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Sep 23, 2018
Republican leaders in battleground states like Missouri are increasingly doubtful that candidates can wield the court nomination as a cudgel without risking repercussions.
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Sep 23, 2018
Several big companies are trying to turn out the vote in November. They say it's a nonpartisan effort, but many of the brands have tangled with President Trump.
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Sep 22, 2018
Swastikas, racial epithets and profanity were scrawled across a campaign banner for Representative Josh Gottheimer and the home of a supporter who had put the sign on his lawn.
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Sep 22, 2018
Swastikas, racial epithets and profanity were scrawled across a campaign banner for Representative Josh Gottheimer and the home of a supporter who had put the sign on his lawn.
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Sep 22, 2018
The siblings say their brother's extremist views on immigration and his comments about a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., prompted them to take action.
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Sep 22, 2018
The siblings say their brother's extremist views on immigration and his comments about a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., prompted them to take action.
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Sep 22, 2018
What it feels like to have to prep your boss for the Kavanaugh hearings.
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Sep 22, 2018
Democratic socialists have been one of the breakout groups of the 2018 election season, but many voters don't know what exactly they stand for. Do you?
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Sep 21, 2018
The event resembled a boisterous re-election pep rally for the president rather than an effort to lift Josh Hawley, the Republican attorney general running for Senate.
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Sep 21, 2018
The event resembled a boisterous re-election pep rally for President Trump rather than an effort to lift Josh Hawley, the Republican attorney general running for Senate.
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Sep 21, 2018
It's Cruz versus O'Rourke in the clash of the Texas titans. A look at the first big debate of the election season.
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Sep 21, 2018
A conservative Democrat, she replaced her husband on the ballot when he was killed in a plane crash in 1974. She went on to serve 10 terms.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Texas political rivals spent weeks preparing for the debate, the first of three in their Senate race, which is one of the tightest and most heated this year.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Texas political rivals spent weeks preparing for the debate, the first of three in their Senate race, which is one of the tightest and most heated this year.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Texas political rivals have spent weeks preparing for the debate, the first of three in their Senate race, which is one of the tightest and most heated this year.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Texas political rivals spent weeks preparing for the debate, the first of three in their Senate race, which is one of the tightest and most heated this year.
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Sep 21, 2018
The Texas political rivals spent weeks preparing for the debate, the first of three in their Senate race, which is one of the tightest and most heated this year.
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Sep 21, 2018
Ms. Feinstein has exposed herself to withering criticism over her handling of accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a case with echoes of Clarence Thomas's confirmation in 1991.
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Sep 21, 2018
The president dispensed with some of his usual bravado on Thursday and instead told an audience in a cavernous convention center in Las Vegas that the Republican majority was on a razor's edge.
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Sep 20, 2018
In 1991, senators questioned Anita Hill about her accusation that Clarence Thomas, a nominee to the Supreme Court, had sexually harassed her. The questions and remarks that lawmakers made during the hearings are now viewed as a low point for the Senate.
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Sep 20, 2018
In 1991, senators questioned Anita Hill about her accusation that Clarence Thomas, a nominee to the Supreme Court, had sexually harassed her. The questions and remarks that lawmakers made during the hearings are now viewed as a low point for the Senate.
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Sep 20, 2018
In three days of televised hearings that riveted the nation, Anita F. Hill detailed allegations of workplace sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas.
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Sep 20, 2018
At the 1991 hearing, the Republican senator suggested Anita Hill's story was inspired by the book.
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Sep 20, 2018
Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into an accusation of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Tensions in the Senate still linger from the refusal by Republicans to hold a hearing for President Obama's nominee in 2016, Judge Merrick B. Garland.
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Sep 20, 2018
Senate Democrats are calling for an investigation into an accusation of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Tensions in the Senate still linger from the refusal by Republicans to hold a hearing for President Obama's nominee in 2016, Judge Merrick B. Garland.
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Sep 20, 2018
The many "distractions" generated by the president, Mitch McConnell said, were preventing Republicans from having a coherent message focused on the economy.
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Sep 20, 2018
Readers discuss recalling the trauma of rape decades later, Senator Lindsey Graham's comments and how the Senate should proceed.
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Sep 20, 2018
The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates running for office this year is higher than ever. But there is a partisan split among the nominees.
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Sep 20, 2018
They say religious conservatives may feel little motivation to vote in the November elections unless Senate Republicans defend and confirm Judge Kavanaugh.
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Sep 19, 2018
What are Republicans hiding about him? What don't they want you to know?
