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Some Democrats are still considering whether to run for president, some made it official and some never even entered the fray. But the 2020 parlor game is well underway. Here's the U.S. News analysis of the initial field, separated into three tiers, based on public polling data and eval...
In response, Democrats said they would proceed with paying $75 or $100 each to thousands of people to go door to door and urge people to vote in Baltimore, Prince George's County and elsewhere, with strict instructions about not campaigning. The state's tight gubernatorial race has both ...
Republicans had long insisted the measure was necessary for their support of additional aid to Ukraine. But Trump urged his allies to vote against it and it fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate. Congress has sinceapproved more aid to Ukraine, with Republican support, as...
Democrats argue the legislation, backed by civil rights groups https://www.reuters.com/world/us/family-martin-luther-king-jr-lead-washington-march-voting-rights-2022-01-17, is needed to counter a Republican-led drive to make it more difficult to vote at the state...
Democrats hold a 50-seat majority in the Senate, and need a unified party and Vice President Kamala Harris' potential tie-breaking vote to pass a reconciliation package. Manchin, an advocate for the coal companies in his state, is a linchpin vote for any climate or energy policy. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats say they will vote on legislation this fall to curb the power of the president, an effort to rein in executive powers that they say President Donald Trump flagrantly abused. The legislation, expected to be introduced Tuesday, would limit the president’s pard...
"My grocery budget is stretched, the price of gasoline is high and my grass cutter raised prices recently due to the high price of gasoline that is used to run his machinery," she told Xinhua. "This certainly will affect my vote this year," she said of November's midterms.■...
Below is the relative effect of these variables. In the chart, red bars mean that controlling for everything else, a member of this group was more likely to vote for Romney versus the baseline. The blue bars mean a member of the group was more likely to vote for Obama. The longer bars...
s position at the top of the ticket might hurt Heck; we’ve already seen Nevada’s other Republican senator, Dean Heller, sayhe might not vote for Trump. Heck has led in theveryfewsurveys of the race released so far, though polling in Nevada has tended tounderestimateDemocraticcandidatesin...