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ELECTION 2020

LONG DIVISION

America’s seesaw election

teeters on its ruptures

By Molly Ball 24

SORTING THE MAIL

A surge of posted ballots

stokes a nation’s anxiety

By Abby Vesoulis 30

RUSHING TO COURT

Trump’s legal team may

face an uphill fight

By Alana Abramson 36

PLUS:

Viewpoints from

David French, Brittney

Cooper, Justin Worland

and Ian Bremmer

BUDAPEST BLUES

A mayor squares off against

Hungary’s strongman

By Vivienne Walt 48

BABY BUST

The upshot of the

declining U.S. birth rate

By Eliana Dockterman 52

TIME OFF

Bad times are good for

country music 59

VOL. 196, NO. 18 | 2020

Steven

Lewandowski

views returns

outside Chase

Center in

Wilmington, Del.,

on Nov. 3

Photograph by

Tony Luong

for TIME

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