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Byline: Philip Bump Wearing a fluorescent orange vest, former president Donald Trump offered attendees at a Wisconsin rally on Wednesday a peek behind the curtain of running for president. Even [...]

Once a top presidential battleground, the state is lost to Democrats. The party's missteps, along with demographic change, led to every one of Florida's 67 counties becoming more red. Florida's [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager PHILADELPHIA - Vice President Kamala Harris spent Sunday crisscrossing Philadelphia, focusing on reaching Black and Latino voters, and hoping to boost turnout in the Democratic stronghold just [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Susan Svrluga CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled the last name of Thomas Pyle. The article has been corrected. Originally moved Sept. 25. - [...]

The walls of the Fish Tales bait shop near the banks of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin are lined with brightly colored bobs and lures. Big coolers hold leeches, butter worms [...]

Byline: Adrián Blanco In the past six weeks, the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns have focused on the heated contest over the Rust Belt. A Washington Post tally of campaign [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. SAVANNAH, Ga. - Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz traveled across southern Georgia on Wednesday, the pair's second bus tour [...]

Byline: Anumita Kaur BENSALEM, Pa.- Staffing the front desk of a Hindu temple in this Philadelphia suburb, Jitendra Shah broke out into a smile at the mention of Kamala Harris's [...]

Byline: Tim Carman During his four years in Washington, Donald Trump rarely ventured from the White House to dine in a city widely considered to have one of the finest [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Dylan Wells Donald Trump walks onstage to the 1984 Lee Greenwood song âGod Bless the USA,â cheered on by a roaring crowd that skews older and White. [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Maeve Reston, Dylan Wells, Isaac Arnsdorf ST. CLOUD, Minn. - Donald Trump supporters lining up to enter a rally here passed the usual tents hawking MAGA merchandise, [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Anika Arora Seth NEW DELHI - When Sen. Kamala D. Harris joined the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket, Indian media were excited to detail her Indian ancestry. They [...]

Byline: Dylan Wells STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Doug Emhoff was late to learn his life had changed, he told an enthusiastic audience of Democratic volunteers Saturday as they prepared to [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Marianna Sotomayor When then-Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) called Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) in January 2019 to tell her she planned to run for president, the [...]

Byline: Emmanuel Felton During her short-lived 2020 presidential campaign, conservatives described Kamala Harris as âangry,â âmeanâ and âaggressive,â attacks that her supporters likened to the racist trope about angry Black [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf DETROIT - Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his characterization of Black communities as dangerous and depressed on Saturday, courting voters in a city he has called [...]

President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump both see Black outreach as critical to winning in November. But their approaches differ in fundamental and revealing ways. As President Biden [...]

''What do you think would have happened if Black Americans had stormed the Capitol?'' the president said at a rally in Philadelphia. ''I don't think he'd be talking about pardons.'' [...]

The former president traffics in stereotypes about Black Americans, yet he is counting on them, and aggressively courting them, in seeking to return to the White House. He has repeatedly [...]

Byline: Dylan Wells and Maeve Reston Linda Portel has watched a barrage of presidential campaign commercials this year from her living room in Urbandale, Iowa. Many have faded from her [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND - Virginia Republicans will pick their nominees for two state Senate races on May 6, launching an election season that will be critical to Gov. Glenn [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Liz Goodwin, Marianna Sotomayor, Joanna Slater and Gregory S. Schneider Democrats this weekend are bracing for potentially steep losses in the House and scrambling to retain control [...]

Byline: Paul Kane Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) grew boastful about how GOP candidates were faring in the most critical races, eventually predicting a '52-plus' Senate majority with a couple of [...]

Democrats and Republicans are already jockeying for a crucial voting bloc that soured on Donald Trump, tilted to Joe Biden and now holds the key to the second half of [...]

Mr. Adams, who ran a campaign focused on appealing to blue-collar Black and Latino voters, said America does not want ''fancy candidates.'' He bluntly challenged left-wing leaders in his party [...]

Eric Adams has a significant lead in the New York City mayor's race thanks to his support from a traditional Democratic coalition of unions and Black and Latino voters. Eric [...]

Rallying voters across the state over the weekend, the Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, tried to encourage election-day turnout on the left. GARDEN CITY, Ga. -- [...]

With control of the Senate up for grabs, the two Georgia runoff races have come to feel more like national elections than statewide ones. The message from President-elect Joseph R. [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany MARIETTA, Ga. - With a swipe of mascara and a gray Ruth Bader Ginsburg mask, Ruthe Levy was ready for a day of literature drops for a [...]

On the Fourth of July 1951, my parents were married. Not long ago, I asked my mother, who, at 87, is still going strong, why they chose that date. I [...]

AMES, Iowa -- ''UNBECOMING.'' ''Miss Congeniality.'' Not sufficiently ''ladylike.'' In politics, these words and phrases have long been used to belittle female candidates. But now, female politicians are increasingly trying [...]

Byline: Chris Cillizza WASHINGTON - Momentum is with Republicans in the fight for the Senate majority this fall. A combination of late-breaking recruitment successes, a national environment tilting toward the [...]

Byline: Martha T. Moore, @USATMoore, USA TODAY Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner share something beyond their lurid pasts: They both have drawn consistent support in their quest for political redemption [...]

Byline: Don Campbell It's time for somebody to play the role of contrarian on the Republican presidential loss, so I'll volunteer. We've had a lot of soul-searching -- mostly by [...]

NEW YORK -- Get out of our bedrooms. If there was one unequivocal message delivered as the Republican candidate Mitt Romney was rejected and President Barack Obama re-elected, it was [...]

It was the morning of the Republican hangover. After four years in which the jobless rate never dipped below 7.8 percent, with millions of Americans still unemployed or underemployed and [...]

With voters worn by hard times yet many of them hopeful of better times ahead, Americans reverted to more traditional lines compared with the broader-based coalition that made Barack Obama [...]

Washington IN the razor-thin 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy campaigned in 49 states. Richard M. Nixon visited all 50. The current contest is just as close and intense, but [...]

FAIRFAX, Va. -- President Obama reached out to female voters in this battleground state on Friday, saying that Mitt Romney would ''turn back the clock'' on women's rights and accusing [...]

Byline: Charles Hurt, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Finally, the army of pundits are aghast at President Obama. They are shocked at his unmannerly dismissal of the global stage where he belongs. [...]