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WASHINGTON — Oregon Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden plans to press for “the boldest” healthcare bill possible after he takes over as Finance Committee chairman next year, but he didn’t commit to Medicare for All, a longstanding policy goal for progressives, during a briefing Monday. Wyden told reporters in the Capitol…
A proposal to overhaul the federal process for permits to construct energy projects passed a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Monday, though several Democratic supporters said the legislation needed more work. The Senate voted, 73-25, to advance what’s known as the permitting reform bill, despite opposition…
Democrats have clinched at least a one-seat majority in the state House, with 91 seats in the 180-seat chamber as of Sunday evening, according to the Associated Press. But unexpected developments, including an initially overlooked memory card that changed the outcome of a southwest Georgia House race, have drawn…
In a handful of holdout states, Democrats appear ready to use their newly won statehouse dominance to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. In at least four states — Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin — the midterm election results have tilted the political calculus toward expansion, though lawmakers have…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Beginning in January, three of the five officials on the Georgia Public Service Commission will be Democrats. It will be the first time the party has controlled the powerful energy regulation…
WASHINGTON — Voters may have given Democrats control of Congress in the midterm elections, but Republicans will remain in charge of both chambers during the lame-duck session that spans November and December. The relatively brief five-week schedule, which begins Monday, gives GOP leaders a chance to wrap up unfinished…
Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms didn’t have long to celebrate Tuesday’s historic win. The former Atlanta mayor became the first Georgia Democrat to be elected governor in decades, winning by more than 8 percentage points, and the first Black woman elected governor in the nation. Less than three days after that…
Within an hour of polls closing Tuesday, it was clear that Democrats had made a strong showing and that U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff would be re-elected by a large margin. But what unfolded after that far exceeded what even the most optimistic Georgia Democrat could have imagined. By about 9 p.m., it became apparent that
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to establish the Oval Office and White House Cabinet Room as a national monument in order to prevent any major renovations to those spaces that are not approved by Congress. Trump, who tore down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom,
Alabama Republicans had hoped Rep. Shomari Figures would deliver a concession speech on Tuesday night after the state legislature redrew his district to be more GOP-friendly. Instead, the Democrat declared victory — winning nearly 54% of the vote. “We know what happened with this district,” Figures told supporters as…
WASHINGTON — As the monumental midterm victories set in, Democrats began to talk strategy Wednesday on how to deliver what voters want: lower prices, attainable health care and an end to a stagnant and expensive conflict in the Middle East. Starting in January, the party will control both chambers of Congress, giving…
Tuesday night was a great night for the Republican Party. I’m dead serious. The GOP needed to be slapped across the face and told to snap out of it. It needed to be kicked in the butt, and kicked hard. The party that once liked to think of itself as the grownup party needed to
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in Congress have just a couple months to decide how they want to balance investigations into President Donald Trump and his administration with securing his signature on major bills to address the cost of living, a top concern for voters. While Democrats gained control of the House and…
Ahead of the midterms, Democrats wargamed dozens of scenarios looking at how President Donald Trump might try to undermine the election, everything from seizing voting machines to falsely declaring a foreign attack. But when the blue tsunami arrived Tuesday night, Trump seemed to let it wash right over him. In a…
Outgoing Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday that he would not call a special session to push new political maps and curb the executive powers of future state leaders after the Democratic sweep in the 2026 midterms. “The voters of our state have spoken. As long as I’m governor, we will always respect the…
With just a handful of races left to be called a day after Tuesday’s midterm elections, Democrats appear poised to take control of the Georgia state House of Representatives, ending more than two decades of Republican control of the chamber. Democrats needed to flip control of 10 seats to control 91 seats in the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries got one step closer to becoming the next speaker after Democrats delivered a sweeping victory in the midterm elections. If elected by a majority of House members, Jeffries would make history as the first Black person to hold the gavel. The 56-year-old Brooklynite…
Democrats have won the majority of governor’s offices for the first time in 16 years after the GOP racked up major losses across the country. Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas and defended competitive races in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to unofficial results from…
