An appeals court in Texas ruled against Michael Quinn Sullivan, the CEO of conservative advocacy group Empower Texans, in a suit brought by the Texas Democratic Party relating to a 2019 meeting in which then-state House Speaker Dennis Bonnen allegedly offered Sullivan a “quid pro quo” offer in violation of the Texas Election Code. The court ruled Sullivan failed to establish that the Texas Citizens Participation Act applies to the party’s claims.
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The 2020 campaign season was a wash for President Donald Trump in California, but the state’s GOP candidates are poised to win back several House seats the party lost to the 2018 Democratic blue wave.
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The state of Ohio and various Republican groups asked a state appeals court Friday to toss a lower court’s approval of multiple ballot drop boxes for the upcoming presidential election.
Read moreA federal judge in Wisconsin granted the Democratic Party’s motion and extended the deadline for counting absentee ballots to Nov. 9 as long as they are dropped in the mail by Election Day. However, the judge stayed his ruling pending appellate review.
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Giving Democrats a win in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Green Party presidential candidate will not be listed on the Commonwealth’s ballots in November.
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Seeking a path out of historic chaos and back to the promise of America, Democrats stressed the vitality of voting and threw their support behind former Vice President Joe Biden as he accepted the party’s presidential nomination at the close of their convention Thursday night.
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A day after the centennial for the ratification of the constitutional amendment enshrining women’s right to vote, the Democratic Party is set to officially nominate Senator Kamala Harris as its pick for vice president at Wednesday night’s session of the Democratic National Convention.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is once again undergoing chemotherapy treatment, she said Friday, revealing that a February biopsy found liver cancer but that she will continue to serve on the Supreme Court.
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In a major upset of the Democratic Party’s entrenched power players, former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has won the primary race against 16-term incumbent Congressman Eliot Engel for New York’s 16th Congressional District.
Read moreTaking a much different approach than the GOP in light of Covid-19 concerns, the Democratic National Committee announced its plans for “a convention across America” anchored in Milwaukee from August 17-20, 2020.
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Amy Klobuchar says she is dropping out of the running to run for vice president and urging Joe Biden to select a woman of color instead.
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The 2020 elections will bring “the greatest voter-suppression effort in the history of our country,” the president of the Texas NAACP said during a panel on the second day of the Texas Democratic Party’s virtual convention, where a group of voting rights advocates highlighted the legal battles spurred by Covid-19.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden won the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest coalition of labor unions, on Tuesday, in a development that could help him in union-heavy swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer wore a T-shirt on television emblazoned with the words “that woman from Michigan,” a cheeky reference to President Trump’s dismissal of her. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar joined her onetime nemesis Pete Buttigieg for a friendly virtual chat on a late-night show. And Stacey Abrams speaks of her political ambition to almost anyone who will listen.
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders can keep the delegates he would have otherwise forfeited by dropping out of the 2020 race — giving the progressive wing of the Democratic Party more say in building the party platform at the convention this summer.
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Hillary Clinton formally endorsed fellow Democrat and former Vice President Joe Biden for president during a virtual town hall on Tuesday.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has made some effort to woo Bernie Sanders’ very ardent supporters by tossing a few progressive policy bones their way. But will the payoff — picking up enough Sanders voters to beat President Donald Trump — be worth the potential cost of losing more moderate voters?
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Seeking to unite Democrats, Joe Biden has raced to line up supporters ranging from progressive icon Bernie Sanders to former President Barack Obama, whose administration sometimes irked liberals. But the person with the most influence may be Michelle Obama.
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Joining the recent dropouts in the Democratic presidential race, Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ended her campaign Thursday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Early returns showed voters handing delegates to former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, as results rolled in from primaries in Washington state, Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Idaho. It was the first time in this primary cycle where voters had only two viable choices as the Democratic candidate for president.
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