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Sep 19, 2018
The Nevada senator, the most endangered Senate Republican up for re-election in November, was unusually effusive in praising the president ahead of Mr. Trump's rally in Las Vegas.
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Sep 19, 2018
Forget the political finger pointing. Christine Blasey Ford's accusations against Brett Kavanaugh need to be seriously investigated.
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Sep 19, 2018
All 50 states should follow the example set by Oregon and Washington.
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Sep 19, 2018
Seven weeks before the midterm elections, the social network is setting up a central hub to root out disinformation and false news. We visited the operation.
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Sep 19, 2018
The progressive group cites funds Ms. Love raised in the absence of a primary challenge. Her campaign called it a ‘political ploy.'
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Sep 19, 2018
Three moderates had been weighing a yes vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, while other Democrats hoped there would be few consequences for a no vote. The sexual assault allegation has changed calculations.
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Sep 19, 2018
Readers debate the credibility of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Sep 19, 2018
Things just got a lot more complicated for Joe Manchin.
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Sep 18, 2018
The inability to confirm the whereabouts of migrant children after they move from federal shelters raises concerns that they could be exploited by human traffickers.
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Sep 18, 2018
They would make the current system fairer — and tone down the intensity of the confirmation process.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.
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Sep 18, 2018
The political interest of the country might be better served with a nominee who didn't have to be confirmed under a cloud of suspicion.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Missouri senator is in a neck-and-neck race to keep a crucial seat in Democratic hands, facing criticism from her opponent that she's a Washington insider.
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Sep 18, 2018
The Missouri Senator is in a neck-and-neck race to keep a crucial seat in Democratic hands, battling criticism from her opponent, Josh Hawley, that she's a D.C. insider.
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Sep 17, 2018
After a recount, Lori Trahan won a 10-person primary with less than 21 percent of the vote, far from a majority, which some say is undemocratic.
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Sep 17, 2018
The Democratic star was criticized for appearing in a magazine spread looking like a member of the 1 percent. Was it hypocrisy or a savvy move?
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Sep 17, 2018
The Texas senator's re-election campaign sent voters in at least three counties a letter with a label suggesting it was a legal summons. The Federal Election Commission says doing so doesn't break any rules.
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Sep 17, 2018
Mr. Collins, a Republican, had said he would not seek re-election, but removing oneself from the ballot in New York is no easy task.
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Sep 17, 2018
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, acknowledged he has some differences with progressive Democrats, but said, "It's impossible to conceive that I could run as a Republican."
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Sep 17, 2018
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, acknowledged he has serious differences with leading Democrats, but said, "It's impossible to conceive that I could run as a Republican."
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Sep 16, 2018
In the midterm elections, the resistance will finally have a chance to push back against Trump.
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Sep 16, 2018
Senator Simcha Felder has been painted by some as a traitor for being a Democrat who sits with the Republicans, but voters do not seem to care.
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Sep 16, 2018
Senator Simcha Felder has been painted by some as a traitor for being a Democrat who sits with the Republicans, but voters do not seem to care.
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Sep 16, 2018
While Hillary Clinton lost the state to Donald Trump, female Democratic candidates in Michigan are trying to create a new playbook, one union voter at a time.
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Sep 15, 2018
Stop obsessing over ideology. It's about personality.
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Sep 15, 2018
The president and the healthy economy have become countervailing forces, with his self-inflicted wounds obscuring the Republican message, and buoying Democrats
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Sep 14, 2018
Despite record primary victories, it is possible that the number of women will decline or remain at status quo in Congress and in the governors' offices.
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Sep 14, 2018
A record number of women are running. Trump endorsements helped shape Republican races. And the Democrats are looking for a comeback. Here's what to know about the next 53 days.
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Sep 13, 2018
In five of nine races in a first wave of surveys, the result is within one percentage point.
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Sep 12, 2018
Legislators are seeking to bring the legislation to a vote that they say would be more punitive toward Russia or other countries that interfere in the midterms.
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Sep 12, 2018
You're not getting older, you're getting … elected.
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Sep 12, 2018
The former politician on John McCain, the senatorial virtues of a military background and the absurdity of withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Sep 12, 2018
The new head of civil rights at the Education Department has reopened a seven-year-old case brought by a Zionist group against Rutgers University.
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Sep 11, 2018
Ted Cruz is facing an increasingly powerful challenge from Democrat Beto O'Rourke, and even some Republicans are saying he faces a tough challenge.
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Sep 11, 2018
Last week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh injected new energy into efforts to block his ascent to the Supreme Court.
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Sep 11, 2018
President Trump's administration is considering another extreme reduction in the number of refugees allowed into the United States.
