MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — With her polling position stagnant in Iowa, Nikki Haley and her allies are choosing not to target independent or Democratic voters in the state, bypassing a potential opportunity to persuade them into changing their party registrations on caucus night. The group that is effectively running the ground operation on behalf of […]
The race for Franklin County prosecutor will be the most contested election among county officials next year, with four candidates vying for the four-year term — more competition than in any other county office. Three Democrats have filed with the Franklin County Board of Election to face off in a March primary: Shayla Favor, Natalia […]
I’m sure you remember Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s former senior counselor. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images A clip of her describing the Democratic Party on Fox News is going viral because it’s high-key camp: Kellyanne: I think Democrats wake up every morning and they look at the calendar on the iPhone and it says January […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Republican-drawn legislative maps on Friday and ordered that new district boundary lines be drawn as Democrats had urged in a redistricting case they hope will weaken GOP majorities. The ruling comes less than a year before the 2024 election in a battleground state where four […]
The Democratic National Committee is suing New Hampshire officials over a Republican-backed election law that it claims will disenfranchise voters and have a chilling effect on key members of the party’s base in 2024. The challenge, which was shared first with POLITICO, takes on a law passed last year that requires people who register and […]
By Tim Reid and Nathan Layne (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s vow to give himself the power to gut the federal workforce if he is elected to the White House again has unions, Democrats and watchdog groups preparing for legal action and seeking to tighten protections to prevent the former president from bending the bureaucracy to […]
It’s gametime for Steve Garvey. The baseball legend, who’s running as a Republican to represent California in the U.S. Senate, is rising in polls — giving the state’s marginalized GOP new hopes of having a candidate on the ballot in November. It’s also handing his Democratic competition a much-welcomed political foil. Garvey, former first baseman […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah Democratic Party officials say Gov. Spencer Cox failed to disagree better this week when he attacked diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at state colleges and universities. The governor is the face of a National Governors Association initiative called Disagree Better that aims to raise awareness about ways Americans […]
A widening divide between older and younger Democrats on the war in Gaza poses a political risk to President Biden as he heads into the 2024 election year, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,533 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Dec. 14 to 18, shows that for the first time, […]
Joe Biden has been left with only bad and worse options in his flagging campaign to send more aid to Ukraine amid its war with Russia and has now found that its fate is tied to one of the thorniest issues in US politics: immigration. In addition to the implications for Ukraine’s fate in its […]
By Susan Heavey and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Democrats are calling on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from the U.S. Supreme Court’s handling of Donald Trump‘s bid for immunity in the federal case accusing the former Republican president of seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss. In a Dec. 15 letter to […]
WASHINGTON — Senators negotiating new U.S. immigration restrictions as part of a deal to advance Ukraine aid are exploring ways to prevent a future president from abusing some of the executive powers on the table to control the number of migrants seeking asylum, two sources with knowledge of the talks said. One source said Democrats […]