Former President Donald J. Trump has driven all of his major primary rivals out of the race. And yet, the voting will go on. Why? For the most part, the answer is a simple one: It’s just too late for state parties to cancel elections that are already on the books. “It would be unusual…
Simmering tensions within the Michigan Republican Party boiled over on Saturday, with some party officials voting to remove their embattled chairwoman, Kristina Karamo, in a contentious proceeding that she and other state Republicans argued was illegitimate. The showdown, which occurred at a meeting held by a breakaway faction of the state party, now appears likely…
The Biden administration has 43 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation in the Senate as Congress prepares to break for the holidays, a delay that is putting American national security and foreign policy interests in jeopardy around the world, the State Department said on Friday. Any nominee not confirmed before the Senate ends its session, which…
Republicans in Congress have tied the fate of aid to Ukraine to their demands for stricter border policies to restrict migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, vastly complicating its chances of getting approved. What began earlier this year as a push by right-wing lawmakers deeply opposed to funding the war in Ukraine to tie…
Demetria Heard was driving with her family from their home in Arkansas to a youth basketball tournament in the Dallas area on July 23 when she noticed that a police officer had been following her for several minutes. She told herself it was probably nothing, but soon the siren was on and the cruiser’s lights…
Complicating matters even further, a third Oath Keepers trial is set for February, though the eight defendants in that case have not been charged with sedition. This group counts among its ranks Mr. Meggs’s wife, a middle-aged couple from Ohio and a former Broadway actor. In between the two Oath Keepers trials is another seditious…
Republicans were dealt another blow on Saturday night when Jim Marchant, who helped organize a national slate of Trump-aligned candidates aiming to take over state election systems, lost Nevada’s race for secretary of state to Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat. The result meant that every election denier hoping to run future elections in a major battleground…
“Good,” Ms. Isbell said. “Well, you’re getting my vote — no doubt about that,” she told Ms. Chavez-DeRemer, turning to her husband to instruct him, “We’re voting for her.” The State of the 2022 Midterm Elections Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Democrats’ concerns about the race have intensified as widespread frustration with high inflation, as…