Voters across the country administered a sharp reprimand to President Donald Trump and Republicans who hold majorities in Congress, with Democrats gaining comfortable majorities in the Senate and the House. Several U.S. Senate and House races remained uncalled by The Associated Press as Election Day ended on the East…
Tuesday night was a clean sweep for Georgia Democrats, with voters electing Democrats to every statewide office that was on the ballot. Voters reelected U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff by a wide margin and elected former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to be not just the first Democratic governor in Georgia in more than two…
Voters have handed Democrats control of the Georgia Public Service Commission, a little known but important regulatory board that influences how much Georgians pay for energy. Democrats Peter Hubbard, who is already on the commission, and Shelia Edwards, who was competing for an open seat, were both candidates leading…
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades and the first Black woman governor anywhere in the country. Bottoms defeated her Republican opponent, healthcare executive Rick Jackson, who was endorsed by both outgoing Gov. Brian…
Six more years. That’s what Georgia voters gave Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff on Tuesday, handing him a win over Republican Congressman Mike Collins and sending him back to Washington for a second term. The race was called by the Associated Press less than an hour after polls closed Tuesday. In a victory speech…
Who will be Georgia’s next governor? Will Republicans overcome the apparent Democratic lead built up during early voting? Which party will run state government starting next year? And when can Georgians expect to learn the answer to these questions and others? This year’s ballot is packed with a nationally watched…
WASHINGTON — One day before his party is forecast to lose control of the U.S. House, and possibly the Senate, President Donald Trump gathered guests and press at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to tout the “magnificent” renovation of the monument — a monthslong project plagued by algae, reclosure and false…
As broad affordability concerns define elections across the country, voters in several states on Tuesday will have a say on their future utility bills. State utility regulators, who are facing heightened levels of attention and scrutiny amid high prices, are on the ballot in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia…
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots…
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the high-water mark of 52.7 million early votes cast…
As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere. Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White…
Friday is the last day to vote early in Georgia ahead of Tuesday’s midterm election, and leaders from both parties have been poring over the record early voting numbers to try to figure out where their voters are turning out and where they need to marshal their resources. Some of Georgia’s top races are expected
Former Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff urged young voters at Atlanta’s historically Black colleges and universities to make their way to the polls as early voting wraps up Friday. About 800 students from Clark Atlanta, Morehouse College and Spelman College gathered Thursday to see Harris and…
The Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to combat noncitizen voting and assert authority over elections came under intense scrutiny in courtrooms across the country on Thursday, as Democrats and voting rights groups alleged federal election interference. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the U.S…
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized citizens voted Democratic for president by…
With a U.S. Senate seat, the governor’s mansion and a slew of other statewide races on the ballot, former President Barack Obama visited Georgia Wednesday to fire up supporters to elect a slate of Democrats and send a message to the White House. The former president joined U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, who is up for
Most of the nation returns to standard time Sunday morning, and Congress could decide as early as next month whether it will be the last time people have to change their clocks. President Donald Trump wants year-round daylight saving time. The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly in July for the change. Lots of Democrats…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is unlawfully scrutinizing naturalized U.S. citizens and placing them at risk of disenfranchisement, civil rights groups alleged in a lawsuit Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day. The lawsuit, filed in California, came as Homeland Security asked for an emergency…
They say all politics is local, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp seems to hope that holds true next week. Kemp has been traveling the state singing the praises of the man he hopes will take over his job after this year, Republican businessman Rick Jackson. Kemp is set to complete his second and final term
The race to become Georgia’s next top elections official is heating up as Election Day nears, and the two candidates on the ballot are offering starkly different visions for the future of voting in the Peach State. On the Republican ticket is Covington state Rep. Tim Fleming, a two-term lawmaker and the former deputy…
If you believe the polls, Jon Ossoff will easily win re-election to the U.S. Senate, and Keisha Lance Bottoms is right on the heels of Rick Jackson in the governor’s race despite being badly outspent. She might even have a slight lead. Once upon a time in a not-too-distant past, this whole thing would have
