2024 Elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before Donald Trump announced his campaign to retake the White House, he launched a quieter campaign to rack up Republican endorsements. In early 2021, after Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden and inspired a mob of supporters to attack the Capitol trying... Read More

CONCORD, N.H.— New Hampshire voters went to the polls in droves on Tuesday and when all was said and done, at about 8 p.m., they’d handed significant victories to both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The results,... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — They told him not to run. How could you consider yourself a loyal Democrat, let alone a loyal member of the House leadership, if you’d dare primary the party’s incumbent president? But Dean Phillips, a moderate Democrat... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will share the stage on Tuesday in Virginia as they campaign for abortion rights, a top issue for Democrats in an election expected to feature a rematch with Donald Trump, the former Republican president.... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — President Joe Biden’s name will not appear on the New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot on Tuesday, but a statewide grassroots effort is nevertheless determined to sweep him to victory. Biden chose not to actively run in New... Read More

PETERBOROUGH, Mass. — It was a passing driver who delivered the news to a group of about a dozen Trump supporters gathered at the corner of Grove Street and Wilton Road here. For hours they’d been braving the cold against... Read More

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump. The decision leaves Trump and former... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., formally endorsed former President Donald Trump Friday night, traveling a snowy Concord, New Hampshire, to assert before a raucous crowd that his former rival for the Republican presidential nomination is the only candidate... Read More

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's secretary of state is appealing a judge's ruling that put on hold her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a similar case in Colorado. Shenna... Read More

WASHINGTON — No Labels, the nonpartisan group currently trying to build support for a third-party ticket in the 2024 presidential election, urged the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate an alleged conspiracy to subvert Americans’ voting rights. According to the... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — It may have been 4 below zero outside the glass doors of the Iowa Event Center, but Brenden Dilley wasn’t letting a little thing like potential frostbite diminish his enjoyment of a good cigar. Inside, several... Read More

A year ago, anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. gathered for their annual March for Life with reason to celebrate: It was their first march since the Supreme Court, seven months earlier, had overturned the nationwide right to abortion. At this year’s march,... Read More

CONCORD, Mass. — CNN announced Wednesday morning that it is dropping plans to hold a Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire on Sunday after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she would only participate in the event if... Read More

PHOENIX (AP) — No Labels, the group preparing for a possible third-party presidential campaign, can prohibit members from using its ballot line to run for office in Arizona, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The decision protects the group's efforts to maintain... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump scored a decisive victory in the Iowa Republican caucuses Monday night, defeating all comers, including challengers Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, who battled for much of the night for a distant second... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — Callie Krosin and Molly Dougherty weren’t about to let a golden opportunity slip through their hands. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon in the Iowa Caucus Media Center, with many of the thousand journalists expected to... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — The final poll before Iowans head to their respective caucus sites on Monday shows former President Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead over the field of challengers, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley... Read More

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — For Andrea Tisor, a native of Iowa who moved away only to move back again, this year’s Republican caucus is something of a homecoming. From 2014 until 2021, she and her husband lived in the Minneapolis... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — As the weekend of the 2024 Iowa caucuses dawned in Des Moines Saturday morning, two things were crowding most people’s thinking. The first was whether it was ever going to stop snowing. Though a blizzard forecast... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — It isn’t difficult to feel at home at the Waveland Cafe. The waitresses greet everyone as if they’d welcomed all of them a hundred times before, and if you happen to sit at the counter rather... Read More

ANKENY, Iowa — An energized Nikki Haley, fresh off a strong performance in a televised CNN debate Wednesday night, returned to this small community north of Des Moines Friday morning to make one more pitch to potentially undecided voters and... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden says her husband's age is an “asset," as President Joe Biden — at 81 already the oldest American leader in history — faces persistent questions from voters about his decision to seek another term. In... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — It was Iowa in winter, so it stood to reason the snow would be falling as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley squared off in the final candidate debate ahead of... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa has a distinctive way of greeting an out-of-state visitor attending the state’s world famous caucuses for the first time. Snow abounds. And as one steps out of Des Moines International Airport to a waiting car... Read More

CHARLESTON, S.C. — While in Charleston on Monday to kick off the South Carolina leg of his 2024 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden made an impromptu stop at one of the city’s best known soul food restaurants. The visit to... Read More

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democrats who control the Maine Legislature on Tuesday rejected a Republican effort to impeach the state's top election official for her decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state ballot over his role in... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued a cease-and-desist order to the Democratic National Committee on Monday, accusing the party of engaging in voter suppression. Formella’s action is the latest salvo in an ongoing row between the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Mitch Landrieu, a senior advisor to President Joe Biden and the administration’s lead coordinator for projects funded by the bipartisan infrastructure bill, is leaving the White House to join the president’s reelection campaign as national co-chair. The White... Read More

CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Joe Biden kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign in South Carolina on Monday, speaking at the Charleston church that was the site of a mass murder of Black parishioners at the hands of a White supremacist... Read More

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who defeated Donald Trump-backed rivals twice in Republican-leaning Kentucky, announced the formation of a federal political action committee on Monday to support candidates across the country as he seeks to broaden his influence beyond... Read More