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The system used in the United States to elect the president, where the winner is determined by the Electoral College.
No — a U.S. president cannot unilaterally cancel the midterm elections; federal law and the states’ control over election administration leave no legal mechanism for a president to suspend or postpone...
are the federal contests held halfway through a president’s four-year term and they do not include a vote for president or vice president . Voters use midterms to elect all members of the House and ab...
All three Rust Belt swing states—, and —flipped from the Democratic column in to Republican in ; carried Michigan by 1.42%, Pennsylvania by 1.71%, and Wisconsin by 0.86% (vote margins: Michigan 80,103...
A concise inventory of U.S. presidential vote totals requires two parallel tallies: the nationwide popular vote and the state-by-state counts that actually decide the presidency, both of which are tra...
Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 by securing a narrow Electoral College majority despite losing the national popular vote, flipping several Midwestern “blue wall” states that decided the Electo...
Third‑party and independent candidates collected a small but politically visible slice of the 2024 popular vote—official tallies and reporting place their combined share under roughly 2% of the total,...
Across national polls in early 2026, support for sits solidly as a substantial minority: most major trackers place his approval in the high‑30s to mid‑40s (variously reported as roughly 35–45 percent)...
There is no credible reporting that the federal government will formally authorize in November, and has publicly denied plans to deploy troops to polls while legal and practical barriers make a mass f...
The ’s Jan. 28 search of ’s election hub—seizing roughly 700 boxes and seeking “all physical ballots…tabulator tapes…ballot images, and voter rolls” from the —was carried out under a federal criminal ...
Official are the legal, final tallies produced through canvass and certification processes administered by state and local election officials; those certified counts are the authoritative inputs that ...
The produced a clear split: won the nationwide popular vote by roughly 2.9 million votes, yet won a majority of votes and thereby the presidency . This outcome — one of five U.S. elections where the E...
Special elections to fill U.S. House vacancies are scheduled under state law and, in practice, are typically held several months after a vacancy; in recent practice the average interval has been about...
National emergencies have repeatedly shaped how Americans vote, who can vote, and how elections are administered: wars and pandemics have compressed turnout, forced legal improvisation, and prompted d...