Nearly 1,300 miles away, we met a couple in the suburbs of Roeland Park, Kansas, part of critical Johnson County, once a stronghold for Republican moderates that has now leaned Democratic. Earlier this past summer, the conservative state of Kansas voted to protect access to abortion. Breanna ...
The 18-30 foot-high steel fence is the most visible example of Trump’s reshaping of the U.S. immigration system. He set up a multitude of new bureaucratic hurdles for immigrants seeking to enter or stay in the United States. Many of the measures were challenged in court and some were ...
Who voted in the South Carolina Democratic primary? Presidential primaries are open to all registered South Carolina voters, so they didn't have to be registered as Democrats to be able to cast a ballot in the primary. However, voters who cast a ballot in the Democratic primary cannot also ...
In the three “blue wall” states that Biden recaptured in 2020, meanwhile, voters were deeply divided by education. The education split has beenespecially significant among white voters, and this rift appears to have widened as Trump lost ground in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, especiall...
key. "Most [Hispanic voters] are not single-issue voters," said Melissa Morales, the president and founder of Somos Votantes and Somos PAC, an independent outreach group that has endorsed Democratic candidates. "There's a bunch of things that are going to come in to affect how they vote....
On the Democratic side, there won't be any delegates at stake, and President Biden will not appear on the ballot. The Democratic National Committee punished the state for its decision to maintain its first-in-the-nation status, since the party wanted South Carolina to go first in...
Illinois is a reliably Democratic state — it hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988. That predictability is reflected in the presidential campaigns every four years. Except for fundraisers, the Republican and Democratic president...
(say, by introducing new voter-ID requirements), Bellamy said. Along with those changes to mail-in voting, several states have moved to purge inactive voters from their rolls more often or expand the criteria for when a voter is purged (such as not having voted in the last two elections)...
"The Democratic Party underestimated the public outrage they generated," Brown says. "We are working on harnessing that. The Democrats just handed me a sledgehammer and I am going to wave it through their china shop." Since the legislation became law two days ago, Brown says his group's ...
In a majority of deep-blue counties where the vote is largely in, fewer ballots were cast this election compared with four years ago. Among the counties with the biggest declines in vote totals this year, for example, are Democratic strongholds in Republican states such ...