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Trump’s biggest political event so far isn’t in a battleground state
The president is rallying with Sen. Darline Graham in deep-red South Carolina, a switch-up from his quieter strategy in battlegrounds like Georgia, Mi...
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The midterms of scandal are underway
Both parties have navigated a range of scandals this year — and haven’t found a uniform approach to handling them.
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How Jonathan Haidt turned the fight over kids and social media into a political movement
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Republican Mike Rogers backs Michigan data center moratorium
Both the Michigan and Ohio Senate races have become data center battlegrounds.
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#Resistance Democrats are flopping in primaries
Alexander Vindman’s Senate primary loss Tuesday is the latest stumble from a top Trump critic.
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Michael Cohen won’t say if he’ll use his Trump interview to seek a pardon
The president is expected to call into Cohen’s radio show Thursday in their first public conversation since a very public falling out.
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The Freedom Caucus is having a brutal primary run
The hard-right Freedom Caucus has struggled to elevate its picks this year.
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‘Woefully underprepared’: Graham critics seize on her foreign policy misstep
President Donald Trump is working hard to propel the political newcomer into office. Her debate performance proved just how green she still is.
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Poll: Americans say the White House has shifted its deportation campaign. They’re still not buying it.
New results from The POLITICO Poll show that half of Americans, including nearly a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters, still say the president’s mass depo...
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Florida voters, hungry for change, snub Dem establishment and even Trump
Democrats picked a progressive for Senate. The GOP spurned the president’s endorsements in two House races.
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Trump’s pick for Wyoming governor is the latest endorsee to lose primary
State Sen. Eric Barlow defeated Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder, who had President Donald Trump’s support in the race.
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Class act: The working-class game binding London and Canberra
Andy Burnham and Anthony Albanese have found something few world leaders can replicate: a shared obsession with rugby league.
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes...
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Bernie Sanders has a response for progressives upset over Hong’s loss in Wisconsin
Several high-profile progressives are blaming the Vermont senator. Sanders told POLITICO he has “limited resources” and can't endorse everyone.
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Crowley zeroes in on ‘MAGA extremism’ to rebuild a fractured Wisconsin coalition
In one of his first interviews since winning the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, David Crowley shares his plan to bring in Francesca Hong voters ...
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Platner announced as speaker for activist-led event in Maine
He dropped out of Maine’s Senate race last month after a woman he dated accused him of sexual assault, an allegation he denied.
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Adam Schiff on Democrats’ ‘losing message,’ AOC and AIPAC
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The far left hits a wall
The movement had been riding high off a string of primary victories this cycle. But Francesca Hong’s loss Wednesday led to an immediate round of finge...
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Progressives could score a huge Wisconsin win Tuesday. Some national figures don’t want to touch it.
Francesca Hong hasn’t drawn big name backers like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to her gubernatorial campaign, unlike other candidates t...
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'I'll never bow down': Montana Democratic Senate nominee refuses to pave way for independent
Alani Bankhead said Monday she will not exit the race ahead of Monday’s deadline, likely boosting the GOP’s chances of winning in the fall.
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Wisconsin Democrats’ governor primary is an all-out fight over electability
Francesca Hong says she can appeal to a wide coalition in November. Her detractors worry the democratic socialist will lose the crucial battleground r...
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South Carolina’s Senate race tests Trump — again
The president’s initial pick for governor didn’t win. Can Darline Graham?
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The anti-incumbent wave crashes on Rhode Island
If Gov. Dan McKee becomes the first sitting U.S. governor to lose a primary in eight years, it won’t be to the insurgent left or a youthful challenger...
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Pete Buttigieg: Everyone’s ‘watching the state of Michigan right now’
One of the biggest tests of whether the Democratic Party can rebuild their fractured coalition is Michigan's marquee Senate race.
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GOP Rep. Andy Ogles ousted in Tennessee primary
His loss makes him the second Donald Trump-endorsed candidate to lose a primary this week.
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Bobby Pulido is sick and tired of apologizing
‘I hate to be explaining every single thing,’ said the Tejano singer and DCCC darling about controversial social media comments and his past work rela...
