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Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Vice President Kamala Harris bet big last week that former advisers to Donald Trump can help make her president. Former defense secretary Mark T. Esper, [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has offered Americans $47 for each swing state voter they recruit to his effort to elect Donald Trump. Democratic groups have [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager Aspiring members of Donald Trump's potential second administration gathered Thursday at Washington's Royal Sands Social Club - a bar designed to resemble the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democratic strategists beat back potentially catastrophic third-party threats this year with a campaign to force attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the race and prevent a presidential [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris made history this week when it became the first to raise $1 billion in less than 80 days since [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan to transfer nearly $25 million to support down-ballot Democratic candidates in state and federal races this [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Donald Trump's candidacy appeared all but destined for victory only weeks ago. He rose defiant from the bullet graze of an attempted assassination, hoisting his [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun regulation group founded by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, plans to spend $45 million over the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager As long as Joe Biden still believed, there could be no Plan B. The boss had earned that much. Vice President Harris approved no discussions. [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Kamala Harris ad blitz has launched. Future Forward, the largest Democratic-leaning super PAC, will spend $50 million on advertising in six states over the next three [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Gerrit De Vynck, Maeve Reston Weeks of pent-up Democratic panic gave way to a historic flood of campaign cash for likely presidential nominee Vice President Harris this [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Toluse Olorunnipa Democratic lawmakers and strategists inside the effort to reelect President Biden have grown concerned in recent days that he is [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Hannah Allam, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez America's political leaders described the 2024 presidential election as a life-or-death crucible long before a man opened fire at Donald Trump's rally [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer President Biden's team continues to believe that tens of millions Americans - perhaps as many as one in every five voters - will cast a ballot for [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer Publicly, President Biden's allies have spent the past several days aggressively downplaying his missteps in Thursday's debate by assailing the 'bedwetting brigade' of [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer President Biden quietly revealed his campaign's master strategy to defeat Donald Trump last month at a private fundraiser outside Seattle. âLet's get to the message of the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer President Biden has accused Donald Trump of imitating Adolf Hitler, denounced him as a beacon of âhate, anger and revengeâ in a prime-time speech watched by one [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager President Biden will launch a $30 million ad campaign and travel to eight battleground states on the heels of his State of the Union address, [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Marianne LeVine, Jeff Stein, Meryl Kornfield, Sabrina Rodriguez and Clara Ence Morse LAS VEGAS - Near the base of the Rainbow Mountains, Daniel Busby looks up longingly [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Maeve Reston The Republican presidential ad wars were not supposed to end like this. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis - once the most well-funded GOP presidential contender [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Clara Ence Morse, Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine Arlando Monk is an increasingly rare find in presidential politics: a voter whose choices matter. The Black entrepreneur lives [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer Over the last full weekend of September, Hollywood titan Ari Emanuel - brother of former Chicago mayor and current Japan Ambassador Rahm [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager The Biden campaign has drawn up options for expanding its unconventional $25 million early advertising effort this year, as the president continues to express [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The first major in-person event organized by Joe Biden's 2024 campaign took place last week onstage at the Frank Gehry-designed pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park. But the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer WASHINGTON - Top Democratic strategists, including current advisers to President Biden and former U.S. senators, met last week with former Republicans who oppose Donald Trump at the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Ashley Parker Activists at 27 universities will soon begin meeting twice a month to organize their peers under the banner of Students for DeSantis. [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer and Hannah Knowles The escalating criminal jeopardy confronting Donald Trump has restored him to his political comfort zone, according to advisers and allies: [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Back when he was a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Ron DeSantis embraced a classic conservative argument about the threats to American freedom posed by government [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey and Isaac Stanley-Becker No other politician has ever spent and raised money on Facebook and Instagram like Donald Trump. The former president and his affiliated [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey Advisers to Donald Trump have blanketed South Carolina Republican officials with pleading phone calls in recent weeks in an effort to drum up endorsements [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Amy Gardner The office of Georgia's secretary of state has all but closed the door on a plan by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager New Hampshire's Republican governor considers Nevada's bid to become the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state a joke. Nevada's top Democratic operative is warning against a [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Michael Scherer A trio of longtime Republican operatives will lead Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, which the former president is set to announce Tuesday evening [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Isaac Arnsdorf and Tyler Pager Florida Sen. Rick Scott made a plea to about 35 of his colleagues during lunch at the National [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles and Michael Scherer Republicans moved closer to winning control of the U.S. House Tuesday night, even as Democrats showed some early strength in competitive races across the [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles and Michael Scherer Democrats showed strength in key battleground races Tuesday, potentially defying Republican hopes of sweeping victories in the midterm elections and leaving control of Congress [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The liberal Navigator public tracking poll flashed a major warning sign for Democrats in mid-October, reporting a 20 percentage point jump since September in the share of [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer WASHINGTON - President Biden gathered his advisers, with mounting frustration, as televised images and classified cables tracked in real time the unraveling [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has regaled conservative audiences in recent weeks with a provocative pitch aimed at building his national profile: President Biden treats them like 'second-class [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf and Jeff Stein Republican leaders are scrambling to shore up their chances to win back both the House and Senate as inflation concerns [...]

Byline: Annie Linskey and Michael Scherer Democrats are voicing growing confidence about limiting losses in the House and potentially even salvaging their majority in the midterm elections, with candidates and [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Tyler Pager President Joe Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Annie Linskey With Nevada gas prices close to $5 a gallon and President Joe Biden's approval rating in the state at 33%, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey With two words, Donald Trump launched a wild Monday scramble that Republican leaders had hoped to avoid: 'sometime today!' the former president [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The U.S. Supreme Court's new majority boldly signaled with twin rulings this week that public opinion would not interfere with conservative plans to shift the nation's legal [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey Before a roomful of Republican donors Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy praised Donald Trump as the 'secret weapon' in the GOP's quest to [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Caroline Kitchener and Rachel Roubein Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still remembers the shock he felt when Donald Trump won the 2016 election. He also [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey Florida Sen. Rick Scott has been publicly dressed down by Republican leader Mitch McConnell, privately rebuked by his colleagues and repeatedly accused of running [...]

Byline: David Weigel and Michael Scherer Texas kicks off the midterm primary season Tuesday with elections that will help determine the political staying power of the Bush family name, the [...]