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NBC's Steve Kornacki explains why Republicans are so disappointed with New Mexico special election loss

Eleven senators didn’t even bother to cast a vote on a commission to investigate a violent attack on their own workplace.

The Florida Legislature approved changes to the state’s elections laws last week, along with a surprise measure that will expand the governor's powers. Florida's bill was originally compared to the Georgia legislation that was roundly criticized nationwide, resulting in boycott threats and causing Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta. In the end, Florida lawmakers abandoned a number of elements that were strongly opposed by county elections supervisors and Democrats. The bill expected to be signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is not as troubling as what Republicans init...

ABC Columbia May 3, 2021 10:07 PM EDT The former U.S. Representative will meet with supporters at the River Rat Brewery at 6pm. Cunningham will face activist Gary Votour in the Democratic primary. The winner of that race will go on to face South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster in November.

The Atlantic Democrats Are Short on Votes and Long on Irony The party’s signature election-reform bill faces long odds in Congress, in part because of the problems it seeks to address. 6:30 AM ET Alamy / Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Call it a catch-535: Democrats in Congress are trying to pass a huge slate of voting-related reforms, under the name of the For the People Act, or H.R. 1, that could aggressively reshape U.S. elections, change the way Americans vote, and also go a long way toward alleviating the Democratic Party’s structural electoral disadvantages. But the Democrats have...