Media & Communication: Research Guide

The Trump team had a huge financial disadvantage. It made up for it with a strategy that allowed it to narrow the focus of its ad dollars.

Kamala Harris left Donald J. Trump’s anti-transgender attack ads largely unanswered. Some Democrats call it political malpractice.

Even as Democrats rebuked Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts for saying he didn’t want his daughters “getting run over” by “formerly male” athletes, he defended his remarks.

Rather than pushing Americans in a direction they oppose, Democrats should endorse nuanced and humane alternatives.

Donald Trump ganó terreno con los votantes latinos y negros de clase trabajadora, dando al partido la esperanza de una nueva forma de ganar en una nación que se diversifica.

Es difícil separar el trabajo de campaña de Musk de otras influencias que llevaron a Trump a la Casa Blanca. Su papel podría inspirar iniciativas similares y contribuir a transformar las campañas modernas.

Donald J. Trump picked up support among Latino and Black working-class voters, giving the party hope for a new way to win in a diversifying nation.

The candidate largely let the billionaire run his $175 million ground game — a gamble that future candidates could look to emulate.

Proposition 1, which enshrines abortion rights into the State Constitution, was aggressively opposed by Republicans, who tried to cast it as an attack on girls’ sports and a giveaway to migrants.

Advertising is the biggest expense in a race expected to cost $3.5 billion. These are the stories the candidates are using it to tell.

Kamala Harris and her allies have concentrated their spending on addressing the economy. For Donald Trump, one theme dominates: fear.

Ms. Roberts narrated an ad suggesting that women could privately vote for Vice President Kamala Harris without letting their husbands know.

Representative David Schweikert, a vulnerable Republican, is fighting for his political life in suburban Arizona, where the sprint to win over a crucial bloc of voters is coming down to the wire.

Modern technology including doorbell cameras and tiny tracking devices have turned the tables on sign stealers.

An ad from the Harris campaign highlights the death of Amber Nicole Thurman, a Georgia woman whose delay in medical care was reportedly tied to the state’s post-Roe abortion restrictions.

The Democratic National Committee will run the 15-second ads in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska.

Here’s what we learned after analyzing 3.7 million election ads.

Republicans are banking on an issue that isn’t a priority for voters: trans rights.

Across New York State, Republican and Democratic candidates are using the city’s migrant crisis to attract voters fearful of its effects on their districts.

The group, Future Forward, warned that attacking Donald J. Trump as a fascist or questioning his character or stamina are less effective than highlighting Kamala Harris’s proposals.

Readers discuss Democrats’ concerns that her bid will throw the election to Donald Trump. Also: Harris ads; drug-free treatments; regretting email.

Opponents of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment have cast it as a broad attempt by Democrats to grant rights to transgender athletes and migrants.

Eric Hovde is closing out his challenge to Senator Tammy Baldwin, a low-key Midwesterner, with a new attack ad that appears to want to make sure voters know she’s gay.

A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appalling.”

House Democrats are suing to stop Republicans from using a legal loophole to bolster their Senate candidates.

The ads are the latest attempt by Kamala Harris’s campaign to turn the 2024 race into a referendum on Donald Trump.

A Republican group supporting Senate races says it will spend $6.2 million on TV, radio and digital ads beginning this weekend.

A new commercial from the Republican Jewish Coalition tries to give Jewish voters a rationale for voting for the former president, based on fear.

A new commercial from the biggest super PAC in American politics makes a pitch for Republicans in Arizona and North Carolina.

A television ad conveys a key part of Kamala Harris’s closing argument: that her rival is a right-wing authoritarian who will make life less affordable and threaten access to abortion.