David Lauter

Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice for secretary of State, testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

Trump’s Cabinet picks distance themselves from his controversial positions

August 22, 2019 at 2:42 a.m.

With the Senate having held confirmation hearings for seven of the incoming administration's choices for top positions, a clear pattern has begun to emerge — prospective Cabinet members have carefully...

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by at least 2.8 million, according to a final tally. The result marked the biggest gap between the popular vote and the electoral college in almost 150 years.

Clinton won as many votes as Obama in 2012 — just not in the states where she needed them most

August 22, 2019 at 2:18 a.m.

The final results of the 2016 presidential election look like this: Hillary Clinton got roughly the same number of votes that President Obama received four years ago en route to...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., shows President-elect Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, the Speaker's Balcony at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 10, 2016.

Why did Trump win? Because Democrats stayed home

August 22, 2019 at 1:54 a.m.

When all the ballots are counted — some 4.3 million remained in California as of Thursday night, according to the state's secretary of state — Hillary Clinton will have won...

A primer on executive power: Trump can’t end same-sex marriages, but he could speed up deportations

August 22, 2019 at 1:53 a.m.

Starting Tuesday night, as Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election started coming into focus, anguished questions flooded social media: Could Trump overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision...

USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Presidential Election Daybreak poll

Voters see Donald Trump win as possible, and that might get more to vote

August 22, 2019 at 1:11 a.m.

Donald Trump is enjoying his strongest position in the presidential race since immediately after his nominating convention and, for the first time, has started to significantly close the gap with...

About 48% of voters identify as Democrats and about 44% as Republicans, but changes have taken place among their ranks.

Democratic and Republican voters are further apart than they’ve been in a generation

August 22, 2019 at 1:06 a.m.

Barack Obama's presidency appears to have profoundly shifted the voter coalitions behind the two major parties, with older and blue-collar whites moving to the Republicans as college graduates and secular...

Who could possibly still be picking between Clinton and Trump? About 1 in 5 voters

August 22, 2019 at 1:02 a.m.

In this election season of discontent, a lot of voters are having trouble committing. Around 1 in 5 voters nationwide report themselves as undecided or flirting with third-party candidates, with...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Xfinity Arena of Everett, on Aug. 30, 2016, in Everett, Wash.

Donald Trump still has path to victory, but it’s a tough one, poll finds

August 22, 2019 at 12:55 a.m.

Although he trails in nearly all national surveys and polls of most battleground states, Donald Trump still has a potential route to victory, albeit a difficult one that would require...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, shown speaking at a rally March 11 in St. Louis, is inspiring huge unfavorable ratings.

Donald Trump is now the least popular American politician in three decades

May 14, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

For months, as Donald Trump lurched from controversy to controversy, commentators marveled that his voters remained loyal: Trump is impervious to political attack, some said. Not so. Trump wasn't immune;...

Donald Trump appears in Fountain Hills, Ariz., on March 19.

Is one of the worst weeks of Donald Trump’s campaign a bump or a turning point?

May 14, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

After months of dominating the Republican race, Donald Trump has endured one of his worst weeks since launching his presidential bid, and while he remains the GOP front-runner, his struggles...

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