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The Daily
16 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Division Among the Democrats

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For four years, Democrats had been united behind the mission of defeating President Trump. But after the election of Joe Biden, the party’s disappointing showing in congressional races — losing seats in the House and facing a struggle for even narrow control of the Senate — ...

The Daily
15 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Hard Times'

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For the folk duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, pandemic isolation brought about a creative boon. In a year that has been defined by uncertainty, they have returned to what they know: songs about the slow, challenging, beautiful heat of living.

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The Daily
13 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

A Non-Transfer of Power

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Maggie Haberman on why the traditional transfer of power is not happening this year, and the implications of that delay. Guest: Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Backgro...

The Daily
12 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

A Vaccine Breakthrough

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It’s a dark time in the struggle with the coronavirus, particularly in the United States, where infections and hospitalizations have surged. But amid the gloom comes some light: A trial by the drug maker Pfizer has returned preliminary results suggesting that its vaccine is ...

The Daily
11 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The (Unfinished) Battle for the Senate

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After the tumult of last week’s voting, one crucial question remains: Who will control the Senate? The answer lies in Georgia, where two runoff elections in January will decide who has the advantage in the upper chamber. With so much at stake, we look at how those races migh...

The Daily
10 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

About Those Polls…

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Nate Cohn, an expert on polling for The New York Times, knows that the predictions for the 2016 presidential election were bad. But this year, he says, they were even worse. So, what happened? Nate talks us through a few of his theories and considers whether, after two flawe...

The Daily
09 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Celebration and Sorrow: Americans React to the Election

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This episode contains strong language. The sound of victory was loud. It was banging pots, honking horns and popping corks as supporters of President-elect Joe Biden celebrated his win. But loss, too, has a sound. In the days after the U.S. election result was announced, som...

The Daily
08 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘Lost in the Deep’

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On the afternoon of Sept. 15, 1942, the U.S.S. Wasp, an aircraft carrier housing 71 planes, 2,247 sailors and a journalist, was hit by torpedoes fired by a Japanese submarine, sending it more than two and a half miles to the bottom of the Pacific. It has remained there ever ...

The Daily
07 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Special Episode: Joe Biden Wins the Presidency

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After days of uncertainty, Joe Biden has been elected president, becoming the first candidate in more than a quarter of a century to beat an incumbent. His running mate, Kamala Harris, is the first woman and woman of color elected vice president. Mr. Biden’s win is set to be...

The Daily
06 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The President’s Damaging Lie

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When President Trump took to the podium in the White House briefing room Thursday evening to give a statement on the election count, he lied about the legality of the votes against him in key battleground states and called into question the integrity of poll workers, laying ...

The Daily
05 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Joe Biden Takes the Lead

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By the end of election night, the results in six key states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — were still to be called. On Wednesday, as mail-in ballots were totaled up, Joe Biden gained ground, taking Michigan and Wisconsin and placing him wi...

The Daily
04 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

An Unfinished Election

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The U.S. presidential election is a lot closer than the polls indicated. Millions of votes, many in key battleground states, are yet to be counted. Florida — which went for President Trump — is the only bellwether to have confirmed its result. Other crucial states, including...

The Daily
03 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: On Election Day, 'Two Different Worlds'

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This episode contains strong language. At the heart of one race for the Wisconsin State Assembly are some of the same political cracks splitting the U.S. as a whole. Some believe keeping businesses running is a priority during the coronavirus pandemic; others think keeping p...

The Daily
03 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

Special Announcement: The Daily's Live Election Day Broadcast

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The Daily is going live today! Join us at 4 p.m. Eastern time for our first-ever Election Day broadcast. You can listen at nytimes.com/thedaily and on The New York Times iPhone app.

Michael Barbaro and Carolyn Ryan, a deputy managing editor at The Times, will call our correspondents for the latest on a history-making day. We’ll get live updates from key battleground states and break down the state of the race. We hope to see you soon.

Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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The Daily
02 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

A Viewer’s Guide to Election Night

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There are many permutations of the U.S. presidential election — some messier than others. Joe Biden’s lead in national polls suggests he has a number of paths to victory. If states like Florida or Georgia break for him early on, then the Trump campaign could be in for a long...

