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Juliana Stratton wins Democratic primary for Durbin’s seat
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won the Democratic primary Tuesday in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Richard J. Durbin.
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Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton won the Democratic primary Tuesday in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Richard J. Durbin.
Montanan's congressional terms bookended tenure as Interior Secretary during Trump's first term in the White House.
Ayanna S. Pressley and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.↵↵Mejia said her campaign has held town halls that have also served as trainings for how to interact with ICE officers.
Starting gate↵↵Church and state: As Democrats look beyond 2024's bruising defeats, some candidates are challenging the idea that religion has no place in an increasingly secular party.
D.C.’s delegate: Our colleague Justin Papp reports on the emerging Democratic primary for the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate in Congress as the longtime incumbent, Eleanor Holmes Norton
District delegate: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who was chief of staff to D.C.’s nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, in the 1990s, writes in The Washington Post that the longtime lawmaker
Ted Cruz, Christopher S. Murphy and Angus King, reported earning no royalties in 2024. Party registration: Democrats face a voter registration crisis, The New York Times reports.
Donald S. Beyer Jr. and former Rep. Jennifer Wexton, both ex-colleagues of Connolly’s from neighboring districts, as well as the center-left New Democrat Coalition Action Fund.
Previous successful challengers backed by Justice Democrats have included New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts’ Ayanna S. Pressley.
Business Insider explored some of the reasons that boomers were overrepresented at last weekend’s protests, including their shrinking 401(k)s and concerns that the causes they supported in their youth
What we’re reading All politics is local: The 51st ponders what might happen if Congress passes a bill proposed by two Republicans to eliminate D.C.’s home rule.
Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut had the late shift, which saw Schatz suggesting the pages look up what “jumping the shark” actually means.
Payne Jr.’s term, CQ Roll Call’s Jackie Wang reports.
In Maine, former Republican senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen endorsed independent Sen. Angus King for reelection.
Payne Sr.’s campaign account posthumously spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help his son win the nomination and then continued to make contributions to Payne Jr., to other candidates and to charities
Payne Jr.’s seat in New Jersey’s 10th District to file pre-primary disclosures of contributions and expenditures to the Federal Election Commission.
Kean Jr.’s defeat of Democrat Tom Malinowski. New ad: Their Future PAC — the political arm of Their Future.
The only Republicans in the Senate for all six of those years who disagreed with their party more often were Mark S.
Davis of Illinois and Republican John Carter of Texas, 81; and Democrat Frederica S. Wilson of Florida, who is 80 and about two weeks older than Biden.
“I thought I was hot s—,” he said. The following year, he ran a state Senate campaign and lost. After the results came in, he called a political friend.