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A rare Republican who supports abortion rights found success in Colorado in the first primary elections held since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

A growing number of Democrats are voicing frustration at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders.

Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

And the shift is most pronounced - and dangerous for Democrats - in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump's Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back.

Bannon made a Gettr post the day after Roe v. Wade was overturned, calling for an "army" to capitalize on the defeat of the "pro-abortion movement."

Tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains of recent years are suddenly becoming Republicans.

A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party's gains in recent years are becoming Republicans. More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.

Democrats who will face voters in November seized on the Supreme Court decision, putting abortion rights at the center of their campaigns. The Republicans they are facing largely remained quiet, with some GOP strategists acknowledging that the issue might not be good for their candidates.

YARDLEY, Pa.—The shock quickly turned to sadness for Victoria Lowe.

A new company has acquired eighteen Spanish-language radio stations, serving ten of the largest Latinx-populated cities in the country.

BASALT, Colo. — Claudia Cunningham had never voted for a Republican in her life. She swore she couldn’t or her father would roll over in his grave. But ahead of the Colorado primary on Tuesday, she did the once-unthinkable: registered as unaffiliated so that she could vote in the GOP primary against her congresswoman, Lauren Boebert. So did Ward Hauenstein, the mayor pro tem of Aspen; Sara Sanderman, a teacher from Glenwood Springs; Christopher Arndt, a writer and financier in Telluride; Gayle F

Sixteen states and Puerto Rico are jockeying for early slots on a new Democratic presidential primary calendar, offering presentations for party bosses on why they deserve to go first — or at least close to it.

Democrats should be worried about losing Latino support—and not just in the obvious places.

State Rep. Bee Nguyen will be the Democratic candidate for Georgia secretary of state in November.

The governor’s ability to attract a spectrum of voters faces a crucial test in November, especially in heavily populated communities like Duval County.

The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year.

By the way, everyone already knows he has publicly stated that he is all for gun control and confiscation. There is a time and place for everything and this was not the time nor place for the wannabe senator, wannabe president or wannabe governor to be espousing his political agenda. Staying out of pressing community matters like gun violence is taking separation of church and state too far. That hallowed concept refers to preventing the state from running the church, and the church from running the state. It is clearly possible for good church members to be a force for lawful standards in the community as well.

Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November's midterm elections. As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder. Biden's hopeful outlook is in line with a sense of optimism that has coursed through his nearly five-decade career and was at the center of his 2020 presidential campaign, which he said was built around restoring the “soul of America.”

President Joe Biden’s top political advisers are bracing for big election losses in November.

The Democratic primary battle for Georgia secretary of state may come down to questions about how party faithful view diversity and the representation of Black women.

Democrats desperately need someone to stand up to Republicans’ rights rollback. Is California’s governor up to the task?

Two paragraphs in the city of Brownsville’s new Employee Handbook are drawing fire from some quarters, including the Cameron County Democratic Party, for their stance toward collective bargaining.

It's rare for a party to flip a seat in a special election, and it sometimes previews a wave election. Will this one?

Former Democratic congressman Joe Cunningham has drawn the ire of activists who want South Carolina state Sen. Mia McLeod to become the state's first Black female gubernatorial nominee.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyThe worst-kept secret in American politics is now on full display. After interviewing nearly 50 Democratic officials about 2024, The New York Times has a message for Joe Biden: Get out!No hard feelings, though, Uncle Joe. The party isn’t angry with Biden. It’s worse than that. The party “seems to feel sorry for him,” according to the Times’ reporting. That’s right, Biden has reached the “pity” stage of his presidency.Just listen to wh

Democrats are defending their record on crime a day after an election for district attorney in California exposed lingering vulnerabilities.

Plus: The case for staying in a bad marriage

If Democrats lose ground in California, it's extremely unlikely to be in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.

Presidents, senators, and first ladies doted on the Simpson children. Now they’re struggling to face their state’s post-Trump reality.

June's primary calendar kicks off Tuesday with seven states holding contests. One local race to watch: LA mayor.

