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At the Races: Ready for Madam President?
↵↵For Democrats still healing from 2024's shattering loss, it's a fraught question — and the answer depends on who you ask.↵↵Count Michelle Obama in the "no" column.
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↵↵For Democrats still healing from 2024's shattering loss, it's a fraught question — and the answer depends on who you ask.↵↵Count Michelle Obama in the "no" column.
And GOP nominee Mark S. Kirk prevailed in the president's home state of Illinois, which had backed Obama by 25 points. And that doesn't count Republican Scott P.
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.
↵↵As Democrats look beyond 2024's lacerating losses, some candidates are challenging the idea that religion has no place in an increasingly secular party.
Ayanna S. Pressley is weighing a Senate run. Whoever emerges from the Democratic primary would be heavily favored in the general election.
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
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.
According to L2’s data, 362,136 registered Republicans who may or may not have cast a vote in 2020 but didn’t vote in the 2022 midterm elections have cast votes in the seven swing states through
Roll Call's ranking of the 10 most vulnerable House and Senate incumbents one week before Election Day 2022.
Wesley Hunt, a Republican seeking an open House seat in Texas, is producing a campaign video series touring energy production sites.
Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Warner of Virginia, Christopher S.
Warnock, the state’s first Black senator — who has kept his post as the pastor of Martin Luther King Jr. ’s former church — has remained popular in the state, while Biden has not.
Republicans who support home-state earmarks are locked in primary fights against those who don't as the practice faces an uncertain future.
Most unforgettable campaign moment: In 1994, the year of the Republican Revolution, Holt did communications for the congressional campaign of George Nethercutt, who ousted Speaker Thomas S.
“I read it from cover to cover, and again, it}s a reference book. It’s not meant to be read like that,” McCrary said. “But, to me, it read like a narrative. From there I was hooked.”
U-S-A: In honor of the upcoming Olympic Games, elections analyst Nathan L.
The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns around the country, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in this At the Races newsletter.
groups have lined up TV ads, grassroots campaigns and demonstrations around the country heading into the July Fourth recess to push for passage of the bill, dubbed the For the People Act and known as S
S 1 watch: The National Democratic Redistricting Committee this week launched a digital ad buy and web video as well as billboards in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania to push for Senate passage