Fred Harris, ex-Oklahoma senator and Democratic presidential hopeful, has died. He was 94
CORRALES, N.M. (AP) — Fred Harris, ex-Oklahoma senator and Democratic presidential hopeful, has died. He was 94.
CORRALES, N.M. (AP) — Fred Harris, ex-Oklahoma senator and Democratic presidential hopeful, has died. He was 94.
Harris ended her unsuccessful 2024 campaign with $20m in debt, according to reports
Biden called Trump a fascist. Now his White House is ensuring an orderly transfer of power — and staging photo ops with the president-elect
"It felt like a no-brainer," Cooper said.
Nearly a month after a devastating election loss that exposed cracks in the very foundation of their party, Democrats remain deeply divided over the extent of their political problem — or even if they have one. A number of Democratic leaders are downplaying the strength of Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris as the inevitable result of an inflation-fueled anti-incumbent backlash that shaped elections worldwide. Trump swept every battleground state on Nov. 5, becoming the first Republican candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
Democrast become increasingly critical of White House strategy after dismal election performance
First preference vote shares in Ireland's election suggest Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are poised to continue their coalition, with Sinn Fein recording its first decline in support in 35 years. Fianna Fail's leader hailed his party's performance but said he would let the "dust settle" before attempting to form a new government. Following two days of counting, and with more than 100 of the 174 seats decided by Sunday evening, the return of an administration in which Fianna Fail and Fine Gael took the major role looks most likely.
Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, deleted two social media posts she shared after the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol — including a retweet praising then-Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the 2020 election.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be trying to strike a delicate balance between the political brawler that his Democratic base admires and a more measured national leader capable of winning back disenfranchised voters across the country.
Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial race is poised to make history in 2025, with two women likely to lead the Republican and Democratic tickets. Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) are the clear front-runners in their respective parties, with Republicans and Democrats largely falling in line behind them. If Earle-Sears and Spanberger each…
Head of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a vice chair of the national party has reportedly already locked down half the required endorsements
The incumbent centre-right parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael looked set to retain power in Ireland as vote counting in the European Union member's general election resumed on Sunday.The centre-left opposition Labour party is seen by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail as the most likely junior coalition party, according to local media.
Demoralized but unbowed, the opposition ponders its next move as Trump prepares to re-enter the White House
The leaders of the three parties battling to top the polls in the Irish general election have been elected.
Georgia's pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili told AFP in an exclusive interview on Saturday that she will not step down until last month's contested parliamentary elections are re-run.Constitutional law experts, including one author of Georgia's constitution, Vakhtang Khmaladze, told AFP that any decisions made by the new parliament -- including Constitutional law experts, including one author of Georgia's constitution, Vakhtang Khmaladze, told AFP that any decisions made by the new parl
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, and Stitcher. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace is leading Republicans into another anti-trans culture war as President-elect Donald Trump takes office and Democrats are struggling to respond, explains Parker Molloy, author of the award-winning The Present Age newsletter, in an interview with The New Abnormal co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie. “Nothing brings down inflation faster than banning trans people from
ANALYSIS: Eric Garcia explains what he saw coming, what he got wrong — and what that taught him about future elections
With major deportation push on the horizon, state leaders prepare to lead a second resistance against a Trump White House
Republicans spent at least $215 million on attack ads about transgender rights. The question is, did it actually move voters?
Romanians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, in which the far right is expected to gain from uncertainty over whether the shock result in a presidential election will stand. Sunday's vote is the second of three consecutive ballots for both a new parliament and a new president, after the first round of the presidential election on Nov. 24 saw an independent far-right candidate emerge from relative obscurity to become the front-runner. His unexpected win ushered in support for ultranationalist, hard-right parties, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies, which could upend Romania's pro-Western orientation and undermine backing for Ukraine, political analysts said.
Iceland's opposition Social Democrats overtook the governing Independence Party of Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson after a snap election prompted by the collapse of his fraught coalition government, public broadcaster RUV reported Sunday.Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson's Independence Party trailed the Social Democrats with 19.4 percent, down from the 24.4 percent it won in 2021, marking the worst result the party had ever recorded.