It is also interesting to measure the length of a president’s time in office by day. All two-term presidents served for 2,922 days apart from Washington’s 2,865. Washington took power before it was decided to have all terms begin on March 4th. This later switched to January 20th. Ho...
How three Democratic presidents wound up swinging a region from blue to red.Jonathan Yardley
In addition to Johnson, Clinton and Trump, only one other U.S. president has faced formal impeachment inquiries in the House of Representatives:Richard Nixon. Many other presidents have been threatened with impeachment by political foes without gaining any real traction in Congress. ...
California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom “must now appoint someone to the U.S. Senate ahead of next year’s election. He has long said he would appoint a Black woman if Feinstein did not finish her term, but herecently specifiedon ‘Meet the Press’...
But the first inning of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary game belongs to Kamala Harris. The first-term junior senator from California executed a campaign launch that is the envy of her peers, the talk of political operatives and now the standard for those waiting in the wings. The ...
Democratic lawmakers and leaders are taking fire from their own members over what’s seen as their ‘pathetic’ response to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s crusade to reshape the federal government. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Feb. 6, 2025 Dems See Backlash Over Trump and Musk Don’t expect l...
Theodore Roosevelt lost his bid at a third nonconsecutive term in 1912 to William Howard Taft (he had previously served out the remainder of President William McKinley's term and then won reelection). And Woodrow Wilson lost the Democratic nomination in 1920. Harry Truman, who succeeded FDR ...
Seats so close to the president are usually reserved for the president’s family, past presidents and other honored guests. The mega-rich have long had a prominent role in national politics, and several billionaires helped bankroll the campaign of Trump’s Democratic opponent, Vice President ...
But there is much more to be done. We successfully beat back many of Trump’s most extreme efforts in his first administration, fromhis attacks on the censusto his first attempt at politicizing the federal workforce. We then brought the country together to defeat him at the ballot box. From...
Four young Congresswomen – not even Senators – accomplished something that eluded years of Democratic Presidents and their woes. Jimmy Carter in his malaise, Bill with Monica and his cigar, Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam War – none of that was able to accomplish what these four young Congre...