For most of her life, Tanya Tomanek thought of herself as a businesswoman, mother and grandmother, someone who moved to her quiet 13-acre land in Brantley County three years ago. She was more concerned with her family than politics. That changed this summer, when Tomanek was led out of a county commission meeting in…
DALTON, Ga. – Mary Dennard canvassed alone through one of Dalton’s neighborhoods on the eve of Hurricane Isaias. The other canvassers, who speak Spanish, canceled due to the weather. Her blue shirt peeked out from under her windbreaker, reading “Somos vecinos, we are neighbors,” and Dennard carried Spanish language…
Edwin Brant Frost IV, the founder of a conservative lending firm in Georgia, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison for his role in running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Frost, a 69-year-old and founder of the now-defunct First Liberty Building & Loan, was accused of leading
The U.S. Department of Justice will send Election Day monitors to six Georgia counties, all of which are considered Democratic strongholds. But election officials so far say they do not see the move as unusual. Last month, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced that roughly 1,000 monitors would be…
Americans’ growing frustration over high prices has defined many political campaigns ahead of November’s midterm elections. Rising costs of healthcare, gas and groceries during President Donald Trump’s second term have put Republicans on defense, not only in Washington, but in statehouse and gubernatorial races across…
A record number of women are running for state legislative seats this November, more than two-thirds of whom are Democrats. Across the 46 states with legislative seats on the ballot, a total of 3,824 women are running — up from 2022’s previous record of 3,621 women candidates, according to the Center for American…
Several big names are hitting the campaign trail in Georgia in hopes of driving up turnout on their side as voters choose their next governor and decide whether to send Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff back to Washington. Congressman Mike Collins, who is challenging Ossoff, and gubernatorial candidate and healthcare…
Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson will join President Donald Trump at a second rally this month after all. Jackson’s campaign said on Monday that he would skip Trump’s upcoming Saturday rally in middle Georgia, opting instead to act as “a force multiplier” at an event with Gov. Brian Kemp in suburban…
WASHINGTON — Fewer than 5% of U.S. House races are seen by a top political analysis as truly competitive heading into November’s midterm elections, giving relatively few voters the ability to determine which party controls the chamber for the next two years. The other 414 of 435 House districts are viewed by the…
Keisha Lance Bottoms stood outside the DeKalb County elections headquarters facing more than 20 reporters and news cameras as early voting got underway earlier this month. Flanked by U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who had just voted for her, Bottoms rattled off the reasons Georgians should vote for her, too. She didn’t…
Georgia voters will have a chance to weigh in on a ballot measure that would expand a property tax relief program to include those who own larger swaths of farmland. The proposed constitutional amendment, which passed the Legislature in 2025 with broad bipartisan support, is the first question on the ballot. It would…
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has filed a formal complaint against a Georgia House candidate accused of voting in two states, arguing that he does not meet the residency requirements to serve in the state House of Representatives. David Dillie, a 24-year-old mechanic for Gulfstream, qualified to run as a…
WASHINGTON — The price health insurance companies charge for employer-sponsored plans increased again this year, as did the deductible many people must pay before those plans begin covering most healthcare costs, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. The cost of individual…
Peach State residents who want to vote by mail in the midterm elections have one last day to file their absentee ballot request, and so far, Georgia is seeing less demand for that form of voting. Mail-in voting is still an option for this year’s midterms. Here’s what voters should know. About 154,000 absentee ballots
A federal judge on Wednesday night blocked the Department of Homeland Security from conducting election-related field operations that could sweep up U.S. citizens in nine states. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, issued a…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to implement a rule that would terminate gender-affirming care for transgender people incarcerated in federal prisons. It means a lower court order that blocked the policy from going into effect will remain in place for…
Georgia is currently in the midst of transforming its 911 system to incorporate new technology in a world where most calls to emergency services are made from cell phones rather than landlines. But how quickly the state finishes that upgrade may depend on the outcome of one of this year’s three ballot questions. A…
Nine states and the District of Columbia lost jobs in the year ending in September, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hit hard by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, the District of Columbia suffered the largest percentage job loss, down 3.5% or 25,800…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission are on the ballot in this year’s election, and the outcome could see Democrats controlling the powerful commission for the first time in decades…
Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson will skip President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in middle Georgia this weekend, opting instead to campaign in suburban Atlanta as as the race, which polling averages indicate is a virtual tie, enters its final stretch. The decision comes after Jackson on Friday joined…
Democrats have used President Donald Trump’s unpopularity to expand the midterm map, and analysts project the party carries momentum heading into the final two weeks of the election cycle, even as Democrats are expected to flip fewer U.S. House seats than wave elections this century. The Cook Political Report with Amy…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was established in 1990 and “has served as the focal point for…
WASHINGTON — Immigrants living in the United States with humanitarian status from Ukraine and Sudan will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, the Department of Homeland Security said over the weekend. More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese with Temporary Protected…
Georgia candidates up and down the ballot are campaigning on an issue that has struck a nerve across the political spectrum: data centers. A wave of data center projects across Georgia has been met with outrage in many communities in the last year or so, causing state lawmakers from both parties to push a flurry
Felicia Murray Jackson’s sister, Linda Davis, died in February on her way to the Savannah school where she worked after a man fleeing immigration agents crashed into her vehicle. But that’s not why Jackson says she’s angry today. “Our government has packed us full of lies,” Jackson said to a crowd of hundreds gathered…
DALTON, Ga. – President Donald Trump returned to conservative northwest Georgia Friday, sharing a rally stage with the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate and the Republican who hopes to serve as Georgia’s next governor – all while repeating unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Early voting started Monday…
WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected…
President Donald Trump is set to visit Dalton in northwest Georgia Friday to stump for Republican candidates as early voting is underway for the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Trump visited Dalton in early 2021 at the end of his first term to drum up support for then-Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in a runoff
With early voting already underway across the state, the race to be Georgia’s next lieutenant governor is becoming increasingly contentious as the two candidates strive to appeal to undecided voters — and explain why their opponent is the wrong choice. Both men are members of the state Senate with reputations for…
WASHINGTON —Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog. Top Republican and Democratic senators have unveiled a 417-page bill to overhaul the approval process, a pathway for what’s known as “permitting reform.” A debate is likely when…
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s campaign reported raising $33 million from July through September, entering the final stretch of his re-election campaign against Republican Congressman Mike Collins with $26 million on hand. “Senator Ossoff is known for building juggernaut political operations and his re-election…
The late Harry Reid saw a lot of people come and go during his 30 years in the U.S. Senate. In an oral history with Columbia University, he recalled the first time he saw a newcomer from Illinois, a man named Barack Obama, deliver a speech on the Senate floor. “I walked over to him.
WASHINGTON — Democrats are touting an ambitious legislative agenda centered on affordability and accountability if they take back the U.S. House or Senate — or both — in November. A slew of pressing policy debates are on tap for Democrats, including healthcare, immigration, voting rights, the war in Iran, oversight…
WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to…
Election Day is still weeks away, but Georgia voters are already starting to cast their ballots. That’s because state law mandates that counties offer three weeks of early voting before every major election. Each of Georgia’s 159 counties offers at least one early voting location, and unlike with Election Day voting…
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients…
Democratic U.S. Sen Jon Ossoff and Republican Congressman Mike Collins met face to face on the debate stage Tuesday for their second and likely final confrontation before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The two candidates for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat clashed over issues including immigration, the war in Iran and the…
The polls are officially open for the midterm elections, and Georgia voters are ready. Nearly 189,000 people cast their ballots during the first day of early voting, surpassing the first day voter turnout during the 2022 midterms by over 50,000 votes. Tuesday’s turnout also set a new record for the first day of…
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an…
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominee for governor, debated against an empty podium Monday night after GOP nominee Rick Jackson declined to participate in the Atlanta Press Club’s debates. The Loudermilk-Young debate series, organized by Atlanta Press Club in partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting, is a…
