Democrats vying for a pair of deep-red Senate seats are facing increasingly desperate calls from within their party to step aside for more promising independent candidates. But they say they won’t drop out — unless there’s divine intervention. Democrats Alani Bankhead of Montana and Julian Beaudion of South Dakota both told POLITICO they have no…
Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out of the crowded Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor on Thursday, as progressive state lawmaker Francesca Hong surges in the polls. “It’s become very clear who our nominee is going to be,” he said in avideo posted to social media, while not directly naming another contender. “We have to…
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best…
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The Democratic Party’s fight over Israel is returning to where it began. Jewish Democrats are warning the results could push them out of the party entirely. In Michigan, where grassroots anger over the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza gave rise to the “uncommitted” movement in 2024, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s…
Americans are largely tolerant of scandals among politicians. But nobody is more willing to stick by an embattled candidate than a MAGA voter. The POLITICO Poll finds President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are the most loyal of any group of voters — with majorities saying they would stick by GOP candidates confronted with an array…
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing backlash from within his own party after using controversial rhetoric to describe the stakes of his victory in a recent donor meeting. “If I win … well y’all came at me so now I get to come at you, and you know, primarying people like John Fetterman,…
Michigan Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed agreed on one thing during Monday’s primary debate: Stevens is not an ogre. But Stevens used El-Sayed’s recent musings to donors about the national stakes of his victory to slam the progressive as being too focused on politics beyond Michigan. “He said that he’s not…
BANGOR, Maine — Republicans had months to research and rebuke Graham Platner. They now have exactly 100 days to sink his replacement. Troy Jackson is like Platner but worse. He’s a socialist who’s flip-flopped on policy, a career politician who keeps losing, an insider who is also unknown. His nomination was illegitimate, he has anger…
