2024 Elections

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who heroically defended the building against insurrectionist rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, and whose harrowing account of that day riveted the House select committee investigating the siege, is running for Congress.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Nearly 18 years after “The West Wing” went off the air, President Josiah Bartlet is still making Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman handle sticky situations for him. The latest example of life imitating art occurred... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination are ratcheting up their attacks on her as Iowa's first-in-the-nation voting draws closer. The barbed news releases, attack ads and amped up back-and-forth come as the former South Carolina governor and Florida Gov. Ron... Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine set the special election dates for the vacancy in the state’s 6th Congressional District caused by the earlier-than-expected departure of Republican Rep. Bill Johnson. The scheduled upcoming elections will include a partisan primary... Read More

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — U.S. presidential elections have been rocked in recent years by economic disaster, stunning gaffes, secret video and a pandemic. But for all the tumult that defined those campaigns, the volatility surrounding this year's presidential contest has few modern... Read More

WASHINGTON — Although most of us focus on the candidates running for president, in reality, the primaries and caucuses in which we vote are a process of selecting delegates in each state to send to their party’s national presidential nominating... Read More

WASHINGTON — In a matter of hours Thursday night, Maine joined Colorado in barring former President Donald Trump from its primary election ballot, while California announced Trump would remain on its list of ballot-certified candidates. The contrasting decisions by the... Read More

DENVER — The Colorado Republican Party has petitioned the Supreme Court to review a state court ruling that barred former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s primary ballot due to his having engaged in an insurrection after the 2020 election. In... Read More

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Republican Party on Thursday officially certified seven candidates to appear on its presidential primary ballot. The list of qualifying candidates for the Feb. 24 primary election was certified and signed by South Carolina GOP... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said Wednesday she is no longer seeking reelection to her current congressional seat and will instead run for office in the more Republican-friendly 4th Congressional District. In a nearly five-minute video posted on her... Read More

WASHINGTON — Although most of us focus on the candidates running for president, in reality, the primaries and caucuses in which we vote are a process of selecting delegates in each state to send to their party’s national presidential nominating... Read More

DENVER (AP) — Police said Tuesday they are investigating incidents directed at Colorado Supreme Court justices and providing extra patrols around their homes in Denver following the court's decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot. The... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday struck down Republican-drawn legislative maps and ordered new district boundary lines in the perennial battleground state to be drawn before the 2024 election. In its 4-3 ruling, the court majority held... Read More

PHOENIX (AP) — Some voted for Donald Trump, others for Joe Biden. A few had never wanted anything to do with politics before they heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a podcast or YouTube video. Lined up outside a Phoenix wedding hall tucked between... Read More

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Despite the polls and the fact the Democratic National Committee likely won’t give more than lip service to the results, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., is campaigning like a contender in New Hampshire, hoping to defeat a “write-in”... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has hired a new state spokesman and is adding additional regional staffers to flesh out her Iowa campaign effort ahead of next month’s all-important Iowa caucuses. "You're gonna see us... Read More

ATLANTA (AP) — Some top Democrats are worried that a dip in Black voter turnout, along with other challenges, could doom President Joe Biden and his party in 2024. A group of Democrats is offering a new analysis of the most recent campaigns... Read More

DES MOINES, Iowa — Though they may have the most to gain in the near term from the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary election ballot, Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination... Read More

DENVER — In a decision sure to roil the 2024 presidential election, the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday barred former President Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot after determining that he did indeed engage in insurrection on... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future. They just disagree... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the presidential election no one is really jazzed about. Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, although more Republicans would be satisfied to have Trump as their nominee... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rudy Salas, Derek Tran and Mondaire Jones, each of whom is running in a key battleground district in the 2024 congressional elections, received the endorsement on Tuesday of the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund. The fund is the... Read More

ALBANY, N.Y. — The special election to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., will be held on Feb. 13, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday evening. As previously reported by The Well News, Santos was expelled from the... Read More

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, can't appear on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot next year. The determination comes weeks after Uygur proclaimed that... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Democrats hoping to draw lessons from this year’s off-years to apply in 2024 would do well to try to localize the president’s national platform while also continuing to embrace the abortion issue, which still appears to be working... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans for Prosperity, the political arm of the powerful Koch network, formally endorsed Nikki Haley's presidential campaign on Tuesday, promising to commit its nationwide army of activists — and virtually unlimited funds — to helping Haley defeat former President... Read More

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Ten minutes before Vivek Ramaswamy was to take the stage in a dated casino hotel in western Iowa, no one was in the conference room except for two staffers from the Iowa GOP, which organized the event,... Read More

WASHINGTON — For the more than 150 center-left Democrats gathered in a large conference room at the Dupont Circle Hotel on Thursday morning, the annual gathering of NewDEALers in the nation’s capital was more than a chance to break bread... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — Bucking the wishes of the Democratic National Committee, New Hampshire’s secretary of state on Wednesday said the state’s presidential primaries will be held on Jan. 23, 2024, extending its century-old streak of holding the first-in-the-nation primary. Speaking... Read More