WASHINGTON — Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the Republican primaries and caucuses, but despite his commanding victories, the front-runner’s strength among general election voters remains unclear. AP VoteCast is a series of surveys conducted among 1,597 Republican caucus voters in Iowa, 1,989 New Hampshire voters who took part in the Republican primary and 2,466 Republican primary voters in …
On Tuesday, New York Timesreporter Maggie Haberman noted that former President Donald Trump may be a key factor in why House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is facing the prospect of failing, for the second time in his career, of securing the votes to be Speaker of the House. All but two of them — Rep. David Valadao and Rep. Dan …
For years, Democratic activists have begged the party to play the kind of “constitutional hardball” long practiced by the GOP. Josh Barro argued that spending money to elevate people like Illinois Republican Darren Bailey means that despite Democrats’ rhetoric about democracy in peril, they believe that “the risk of those candidates winning is an acceptable one, part of the ordinary …
Democrats are boosting the GOP primary campaign of Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks, a 2020 election denier, believing he would be an easier opponent for Sen. Michael Bennet in November. The latest example of this kind of Democratic gamble is in Colorado, where a freshly formed group, Democratic Colorado, has started running ads attacking state Rep. Ron Hanks as “too …
