In 2008, Barack Obama and his new running mate, Joe Biden, kicked off their general-election campaign in Beaver County, Pa., a culturally conservative area northwest of Pittsburgh where the shuttering of steel mills years earlier still stung. In 2020, Mr. Biden was in Beaver County hours before Election Day to …
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Vice President Kamala Harris will travel through several suburban battlegrounds on Monday with Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman who has become her most prominent conservative surrogate. Ms. Cheney, who represented Wyoming for three terms in Congress, was a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump until he sought to …
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Cindy Jager was the lone worker on duty in the crammed aisles of an old-fashioned variety store overflowing with hardware and party supplies and fake pumpkins. When I came across her, she was carefully rearranging cleaning products on a back shelf of the shop in Walker, Mich. When I brought …
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In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris is contending with erosion within the Democratic coalition that put Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House, and growing more dependent on white voters who historically aligned more with Republicans. Black and Latino voters, two essential …
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