The state Democratic Party confirmed Monday that Ramirez’s opponent, Michelle Vallejo, won by a slim margin.

Primary elections are being held in California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota.

The GOP is spending big to capture an open congressional seat in South Texas — if only for a few months — as they try to create momentum toward a November election where they are newly targeting the region.

Primary elections in seven states Tuesday will set the stage for U.S. House and Senate battles this fall that will play into control of Congress.

Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

Documenting how a diversifying electorate might help Democrats is not the same as inciting fears about “replacement.”

Can water resource manager Lourin Hubbard beat the favored candidate, Republican Connie Conway, to represent a Central Valley congressional district?

Ryan Taylor Faircloth, 31, pleaded guilty to arson in January. His sentencing took place Friday.

One of the leading candidates for mayor is Rick Caruso, a pro-business billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is promising to expand spending on police, not defund them. At another time, the high-end mall and resort developer would seem an unlikely choice to potentially lead the nation’s second-most populous city, where democratic socialist Bernie Sanders was the runaway winner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Caruso is spending millions of his estimated $4.3 billion fortune to finance a seemingly nonstop display of TV and online ads to tap into voter angst.

Jessica Cisneros says the results of her runoff against U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar likely won’t be known until the beginning of next week.

The political landscape in Georgia — and nationally — has shifted significantly.

Jessica Cisneros’s challenge from the left animated some national Democrats against the nine-term congressman.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s too-close-to-call runoff got most of the attention, but three other primary runoffs Tuesday carried big stakes for Democrats as they try to defend South Texas from a new GOP offensive.

A devastating defeat in the Supreme Court could be a boon to the Democrats’ slim midterm hopes—if they can agree on the way to convert progressive anger into votes.

Tuesday’s elections will solidify the major parties’ statewide tickets and have national political implications.

Divisions find Republicans split over Trump loyalty, while Democrats are not seen as effective.

Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary victories in Georgia.

The U.S. is more dangerously divided than any other wealthy democracy. Is there a way back from the brink?

Tesla chief Elon Musk denied claims he engaged in sexual misconduct against a SpaceX flight attendant as he critized the Biden administration and Democrats.

In this tale of two parties, it's the worst of times for American democracy.

In this edition: Lessons from Tuesday's primaries, a Democratic war over gerrymandering, and an interview with Mallory McMorrow.

Musk tweeted that he voted Democrat in the past "because they were (mostly) the kindness party," but added that he "can no longer support them."

Musk has been historically anti-union, opposed to a billionaire's tax, and a vocal critic of President Biden.

Oregon’s November gubernatorial election, which is usually a one-sided victory for the Democratic party, is setting up to be a competitive and contentious three-way race.

Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the GOP mainstream.

Plus: What Elon Musk and Barack Obama have in common

The Fox News host thinks he's very clever.

Liberals have hoped and Republicans have feared that the politics of immigration would give Democrats the upper hand. Reality is proving different.

A May 17 primary rundown, a big-D Democratic debacle in New York, and a campaign ad that goes after a MAGA candidate for supporting former president Donald Trump.

Democrat Marcus Flowers is not expected to win. People are throwing money at him anyway.

Raising corporate rates may be politically appealing to Democrats, but it doesn’t make much sense economically.

A new PAC aims to elect more Republican Latinos to influence their party, which has often alienated prospective Hispanic voters with harsh, sometimes racist rhetoric.

Five states hold primaries Tuesday. The top race is in Pennsylvania, where the GOP Senate primary will be another test of Trump's influence, while Democratic voters seem to favor John Fetterman.

The right’s embrace of the racist “replacement theory” endured even after a series of tragedies in which the shooter espoused it. Here's a timeline of how the party has dealt with such issues.

The four groups of voters that will prove critical to results in the 2022 midterm elections.

A new round of primary elections across the U.S. this week is exposing heightened tensions within the Democratic Party.

See every candidate, race on the ballot for the May 24 Democratic and Republican primary runoff in Bexar County.

