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Byline: Michael Scherer State Democratic Party leaders are working to leverage the upcoming election of a new chair of the Democratic National Committee into making big changes to how the [...]

Federal civil servants and their allies took steps this week to prepare for a fight with the incoming Trump administration, launching a new online clearinghouse to help workers and meeting [...]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) wrote a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday to request clear and transparent conflict-of-interest rules that would bind Elon Musk, the world's richest man, during [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Michael Scherer President-elect Donald Trump has told close aides he is no longer considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter-in-law to serve as deputy director at the CIA, [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Rachel Roubein President-elect Donald Trump set two tables for a dinner party this month with his choice for Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Michael Scherer President-elect Donald Trump has communicated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that he wants his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to become the Sunshine State's next senator - [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker, Ellen Nakashima Amaryllis Fox Kennedy - a former undercover CIA operative who managed the presidential campaign of her father-in-law, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - met [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer House Democrats launched a new effort Wednesday to recruit challengers for Republican districts in Arizona, Michigan, California and Virginia that were not contested this year, as a [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The election is over, but the seven-figure candlelight dinners are back. Make America Great Again, Inc., the super PAC that spent more than $450 million to elect [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Democratic National Committee announced Monday that new leadership elections will be held Feb. 1, following a series of public candidate forums in January, to determine the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Leaders of the centrist group No Labels abandoned a planned third-party presidential bid in April after a successful campaign by Democratic allies of President Joe Biden damaged [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Donald Trump's attorney and adviser Boris Epshteyn arrived recently for a meeting about Cabinet picks in the Tea Room at Mar-a-Lago only to [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former congressman Matt Gaetz greeted his admirers Thursday night on the lawn outside Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, [...]

Byline: Rachel Roubein, Lauren Weber, Michael Scherer, David Ovalle Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a pledge last month on Fox News: He would get processed food out of school lunches [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer When President Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, he surrounded himself with an insular circle of longtime aides, often prompting complaints [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager Trump Force One was Michigan-bound this spring when the former president confronted one of his biggest political weaknesses: abortion. Donald Trump [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris's chances of winning the presidential election narrowed in October as polling eroded slightly in key states and turnout assumptions drawn from [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond, Michael Scherer, Lauren Weber Florida's top health official, whose tenure has been marked by his warnings against vaccines, threats to TV stations for running abortion ads and [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey No American billionaire has played politics like Elon Musk. He is not the first to seed vanity super PACs with nine-figure sums or work his [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer A super PAC with Republican Party ties has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent days to support the Green Party presidential candidacy of Jill Stein [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer Queen Bey is taking sides. The recording artist Beyoncé has agreed to appear at a Friday rally in Houston with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, along [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the day of a rally by Kamala Harris in Bucks County, Pa., as Thursday. The rally [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has offered Americans $47 for each swing state voter they recruit to his effort to elect Donald Trump. Democratic groups have [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager Aspiring members of Donald Trump's potential second administration gathered Thursday at Washington's Royal Sands Social Club - a bar designed to resemble the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democratic strategists beat back potentially catastrophic third-party threats this year with a campaign to force attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the race and prevent a presidential [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris made history this week when it became the first to raise $1 billion in less than 80 days since [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Tyler Pager, Jonathan O'Connell After taking over the Democratic ticket, picking a running mate, staging a convention and turning in a strong debate performance, Vice President Kamala [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer, Clara Ence Morse, Theodoric Meyer With a month to go, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remain nearly tied in battleground polls. The similarities end there. [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Michael Scherer, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. NEW YORK - It was a political joust with a healthy side of Midwest nice. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Kamala Harris doesn't get to decide if Donald Trump debates her a second time. But she will attempt to extract a cost if he won't. Her campaign [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Shortly after Kamala Harris took control of Joe Biden's campaign, her top advisers began holding senior staff meetings unlike any that had happened before. New strategists appeared [...]

Byline: Patrick Marley, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Former president Donald Trump spoke by phone this week with a Nebraska state senator as part of a last-minute push to change how [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Less than two weeks after an assassin's bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear this summer, he was held backstage at a Nashville event for more than [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Kamala Harris campaign sent a signal to deep-pocketed donors Monday by blessing the work of 13 independent groups that could help elect the vice president over [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Democrats have spent the last year eyeing a familiar trio of northern states that would deliver the White House in November: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are the [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Marianne LeVine, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Some allies of former president Donald Trump conceded privately Wednesday that he performed poorly in Tuesday's debate and were deliberating over [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris wants to go another debate round with former president Donald Trump. The Democrat's campaign announced after Tuesday's debate a desire for a second [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Meryl Kornfield Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who recently endorsed Donald Trump, called on his supporters Thursday to vote for the Republican nominee no [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August, nearly three times as much as the $130 million collected by the coordinated effort [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan to transfer nearly $25 million to support down-ballot Democratic candidates in state and federal races this [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Scherer, Reis Thebault CHICAGO - Democrats for weeks have been bracing for massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside this week's convention, fearing they would recall the protests of [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Meryl Kornfield Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he will address the nation about the path forward for his campaign Friday in Arizona, amid advanced [...]