Sen. John Cornyn defied expectations in the Texas GOP primary on Tuesday. National Republicans believe his unexpectedly strong showing may be enough for President Donald Trump to endorse the embattled incumbent. Trump has privately intimated that he will soon get involved in the Texas Senate race after rebuffing endorsement pleas from both candidates for months,…
James Talarico’s charmed political journey has broken his way at almost every juncture of his career, from “The Joe Rogan Experience” invite as he was weighing a Senate bid last summer to his star turn in Texas’ quorum break to a fundraising windfall over a spiked Stephen Colbert interview in the primary’s homestretch. But as…
Four years ago, Valerie Foushee’s support of Israel helped get her to Congress. On Tuesday, it could send her home. The politics surrounding Israel have shifted so much since the war in Gaza began in 2023 that a candidate who benefited from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spending more than $2 million to shore…
DALLAS — James Talarico is fond of saying that the “closest thing we have to the Kingdom of Heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy.” But Texas’ battle royale of a Democratic Senate primary feels far from heaven. Talarico, a white state representative, is facing off with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who is Black, in a…
Americans broadly disapprove of the Trump administration’s military strikes on Iran, according to several polls conducted after the U.S. attacked Tehran early Saturday morning. Nearly six in 10 Americans said they oppose the decision to take military action against the Middle Eastern country, according to a text poll conducted by SSRS for CNN on Saturday…
The Democratic National Committee has decided against hosting a midterm convention, as the party faces a fundraising crunch. The DNC also announced Monday that it would hold the 2028 presidential convention from Aug. 7 to Aug. 10, 2028. Five cities — Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia — are under consideration to host it, officials…
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Hours after the American military strikes in Iran started, Third Way co-founder Matt Bennett scrambled to write up a presentation on how centrist Democrats should talk about foreign policy in 2028. On stage during Third Way’s “Winning the Middle” conference, Bennett described focus groups before the war in Iran started, where “the…
President Donald Trump’s Iran strikes are forcing a hypothetical debate into reality. And a president with extraordinary control over his party’s base will test how far his supporters will follow him on an issue that polling showed divided his coalition. Just half of 2024 Trump voters, 50 percent, supported military action in a POLITICO poll…
The United States’ attack on Iran is stirring up an already-roiling Democratic debate over Israel, just as primary season kicks off. The joint U.S.-Israel military operation has put the countries’ relationship squarely at the center of the national political debate — and the role of its big-spending allies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,…