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Sep 11, 2018
Just 14 percent of top House staff members are nonwhite, a new study shows — a far smaller figure than in the United States as a whole or among House lawmakers.
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Sep 11, 2018
Then make sure lawmakers approve congestion pricing.
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Sep 11, 2018
Congress is very weak — but the "first branch" has rejuvenated itself in the past, and can do so again.
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Sep 11, 2018
It's enough excitement already.
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Sep 10, 2018
Jane Doe may have been the first pregnant girl Brett Kavanaugh ruled against. But she won't be the last.
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Sep 10, 2018
The bipartisan bill would give the Postal Service new tools to curb imports of fentanyl and other deadly synthetic opioids, many of which come in the mail from China.
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Sep 10, 2018
Obamacare has delivered — and Republicans have been wrong all the way.
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Sep 10, 2018
In western New York, Republican leaders are struggling to find a way to replace Representative Chris Collins on the ballot.
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Sep 10, 2018
A wave of successful outsider candidates is breaking cultural barriers and toppling incumbents, and they're sweeping aside longstanding norms in campaigns to do it.
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Sep 10, 2018
Representative Ron DeSantis, a three-term congressman, is locked in an intense battle for Florida governor against Andrew Gillum.
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Sep 10, 2018
Mr. DeSantis, a three-term congressman, is locked in an intense battle for Florida governor against Andrew Gillum.
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Sep 10, 2018
The senator's heroism should not blind us to his political failures.
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Sep 09, 2018
The candidates — two black women, one white woman and a gay, white man — represent one of the most diverse fields for office in New York.
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Sep 09, 2018
The candidates — two black women, a black man, a white woman and a gay man — represent one of the most diverse fields for office in New York.
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Sep 09, 2018
The Tennessee Republican is emphasizing a Trump agenda and relegating abortion to the background of her campaign to win the seat being vacated by Bob Corker.
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Sep 08, 2018
Obama, on Day Two of his challenge to Trump, heads to a central battleground in the Democratic fight to take back Congress
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Sep 08, 2018
Still, Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget chief, said Republicans would be able to surmount a Democratic "movement of hate" in November.
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Sep 08, 2018
In a heavily pro-Trump state, the Democratic senator has built a lead in polls based, in part, on his support for the Affordable Care Act.
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Sep 08, 2018
Progressive women and racial minorities have toppled Democratic incumbents and eroded party machines in key states, with implications for the next Congress and the 2020 presidential race.
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Sep 07, 2018
With few tools to block a Supreme Court nominee, Democrats decided to test Senate rules and decorum at the hearings to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Sep 07, 2018
In Congress before the Civil War, partisan disagreement often featured Bowie knives and pistols. Are we headed back toward that way of life?
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Sep 07, 2018
This week has illustrated why Republicans put up with the chaos: As President Trump raged, his party moved toward an ideological shift in the Supreme Court that will last for decades.
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Sep 07, 2018
This week has illustrated why Republicans put up with the chaos: As President Trump raged, his party moved toward an ideological shift in the Supreme Court that will last for decades.
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Sep 07, 2018
In a speech, former President Barack Obama said the Trump-led Republican Party practiced a "politics of fear and resentment." Mr. Obama's address also offered a preview of how he will campaign for Democrats in the midterm elections.
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Sep 07, 2018
The former president offered a stinging indictment of his successor, sometimes by name, accusing him and his Republican supporters of practicing a "politics of fear and resentment."
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Sep 07, 2018
Around the country, novice female candidates with progressive messaging are beating the odds. New York's Democratic primary for governor is the next test.
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Sep 07, 2018
They're not restraining Trump. They're making him more powerful.
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Sep 07, 2018
An incumbent congressman was unseated in Massachusetts on Tuesday, and a senator beat back a challenger in Delaware on Thursday in two of the final primaries of the 2018 midterm elections.
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Sep 07, 2018
Henry Rouda is the Democrats' best chance in three decades to unseat the Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
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Sep 06, 2018
Tom Carper, Delaware's longtime senator, fended off a challenge by another insurgent calling for resistance and change
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Sep 06, 2018
Leaders of the campaign arms for House Republicans and Democrats had labored for much of the summer over rules that would have governed how the committees and their candidates treated such material.
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Sep 06, 2018
Leaders of the campaign arms for House Republicans and Democrats had labored for much of the summer over rules that would have governed how the committees and their candidates treated such material.
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Sep 06, 2018
In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time.
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Sep 05, 2018
A text message on Wednesday asked for volunteers to ‘transport undocumented immigrants to polling booths.'
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