Elections

Line chart showing the share of people voting early, by mail or on Election Day. In 2020, more people voted by mail and early in person than ever before.

Politics & Government

2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick

5:00am October 28, 2022

by Miles Parks

The pandemic led to a historic rise in early voting, as 70% of the electorate cast ballots before Election Day in 2020. In 2022, it looks like more of the same.

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley poses for a photo outside Atlantic Coca Cola Bottling Co. in Walcott on Oct. 14.

Iowa voters will decide Sen. Chuck Grassley's fate in his closest race in 42 years

10:11am October 27, 2022

by Clay Masters

Many Iowans cannot remember a time when Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley did not represent them in Washington. But as he seeks an eighth term, he faces his toughest race yet.

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Addiction activist Ryan Hampton holds a rally in Spokane, Wash., where many of the people in the crowd were in recovery from drug or alcohol use.

In close races, Republicans attack Democrats over fentanyl and the overdose crisis

5:00am October 27, 2022

by Brian Mann

Many Republicans have recast the debate over drugs and fentanyl as a crime and border security problem. Often their attacks are based on conspiracy theories and discredited ideas about addiction.

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Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign stop in Dawsonville, Ga., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.

Second woman says Ga. Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for abortion

6:18pm October 26, 2022

by Stephen Fowler

An anonymous woman said Walker was a "hypocrite" for running an anti-abortion campaign after allegedly pressuring her to terminate a pregnancy.

Republicans recast drugs and fentanyl as a crime and border security problem

6:09pm October 26, 2022

Ahead of the midterms, Republicans have recast the debate over drugs and fentanyl addiction as a crime and border security problem.

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How voting patterns have changed since 2020, and how early voting is going in Georgia

5:50pm October 26, 2022

A look at how voting patterns have changed since 2020, and how early voting is going so far in the key state of Georgia.

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In a debate hosted by NewsNation Tuesday night, Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz sparred over issues such as abortion, foreign policy and fracking.

Politics & Government

Fetterman and Oz spar in only formal debate ahead of Pennsylvania's Senate election

5:19pm October 26, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, and former TV doctor Mehmet Oz, a Republican, faced off last night in the only debate in a tight race that will help determine control of the Senate.

Massachusetts could allow undocumented people to get driver's licenses

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Christopher Burrell

Massachusetts could join the states who allow undocumented people to get driver's licenses. Residents will vote on this issue on election day.

Why election officials are turning to public relations specialists

4:48pm October 26, 2022

by Mallory Noe-Payne

Faced with a deluge of disinformation about the voting process, election officials around the U.S. are hiring public relations specialists to explain how democracy works to voters.

What an expert foresees for voter intimidation this election cycle

4:48pm October 26, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, about potential voter intimidation this election cycle.