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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Illinois on Election Day

Oct. 22, 2024 07:02 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The race for president tops the list of federal, state and local contests in Illinois, where voters have supported the Democratic presidential nominee for decades but lower-ballot contests are more competitive. Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican...

The presidential campaigns have made over 200 visits but speak to just a fraction of American voters

Oct. 09, 2024 14:47 PM EDT

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — On a table at the office of the Waukegan Township Democrats sits a box of postcards with Wisconsin addresses that were collected during a postcard-writing pizza party to help turn out voters there. Leaning against the table are homemade Harris-Walz signs. ...

Kamala Harris' election would defy history. Just 1 sitting VP has been elected president since 1836

Aug. 28, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others in her position who have tried the same. Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been...