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If Representative Liz Cheney loses her primary on Tuesday, as is widely expected, the Cowboy State's conservative tilt will take on a harder edge. CODY, Wyo. -- At an event [...]

For Republicans, anemic fund-raising, missteps by Donald J. Trump and weak candidates could stand in the way of bigger statehouse gains in November. WASHINGTON -- Republican missteps, weak candidates and [...]

Two of Donald Trump's most prominent Senate endorsements have already backfired. Now the month of May looms large to measure his pull on the party. Donald J. Trump has sought [...]

The 87-year-old Republican has told people that he will step down at the end of the year, four years before his term is up. His seat is likely to stay [...]

Focus groups with Virginia voters led to a bluntly worded memo on what Democrats need to do going into the midterms. Brian Stryker, a Democratic pollster, didn't work for Terry [...]

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. [...]

California Democrats were able to nationalize the vote -- thanks to an avalanche of money, party discipline and, above all, an easily demonized opponent. SAN LEANDRO, Calif. -- California basks [...]

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 [...]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders seems likely to bring the Trump brand to Arkansas politics in a big way. But the state is a testing ground for different possible futures for the [...]

A gathering of Republican leaders and top donors in Florida this weekend is less a reset of priorities and more a reminder of the tensions that Donald J. Trump instills [...]

President Biden's new role as a crusader for Americans in poverty is an evolution for a politician who has focused on the working class and his Senate work on the [...]

The retirement of a Republican senator and recent conservative infighting have raised Democratic ambitions in the state, a longtime political bellwether that is increasingly tilting red. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For [...]

Despite falling from power in Washington, the Republican Party has done little soul-searching or reflection on a new agenda, instead focusing on attacking Democrats and the news media. ORLANDO, Fla. [...]

Party leaders are urging President Biden not only to consider racial diversity in potential Supreme Court nominees, but to look at candidates who don't come from a traditional Ivy League [...]

After four years, the minority leader had finally had enough. But with most Republicans rallying around Donald J. Trump, he sided with his colleagues trying to throw out the impeachment [...]

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 victory is a landmark breakthrough for African-Americans in politics. Mr. Warnock becomes the first Black Democrat to be elected to the Senate from the South. ATLANTA -- Democrats moved [...]

A reliably red state for almost two decades, Georgia no longer resembles its Deep South neighbors. President Trump and Joe Biden head there Monday to help rally the bases. With [...]

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 [...]

For the crucial Senate runoffs, the G.O.P. is focusing its attacks on the Rev. Raphael Warnock, portraying him as radical, a claim he has rejected but one that worked for [...]

Ronna McDaniel, a close ally of President Trump, wants to remain head of the Republican National Committee, worrying party members who believe the president will try to use the group [...]

Double-crossing. Accusations of lying and incompetence. And a bitter divide over whether to endorse President Trump's false claims of fraud. The G.O.P. in Georgia has a messy feud unfolding, with [...]

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 [...]

The path to the presidency runs through about a dozen states that President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. are seriously contesting -- battlegrounds that will decide who wins the [...]

His pick is likely to galvanize Democrats while bringing him few new voters, and could hurt some Republican Senate incumbents. But the president needs to steer the debate away from [...]

Thom Tillis, who has embraced President Trump's plan to quickly replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could become the deciding vote in the Senate. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- By Sunday morning, [...]

College sports leaders aren't thrilled to see football assume a role in the presidential campaign, but they're not surprised. Kevin Warren, the commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, was at [...]

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 [...]

Twelve years after he left the Senate, a President Biden would find a Capitol that is far more partisan and less open to deal-making than the one that shaped his [...]

The race between Steve Daines, the Republican incumbent, and Steve Bullock could prove crucial in a year when Democrats need to win in conservative-leaning states where President Trump may still [...]

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 [...]

President Trump is leaning hard into his decades-long habit of falsely portraying some black Americans as dangerous or lawless. And he is doing it during one of the most tumultuous [...]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez easily won her primary, though many other races in New York were still up in the air. Kentucky Democrats were deciding who would face Mitch McConnell in the [...]

Amy McGrath was considered a safe bet in the Democratic primary. But the recent movement for racial justice has elevated the candidacy of her African-American rival, Charles Booker, in the [...]

Former President George W. Bush and Senator Mitt Romney won't support Mr. Trump's re-election, and other G.O.P. officials are mulling a vote for Joe Biden. WASHINGTON -- It was one [...]

President Trump, concerned about his own outlook in the state, plans to stay on the sideline in a race where he favored a different choice for senator. President Trump's advisers [...]

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 [...]

The president said on a conference call that he had not ''heard about testing in weeks.'' WASHINGTON -- President Trump told governors on a conference call on Monday that he [...]

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 [...]

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 primary race is entering a critical nine-day stretch that could effectively determine the nomination as candidates face a debate, the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday contests. HOUSTON -- [...]