The Harris campaign’s ground game was not the problem
A recent assessment of the 2024 presidential contest suggested that Democrats needed to emulate right-wing outreach. But that’s different from turning out voters.
The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Ahead of the the 2024 US elections, the US intelligence community and law enforcement were on high alert and ready to share information—both among agencies and publicly—as foreign malign influence operations emerged. Tech giants like Microsoft similarly sprang into action, collaborating with government partners and publishing their own information about election-related disinformation campaigns. The speed […]
Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out
“Our subcontractors never should have driven their canvassers in a U-Haul van and those involved were immediately reprimanded,” Tim Pollard of Blitz Canvassing tells WIRED. On Wednesday, October 30, Muldrow and her fellow door knockers were fired hours after the publication of the WIRED story. At first, some people had trouble logging into Campaign Sidekick, […]
Election 2024 live updates: Harris campaigns in Michigan; Trump hits three states
Get the latest news from the 2024 campaign trail in the contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
The Trump Campaign’s Ties to Russia Were No Hoax
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018. Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP In May 2016George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, that Russia had damaging information about Trump’s political rival Hillary Clinton. […]
Jennifer Lawrence Campaigns for Kamala Harris in Nevada Ahead of Election
With days to go before the election, the push is on from both parties to get out the vote in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The Democrats and White House hopeful Kamala Harris got a boost in Nevada from two-time Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, who landed in Las […]
Harris turns to the stars in campaign’s closing days
Campaign daily on Harris’s final Western swing, where she holds a major event in Phoenix and ends with a glittering rally in Las Vegas featuring Jennifer Lopez.
Watch live: Harris campaigns in critical swing state Pennsylvania
Vice President Harris will make a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon, part of her final swing through the battleground states ahead of Election Day. Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have spent a significant amount of time in Pennsylvania, as many experts believe it is perhaps the most critical state for…
Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
On Monday, Microsoft came out guns blazing, posting a blog accusing Google of “dishonestly” funding groups conducting allegedly biased studies to discredit Microsoft and mislead antitrust enforcers and the public. In the blog, Microsoft lawyer Rima Alaily alleged that an astroturf group called the Open Cloud Coalition will launch this week and will appear to […]
Harris bets on women and young voters in campaign’s final sprint
More than 31 million Americans have already cast their ballots in a presidential race that at times feels like it will never end. Both campaigns are now sifting through the early return data with the hope of better understanding how crucial swing state voters will behave on Election Day. For now, those early voting numbers […]