SAN FRANCISCO — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Republican baseball star Steve Garvey pushed their way through a crowded Senate primary field on Tuesday to secure spots in November’s general election. Garvey’s advancement to November helped avoid a costly slugfest between Schiff and Democratic rival Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) that would have tested intraparty loyalties and drained […]
Super Tuesday, the biggest primary night of the 2024 cycle, delivered few hiccups as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily dominated the 16 states and one U.S. territory that held primaries. But there were some surprises. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivered an upset victory in Vermont, where she narrowly defeated Trump in the GOP primary. On the […]
The door is open for the Republican National Committee to pay former President Donald Trump’s legal bills after resolutions from a committee member failed to gain support. Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, proposed two resolutions: One would have banned the RNC from covering Trump’s legal bills, and the other would have prevented the […]
Democrats have chosen Colin Allred, a congressman from northeast Dallas, to take on incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), besting a crowded field of nine Democrats on Tuesday night. Allred led significantly among his closest competitors, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who has gained name recognition after he responded to the Uvalde school shooting that happened in […]
Former President Donald Trump took jabs at President Joe Biden while ignoring his Republican primary opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, on Tuesday night. In a speech at Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday, Trump tread similar ground in his boasting of his past record and condemnations of Biden. Notable was the glaring absence in his […]
President Joe Biden, as expected, waltzed to easy victories on Super Tuesday, yet he could not escape a growing concern for his 2024 White House bid: “uncommitted” votes protesting the president’s handling of the situation in Gaza and beyond. Last Tuesday, in Michigan, more than 100,000 Democrats voted for “uncommitted” over Biden, accounting for 13.2% […]
During MSNBC’s Super Tuesday coverage, host Rachel Maddow and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed their surprise over exit polls showing immigration is a top concern for Virginians. “I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls — I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the No. 1 issue,” Psaki, […]
Voters across 16 states and one U.S. territory are heading to the polls on Tuesday for what is set to be the biggest primary election night of the 2024 cycle. The elections are expected to all but determine who the candidates will be for both Republicans and Democrats, with about a third of the delegates […]
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley narrowly won Vermont’s GOP primary on Super Tuesday handing former President Donald Trump his first loss of the night. Haley and Trump remained neck-and-neck as the ballots were counted more than three hours after the race had finished. Although polls closed at 7 p.m. ET, The Associated Press didn’t call the race until 3 hours and 37 minutes […]
Little-known entrepreneur Jason Palmer won American Samoa‘s 2024 Democratic caucuses for the majority of the territory’s six pledged delegates in a surprise win over President Joe Biden. Several outlets called the race at roughly 10 p.m. Eastern time after the caucuses concluded, while Palmer had 56% of the vote to Biden’s 44%. Out of 91 […]
