As the Senate confirms President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, the special elections to replace some of them are starting to take shape.
Late Thursday night, Republicans in Kansas’ 4th District selected state Treasurer Ron Estes as the GOP nominee to replace Mike Pompeo, who was confirmed as Trump’s CIA director.…
While the 2020 census is still three years away, the fight for control of the congressional redistricting process is underway -- in developing gubernatorial contests in a handful of key states.
Yes, there are plenty of unknowns about reapportionment and redistricting, since the courts, the Trump Justice Department and state…
During the campaign, there probably weren’t enough full-throated Donald Trump supporters on Capitol Hill to fill a minivan. But two Trump campaign aides could get elected in House special elections later this year, while another adviser may challenge a Republican senator in a primary next year.
Their candidacies will test…
President Donald Trump is off to a fast start, but that aggressiveness could produce the same sort of reaction that Barack Obama’s fast start did in 2009: It could lead to a midterm election in which voters apply the brakes.
In 2010, voters told President Obama that he had gone…
South Carolina was supposed to be the place where Jeb Bush resurrected his campaign. The place where Donald Trump’s momentum would be stalled. But Trump prevailed in the Palmetto State primary last year, and now he’s tapped two South Carolina Republicans for initial cabinet-level positions.
Trump selected Republican Gov. Nikki…
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump took the oath of office, hundreds of thousands of women descended onto the streets of Washington, D.C. in protest of the new president.
There were immediate comparisons to the Tea Party movement that began in 2009 with rallies against new President Barack Obama,…
Donald Trump’s critics believe the new president is clueless (or worse), but he might be on track to avoid repeating former President Barack Obama’s biggest political mistake.
Trump’s pre-inaugural press conference was widely panned, but his comments on the future of health care legislation were instructive.
“The easiest thing would…
Midterm elections are supposed to be trouble for the president’s party, but House Republicans are confident that if they have a problem, John Rogers can solve it.
Rogers was born in Amsterdam, New York, a small-town about a half-hour west of Albany, but Republican friends know him best for once…
Nearly two years before Election Day 2018, some Republicans have already thrown in the towel on one of their top Senate takeover targets.
Donald Trump’s selection of GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke to become the Secretary of the Interior creates yet another House open seat but essentially takes a potential…
When DFL state Sen. Terri Bonoff got into the race against GOP Rep. Erik Paulsen in April, it was heralded as a “big deal.”
Democrats had coaxed a long-recruited candidate off of the sidelines and into a previously uncompetitive suburban district where Donald Trump was destined to lose and…
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