And then Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is going to stop by to give us the lay of the land on a few things, excitement in the party right now, sorting out the Democratic convention rules and the most important governor’s races to watch in November. Jennifer Palmieri: And before we wrap to...
How the Ohio Democratic Party has let down democracy and OhioPaddy Shaffer
which falls before the Democratic convention this year. Ohio legislators resolved the problem, but Democrats had planned to go through with the early vote anyway to avoid any legal challenges that would try to keep Biden off Ohio’s
DNC officials first indicated in May that they would conduct a virtual roll call to clear a potential hurdle in getting the Democratic nominee on the ballot in Ohio. The state’s deadline to file for the general election ballot is Aug. 7, two weeks before Democratic d...
With only a five-vote swing standing in the way of a Republican majority, the GOP is still favored to take control of the House, but how big a majority the party enjoys will most likely be determined more by the larger political issues — inflation, economics, abortion ...
Who gets to vote? The nearly 4,000 pledged delegates allocated during the Democratic primary process will be voting on the nomination. Do Biden's delegates automatically go to Harris? The vast majority of the party's delegates were pledged to President Biden before hedropped out and endorsed Ha...
The idea that someone could lose the popular vote and still win the presidency has its own critics. In 2016, Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law professor and author of “Republic, Lost: Version 2.0” and a 2016 Democratic primary presidential candidate, railed against the idea that Trump could de...
Harris spent much of the day playing cleanup, saying she disagreed “with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.” It stepped on her closing message she delivered the night before to a crowd of 75,000 supporters at The Ellipse. “You heard my speech last night...
In Elon Musk’s first appearance with Trump on the campaign trail this month, the tech billionairecalled on Republicansto get out the vote, warning of dire consequences if they failed. Musk’s role in reshaping Twitter into X — turning it from the world’s foremost social media platform for...
Citizens of these territories can vote in the primary election for presidential candidates but cannot vote in general elections. Furthermore, these territories do not have sovereign rule over themselves, as determined byPuerto Rico v. Sanchez Vallein 2016. ...