EXCLUSIVE — Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti launched a new TV ad in her challenge to Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) as she looks to boost her bipartisan credentials in a right-leaning district. The spot, shared first with the Washington Examiner, features Bill, a Lackawanna County voter, who says he voted for President Donald Trump “every time […]
Iowa Democrats are keeping their powder dry after the Democratic National Committee last weekend demoted the longtime first-in-the-nation presidential nominating caucus on its 2028 primary election calendar and elevated South Carolina to be its first contest instead. For now. Multiple Iowa Democrats told the Washington Examiner they hope the state’s closer-than-expected governor, Senate, and House […]
A big question less than 80 days out from Election Day: Will the midterm elections be a referendum on President Donald Trump or growing socialist power inside the Democratic Party? The answer will probably be a little of both. Midterm elections are always a referendum on the party controlling the White House, and Democrats have […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed retaliation on Tuesday after Russia launched a “brutal attack” in his country. A Russian missile killed ten people and injured over a dozen more in a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Zelensky described the area as “surrounded only by residential buildings” and posted pictures of the damage on his social […]
South Carolina‘s role as the first-in-the-nation primary for the 2028 presidential field could give former Vice President Kamala Harris a boost over other Democrats should she decide to seek the White House for a third time. The Palmetto State’s heavily African American electorate helped revive former President Joe Biden‘s campaign in 2020 as he struggled […]
Florida voters will decide on a series of primaries Tuesday that pit some of the state’s most prominent Jewish political figures against challengers from the ideological fringes, offering a fresh test of how antisemitic rhetoric and hard-line opposition to Israel are resonating on both the Left and the Right. On the Democratic side, pro-Israel Rep. […]
The Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary is not only testing the party’s desire for generational change but also the appetite to relitigate a subject that hurt Democrats last election cycle: transgender rights. The issue has generated some of the most contentious moments between 80-year-old Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and his younger challenger, 47-year-old Rep. Seth Moulton […]
Republican Doug Ollivant, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and combat veteran, is taking on incumbent Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Ollivant, who is running for elected office for the first time, won the GOP primary on Aug. 4 with 56.6% of the vote. Republicans believe the 7th district is their best […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president said Tuesday a solid alliance with the U.S. strengthens the foundation of national security, as many South Koreans were baffled and concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt order to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises. Trump made the surprise announcement in a social media post just before U.S. and […]
A registered foreign agent for Cuba is running for Congress in Rhode Island despite attesting that he lives in both the Ocean State and Florida, documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner show. GOP House candidate Victor Mellor wrote Englewood, Florida, as his residence in a June filing with the Department of Justice and a Warwick, […]
