2024 Elections

A voting rights advocate and lawyer joined MSNBC on Wednesday to update the public on the state of pre-election litigation and the Republican Party's efforts to fight rules ahead of the November vote.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House," Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket, noted that 13 lawsuits were filed ahead of the 2020 election. In 2024, that number climbed to 81 lawsuits by Republicans.

Former President Donald Trump said it was "a great honor" after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters declined to endorse a presidential candidate for the 2024 election.

While visiting a Bitcoin bar in New York City on Wednesday, Trump was asked about the trade union's decision not to issue an endorsement.

Former first lady Melania Trump spurred confusion Wednesday when she declared her outrage that the press would not stop asking about the nude photos taken of her as a professional model — which she compared to the works of Paul Cézanne and Michelangelo.

Mrs. Trump explained her decision to pose naked in a promotional video (which included a photo array of famous nude portraits) for her soon-to-be released memoirs, and despite her professed frustration with the media's interest.

Election workers are less worried former President Donald Trump will prosecute them if he wins the November election and more worried they'll be physically attacked if he loses, according to a new report.

The New York Times interviewed more than two dozen election officials and democracy experts nationwide and discovered they're not impressed with Trump's threats or his tactics.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance vowed Wednesday to deport Haitians who were in the U.S. legally.

During a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, a reporter asked about Vance's recent attacks on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, who were granted Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush penned a column for The Atlantic that detailed a surprising flop from the campaign of former President Donald Trump.

Writing Wednesday, David Frum said, "Rarely, if ever, has a presidential campaign collapsed from seeming assurance into utter chaos as Trump-Vance has."

Former President Donald Trump called on Republicans to shut down the federal government unless a funding bill included a measure that would add an additional barrier to voter registration.

"If Republicans don't get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form," the Republican nominee wrote on his Truth Social platform Wednesday.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank's new book is set to be released next week and it focuses on the massive dysfunction that has taken over Republican-led House of Representatives under Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

In an excerpt published in The Post, Milbank recalls Johnson's bizarre comments that he was hearing voices directly from God about how he would become Speaker of the House. The conversation was being streamed online.

The immigration chart Republicans credit with saving former President Donald Trump's life was subjected to a thorough fact check in the House of Representatives.

The chart in question was being displayed by Trump at the rally in Pennsylvania back in July that saw an assassin nearly miss shooting the president in the head, and many analysts have said that shots may have fatally struck the former president were it not for the chart's presence.

Pollster Quinnipiac has released a new set of polls taken in the key Rust Belt swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and they contain some bad news for the former president.

According to Quinnipiac, Harris holds a six-point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania, a five-point led over Trump in Michigan, and a statistically insignificant one-point lead in Wisconsin.

The New York Times has done a deep dive into the medical beliefs of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and newly minted Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and has found many medical officials are raising major red flags about his potential appointment to a public health position.

Among other things, notes the Times, Kennedy in the past has suggested that "H.I.V. is not the true cause of AIDS, that 5G networks are being used for mass surveillance and that Black Americans in particular should avoid being vaccinated."

A panel of young undecided voters Wednesday told the New York Times they're fed up with former President Donald Trump's campaign and his surprisingly "weak" new demeanor.

The group of 14 shared their views on Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris after the presidential debate and about one month after checking in with the Times in August, according to the report.