Full Coverage: The Times covers the 2016 battleground states
The race for president is not a national election but a series of discrete contests in each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia. Not all of those contests, however, are competitive. At most, a dozen of so states will decide whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will claim the White House. Here’s the view from the ground up in several of those states.
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Walter Velasquez stood outside the Student Union near the center of campus, beaded with sweat under a blazing sun, as he cheerily called out to passing students, “Have you updated your voter registration?”
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North Carolina prides itself as occupying a special place in the South.
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Harriet Allspach has lived her entire life in this town 30 miles east of Des Moines, where a Maytag plant once employed every fourth person and summer weekends are for watching kart racing at the dirt track.
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The lights cut out suddenly in the bare-bones storefront in northeast Philadelphia that houses Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign office.
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Under a scorching September sun, Lauren McCarthy and Anthony Fraijo were unflaggingly chipper as they buttonholed Arizona State University students with one question: “Are you happy with the two major parties?”
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Chelsea Nunnenkamp is the kind of party loyalist who bleeds Republican red.
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The nerve center of Nevada’s Democratic Party was abuzz with activity, like a dorm room full of grown-ups cramming for the Big Exam.
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No state this year does Republican dysfunction like Ohio. The popular Republican Gov.
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Marie Jeffries has a very firm view of Donald Trump, and she says it won’t change in the nine weeks before election day.
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When Donald Trump first announced his run for president, Karl Booker was intrigued.
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John McCain came to talk about honor and duty.
