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US elections
2024

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5 November 2024

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Highlights

  • Donald Trump

    US elections 2024
    The key swing states and counties that handed Trump the White House – a visual analysis

  • Trump's tie winding below potential members of his new cabinet

    Explainer
    Trump White House: who could be in the new administration?

  • person wearing blue gloves handles white and yellow papers in white postal service bin

    Explainer
    What is voter certification – the process that Trump targeted in 2020?

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    Newsletter
    Sign up for Fighting Back: a pop-up newsletter on defending democracy under Trump

Latest news

  • people in orange work clothes lay water pipe

    California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor

  • Rebecca Hendin on the global implications of Donald Trump’s victory – cartoon

    Rebecca Hendin on the global implications of Donald Trump’s victory – cartoon

    The resurgent Republican’s return to the White House will have an unpredictable impact on conflicts around the world
  • Trump, wearing a suit, walks between curtains backstage

    Trump demands Senate allow him to circumvent hearings to appoint cabinet

    Trump urges support from Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn for ‘recess appointments’ while US Senate is paused

  • John Oliver on the US election: ‘Despair doesn’t help anything’

  • Arizona attorney general says she won’t drop Trump fake electors case

  • Former Harris aide suggests Biden resign so she can serve as president

  • Black women on what Harris’s loss says about the US: ‘Voters failed to show up for her’

  • EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution

  • House, Senate and governor elections map 2024: Republicans close to House majority - results from all 50 US states

  • US presidential election updates: Trump demands Senate streamline his cabinet picks as recruitment begins

  • Sweep of swing states rubs salt in Democrats’ wounds as Trump prepares to meet Biden

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Features

  • a composite image showing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    ‘I hate lying to her’: US couples on voting against their partners’ candidates

  • trump on the front page of a newspaper

    Trump’s wild threats put press freedom in the crosshairs in second term

    Free press advocates are alarmed by Trump’s talk of revoking broadcast licenses and jailing journalists – but express hope in the US’s first amendment
  • a person wearing a black Maga cap takes a selfie with Kamala Harris cutout

    Bitter truths: even Biden’s home town broadly rejected Democrats’ message

    Harris won Biden’s home county in Pennsylvania by less than 1%, a steep drop from Biden’s and Obama’s wins
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Analysis

  • Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey hold hands and raise their arms in the air in front of a rally crowd

    Labour advisers want lessons learned from Harris defeat: voters set the agenda

    Focusing on joy over voters’ concerns about economy was Harris campaign’s downfall, some Labour insiders say
  • Trump with trees behind him and crowd of people raising hands and wearing red hats.

    How Trump won over voters in deep-blue New York City

  • a man with a group of people surrounding him in front of a sign that says Latino Americans for Trump

    How Trump won over Latino and Hispanic voters in historic numbers

  • Elon Musk jumping for joy in front of US flag

    What a second Trump presidency means for big US tech firms

  • people walking down the risers

    Swing states: how Democratic vote stayed flat while Republican gains won it for Trump

  • Two men in suits on stage

    Ghost of pandemic haunts US election with win for anti-vax movement

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Explainers

  • A migrant in a caravan holds his daughter in his arms as they rest before continuing their journey to the U.S. border, in Escuintla, Mexico, 8 November 2024.

    US election briefing: military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump

  • President Joe Biden walks to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after Kamala Harris loses the US presidential election to Donald Trump.

    US election briefing: Democrats pick through defeat with blame falling on Biden and economy

  • Man in suit looks ahead and winks

    Democrats suffer a drubbing: 10 key takeaways from Trump’s election win

  • Donald Trump in a hard hat reading 'President Donald J Trump' pumping his fist on stage next to a steelworker

    More tariffs, less red tape: what Trump will mean for key global industries

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Opinion

  • Shipping containers from around the world are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s tariff push: it should spark a global call for fairer trade

  • A group of people wear black and white T-shirts saying 'Blacks for Trump 2024'

    Trump didn’t just win. He expanded his voter base

    John Zogby
    Trump outperformed his 2016 and 2020 election runs substantially with groups such as young men and Black people
  • Moustafa Bayoumi

    Not changing course on Gaza was a colossal mistake by Kamala Harris

    Moustafa Bayoumi

  • First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation

    Joan Donovan

  • Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it

    Richard Seymour

  • One thing I’m sure of: Harris ignored voters’ anger over Gaza, and it cost the Democrats dear

    Nesrine Malik

  • A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power

    Carole Cadwalladr

  • From Trump’s victory, a simple, inescapable message: many people despise the left

    John Harris

  • If I were Captain America, I’d quit

    Stewart Lee

  • Will Typhoon Orange wreak havoc on Britain? Keir Starmer has to prepare for the worst

    Andrew Rawnsley

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