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week will journey out West in an effort to galvanize support for Republican candidates three weeks before the midterm elections and convince voters to support his party amid low presidential approval ratings. As the deeply unpopular war in Iran enters month eight, resulting in…
CARTERSVILLE, Ga — In a warehouse in Bartow County, Georgia, election director Joseph Kirk stands in the middle of a long aisle of voting machines and starts performing his checks. It’s Tuesday, with only a week to go until the start of early voting. This year one of Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats and all
On Friday morning, the prediction market platform Kalshi gave the Democratic candidate in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race an 87% chance of winning. The volume of trading on the outcome exceeded $1.8 million. This is exactly the type of activity Minnesota and numerous other states want to shut down. “They jeopardize…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The Supreme Court once billed the Endangered Species Act “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species ever enacted by any nation.” Federal protections have been…
Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Congressman Mike Collins came out swinging on the debate stage Thursday night, discussing topics like the economy, healthcare and data centers in between brutal insults ahead of the November election. During an hour-long debate hosted by Atlanta News First and…
The family of an 8-year-old girl who was killed during a period of civil unrest in Atlanta is urging Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson to stop using her name and image in campaign material, calling the ads “deeply hurtful.” Secoriea Turner was fatally shot in 2020 while riding in a vehicle near a Wendy’s
Keisha Lance Bottoms’ campaign for governor got a boost Thursday with a heavyweight endorsement from former President Barack Obama. In a video released Thursday, Obama praised Bottoms’ record as the former mayor of Atlanta and touted some of the Democrat’s campaign promises, saying that “there is a lot at stake in…
WASHINGTON — Rebecca Myers lives in one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional districts, and tariffs were on her mind as she voted early and in-person in Suffolk, Virginia in late September. The 44-year-old trained social worker said she and her husband, who recently retired after 25 years in the U.S…
The dogs and cats in your life don’t get a vote on Nov. 3, so they’re counting on you to get it right. That’s the message from the Georgia Pet Coalition, a nonpartisan group of Georgia humans who advocate state and local governments on behalf of the state’s companion animals. “We do not endorse candidates,
WASHINGTON — Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Parents must claim the accounts by downloading a Trump Account mobile app. Children born from 2025 through 2028…
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups. The reports from May and June by…
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Tybee Island has secured federal funding to replenish its beaches with sand after being denied the money earlier this year. Local officials say the beach renourishment project is critical for a…
As they await a federal decision on a potential nationwide ban on telehealth abortions, anti-abortion activists plan to push more states to require women to visit a doctor’s office, get an ultrasound or wait before they can get abortion pills. Under its current guidelines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does…
As President Donald Trump refuses to rule out taking extreme action in the midterm elections, voting rights advocates and civil rights leaders are bolstering their voter protection efforts in anticipation of possible federal interference. The focus by activists comes amid uncertainty among advocates and election…
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson clashed Tuesday night over healthcare, crime, data centers and election security in what will likely be the only opportunity for voters to see the two candidates for governor side by side. The town hall-style debate, organized by Atlanta News First and…
Gov. Brian Kemp announced Tuesday evening that he will suspend penalties for dyed diesel after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins urged governors to follow the president’s move to suspend penalties on the unrestricted use of the fuel, which is typically allowed in off-road machinery only. President Donald…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are more motivated to vote in November’s midterm elections than Republicans, potentially giving the party an advantage to flip at least one chamber of Congress, according to a poll released Tuesday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. Democratic candidates also held an edge with voter…
At first glance, a largely rural district that stretches across 30 counties in middle and southwest Georgia might not seem like friendly turf for a Democrat. But Congressman Sanford Bishop, a moderate Albany Democrat, has comfortably fended off GOP attempts to flip the seat in recent years. Bishop has represented the…
President Donald Trump wants to sharply curtail mail ballots. He’s called them “inherently corrupt” and baselessly condemned them as a major source of fraud. But with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, including by…
WASHINGTON — Democrats expect they’ll gain a majority of seats in the U.S. House following November’s midterm elections, giving the party a platform to serve as a check on the president’s power. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene said during an interview Monday that curbing the war in Iran…