2020 presidential election

You're probably anxious about the results, but patience may truly be a virtue on election night. Here's how to approach the evening.

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President Trump may end the campaign with an election eve rally in Grand Rapids — the place where he held a late-night event in 2016 before winning Michigan and the presidency.

In every election, candidates stress just how crucial the race is for the country. In 2020, voters seem to be keenly aware that the outcome could affect social policy and politics for years to come.

"I think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computers," Trump said. But the vote totals are never fully counted the same day.

A Biden-Harris campaign bus was surrounded on the highway Friday by a caravan of vehicles flying Trump flags. The incident rattled the Biden campaign, which canceled at least one event afterward.

The president makes five stops in five different swing states Sunday, while his Democratic rival focuses on Pennsylvania.

In a week "unlike any other" featuring "the most important election of our lives," let us remember there will be events that are legitimately extraordinary. Actual records will in fact be broken.

The presidential campaigns began the final weekend before Election Day by making efforts to drive up needed support in a handful of key states.