leonard Leo, wearing a suit and tie, speaks in front of cameras

    Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of Republicans

    David Daley
  • Robert Reich

    JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US

    Robert Reich
  • Martin Kettle

    Whether it’s Trump or Harris in office, Starmer will need an incredible US ambassador. Here’s my vote

    Martin Kettle
  • Emma Brockes

    JD Vance is trying hard not to be weird – and it’s making him seem more menacing still

    Emma Brockes

In depth

  • A man in a blue sweater who is Seth Meyers talks to the camera next to a picture of a man who is JD Vance wearing a suit and tie

    Seth Meyers on JD Vance’s debate performance: ‘Brazen and shameless’

    • Voter Purging

      Republicans’ non-citizen voting myth sets stage to claim stolen election

    • Kamala Harris gives press conference in front of damaged home

      ‘People are giving, sharing’: Augusta comes together as Kamala Harris surveys damage

    • a man in a suit and tie looks off to the side

      ‘Show me the money’: how Eric Adams made it to the top – and fell back down

    • side-by-side close-ups of two men

      Friendship bracelets and eyeliner: the internet reacts to the Vance-Walz debate

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