2024 Elections

As the United States hurtles towards a presidential election this November between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, AFP has been taking the temperature in key counties of seven battleground states.

We asked voters in Erie County, Pennsylvania what matters most to them when casting their ballot. We also asked about their greatest fears for the country.

A barrage of attacks on Tim Walz fueled by misinformation over his support for LGBTQ communities has failed to dent the US vice presidential candidate's surging poll ratings, suggesting that voters are wearying of some "culture war" issues in a tight White House race.

The push, which includes false assertions that Walz signed a law protecting pedophiles, has been amplified by Donald Trump and top Republicans as political campaigning kicks into high gear ahead of the November 5 election.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will give her first interview Thursday since becoming the Democratic standard-bearer, after intense criticism from Republicans that she has been hiding from tough questions.

Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will sit down with CNN during a campaign trip to Georgia, in a major test of the buzz surrounding her campaign on the 10-week sprint to election day.

Taylor Swift has yet to weigh in on the US presidential race, but some of her superfans are already stumping for Kamala Harris.

As of Wednesday midday "Swifties for Kamala" had raised more than $140,000 in favor of the Democratic White House hopeful.

Tom Eddy has a message for Republicans on how they can put Pennsylvania in Donald Trump's win column in November. The only problem is that the candidate keeps spoiling the script.

For more than a year in Erie County, in the swing state's northwestern corner, Eddy has tried to persuade people to vote by mail.

Former President Donald Trump is increasingly courting the fringe instead of the middle, which could potentially cost him the November election. That's according to an email from frustrated Republican donor and reluctant Trump voter Eric LeVine.

Jewish Insider reporter Matthew Kassel first tweeted the email on his official X (formerly Twitter) account, which LeVine sent after the former president announced he was adding Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate-turned Fox News regular Tulsi Gabbard to his transition team. According to LeVine — who supported former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican primary — those two additions were a significant blunder to Trump's ability to appeal to undecided voters.

A Washington Post fact-check shredded Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on Wednesday after he repeated a Donald Trump falsehood that the ex-president built 12,000 factories in his four years in office.

"If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency," Vance told "Meet the Press" in a Sunday interview.