GOP strategists around the country are concerned that President Trump’s vocal opposition to mail-in voting is resonating with Republicans, imperiling years-long efforts by the party to sign people up to vote by mail. Expanded mail-in voting has become a pillar of…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reputation for guiding the GOP out of hairy political situations is being put to the test once again as he tries to steer through the choppiest political waters of his long career and save the party’s slim majority in…
Three nail-biting gubernatorial contests in deeply red states have both Democrats and Republicans on edge in the two weeks before Election Day, in races that will test President Trump’s ability to move votes a year before his reelection bid. Two incumbents,…
Donald Trump is going all-in on a trio of Southern governor’s races in November, gambling that a clean sweep will help him regain his political footing at the most perilous moment of his presidency. Trump is expected to barnstorm Kentucky, Mississippi,…
Obamacare is again shaping gubernatorial races deep in Trump country this fall — and this time, it’s by Democrats embracing it as a winning issue. Off-year governors races in Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi are turning partly on Obamacare, particularly the…
Republicans running for governor this year are turning to President Trump — and familiar Democratic boogeymen — to carry them over the finish line in Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana, three of the most conservative states in the country. In all three states,…
President Donald Trump is muscling into a blue state where Democrats are reeling: Virginia. With a tenuous grip on states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the president is looking for opportunities to expand his electoral playing field. He’s set his…
THE BIG IDEA: ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Midwest is poised to be the epicenter of Democratic gains in the midterms, just as it was for Republicans during the 2010 tea party wave. One under-appreciated reason is that Democrats nominated more…
In another sign of the schism between the Republican Party’s past and present, President Trump and his allies are backing candidates promising a break from the governors they seek to replace. Some of the president’s preferred standard-bearers are actively opposing…
On the afternoon of June 27, Gretchen Whitmer was walking into a fundraiser when she got the text from a friend: “I cannot believe about Kennedy,” it read. Over the next few hours, the former prosecutor running to be Michigan’s…