Half of voters identified democracy as the single most important motivating factor for their vote. That was higher than the share of voters who answered the same way about inflation, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, abortion policy or free speech, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide.

Sky News contributor Joe Hildebrand dissects the US election and why Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris. “None of the people on the Democrat side, on the Harris side actually knew, or perhaps even it seemed,