• What Sanders’ Nevada win says about Latino voter turnout

    What Sanders’ Nevada win says about Latino voter turnout

    Feb 24, 2020 03:55 AM EDT

    ... Trump has.” In the end, the rest of the field fell short in Nevada. Biden’s second-place finish was his strongest showing yet in 2020, and he claimed a comeback as the race turned to South Carolina. But the Nevada results further weakened the lock Biden seemingly had on ...

  • Equal Rights Amendment edges closer to reality

    Equal Rights Amendment edges closer to reality

    Nov 22, 2019 10:14 PM EDT

    ... into question the ability for states to undo their vote. Nadler addressed that last week, saying the committee had previously rejected that move. ERA in 2020 races Democratic presidential candidates have already committed support to the ERA ahead of the primaries. Proponents hope the centennial of women’s suffrage in ...

  • Religious liberals want to change what it means to be a Christian voter

    Religious liberals want to change what it means to be a Christian voter

    Jul 08, 2019 09:27 PM EDT

    ... polls. What if the conventional wisdom is wrong -- what if playing it safe on religion is no longer necessary for Democrats running for president in 2020?  Today’s Democratic Party is not what it was a decade ago. In 2008, Democrats were debating things like the Iraq War ...

  • Shields and Brooks on Trump’s Supreme Court politics, Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset

    Shields and Brooks on Trump’s Supreme Court politics, Ocasio-Cortez’s primary upset

    Jun 29, 2018 10:20 PM EDT

    ... announcement, David, came the day after progressive Democrats did surprisingly well in a number of the primaries this week. And you had this unusual -- shocking result in New York, where Joseph Crowley, who was somebody who was a part of the Democratic establishment in the House of Representatives and leadership ...

  • What happened in every key primary race last night

    What happened in every key primary race last night

    Jun 13, 2018 02:46 PM EDT

    ... her more moderate positions in Congress. She will face another another woman, State Sen. Jennifer Wexton, who has been a favorite of the state’s Democratic leaders, like Gov. Ralph Northam. Vangie Williams also won the Democratic primary in Virginia’s 1st Congressional district. She would be the first African ...

  • What to watch in Pennsylvania's special election

    What to watch in Pennsylvania's special election

    Mar 12, 2018 09:05 PM EDT

    ... centrist Democrats and Republicans, Lamb risks alienating more progressive Democrats. The Trump factor Since taking office, Trump has been an active campaigner for Republicans in primaries and special elections, with mixed results. Republicans notched several wins in the first half of 2017, but that momentum was stopped with Democratic victories ...

  • U.S. sees surge in women interested in running for office

    U.S. sees surge in women interested in running for office

    Jan 03, 2018 01:16 PM EDT

    ... and driven primarily by Democrats, said Debbie Walsh, who leads the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. In addition to the 50 Democratic and 10 Republican congresswomen expected to run for re-election, there are 183 Democratic women and 14 Republican women running in primaries to challenge ...

  • Trump and Clinton campaign managers clashed angrily, compared war stories at Harvard conference

    Trump and Clinton campaign managers clashed angrily, compared war stories at Harvard conference

    Dec 02, 2016 12:54 AM EDT

    ... debates, Bossie added, "we had to find bigger and bigger arenas" for rallies. Palmieri and Bossie were among the top officials of all the major 2016 Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns -- except John Kasich's -- who gathered at the Institute of Politics of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School ...

  • Is this ‘syndrome’ causing American political dysfunction?

    Is this ‘syndrome’ causing American political dysfunction?

    Sep 19, 2016 11:17 PM EDT

    Has our political system gone crazy? Jonathan Rauch thinks so. In a recent piece for the Atlantic, Rauch explores what he calls “chaos syndrome” in Washington: government stagnation, he argues, is resulting from politicians' inability to compromise, combined with constant calls for transparency. Judy Woodruff speaks with Rauch about the history of American politics and...

  • How ranked-choice voting could make voters more open to third-party candidates

    How ranked-choice voting could make voters more open to third-party candidates

    Sep 02, 2016 02:56 PM EDT

    Here’s how it works: Instead of selecting a single candidate, each voter ranks all the candidates in order of preference.