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Byline: Rachael Bade and David Weigel House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal faces the fight of his political life, as Massachusetts voters cast ballots Tuesday in a primary [...]

For Print Use Only. This appears in The Washington Post. - - - Not everyone will be able or willing to vote by mail in the November presidential election. People [...]

Gov. Philip D. Murphy said all 6.3 million voters in the state would be sent ballots to return either by mail or deposit in secure drop boxes. New Jersey voters [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Peiser On Thursday, President Donald Trump repeated his attacks against mail balloting, saying it would lead to 'the greatest rigged election in history' and 'the greatest fraud ever [...]

Byline: Elise Viebeck New Jersey will conduct its general election mostly by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic, sending ballots to active registered voters while also providing the option to [...]

The president has been raging against voting by mail for several months, claiming without evidence that the process is plagued by fraud. WASHINGTON -- In his latest assault on voting [...]

State election officials face shortages of money, poll workers, capacity to print ballots and public trust -- without much time to fix them. WASHINGTON -- Evelina Reese has been a [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy, Emily Davies and Antonio Olivo Cameron Webb - an African American physician, former White House fellow and health policy researcher - is the Democratic nominee for the [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz, Joe DePaolo and Josh Wood Two African American candidates seized the momentum in recent weeks as the nation grappled with the question of racial justice and earned [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz, Joe DePaolo and Josh Wood Two African Americans seized the momentum in recent weeks as the nation grappled with the question of racial justice and hoped it [...]

As the Democratic primary between Amy McGrath and Charles Booker gets tighter, Mr. Booker has closed the gap in ad spending as both make a final push before Tuesday's voting. [...]

Byline: David Weigel NEW YORK - Jamaal Bowman walked the length of the line outside a Co-Op City bank, smiling behind his mask and shaking no hands. Coronavirus-era campaigning was [...]

Here are our endorsements in the congressional primaries. In-person voting begins June 13. At a time when millions of voices are calling out for peaceful change, New Yorkers can make [...]

Representative Thomas Massie and his Republican primary challenger have made race and racism a central focus weeks before Election Day in an increasingly ugly contest. WASHINGTON -- Rarely does a [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy Several thousand Republicans will travel to a church parking lot outside Lynchburg on Saturday to decide between freshman U.S. Rep. Denver Riggleman and Bob Good, a former [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's scheduled April 7 presidential primaries amid widespread worries that holding elections during the coronavirus pandemic could risk public [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner A federal judge on Thursday declined to postpone Wisconsin's scheduled April 7 presidential primaries amid widespread worries that holding elections during the coronavirus pandemic could risk public [...]

Byline: David Weigel In the old world, the one we lived in before the coronavirus, this would be primary day in Puerto Rico. A few days earlier, Joe Biden would [...]

SOCIAL DISTANCING $500 Fine May Loom For Those Who Gather As the weather gets warmer, New Yorkers may be itching to hang out together in New York City's parks. But [...]

Restrictions New York City HaltsMost Construction Work Even as most businesses in the state were shut down to halt the spread of the coronavirus, construction workers kept building luxury towers, [...]

Byline: Antonio Olivo, Rachel Chason and Gregory S. Schneider Maryland and Virginia reported dramatic spikes in their numbers of novel coronavirus cases Tuesday, including cases whose origin is unclear, as [...]

Some states are postponing their primary elections. Others are preparing to give out hand sanitizer. Hi. Welcome to On Politics , your guide to the day in national politics. I'm [...]

Elections officials in Ohio, Florida, Illinois and Arizona, the next states on the primary calendar, are taking extra precautions but have expressed confidence that voting can be held safely. Louisiana [...]

People leaving the Golden State are changing the political makeup of the states they move to. President Trump clearly hates the most populous state in the country he governs. While [...]

Byline: Philip Bump The emergence of alternatives to in-person voting, spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, has President Trump repeatedly attacking vote-by-mail efforts. These attacks should be considered only in light [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks With Tonya Riley THE KEY States including Georgia, West Virginia and Ohio are rushing to dramatically ramp up mail-in voting for primary contests during the coronavirus pandemic [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles;Hannah Natanson;Miriam Berger;Derek Hawkins;Katie Mettler President Trump has tested negative for the virus, according to his physician, after days of his apparent reluctance to get tested. Spain announced [...]

THE DISTRICT City gives voters wrong primary date D.C. officials have sent 5,000 voter registration cards listing the wrong date for the District's primary election, the elections board acknowledged Friday. [...]

Byline: Fenit Nirappil D.C. officials have sent 5,000 voter registration cards listing the wrong date for the District's primary election, the elections board acknowledged Friday. Mailers with voter registration cards [...]

Rather than split the contenders into two groups, party officials will guarantee that the leading candidates have a chance to face off against one another. It's official: Biggest. Debate. Ever. [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Sen. Kamala Harris, sliding steadily in the polls, dropping behind at least three of her rivals and largely absent from the campaign trail in recent weeks, is [...]

ALBANY -- The possibility that New York might consider moving its presidential primary to February rocketed through Democratic circles on Friday, potentially casting the state among a handful that will [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Parties in Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and South Carolina intend to cancel the 2020 presidential primaries in their states, according to three people familiar with their plans, [...]

Joe Walsh, a one-term congressman from Illinois who became a fiery right-wing radio host, announced on Sunday that he would challenge President Trump for the Republican nomination. A former Tea [...]

A new national poll suggests that the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination may be tightening, with a virtual three-way tie among former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. [...]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Sitting on a plastic chair in a high school music room, far from the marble corridors of Washington he has prowled for nearly 43 years as a [...]

Byline: Robert Costa and Philip Rucker WASHINGTON - Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily 'bar [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez Former congressman Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he is considering a presidential bid, making him potentially the second Republican to wage a primary challenge against President Donald [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz and Paul Kane WASHINGTON - Kentucky's lone Democratic congressman said Thursday that he'd like to see other candidates get in the race to unseat Senate Majority Leader [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer WASHINGTON - Democrats running for president in 2020 are agitating against the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and decrying their influence on the [...]

Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund investor turned impeachment activist, announced on Tuesday that he would challenge President Trump in 2020, reversing a previous decision not to enter the race. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW BERN, N.C. -- On a sultry summer morning, Diane McKillop stood in her driveway gushing over Dr. Joan Perry, the Republican congressional candidate who showed up at her [...]