With anti-immigrant rhetoric bubbling over in the leadup to this year’s critical midterm elections, about 1 in 3 U.S. adults believes an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gains.

For Democrats, especially in Texas, tackling border issues is difficult on the campaign trail as the party is not in agreement about various policies. O’Rourke has had to distance himself from President Joe Biden’s border policies, while going after Gov. Greg Abbott’s.

Hidalgo, the Harris County judge, says a criminal probe into a contract her office awarded is a political hit. But as a potential future statewide candidate, does the episode expose a flaw in her approach to politics?

Dozens of Black Democratic candidates are seeking office in heavily Republican states that former President Donald Trump won easily in 2020.

Casar won the Democratic primary for Texas’ 35th Congressional District in a landslide victory last month and is expected to win the general election in November.

An unusually bitter election season in South Korea culminates on Wednesday when tens of millions of voters pick their next president.

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party committee members backed U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb by 2 to 1 in an endorsement vote over Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the primary race for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.

Democrats in the region still had higher turnout, but Republicans celebrated the narrowing of the gap. Despite the improvement, nearly 87% of registered voters in the Rio Grande Valley did not vote in the primary, similar to the rate in 2018.

The world knows the city of Selma, Alabama, as a historic beacon in the struggle for voting rights.

In some voting locations where a party’s appointed polling judge didn’t show up, election officials allowed the other party’s judge to operate both parties’ voting machines in an effort to keep the polling place running.

Find the latest, updated election results for the 2022 primary election in Texas on March 1, 2022.

South Texas Democrats are facing an identity crisis and trying to distance themselves from out-of-state progressives after the party underperformed in the region in 2020.

The Democratic Party's brand is so toxic in some parts of rural America that liberals are removing bumper stickers and refusing to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly.

The speaker of Hawaii’s House of Representatives says he supports stronger ethics laws and penalties to prevent bribery at the Legislature.

The Republican Primary election ballot contains a list of propositions that have created some confusion for voters.

Word of Justice Stephen Breyer's pending retirement may be lifting Democratic hopes ahead of midterm elections.

See every candidate, race on the ballot for the March 1 Democratic primary in Bexar County.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters, says he will seek reelection to a third term.

Police in Albania have intervened to disperse protesters from the headquarters of the country’s main opposition party.

Asian stock markets are mixed on 2022′s first trading day after Wall Street ended last year with a double-digit gain.

A lawsuit filed in Bexar County this month and scheduled for a hearing next week seeks to have a candidate for the 285th District Court thrown off the primary ballot.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell is openly recruiting Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin after his fractious split with the White House over the president’s social and environmental spending package.

In Florida, for the first time in modern history, registered Republican voters outnumber Democrats.

O’Rourke has ground to make up after his own underwhelming performance with voters there in 2018 when he ran for U.S. Senate — and turning out more Latino voters has long been key to Democratic hopes statewide.

The GOP slate for statewide office includes two high-profile Latinos and two Black candidates who have previously held state or federal office. Republicans are making a play to be more competitive with voters of color as the state’s electorate grows more diverse.

El Pasoans who have followed O’Rourke’s political career are excited about his run for governor. But his critics still remember his support of a development plan that could have displaced Mexican American residents from one of the city’s oldest barrios.

The House has approved a $1 trillion package of road and other infrastructure projects after Democrats resolved a months-long standoff between progressives and moderates.

Republican Glenn Youngkin spent months talking to voters about his plans to roll back Democrats’ “left, liberal, progressive agenda.”.

The beaten and battered Republican Party of Virginia hopes it's on the cusp of a comeback with its candidate for governor, Glenn Youngkin.

A Virginia governor’s race that appears deadlocked between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin has entered its final hours.

New Jersey's decidedly liberal shift under first-term Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is facing a test as he seeks reelection against Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change.

Texas gained two new seats in Congress based on population growth fueled by people of color. But the Senate’s proposal provides no new majority-Black or majority-Hispanic districts to reflect that growth.