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Dasha Burns presses Mike Johnson on the economy, Iran and Trump's agenda
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Anti-Trump conservatives Tucker Carlson, MTG, Massie huddle about launching third-party movement
“There's a lot more nuts and bolts work that needs to be done there,” says former national security official Joe Kent.
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El-Sayed’s next fight: Uniting a fractured Democratic party
The new Michigan Senate Democratic nominee is trying to patch things up with moderates. And some party leaders have already started to file behind him...
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Trump-backed candidate in battleground Michigan district loses to opponent who dropped out
Amir Hassan lost to Tom Smith, who had suspended his campaign but is now jumping back into the race for the purple 8th District.
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Thanedar becomes latest incumbent to fall to a progressive challenger
Rep. Shri Thanedar lost to democratic socialist state Rep. Donavan McKinney as progressives continue their romp of primary wins this year.
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Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary — a major victory for progressives
It’s a clear signal that the ascendant left can win primaries in key battlegrounds and carries massive implications for 2028.
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Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
The razor-thin margin will only deepen divisions over the future of the Democratic Party.
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South Dakota Democrat exits Senate race, clears way for independent
Julian Beaudion is the third Democrat to drop out of a Senate race after facing pressure from his party to bow out for a more promising independent ca...
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The war to succeed Bernie Sanders is already underway
Walking into Democrats’ contentious Michigan Senate primary, Sanders’ inner circle thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is more likely than Ro Khanna to be...
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AIPAC front and center in Bell-Bush rematch
The rematch between Rep. Wesley Bell and Cori Bush puts the U.S.-Israel relationship under scrutiny.
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Michigan’s GOP governor primary is getting weird
John James has Donald Trump’s coveted endorsement and leads in the polls. Can he fight back a last-minute grassroots revolt?
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Republicans want to talk about James Talarico’s manhood. Talarico says let them.
Democrats’ hopes to flip the Senate may hinge on the Texas candidate’s strategy to win back male voters.
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Kansas’ data center boom is shaking up the governor’s race
Republican and Democratic rivals are attacking each other over their positions on data center development in the final stretch of the primary.
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It might take ‘a lightning bolt from God’ to get these Senate Democratic hopefuls to bow for independents
Democrats in Montana and South Dakota told POLITICO they have no plans to step aside for independents mounting serious Senate campaigns.
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FCC chair Brendan Carr on Trump, free speech and his threats against broadcasters
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A majority of MAGA supporters would still vote for a Republican candidate despite a scandal
Most of President Donald Trump’s MAGA base say they’d still vote for a GOP candidate when confronted with an array of scandals — more so than Republic...
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Pro-Israel Democrats face major test in key Midwest races
A pair of primaries in Michigan and Missouri will reveal whether Democrats who have been critical of Israel can continue their momentum.
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‘I've never lost:’ Rahm Emanuel makes his case for the White House
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El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment
The Michigan Senate candidate saw immediate backlash from within his own party amid a tense primary that has divided progressives and moderate Democra...
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How Republicans plan to conquer Troy Jackson
Republicans have 100 days to sink the newly-minted Democratic Maine Senate nominee — and they're throwing everything they have at him.
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Paxton is trying to cut into Talarico’s lead with Latino voters. It’ll be tough.
A visit to the Rio Grande Valley reveals a border community buckling under the weight of Trump’s immigration policies.
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Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens for Michigan Senate seat
Whitmer waded into one of the highest-profile ideological battles within the Democratic Party.
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Dems pick South Carolina to lead 2028 primary calendar
The state edged Nevada to be first, marking a major shift from past primary schedules
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Poll shows new problem for GOP: Americans think gas prices are worse than they are
Even a majority of people who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 overestimated the change in gas prices in their area, a POLITICO analysis found...
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Rob Bonta on blocking the Paramount merger, CNN concerns and Trump’s DOJ
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Amish Shah wins Dem primary in battleground Arizona House race
He defeated a DCCC-backed candidate in the 1st District, one of Democrats’ top pickup opportunities this cycle.
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