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New Hampshire is a political state for obvious reasons, but it is not all about the first-in-the-nation primary. Right now, the presidential race and the COVID-19 pandemic are taking center stage. Inside City Hall in Manchester, there was a healthy line of folks filling out absentee ballots. More people in the Granite State are voting early than ever before. Longtime...

Maine splits its electoral votes by congressional district and three of them have historically been taken by Democrats. President Donald Trump won the state in 2016, but can he do it again?

President Donald Trump stepped off Air Force One and onto a stage in New Hampshire Sunday afternoon for a rally that aimed to win over voters in a swing state that’s been tilting Democratic lately. His Make America Great Again rally Pro Star Aviation in the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport ran for more than 90 minutes, with Trump calling out “fake…

President Donald Trump made a surprise stop in Maine on Sunday following his rally in New Hampshire in the afternoon, though it wasn’t clear what he was doing in the state until he arrived at his destination: an apple orchard. Trump arrived at the Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant at 3:34 p.m., according to a reporter who was with...

Trump arrived at the Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant, Maine, around 3:30 p.m. according to a reporter who was with him. The visit followed his campaign stop in New Hampshire.

In an effort to secure votes in the Granite State, President Trump will hold a rally in New Hampshire today.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign in New Hampshire on Sunday, his campaign has announced. He’ll hold a “Make America Great Again” rally at 1 p.m. at Pro Star Aviation, which is in the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. The Granite State visit will be the last stop on a four-state, two-day swing for the president on the second-to-last weekend...

Here are some of the key exchanges between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden during Thursday’s final presidential debate.

Trump’s visit will come four days after Vice President Mike Pence hosted a rally in the state.

Seth Meyers reminisces about a simpler – albeit recent – time when we didn’t have to worry if there’d be a peaceful transition of power between presidents.

Recent polls have consistently revealed that young voters are backing Democratic candidate Joe Biden by wide margins. However, a new poll conducted by Ipsos suggests that enthusiasm among young Democratic voters for President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders is still higher than for Biden. NBCLX’s storyteller Noah Pransky explains what this means for the 2020 race.

The specter of election chaos in the United States is raising questions about whether voting, vote-counting or the post-vote reaction could become so chaotic that the military would intervene

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden reacts to President Donald Trump saying he will not attend a virtual debate.

With less than a month until the election, Secretary of State William Galvin on Monday urged voters to make a plan to vote and not to wait if they anticipate casting their ballot by mail to ensure they are counted. Galvin said that more than 1.6 million registered voters have already requested mail-in ballots, and he predicted that number could…

President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have had one challenging week: His long-hidden tax returns leaked out.

Many states allow local election clerks to verify mail-in ballots days or even weeks ahead of Election Day.

After months of avoiding direct contact with voters because of the pandemic, Joe Biden’s campaign is about to launch in-person canvassing efforts across several battleground states. The decision comes amid growing concern from Democratic officials on the ground in key states who fear that Biden has been giving a significant advantage to President Donald Trump and his Republican allies,...

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden battled over who would best lead the country out of a pandemic in a chaotic debate in which Trump repeatedly interrupted the moderator, Fox News’ Chris Wallace, and his opponent, talking over both men.

The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to suffer a summer slowdown. For the second month in a row, reporters at NBC Owned Television Stations, Telemundo and NBCLX tested the Postal Service by mailing hundreds of letters across the country.  The result: About 20 percent of 426 letters arrived later than expected. That’s consistent with a smaller test with 155 letters…

After a Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling last week that ranked-choice voting could be used in this year’s presidential election, there’s an effort to take the issue to federal courts. On Thursday, attorneys for Maine’s Secretary of State and opponents of ranked-choice voting, including the state’s Republican Party, will argue in front of the Supreme Judicial Court on whether...