Stephen Fowler is a political reporter with NPR's Washington Desk and will be covering the 2024 election based in the South. Before joining NPR, he spent more than seven years at

Several sources queried by Rolling Stone found fault in the Harris campaign’s reluctance to answer attacks from Trump and his allied Super PACs about her support for trans rights — ads that Trump spent tens of millions of dollars on, and which Fulks estimated accounted for at least 37 percent of the Trump campaign’s advertising budget.

North Carolina legislative Republicans moved closer Monday to enacting a measure that would erode the powers of the incoming governor and other Democratic officials, and also placing on the ballot constitutional amendments that could buttress GOP voting and tax policies.