THE NEW YORK TIMES / SIENA COLLEGE POLL Joseph R. Biden Jr. Donald Trump 49% 41% Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll of 950 likely voters from Sept. 22 to Sept. 24. THE NEW YORK TIMES / SIENA COLLEGE POLL Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll […]
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Sudan Is Focus of U.S. Efforts to Improve Ties With Israel
American efforts to persuade more Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel before the November election are focused on Sudan, where negotiations have stalled over the amount of a financial incentive promised to Sudan in exchange for recognizing Israel, officials said Saturday. But the campaign’s most important target, Saudi Arabia, […]
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With Nominee Set, Senate Republicans Plot Swift Supreme Court Confirmation
WASHINGTON — With President Trump’s nominee in place, Senate Republicans on Sunday began a furious 37-day sprint to install Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the Supreme Court before Election Day, laying the groundwork for an extraordinarily swift and politically fraught confirmation battle. Their confidence mounting that they could hold together […]
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By Lowering the Debate Bar for Biden, Has Trump Set a Trap for Himself?
WASHINGTON — President Trump has framed the first general election debate as a test for his opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Yet he has simultaneously set the bar so low for so long that many of his supporters — having watched unflattering, often manipulated clips of Mr. […]
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Sara Gideon Is Running Strong Against Susan Collins in Maine
Two years ago Sara Gideon, the Democratic speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, announced that she was sick and tired of the partisan rancor permeating her state’s government. So she ripped up the seating chart in the 151-member chamber, the one where Republicans and Democrats traditionally glare at each […]
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The Judiciary Committee will hold hearings starting Oct. 12. Here is what’s next.
ImageIt appears that Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has the votes to confirm a nominee.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican majority leader, has already vowed that the Senate will vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee by the end of the year, though […]
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In Critical Swing State, Trump Again Stokes Doubt on Election Process
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — President Trump sought again on Saturday night to cast doubt on the integrity of the presidential election, telling supporters that the only way Democrats can win in Pennsylvania is to “cheat on the ballots” and raising the prospect that a disputed election could be decided by Congress. […]
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Trump Announces Barrett as Supreme Court Nominee, Describing Her as Heir to Scalia
WASHINGTON — President Trump introduced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court on Saturday, presenting her as a champion of conservative judicial principles and igniting a partisan and ideological battle to confirm her before the election in just 38 days. During an early evening ceremony in […]
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Barrett Clerked for Scalia. Conservatives Hope She’ll Follow His Path.
WASHINGTON — By the time she graduated at the top of her Notre Dame Law School class in 1997, besting 187 students, Amy Coney Barrett was already a legal superstar. She would soon go on to clerk at the Supreme Court and, not long after, return to teach at her […]
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Democrats Don’t Want to Get Personal in Debate Over Barrett
For Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Democratic Party that he now leads, the selection of Judge Amy Coney Barrett by President Trump on Saturday puts a name and a face to the urgent threat they believe a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court poses to decades of progressive […]