US Election 2020

With just over seven weeks to go before the US presidential election, polls show that Joe Biden is ahead, both nationally, and in swing states that typically determine the outcome of the election. Photograph: Getty Images Everything you need to know about the US election: the polls, the issues, the swing states
US election: Everything you need to know about Tuesday’s presidential debate
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the US supreme court, after the public announcement of her nomination in the Rose Garden of the White House on September 26th. Photograph: Al Drago/The New York Times US supreme court nominee Barrett prepares to meet senators
It will be the first time the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, left, and US president Donald Trump face each other on the debate stage. Photographs: Jim Watson, Brendan Smialowski/ AFP via Getty Trump and Biden prepare to face off in first presidential debate
President Donald Trump called reports of his tax affairs ‘fake news’. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Getty Biden portrays Trump as tax dodger after president’s records published
Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks after being nominated to the US Supreme Court by US president Donald Trump. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Trump selects Amy Coney Barrett for supreme court
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden boards a plane in New Castle Airport, in Delware on Thursday, en route to Washington for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s funeral. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/EPA Joe Biden’s responsible, socially distanced campaign is not without political risk
People queue to vote early in the US presidential election at the Fairfax County government centre in Virginia on September 18th. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Prospect of a contested US election outcome in 2020 is very real
US president Donald Trump speaks to the press as he leaves Washington for a campaign event in North Carolina. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Republican leaders reject Trump’s stance on peaceful transition of power
The casket of US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the US supreme court in Washington, DC. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images US officer involved in Breonna Taylor killing charged with wanton endangerment
Steve Adams at his Trump Store in Owatonna, Minnesota. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch ‘Minnesota needs Trump’: President sees rural path to election victory
US supreme court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was suffering from pancreatic cancer died at her home in Washington on Friday. She was 87. Photograph: NIcholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Ginsburg’s death puts spotlight on US supreme court’s shortcomings
One of Wisconsin’s tourist attractions is a bronze sculpture of Henry Winkler, aka ‘the Fonz’ from the sitcom Happy Days. Photograph: Bettmann Archive/Getty US election: Home of Fonz could decide if Trump or Biden becomes president
Protesters in Madison, state capital of Wisconsin, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in police custody. Photograph: Lawrence Iles/Icon Sportswire ‘In-between places’ will decide who becomes the next US president
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on TV as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on board Air Force One after a campaign rally in Wisconsin. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images Poll puts Democrats ahead in some key races for Senate seats
Joe Biden with Enda Kenny at Government Buildings in 2016. Biden has already established that his great-grandfather came from Louth and his great-great-great grandfather from Mayo. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill How Ireland managed to green the White House
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) campaigning in the West Oak Lane suburb of Philadelphia, in the swing state of Pennsylvania. Photograph : Mark Makela/Getty Images Trump suggests 2020 election result can never be accurate
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden: The corrective to an unhealthy trend in his party and country. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden is a positive turn for America
Donald Trump and George Stephanopoulos at the televised public event in Philadelphia, during which the president denied he downplayed the threat of Covid-19. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Trump tells undecided voters he ‘up-played’ Covid-19 threat
US president Donald Trump poses with ABC New anchor George Stephanopoulos ahead of a town hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump denies downplaying Covid-19 despite recording
US president Donald Trump was briefed on the fires by California governor Gavin Newsom. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Trump dismisses climate science, saying ‘it will start getting cooler’
US president Donald Trump claps after speaking at a campaign event at Xtreme Manufacturing on Sunday in Henderson, Nevada. Photograph: Getty Images Donald Trump holds packed indoor campaign rally in Nevada
