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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.
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.
Ayanna S. Pressley is weighing a Senate run. Whoever emerges from the Democratic primary would be heavily favored in the general election.
“This is a very different moment than March,” Connecticut Democrat Christopher S. Murphy told reporters. “I acknowledge that the call in March was tough for a lot of my colleagues.
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
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.
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.
Frank talk: Sorensen, the Illinois freshman with Swing Left’s backing, was among the 14 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block Washington, D.C.’s, police accountability law.
Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run isn’t getting much support from members of his storied political family.
Democrat Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut’s other senator, tweeted that Blumenthal “got back up, dusted himself off and FINISHED THE PARADE” after his injury. “Most Dick Blumenthal thing ever.”
GOP operatives are out this week attacking potentially vulnerable House Democrats who voted against a disapproval resolution to nullify D.C.’s controversial criminal code measure.
Ayanna S. Pressley and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, among other Democrats. He also runs Faces of Covid, a social media platform memorializing those who died of COVID-19.
Connolly, Donald S. Beyer Jr. and Jennifer Wexton, along with groups like EMILY’S List and the Collective PAC.
What we’re reading Stu says: Stu Rothenberg picks his biggest winners and losers, including for the biggest upset of the year, the elected official(s) who put country over party and the worst congressional
Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois have reported absences because of COVID-19 cases.
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to for inspiration it would be a historical figure like Paul Wellstone, a Democrat who represented Minnesota in the Senate from 1991 until he died in a plane crash in 2002, or former President Harry S.