As the nation prepares for the 2024 presidential election, debates over changes to voting laws have once again percolated in several state legislatures.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley refused Sunday to endorse a federal abortion ban at a specific number of weeks’ gestation, saying that to do so would be to lie to the American people about what is politically possible.
Republicans seeking to keep Donald Trump from becoming their party’s nominee will have to overcome rules even more favorable to the former president than the ones that helped him clinch the 2016 nomination.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he has a clear lead over main rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu in elections, adding that it’s still unclear if the vote will go to a runoff.
North Idaho voters on Tuesday will choose who will represent them on a variety of local boards and whether to pass school district levies that will determine the fate of several area campuses.
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As the sun set over Bangkok in late March, a Thai graffiti artist walked up to the pearl-white walls of the 18th-century Grand Palace and spray-painted an anarchy symbol along with the numbers “112” crossed out, like a No Smoking sign.
State lands commissioner Hilary Franz announced Wednesday she’ll run for governor, vying with fellow Democrat, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, in the 2024 race to succeed Gov. Jay Inslee.
President Joe Biden’s approval slid to a career low in the latest opinion poll for ABC News and the Washington Post that also showed the US leader lagging predecessor Donald Trump in early voter preferences for the 2024 election.
President Biden brushed back against concerns about his age in an MSNBC interview that aired Friday night, conceding that he may be the oldest president in American history while arguing in favor of his experience.
Eighteen months out from Election Day 2024, Senate Republicans have plenty of reasons to be bullish about retaking the majority, but the same could be said last year, when Democrats actually gained one seat.
Democratic congressman Colin Allred on Wednesday launched his campaign for Senate, saying Texas “can’t afford six more years” of incumbent Republican Ted Cruz.
Two neighboring North Idaho school districts face significant budget and staff cuts if their levies do not pass this month after voters rejected earlier versions in March.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday he will not run for an unprecedented fourth term, setting up a wide-open 2024 gubernatorial race that will have ripple effects all down the ballot.
President Biden's formal announcement that he seeks reelection has led to a boom in pieces on what role Vice President Harris will play, and an explosion of conservative commentary that 2024 is just as much a referendum on her as it is about the candidate at the top of the ticket.Harris appears prominently and frequently in the president's official launch video - not just at Biden's side, but on her own. There's nothing especially surprising there. She's the sitting vice president and his running mate. It would have been weird if she had been absent.In some ways, what's going on over in the GOP is more interesting, even if the political payoffs are pretty obvious.-First and foremost, the tactic reminds voters that Biden, at 80, is the oldest president ever and would be 86 when he finishes a hypothetical second term. (Former president Donald Trump, who currently leads the Republican pack, is 76.)-It puts the spotlight on a vice president whom GOP base voters dislike even more than they dislike Biden. (Her overall job approval isn't that much worse than his, though neither possesses enviable numbers.)Two caveats: The GOP has attacked Harris since she was picked, and the argument didn't work in 2020 or 2022.- - -The GOP's actuarial table argumentMany Republicans are not being subtle in their message to voters, and it's a bit macabre: They argue Biden is likely to die of old age before the end of a possible second term, and Harris would become president."I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Harris," GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told Fox News last week, "because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely.""Joe Biden is 142 years old," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox Business last week. "In a very real sense, this election, the Democrats are suggesting Kamala Harris for president" because there's "a very real possibility that Kamala Harris becomes the president" if Biden wins.- - -The counter on ageBiden's doctors recently declared him "a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency." He is known to resent the persistent discussion of his age.At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday, the president turned to humor to try to defuse the question. (He did the same thing at last year's dinner, so when it comes to inoculating him, the event isn't exactly burying the needle.)Samples:-The First Amendment? "My good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it."-"You might think I don't like Rupert Murdoch. That's simply not true. How could I dislike the guy who makes me look like Harry Styles?"And of course, part of the strategy is to argue that Biden has a capable successor in Harris.- - -The counter on KamalaWhatever the tensions between president and vice president and their respective teams - Biden referred to her as "a work in progress" a few months into his term, according to "The Fight of His Life" by Chris Whipple - the White House and Bidenworld more broadly have swung entirely behind her.There are two broad tacks. First, public shows of support. Second, efforts to elevate her profile and identify her even more closely with some of the administration's biggest priorities (reproductive rights, for instance) that proved pivotal for Democrats in the 2022 midterms.So both White House chief of staff Jeffrey Zients and communications director Ben LaBolt jumped to her defense on Twitter after Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose of Reuters wrote Harris struggles with "low poll ratings, a failure to win over the Washington establishment and concern among fellow Democrats about an underwhelming start in the job."Former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain did an interview with journalist Kara Swisher last week. He partly blamed "sexism and racism" against the first vice president who is a woman, Black and Asian American. But this part of Klain's comment stood out:"I think she was not as well known in national politics before she became vice president," he said, "And I think hopefully during the campaign season, the American people will get more of a chance to see her on the stump and get to know her a little better."She's been vice president for two years! But a former Harris aide, who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity to be more candid, said that's part of the problem.She is Biden's top political partner, playing the traditional role of vice president, promoting whatever issue of the day the White House wants pushed. That's "actually increasing her ability to know and manage the issues of governing," the former aide said.But it also conflicts with "her communications team's ability to hone [sic] in on a few things and make those her hallmarks," said the aide, who specifically cited access to abortion as a politically potent issue she has worked to make her own.And that, of course, could position her well for 2028.
President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wanted to "finish the job" he started when the country was racked by a deadly pandemic, a reeling economy and a teetering democracy.
Nearly a year after the Supreme Court turned abortion into a dominant issue of the 2022 midterms, the battle over abortion rights has catapulted to the center of the emerging 2024 election season, igniting Democrats, dividing Republicans and turbocharging sensitive debates over health care.
Former President Donald Trump is girding to take a swing at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on one of the things his chief rival is proudest of: his handling of his state’s economy.