‘At least with Nixon, Woodward had to follow the money to expose the venality. With Donald Trump, he simply had to turn on a recorder.’ Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York Times Maureen Dowd: Trump desperately craves acceptance from the elites he denounces
With just over seven weeks to go before the US presidential election, polls show that Joe Biden is ahead, both nationally, and in swing states that typically determine the outcome of the election. Photograph: Getty Images Everything you need to know about the US election: the polls, the issues, the swing states
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks with Maria Fisher (90) whose son, Andrew Fisher, was killed in the World Trade Centre terror attack 19 years ago. Photograph: Amr Alfiky/New York Times Biden and Trump pause on campaign trail to recall dead of 9/11
US president Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg Trump denies lying to American public about threat of coronavirus
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks at United Auto Workers union headquarters in Warren, Michigan on Wednesday. The former vice-president denounced Donald Trump over revelations in a new book by Bob Woodward that the president deliberately minimised the danger of Covid-19. Photograph: Amr Alfiky/New York Times Trump faces outcry over claim he deliberately ‘played down’ coronavirus
US president Donald Trump is ‘a cruel sociopath . . . erratic, egotistical, cynical and ruthless . . . a moral monster’. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Michael McDowell: Trump is a moral monster and a danger to humanity
US president Donald Trump speaks about the environmental accomplishments for the people of Florida in Jupiter, Florida. Photograph: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA Trump says he will use his own money amid reports of campaign cash crunch
Michael Cohen returning to his apartment, in New York, after being released from prison in July. Photograph: AP New book provides account of Trump’s alleged role in hush money scandal
US president Donald Trump leaves a news conference in the White House on Friday. Photograph: AP Trump calls for journalist to be fired for report on war dead comments
The US says the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency has used social media to spread disinformation about US elections. Photographs: Nicolas Asfouri and Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images Russian troll farm ploughs on even after activities exposed
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks after a virtual meeting on safe school reopening, in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 2nd. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ‘Simply wrong’: Biden condemns ‘immoral’ remarks by Trump
US president Donald Trump speaks to the press in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Wednesday. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump doubles down on law and order strategy in Kenosha
Joe Biden: An eerily stable frontrunner in first primary and then national polls. Photograph: Michelle V Agins/The New York Times Donald Trump succeeds in dragging Biden to the wrong fight
US president Donald Trump talks to supporters upon arrival at Wilmington International Airport in Wilmington, North Carolina. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Trump criticises Biden on policing ahead of trip to Kenosha
US president Donald Trump in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ‘I really came today to thank law enforcement. What you’ve done has been incredible.’ Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images US unrest: Trump condemns Wisconsin protests as ‘domestic terror’
Protesters for and against Donald Trump in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, as the president visited. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA Trump calls Portland mayor ‘a fool’ for not calling in national guard
US president Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg Donald Trump defends accused Kenosha gunman
A protester holds a Black Lives Matter sign during a demonstration against the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsint. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images Trump to visit Wisconsin flashpoint amid wave of violence in US cities
Joe Biden: Trump ‘can’t stop the violence, because for years he has fomented it’. Biden accuses Trump of ‘rooting for chaos and violence’
Ivanka Trump arrives to introduce US president Donald Trump from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on Thursday. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Alone on her imaginary escalator: Ivanka Trump shoves rivals aside
Senator from California and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris. In mid-August, the Wall Street Journal reported that Harris met with approval by Wall Street. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Neither Nikki Haley nor Kamala Harris represent a break with the past
President Donald Trump told the Republican National Convention: “Your vote will decide whether we protect law-abiding Americans, or whether we give free rein to violent anarchists, agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens.” Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP The Irish Times view on the US presidential election: Trump launches counteroffensive
