Can Democrats ever win back white, rural America?
Kansas was encouraging but in Iowa, a well-funded and energetic candidate lost to a Republican who openly flirts with Nazis. What should the party do next time?
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US midterms: campaigning intensifies with a week to go – live
This time next week Americans head to the polls, with control of House and Senate at stake. Follow the latest election news with our daily live blog
Read moreBarack Obama in California to rally Democrats for midterms House push
Former president to speak at Anaheim convention center as party operatives focus on seven key seats
Read moreAyanna Pressley ousts 10-term Massachusetts Democrat in latest primary upset
Insurgent challenger will be state’s first black female member of Congress
Read moreOhio: Democrat Richard Cordray puts Republican governorship in jeopardy
Cordray, once a game show champion, takes on Mike DeWine in one of the most important and closest gubernatorial races
Read moreMuslim candidates rise above Trump hostility to focus on issues
For the nearly 100 Muslims running for state and federal office in the midterms questions about their faith are unavoidable
Read moreDemocrats left with little power to block Trump’s supreme court nominee
Recent changes to Senate rules mean that a simple majority vote is required for a nominee to advance – Democrats have 49 seats of 100 seats
Read morePennsylvania special election: Democrats declare victory in setback for Trump
Rick Saccone styled himself president’s wingman but faced tight race with Democrat Conor Lamb in district Trump won by 20 points in 2016
Read moreDonald Trump advocates death penalty for drug dealers in rambling speech
President covers wide range of topics at Pittsburgh rally before mentioning Republican candidate Rick Saccone whose campaign he was there to endorse
Read moreWhy don’t Democrats support open borders?
The Republican position is coherent, but racist. The Democrats need a forceful pro-immigration rebuttal to beat it
Read more‘Step right, step left’: mercurial Trump leaves supporters reeling
As Trump turned to Democrats for a second time in two weeks, Republicans were left stunned while his base howled in anger. What is his strategy?
Read moreSenior Democrats say agreement reached with Trump to protect young immigrants
Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi emerge from dinner with president claiming a plan to pair the DREAM Act with border security measures, excluding the wall
Read moreCould Kamala Harris revive the fractured Democratic party for the 2020 election?
As a woman of color and champion for ‘smart on crime’ reforms, the California senator and her centrist platform could be the party’s solution to its identity crisis
Read more‘I love it’: Donald Trump Jr posts emails from Russia offering material on Clinton
- Full text of Trump Jr’s emails with music promoter Rob Goldstone
- Disclosures raise further questions over whether campaign laws were broken
Schumer: new Democratic ‘agenda’ will ‘resonate with the middle class’
- Democrats seek answers after dispiriting loss in Georgia special election
- Senate minority leader promises new platform for 2018 ‘within a month’
Civil war has broken out inside the Democratic party. Does the future belong to the populist left or the centrists?
Last week’s defeat in a high-profile congressional contest sparked a tough fight over the heart of the Democratic party. Heather Cox Richardson, Jean Hannah Edelstein and Michael Cohen look at what the future might hold
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