The Daily
01 Nov 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me’

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At 16, Reginald Dwayne Betts was sent to prison for nine years after pleading guilty to a carjacking, to having a gun, and to an attempted robbery. “Because Senator Kamala Harris is a prosecutor and I am a felon, I have been following her political rise, with the same focus ...

The Daily
30 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: The Shy Biden Voters Among Florida’s Seniors

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Florida’s seniors played an important role in President Trump’s victory there in 2016. Older voters, who are mostly conservative, make up around 25 percent of the swing state’s electorate and turn out in astonishing numbers. They are also disproportionately affected by the p...

The Daily
29 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: The Specter of Political Violence

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This episode contains strong language. With an election in which uncertainty may abound, concerns are swirling around the possibility of political violence. Experts and officials — including those charged with the security of polling stations and ballot counting facilities —...

The Daily
28 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

A Partisan Future for Local News?

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Local news in America has long been widely trusted, and widely seen as objective. But as traditional local papers struggle, there have been attempts across the political spectrum to create more partisan outlets. Few can have been as ambitious or widespread as the nationwide ...

The Daily
27 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Shadow of the 2000 Election

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What does the specter of the 2000 election mean for the upcoming election? The race between George W. Bush and Al Gore that year turned on the result in Florida, where the vote was incredibly close and mired in balloting issues. After initially conceding, Mr. Gore, the Democ...

The Daily
26 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: Why Suburban Women Changed Their Minds

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In America’s increasingly divided political landscape, it can be hard to imagine almost any voter switching sides. One demographic group has provided plenty of exceptions: white suburban women. In the past four years, the group has turned away from the president in astonishi...

The Daily
25 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'My Mustache, My Self'

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During months of pandemic isolation, Wesley Morris, a critic at large for The New York Times, decided to grow a mustache. The reviews were mixed and predictable. He heard it described as “porny” and “creepy,” as well as “rugged” and “extra gay.” It was a comment on a group c...

The Daily
23 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

Sudden Civility: The Final Presidential Debate

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At the start of Thursday night’s debate its moderator, Kristen Welker of NBC News, delivered a polite but firm instruction: The matchup should not be a repeat of the chaos of last month’s debate. It was a calmer affair and, for the first few segments, a more structured and ...

The Daily
22 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

A Peculiar Way to Pick a President

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The winner-take-all system used by the Electoral College in the United States appears nowhere in the Constitution. It awards all of a state’s electors to the candidate with the most votes, no matter how small the margin of victory. Critics say that means millions of votes ar...

The Daily
21 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

A Misinformation Test for Social Media

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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have invested a significant amount of time and money trying to avoid the mistakes made during the 2016 election. A test of those new policies came last week, when The New York Post published a story that contained supposedly incriminating docume...

The Daily
20 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

A Pivotal Senate Race in North Carolina

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In the struggle to control the U.S. Senate, one race in North Carolina — where the Republican incumbent, Thom Tillis, is trying to hold off his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham — could be crucial. North Carolina is a classic purple state with a split political mind: pro...

The Daily
19 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Field: A Divided Latino Vote in Arizona

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This episode contains strong language. In the last decade, elections have tightened in Arizona, a traditionally Republican stronghold, as Democrats gain ground. According to polls, Joe Biden is leading in the state — partly because of white suburban women moving away from P...

The Daily
18 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: 'Jim Dwyer, About New York'

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Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, died earlier this month. He was 63. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Jim was drawn to stories about discrimination, wrongly convicted prisoners and society’s mistreated outcasts. From 2007, he wrote ...

The Daily
16 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Candidates: Joe Biden’s Plans

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In the second of a two-part examination of the presidential candidates’ policies, we turn to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s agenda and how he plans to govern a nation wracked by a public health and economic crisis. The themes of Mr. Biden’s Democratic primary campaign were broad as h...

The Daily
15 Oct 2020 • The New York Times

The Candidates: Donald Trump’s Promises

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In a two-part examination of the policies of the president and of the man seeking to replace him, Joe Biden, we first take a look at what Donald Trump said he would do four years ago — and what he’s actually accomplished. On some of the big issues, Mr. Trump has been the pre...