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Despite their sometimes moderate records, vulnerable California Republicans kept backing Jim Jordan, Donald Trump's ultraconservative and ultimately failed pick for speaker.

“Fourteen percent of voters say they dislike both of the leading candidates for president, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll, more than four times the number who were dissatisfied with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump last Election Day.”“Voters who d

Ron DeSantis best chance to reinvigorate his campaign could come this week, with the first Republican presidential candidate debate. But a strong showing, or new campaign manager and strategy still may do little to halt the commanding lead by Trump.

The GOP is trying very hard to prove wrongdoing by father and son to distract from the three indictments of Donald Trump

Based on the chatter in Washington, the race for the Republican nomination is already over. Former President Donald Trump, who looked vulnerable in the immediate aftermath of the 2022 midterms, has regained his footing in spite of (or thanks to) an indictment and more potential legal fallout in the coming weeks. 

President Joe Biden is under pressure to secure access to an abortion pill that is part of a two-drug regimen relied on by more than half the women nationwide terminating pregnancies every year.

The former popular-vote-losing, twice-impeached, insurrectionist Republican frontrunner for the White House has put his party in a bind following his arrest on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. That part isn’t what Republicans are fretting over. No, it’s the former guy’s calls for de...

The most important thing I’ve read recently about the 2024 GOP primary had nothing to do with questions about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ retail political skills or Donald Trump’s slipping hold on the GOP faithful. Instead, it was a piece by Washington Post reporters Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey and Maeve Reston, that focused on the unsexy, but critically important state delegate selection process.

President Biden wants to focus midterm arguments on the threat of political violence and risks to rights and freedoms. It's a strategy that worked for Democrats in a recent special election race.

President Biden wants to focus midterm arguments on the threat of political violence and risks to rights and freedoms. It's a strategy that worked for Democrats in a recent special election race.