Seth McLaughlin

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester seeking reelection in Montana

Sen. Jon Tester of Montana announced Wednesday he is running for reelection in what is shaping up to be one of the most watched races of the 2024 election cycle.

February 22, 2023

Knocked down again: Fetterman’s debilitating post-stroke depression imperils his political future

Sen. John Fetterman's feel-good story has given way to the harsh realities of recovering from a near-fatal stroke and the difficulty of doing it on the national stage.

February 21, 2023

Dem Sen. Fetterman checks into hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who is battling the lingering effects of a stroke, has checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to "receive treatment for clinical depression."

February 16, 2023

Atlanta special grand jury investigating Trump 2020 election reports finds possible witness perjury

The special purpose grand jury tasked with investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia has found that perjury "may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it."

February 16, 2023

Nikki Haley launches 2024 campaign with calls for fresh leadership in GOP, White House

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley announced Wednesday she is running for president, saying it is time for a new generation of leadership and for the nation's gray-haired leaders to undergo mandatory mental capacity tests to serve in public office.

February 15, 2023

Republican underdogs start to step in

Nikki Haley's announcement Tuesday that she is diving into the 2024 presidential race has brought the official end to former President Donald Trump's time as the sole candidate running for the GOP nomination.

February 14, 2023

Georgia judge orders partial release of Trump 2020 election special grand jury report

The world is set to get a partial glimpse this week into the special grand jury report on the efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

February 13, 2023

DeSantis vs. Trump fills up most of GOP field

The harsh reality confronting Nikki Haley as she prepares to launch her 2024 GOP presidential bid -- and the others that follow suit -- is that the contest has already turned into a two-person race between former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

February 10, 2023

DeSantis has an edge over Trump in a head-to-head matchup

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is getting the better of former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential primary head-to-head matchup.

February 9, 2023

DeSantis responds to Trump attack: ‘I don’t spend my time trying to smear other Republicans’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday brushed aside former President Donald Trump's attempts to cast him as a "groomer" of young women, saying he is not interested in spending his time chopping down fellow Republicans.

February 8, 2023

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders rips Biden as more interested in ‘woke fantasies’ than reality

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas on Tuesday warned that President Biden is steering the nation in a dangerous direction and seems more interested "in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day."

February 7, 2023

Trump helps circulate photo accusing DeSantis of drinking with underage girls

Former President Donald Trump took a potshot Tuesday at Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, sharing an old photograph floating around social media that purported to show him drinking alcohol with minors.

February 7, 2023

Nikki Haley to hit Trump on age issue, says it’s time for a new generation of GOP leaders

After former President Donald Trump called 2024 soon-to-be rival Nikki Haley "overly ambitious," she took to Twitter to revive a proposal she floated over a year ago that every person serving in public office be required to take a cognitive test.

February 3, 2023

Joe Biden set to encounter ‘Don’t Run Joe’ protests at DNC’s annual meeting

President Biden will be on the receiving end of liberal criticism when he travels Friday to Philadelphia to address the Democratic National Committee, throwing a kink in the party's desire to show a unified front at the annual meeting.

February 2, 2023

Pelosi backing Schiff in Senate race in California if Feinstein retires

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is backing Rep. Adam B. Schiff's bid for a California Senate seat -- so long as Sen. Dianne Feinstein exits, stage left.

February 2, 2023

Ron DeSantis to headline Alabama GOP dinner

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is set to cross his state's border to headline the Alabama Republican Party's winter meeting.

February 1, 2023

Who will blink first? Battle over N.H.’s first-in-the-nation primary set for DNC winter meeting

The standoff between the Democratic National Committee and New Hampshire Democrats will take center stage at the national party's annual meeting this week in Philadelphia where members are expected to pass President Biden's plan to overhaul the presidential nomination calendar.

February 1, 2023

So much winning: DeSantis brushes off Trump’s criticism by pointing to the electoral scoreboard

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday countered former President Donald Trump's assertion he has been "disloyal" and touted his recent landslide reelection victory in Florida.

January 31, 2023

Trump says he’s ‘more committed now’ in his first campaign events in New Hampshire, South Carolina

Former President Donald Trump over the weekend gave GOP supporters a glimpse into how he plans to freshen up his act and confront simmering concerns over him leading the 2024 ticket.

January 29, 2023

Trump says he’s ‘more committed now’ in the first early stops of the 2024 campaign

Former President Donald Trump struck out on the campaign trail for the first time this year, effectively kicking off the 2024 GOP nomination race, and providing voters with their first glimpse of the message he plans to lean on to convince Republicans he is still their strongest standard-bearer.

January 28, 2023