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At the Races: Irreconcilable differences?

By Stephanie Akin, Kate Ackley and Bridget Bowman
Posted September 23, 2021 at 2:30pm
DSCC Chair Gary Peters says he saw the value of an early focus on field organizing in his own hotly contested reelection race last year. 

DSCC makes early field investment ahead of 2022

By Bridget Bowman
Posted September 22, 2021 at 4:32pm
Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski represents a district that would likely be out of reach for Democrats under a new draft congressional map.

Redistricting lessons from Indiana’s (likely) new map

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 22, 2021 at 10:00am
President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer are seen in the Capitol in July. Democrats are struggling to unify their party around Biden’s agenda, Rothenberg writes.

Democrats’ deepening dilemma

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted September 21, 2021 at 12:00pm
Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice, here with Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer in May, describes herself as a “reasonable, conservative Republican.”

Stephanie Bice’s path reveals opportunities, perils for suburban Republicans

By Stephanie Akin
Posted September 21, 2021 at 5:30am, Updated at 11:50am
Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez is not seeking a third term representing Ohio’s 16th District.

Ohio Republican who voted to impeach Trump decides not to seek reelection

By Stephanie Akin
Posted September 16, 2021 at 10:37pm

At the Races: California dreamin’

By Bridget Bowman, Stephanie Akin and Kate Ackley
Posted September 16, 2021 at 2:30pm
A motorized race vehicle sports a Trump banner in Urbandale, Iowa, in 2016. By holding off on revealing their 2024 plans, Donald Trump and Joe Biden could freeze the field for the next presidential contest, Gonzales writes.

Why the 2024 presidential race will start later than expected

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 16, 2021 at 6:00am
Rep. David Valadao is among the four California Republicans whom Democrats are targeting next year.

Democrats tout California recall result ahead of 2022 midterms

By Stephanie Akin
Posted September 15, 2021 at 3:02pm
Democrats were excited to see the California governor recall trailing in Orange County, where GOP Rep. Young Kim, here at a remembrance ceremony on the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be seeking reelection.

9 takeaways from the California governor recall election

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 15, 2021 at 2:26pm
Senate candidate Adam Laxalt championed the Trump campaign’s unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 presidential result in Nevada.

GOP Senate candidates backed legal challenges to the 2020 election

By Bridget Bowman
Posted September 15, 2021 at 5:00am
Pro-Trump rioters breach the Capitol on Jan. 6. The former president is a polarizing figure and attitudes toward him have reshaped modern voting patterns, Rothenberg writes.

Today’s politics is a throwback to the ’90s — the 1890s

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted September 14, 2021 at 11:00am
After a brief push to return to in-person lobbying, many K Street firms are pulling back, wary of the COVID-19 resurgence brought on by the delta variant.

Delta variant postpones K Street’s full return

By Kate Ackley
Posted September 14, 2021 at 5:00am

At the Races: Debt limit hold ’em

By Kate Ackley, Bridget Bowman and Stephanie Akin
Posted September 9, 2021 at 2:30pm
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is picking up another GOP primary challenger, this one endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

Trump backs new challenger to Rep. Liz Cheney

By Kate Ackley
Posted September 9, 2021 at 12:44pm
An activist demonstrates at a voting rights rally in Washington on Aug. 28. Donald Trump could boost Democratic turnout next year with an early announcement of a 2024 presidential bid, Gonzales writes.

How Republicans are set to boost Democratic turnout in 2022

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 9, 2021 at 6:00am
A politically damaged President Joe Biden is likely to negatively affect Democratic candidates next year, Gonzales writes.

The one thing Biden can’t afford to lose

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 3, 2021 at 6:30am

At the Races: September storms

By Stephanie Akin, Kate Ackley and Bridget Bowman
Posted September 2, 2021 at 2:30pm
Democrats believe abortion will be a campaign issue in 2022.

Democrats say Texas abortion ban spotlights Senate battle in 2022

By Bridget Bowman
Posted September 1, 2021 at 3:44pm
Speaker J. Dennis Hastert leads House and Senate leaders and lawmakers in prayer on the Capitol steps the evening of 9/11 in a show of solidarity against the terrorist attack and their resolve to keep government open.

RIP, rally ’round the flag

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted August 31, 2021 at 1:45pm, Updated September 1, 2021 at 2:25pm
From right, Reps. Al Green, Terri Sewell, Sheila Jackson Lee, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III participate Saturday in the March On for Voting Rights to urge the Senate to pass voting rights legislation.

5 things to know about the voting rights bill named for John Lewis

By Kate Ackley
Posted August 31, 2021 at 5:30am
California Rep. David Valadao is one of a handful of Republicans being targeted by environmental groups in a new ad campaign.

Climate groups launch $1M ad campaign aimed at six battleground Republicans

By Stephanie Akin
Posted August 30, 2021 at 5:30am
From right, Reps. Al Green, D-Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King III, participate in the March on for Voting Rights on Saturday. The event was held on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Biden, Manchin singled out as voting rights rally demands end to filibuster

By Herb Jackson and Tom Williams
Posted August 28, 2021 at 4:51pm
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, walks to the Capitol with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra in 2014, when the two Democrats had other jobs. Newsom was lieutenant governor and Becerra was in the House.

California’s not getting redder, but it still could get a GOP governor

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted August 27, 2021 at 2:41pm
A sign urging people to participate in the census stands in a planter on Main Street in Roswell, N.M. in 2020.

Redistricting to test new Census method for protecting user data

By Michael Macagnone
Posted August 26, 2021 at 4:21pm

At the Races: Are voters listening?

By Bridget Bowman, Stephanie Akin and Kate Ackley
Posted August 26, 2021 at 2:30pm
Martin Luther King III speaks at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Ahead of march, King says voting rights effort will focus on Senate ‘like a laser’

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted August 26, 2021 at 10:00am
A poster honoring the late Georgia Rep. John Lewis, namesake of a voting rights bill the House passed Tuesday, sits on an easel outside a room where military officers, including Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, in background, briefed lawmakers on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

House passes voting rights bill as White House, Senate face pressure

By Kate Ackley
Posted August 24, 2021 at 7:44pm
Former NFL and University of Georgia standout Herschel Walker, shown speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention, has filed the paperwork to run for Senate in Georgia.

Herschel Walker run for Senate in Georgia comes amid GOP concerns

By Bridget Bowman
Posted August 24, 2021 at 5:21pm
New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer was among the Democratic moderates who battled with Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the timing of a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Standoff by moderates highlights Democratic rift, but will it affect 2022?

By Herb Jackson
Posted August 24, 2021 at 4:41pm