Wisconsin Democrats will decide Tuesday whether to entrust their bid to hold the governor’s mansion to socialist Francesca Hong, putting the progressive movement’s growing strength to its most consequential battleground test yet. Hong, a 37-year-old state representative from Madison, heads into the Democratic gubernatorial primary as the candidate to beat after an improbable ascent that […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may be downplaying her 2028 ambitions, but she has left little doubt that she doesn’t plan to remain in the House indefinitely. Since Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez has triangulated against fellow Democratic Socialists of America members who remained bedeviled by the excesses of “peak woke,” distanced herself from her own 2020 positions, and […]

Interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) has much of the Senate GOP in her corner and, most importantly, the support of President Donald Trump ahead of Tuesday’s special South Carolina Republican Senate primary. Yet, Graham Nordone, on the ballot for a full six-year term, isn’t seen as a shoo-in to replace her late brother, Lindsey […]

In the final days leading up to the Democratic primary for Minnesota governor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is looking to distinguish herself from outgoing Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). In January, Klobuchar announced her campaign after Walz revealed he wouldn’t be running for a third term. At the time, he was undergoing federal scrutiny over the […]