Hometown series: A look at the candidates’ views from the towns that helped shape them
Even in a pandemic, candidates spend much of their time campaigning in one town after another. But what is the America they’ve seen from their own front doorstep? In this series, Times reporters explore the communities the candidates have called home.
How the 2020 election looks from Palm Beach, Fla., the adopted home of President Trump and his Mar-a-Lago resort, and a town whose largely white, wealthy population stands in contrast to its surroundings.
Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington is known for its small size and relationship-based politics. But just as in national politics, backlash has been brewing against the status quo.
Since Sen. Kamala Harris launched a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the problems of the country she wants to help lead have inched closer to her Brentwood doorstep.
Locals celebrate a Christian Republican from their Indiana hometown as presidential material. But they’re talking about the late industrialist J. Irwin Miller, not Mike Pence.