Joe Kennedy III has been building his political profile in Washington since his election to the House of Representatives in 2013. Photograph: Simon Simard/Bloomberg Kennedy scion takes battle to Democrats old guard in Massachusetts
US president Donald Trump with family members watches fireworks on the final day of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski Five takeaways from this week’s Republican National Convention
US vice-president Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention, at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/EPA Pence warns voters ‘you will not be safe in Joe Biden’s America’
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a fundraiser and former Fox News personality, speaking during the first day of the Republican convention. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Grievance and fear on Republican convention’s opening night
US president Donald Trump: “They will take your guns away . . . Our country will never be a socialist country.” Photograph: Chris Carlson Trump warns of US taking ‘horrible’ Democrat direction
A stage is erected for a rally of QAnon supporters on the National Mall, Washington, in September 2019. Photograph: Tom Brenner/The New York Times How Donald Trump and some Republicans embraced QAnon conspiracy
Joe Biden talks with Brayden Harrington (13) about stuttering, something they share, during a campaign stop in February. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/The New York Times Biden finally got Obama to hand over the electoral Excalibur
US president Donald Trump delivers remarks on the economy at Mankato Regional Airport, Minnesota, on August 17th. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump may be down but he is certainly not out
US vice-president Joe Biden meets locals in Ballina, Co Mayo during a visit to Ireland in June 2016. Photograph: Paul McErlane/EPA Biden nomination brings greening of White House closer
Presidential nominee Joe Biden and California senator Kamala Harris, his running mate, at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Delaware. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Joe Biden’s hour: Five takeaways from the Democratic convention
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. Photograph: Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Michelle Obama’s ‘cold hard truths’ expose America’s divide
Former US president Barack Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, August 19th, 2020. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg Obama says Trump treats US presidency like ‘one more reality show’
Former US vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his wife Jill Biden address the Democratic National Convention via video on Tuesday. Photograph: New York Times Democratic Party officially nominates Joe Biden for president
Donald Trump: “It will end up being a rigged election or they will never come out with an outcome. They’ll have to do it again, and nobody wants that.” Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Trump raises the prospect of presidential election being rerun
US president Donald Trump displays a signed proclamation honouring the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment that granted women the right to vote, at the White House in Washington, DC. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times Trump says he will pardon women’s rights activist Susan B Anthony
Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks during the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Image: AP Michelle Obama urges Americans to vote Biden like their ‘lives depend on it’
US president Donald Trump speaks to the press on arrival in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP Trump’s war of attrition against ‘nasty’ media bodes ill for US
Mr Trump chastised his Democratic rival Joe Biden for ‘staying in his basement’. Photograph: EPA Trump critical of ‘corrupt media’ in broadside at rival Biden
Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris at an event to announce her place on the Democratic party’s presidential ticket, in Wilmington, August 14th. Photograph: Michelle V Agins/The New York Times US Democratic National Convention kicks of as a mostly virtual affair
Louis De Joy, a Republican donor who was appointed by the president to lead the postal service, has introduced several changes, including reducing overtime hours. Democrats say this is a political effort to interfere in the election. Photograph: DEPA/Michael Reynolds Explainer: Why is the US postal system caught up in an election controversy?
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden: Should he make it to the White House, Biden would have completed the longest marathon in US political history. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Inside Joe Biden’s race of a lifetime to be US president
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That Biden chose a candidate so evidently symbolising generational change has raised some Democratic hopes that he is resurrecting the winning Obama-Biden combination of 2008 and 2012. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Biden-Harris: A force to be reckoned with
Senator Kamala Harris: to men like Trump, she represents piercing wit, quiet strength, simmering rage. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster Jennifer O’Connell: Why is Trump afraid of Kamala Harris?
