Election 2020

Rapper Kanye West marked the Fourth of July holiday with a major announcement regarding his plan to run for president this year. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” Kanye, 43, tweeted on Saturday evening. “I am running for president of the United States!” He concluded his post with…

There’s a lot of concern over the huge number of votes that will be cast by mail in this fall’s presidential election. But there’s also reason for optimism, as NBCLX’s Noah Pransky reports.

Some Republicans claim that voting by mail increases fraud, but the evidence just doesn’t support those claims. So what’s the disconnect?

On Sunday, following a lower-than-expected turnout at Trump’s Tulsa rally, TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop stans (fans of Korean hip-hop and pop music) celebrated their efforts to troll the president. Half a dozen young people told NBC News they felt satisfied after seeing the modest crowd size.

Former Vice President Joe Biden issued an open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, calling for the social media giant to stamp out misinformation, including proposing a two-week pre-election period where all political ads are fact-checked. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee also called for “clear rules — applied to everyone, including Donald Trump — that prohibit threatening behavior and...

Joe Biden has won the presidential primary in Hawaii

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is explaining an offhand comment again. Now he says he “should not have been so cavalier” in comments in which he suggested African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black.”

The nation’s largest labor union has lined up behind Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, with the National Education Association on Saturday endorsing the former vice president for the Democratic nomination over his last remaining primary rival Bernie Sanders

The House passed sweeping legislation Friday that gives states $3.6 billion to boost election infrastructure and allow every American to vote by mail as the coronavirus pandemic continues to claim lives with no end in sight.

The former Senate staffer accusing Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her 27 years ago is calling on him to “step forward and be held accountable,” in her first on-camera interview since the former vice president “unequivocally” denied her allegation.

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan says he is launching an exploratory committee for the 2020 Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was wrong when he said that the Trump administration made no effort to get U.S. medical experts into China as the novel coronavirus epidemic spread there early this year. “[W]hen we were talking … early on in this crisis, we said — I said, among others, that, you know, you should get into China, get…

Georgia election officials are postponing the state’s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus

Joe Biden’s foray into virtual campaigning has gotten off to a rocky start

What exactly are delegates, and how do they determine who becomes the Democratic nominee? We emptied our toy box to explain how primaries and caucuses help the Democratic Party select the next presidential nominee.

The Democratic presidential primary is down to two major candidates, and it shows

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addressed the media on Wednesday to talk about what he is looking for from his campaign following Super Tuesday.

As former Vice President Joe Biden swept to victory on Super Tuesday, he told supporters at a California rally his campaign was “very much alive” and that he would send “Donald Trump packing.”

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans — long a reliable voting bloc for Democrats — made up a disproportionately high 9 percent of the electorate in the Super Tuesday contests, and more than 40 percent of them voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.

Early voting on Super Tuesday was disrupted by deadly tornadoes in Tennessee and poll workers in some states failing to show up over fears of the coronavirus. There appeared to be few widespread voting problems after that, although some states and counties were having trouble. That included Los Angeles County, where relatively heavy turnout overwhelmed some election systems and delayed...