Tailgating in Wisconsin With the Bros Trump Needs

A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving.Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk about the election and the question of Black people’s changin...

21 Marras 202449min

President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and major appointments — which have arrived quickly in the days since he won the election — are more than just a list of allies. The roster is a window into ho...

14 Marras 202431min

For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question:Who are you going to vote for and why?And on Wednesday morning, we had the answer to that questio...

7 Marras 202419min

For months now, “The Run-Up” has been traveling around the country talking with people, trying to ensure that when today came, whatever happened wouldn’t feel like a surprise.So as people go to the po...

5 Marras 202448min

For most of this year, we’ve been focused on the race for president, the messages coming from both parties’ nominees and their reception among voters.But that’s not all that’s on the ballot this Novem...

1 Marras 202429min

There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania.It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its flip from red to blue in 2020 helped secure the win for Joe Bide...

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Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the electoral battlegrounds this year.Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states ...

24 Loka 202452min