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo Mike Pence fretting as Kamala Harris shakes up Republicans
Double act: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice-presidential running mate Senator Kamala Harris arrive for their first press conference in Delaware. Photograph: Getty Biden urges US mask mandate to deal with Covid-19 pandemic
Kamala Harris: “Looking back, it is odd that such a fancied candidate did not do better in her own presidential campaign.” Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Kamala Harris’s policy vagueness could yet be a drawback
Senator Kamala Harris, presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee, listens as Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg Kamala Harris targets Trump’s ‘failed government’ in first event with Biden
California senator and US vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Her career ‘has been defined by trailblazing’. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Kamala Harris: A trailblazing ‘fearless fighter for the little guy’
US president Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the White House about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden chosing Kamala Harris to be his running mate in the 2020 general election. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Donald Trump immediately targets Kamala Harris in campaign video
California senator Kamala Harris, who has been selected by Joe Biden as his Democratic Party running mate in November’s US presidential election. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images Kamala Harris an assured performer but past record faces scrutiny
Senator Kamala Harris: named by Joe Biden as his running mate in the US presidential election. Photograph: EPA Joe Biden names Kamala Harris as running mate for US election
US president Donald Trump. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Trump homes in on White House or Gettysburg for nomination speech
Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale campaign at the Democratic Convention in 1984 in San Francisco. She later said she was not “prepared for the depth of the fury, the bigotry, and the sexism my candidacy would unleash”. Photograph: Sonia Moskowitz/Images/Getty Images Maureen Dowd: The hell that awaits a woman vice-presidential candidate
President Donald Trump: “He is a strongman but not a strong man.” Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP Donald Trump’s problem is that he is not authoritarian enough
US president Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the presmumptive Democratic candidate in November’s election. Photographs: Jim Watson, Dominic Reuter//AFP via Getty Images Trump v Biden: US contemplates nightmare scenario of disputed election
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden: His advanced age means it is quite likely his running mate may ultimately become president. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP Lots on the line as Joe Biden moves to select his potential VP
Donald Trump’s election comments came after gross domestic product figures revealed that the US is in the throes of the biggest economic slowdown since the 1940s. Photograph: EPA Trump’s call for delayed US election rejected by Republicans and Democrats
Mary Trump. Photograph: Peter Serling/Simon Schuster via AP Photo Mary Trump on her Uncle Donald: ‘He’s acting on his own racism’
Deceptively radical? Former US vice-president and now candidate for the presideny Joe Biden. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Americans should not count on a quiet life under Joe Biden
Donald Trump’s best chance of holding on to the US presidency is that Covid-19 does what he keeps suggesting, wistfully, that it might do, and simply go away. File photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Can Trump come back?
Rapper Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday. Photograph: Lauren Petracca/The Post And Courier/AP Kanye West’s chaotic rally: God, abortion and better acoustics
US president Donald Trump and his China counterpart Xi Jinping at a business leaders’ event in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November, 2017. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images US is sliding into conflict with China with eerily little debate
Joe Biden: Biden’s gaffes, logorrhoea, puffery and handsiness are part of the messy package that is Uncle Joe. So are his empathy, sentimentality and loyalty. Photograph: Christopher Dolan/The Times-Tribune via AP Maureen Dowd: Biden has his limitations but he’s no Trump
US president Donald Trump arrives at Miami International Airport in Florida for a briefing on efforts to stop the flow of drugs coming into the country. Photograph: Samuel Corum/The New York Times Trump postpones election rally as Covid-19 cases surge
A couple enters the Oceans Ten restaurant in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Florida. To prevent the spread of Covid-19, beaches are closed from July 3rd-7th. Photograph: Cliff Hawkins/Getty Florida vista ‘grim’ for Trump, Republicans claim
US president-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive for an inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on January 19th, 2017. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: Future of the American republic is in grave danger unless Trump is defeated
In file photo taken on June 20th, the upper section of the Trump rally in Tulsa is seen partially empty. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Is Donald Trump losing his touch?
US presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. Photograph: Mark Makela/New York Times US democracy is heading towards the mother of all stress tests
Rise of black candidates shows change is coming to Democratic Party
Masha Gessen: Vladimir Putin’s assault on LGBT+ rights forced the writer and their family to leave Russia for the United States. Photograph: Naima Green/New York Times ‘The word fascist is perfectly accurate when applied to Donald Trump’
US president Donald Trump speaking in Tulsa: He made no mention of the George Floyd killing protests but used the racially charged anti-China slur “Kung Flu”. Photograph: Evan Vucci Trump returns to campaign trail with many empty seats at Tulsa
US vice-president Joe Biden with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2013. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Don’t expect Biden to revive the Atlantic alliance