Key swing state’s Senate race could determine party control of upper chamber L: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) R: Rep. Mike Rodgers (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The U.S. Senate race in Michigan moved from “lean Democrat” to “toss up” according to the Cook Political Report on Thursday, amid growing concerns that President Joe Biden’s stumbling
Column: A divided, demoralized party slouches toward November (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Biden’s high-stakes press conference at this week’s NATO summit was a triumph—for his challenger, former president Trump. Why? Because Biden’s performance did nothing to resolve the Democratic Party’s dilemma over his status as its 2024 presidential candidate. The press conference supplied Biden’s internal
Rep. Elissa Slotkin is the latest swing-state Democrat to ditch the president (Anna Moneymaker/Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, will not appear with President Joe Biden when he visits Detroit on Friday, according to CNN. Slotkin, who has been ducking questions about whether she supports Biden staying in the
Republicans see possibility of flipping Maryland Senate seat Larry Hogan (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Democrats haven’t lost a race for a Maryland Senate seat since 1980. New polling suggests the party’s winning streak in the deep-blue state could come to an end in 2024. Former Maryland governor Larry Hogan, the Republican nominee for the state’s open
‘He is in this race and I support him,’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says of octogenarian president Squad members Tlaib, Omar, and Ocasio-Cortez (Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images) Members of the far-left “Squad” are buoying President Joe Biden as the octogenarian leader faces calls to step aside from other congressional Democrats. Speaking to reporters Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.,
Of all the maladies that afflict present-day politics, the increasingly irresponsible role that partisans have played is surely at the top of the list. Partisanship, in reasonable doses, was once a healthy part of our body politic. The two political parties typically served as the saucer cooling the passions from the ideologically driven grassroots—and cared
LONDON—When the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the cause of liberty nearly a quarter of a millennia ago, many of them expected independence from Britain would set America on a different course from Europe’s. People, goods, and ideas would still cross the Atlantic, and they hoped