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…
After Republicans won big in successive election cycles to take control of more governorships than at almost any other time in the party’s history, the GOP now finds itself defending a huge number of seats in critical swing states in…
Democrats nationwide are especially targeting the 38 Republican governors that are running for re-election during the 2017 and 2018 election years, according to a Thursday report from The Hill. Of those 38 races, only 9 are currently held by Democrats. The rest of…