Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, joined the Republican race against President Donald Trump on Sunday, aiming to put his Appalachian trail travails behind him for good as he pursues an admittedly remote path to the presidency.
Read moreRepublican leaders in South Carolina and Kansas have voted to scrap their presidential nominating contests in 2020, while party officials Nevada were deciding whether to follow suit as the GOP erects more hurdles for the long shots challenging President Donald Trump.
Read moreVaping giant Juul and its allies won a partial victory Friday against the city of San Francisco in a lawsuit challenging the wording of a ballot question that could replace the city’s e-cigarette ban with a lighter set of regulations.
Read moreDonald Trump wants the Granite State. On Thursday he told nearly 12,000 attendees at Southern New Hampshire University that since he fulfilled his campaign promise to “make America great again,” he now intends to “Keep America Great.”
Read morePhil Bryant, a Republican, is finishing up his second and last term as Mississippi’s governor. Barred from re-election because of term limits, he has turned to endorsements to continue his legacy.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden maintains a narrow lead in New Hampshire, over Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, according to a new poll published Monday.
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While national polls on the Democratic presidential candidates seem to tell a clear-cut story on who’s ahead, a fuller story can be told by polling of early primary states that can make or break a campaign.
Read moreJoining some 20,000 members of the nationwide Latino community, four Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a town hall forum Thursday at a convention held by the country’s oldest Latino civil rights organization at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee.
Read moreDemocratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker escorted five migrants Wednesday across a bridge from Mexico into El Paso to show support for Central American asylum seekers that the Trump administration is trying to keep out of the country.
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Iowa Democrats got a full serving of picnic fare and political rhetoric from presidential candidates Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in a Democratic Party gathering at a West Des Moines city park Wednesday.
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke visited Mexico on Sunday and listened to tearful immigrants say they fled Central American violence and turmoil to seek asylum in the U.S., but were turned away at the border.
Read moreIn her first post-debate appearance, Sen. Elizabeth Warren hosted a boisterous town hall in Chicago that showcased her detailed policy ideas aimed at reshaping American government as we know it.
Read moreTen more Democratic candidates faced off during the second night of the first presidential debate where immigration and health care dominated the discussion, including a fiery exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
Read moreFollow along as Courthouse News reporter Brandi Buchman covers night two of the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Read moreTen Democrats railed against a national economy and Republican administration they said exists only for the rich as presidential candidates debated onstage for the first time in the young 2020 season, embracing class warfare as a defining theme in their fight to deny President Donald Trump a second term in office.
Read moreTwenty Democratic presidential candidates attending a Planned Parenthood forum on Saturday vowed to defend abortion rights under nearly any circumstance while largely ignoring nuances around the issue that have already roiled their party heading into the 2020 election.
Read moreHours after President Donald Trump touched down in San Antonio on Wednesday for a fundraising trip, Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro, the city’s former mayor, held a counter-rally where he assailed the administration’s harsh immigration policies as “an absolute failure.”
Read moreA ballot initiative to ban the funding of safe consumption sites for opioid users is off the table, after the Washington State Supreme Court found Thursday that local voters can’t override a county’s authority to set its budget.
Read moreAs I stood at the table to sign in for my ballot, an elegant, middle-aged black woman was just ahead of me. Her voice was subdued but clear, with the deeper timbre of age and experience, her diction betrayed a practice of speaking and a college education. With a sculpted face that had been beautiful and still was, she wore a tailored, perfectly pressed, deep-gray skirt and jacket of fine wool.
Read moreDemocrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Nevada on Tuesday night when Rep. Jacky Rosen ousted incumbent Republican Dean Heller, a one-time critic of President Donald Trump who later tethered himself to the president.
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