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The party confronts a mood of frustration among the rising electoral force that helped vault it to power. The campaign in Georgia will test that bond. JOHNS CREEK, Ga. -- [...]

Not long ago, the party was focused on police reform, but rising fears of violence, especially among communities of color, have led candidates to change course. BALTIMORE -- A crowd [...]

Party officials say the White House and Congress must do more to address the electorate's deep malaise or risk watching voters lurch back toward the G.O.P. by default. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Mr. Youngkin, a former private equity executive making his first run for office, focused on education and taxes while projecting a suburban-dad image to create distance from former President Trump. [...]

Rising case counts and stagnant vaccination rates could prove equally frustrating for President Biden and the G.O.P., making it impossible to shift the public's attention to other priorities. The American [...]

The country is recovering from a pandemic and an economic crisis, and its former president is in legal and financial peril. But no political realignment appears to be at hand. [...]

A strong showing by Eric Adams in the New York mayoral race and President Biden's announcement of a new crime-fighting agenda signal a shift by Democrats toward themes of public [...]

The party's growing irrelevance in urban and suburban areas comes at a considerable cost, sidelining conservatives in centers of innovation and economic might. When Jerry Sanders finished his second term [...]

A new report, in perhaps the most thorough soul-searching done by either party this year, points to an urgent need for the party to present a positive economic agenda and [...]

As he prepares for an impeachment trial this week, Senator Chuck Schumer is at the height of his political power in Washington. At home in New York, he is taking [...]

A huge coalition of activist groups had been working together since the spring to make sure that Joe Biden won and that the ''election stayed won'' amid Donald Trump's subterfuge. [...]

G.O.P. leadership would like to blunt President Trump's influence over the party. Mr. Trump and his allies want to punish those who have crossed him. A series of clashes looms. [...]

Republicans face a disturbing prospect: that Wednesday's Trump-inspired violence could linger for decades as a stain on the party. WASHINGTON -- President Trump not only inspired a mob to storm [...]

The competition for senior offices has strained valuable political alliances, vexing some of Joe Biden's key supporters from the Democratic primary contest. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is confronting factionalism [...]

Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties. Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation. [...]

Joseph R. Biden Jr. picked up victories in Michigan and Wisconsin, giving him an advantageous position, as President Trump prepared legal challenges. After an extraordinary election night that put the [...]

Vote-counting was moving relatively slowly in some battleground states because of the scale of the turnout, a backlog of absentee ballots received by mail and scattered problems with processing the [...]

Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads President Trump in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and, by a wide margin, in Wisconsin, according to a Times/Siena College poll. Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a [...]

His proposed solution to addressing both urgent calls for police reform and animosity from law enforcement toward Democrats is one he's long relied on: He'll just get everyone in the [...]

The 2020 presidential race will be decided by voters in more than a dozen competitive states, where President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. will focus their efforts to win [...]

On the third day of the convention, Vice President Mike Pence and other Republicans portrayed Democrats as tolerant of violence and riots. And they continued to try to soften President [...]

Mr. Trump has become a heckler in his own government, failing to marshal leaders in Washington to form a robust response to the health and economic crises. Instead, he is [...]

President Trump continues to press for a quick return to life as usual, but Republicans who fear a rampaging disease and angry voters are increasingly going their own way. President [...]

Last month represented the political nadir of President Trump's three and a half years in office, thanks to self-inflicted wounds as he played to his base and missteps by a [...]

By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Trump has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans. Even by [...]

With a broad coalition, Joseph R. Biden Jr. defeated Bernie Sanders in Florida, Illinois and Arizona, in a rout that could add to pressure on Mr. Sanders to end his [...]

Joseph R. Biden Jr. widened his advantage over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary race, capturing Mississippi and Missouri as well as Michigan, with support from both black and white [...]

Tuesday may be the single most important day on the primary calendar, with the potential to elevate one candidate as a decisive front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. If one [...]

Mr. Sanders is making the case that his urgent message is the best match for a trying political moment, and moderates are scrambling ahead of Super Tuesday to stop his [...]

In a swift turn of events, Mr. Buttigieg and Ms. Klobuchar quit the presidential race and endorsed Mr. Biden on the eve of Super Tuesday to try to boost him [...]

Joseph R. Biden Jr. drew on his decades-long relationships and leveraged his close bond with black voters to wrap up a state long considered his stronghold. COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Joseph [...]

The retired senator, still deeply involved in Nevada politics, is convinced that Saturday's caucuses will run smoothly and strengthen his state's case for leapfrogging Iowa in the next election. LAS [...]

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are vying to become the pragmatic alternative to Joe Biden. Mr. Sanders is trumpeting endorsements to compete with Elizabeth Warren. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For months, [...]

In the Democratic primary, there have been clashes over the Obama administration's policies. But even liberal voters who admire the former president prefer to look to the future. In some [...]

Senator Elizabeth Warren stood beneath a marble arch in New York City, telling a crowd of thousands that she would lead a movement to purge the government of corruption. Not [...]

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, who mounted a dogged presidential candidacy raising the alarm about climate change, dropped out of the 2020 race Wednesday after struggling to earn a place [...]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Democratic presidential candidates lashed President Trump on Wednesday with their sternest denunciations yet of his exploitation of racism for political purposes and resistance to gun control, in [...]

The politics of American gun violence follow a predictable pattern in most cases: outraged calls for action from the left, somber gestures of sympathy from the right, a subdued presidential [...]

LAS VEGAS -- When Beth Krerowicz began reviewing the platoon of Democratic presidential candidates, her first instinct was to back Joseph R. Biden Jr., whom she saw as the strongest [...]

TROY, N.Y. -- The ambush came seconds after Senator Kirsten Gillibrand began launching into a pitch for one of her core policy proposals: a system of publicly financing elections. As [...]

ATLANTA -- When Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the stage at a fund-raiser that drew many African-American Democrats Thursday night, he was under siege over his support for a measure [...]

WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate is at a 50-year low, companies are adding jobs and the gross domestic product grew by 3.2 percent in the first quarter, undercutting predictions of [...]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis. It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind., solemnly [...]

On Election Day in 2016, the Republican Party was divided against itself, split over its nominee for president, Donald J. Trump. In Ohio, a crucial battleground, the state party chairman [...]

A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable [...]

The debate unfolded over a period of days, on multiple televised stages in different states. There were no direct clashes between the candidates, no traces of personal animus -- but [...]

A secret meeting of former President Barack Obama's financial backers convened in Washington early this month: Organized by David Jacobson and John Phillips, Mr. Obama's former ambassadors to Canada and [...]

MASON CITY, Iowa -- Senator Cory Booker glided into the state first, offering himself as a herald of peace in a northern Iowa church that advertised ''radical hospitality'' on its [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Countless Democratic leaders have urged the party not to spend the 2020 campaign tangling with President Trump over tweets and taunts. But Senator Elizabeth Warren of [...]

Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks chief executive contemplating an independent run for president, stated it as a plain matter of fact: For someone with his views -- a distinctly white-collar [...]