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It's past time to start seeing voters the way they see themselves. Every immigrant arrives in this country with an implied debt. This country was nice enough to let you [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa, Amy B Wang and Chelsea Janes WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump refuses to accept defeat in the election, his effort to persuade state and local Republicans [...]

Byline: Hugh Hewitt For Print Use Only. Waves never stop coming, and certainly not in American politics. Republicans of my generation treasure Ronald Reagan's sweep in 1980 as the once-in-a-lifetime [...]

Byline: Karen Tumulty For Print Use Only. Where is our Barry Goldwater? Our John Rhodes? Our Hugh Scott? As President Donald Trump becomes more and more detached from reality, it [...]

Despite Republican efforts to undermine the process, state officials say they fully expect to meet their upcoming deadlines. As President Trump and his Republican allies continue trying to undermine the [...]

Elections are complicated, but the money the government sent to more than 150 million Americans didn't hurt. Officials are still counting votes for the 2020 presidential election, but that hasn't [...]

With Biden's election, American democracy narrowly escaped disaster. So how do I feel two weeks after our election? Awed and terrified. I am in awe at the expression of democracy [...]

Byline: Henry Olsen For Print Use Only. Republicans have long been under scrutiny because of the relatively small number of GOP women and minorities holding House and Senate seats. The [...]

In the Democratic civil war, both sides are partly right. In 2004, I went to Ohio to cover John Kerry's campaign to unseat George W. Bush. For liberals, the race [...]

Voters delivered a convincing victory for Joe Biden, but a split decision for the two parties. Now Democrats and Republicans face perhaps the most up-for-grabs electoral landscape in a generation. [...]

Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, slammed Democrats for expecting the president to quickly concede and said he had every right to pursue legal challenges. Leading Republicans rallied on Monday [...]

The top Senate Republican issued no statement congratulating President-elect Biden, while a leading House Republican echoed President Trump's protestations that the election was not, in fact, over. WASHINGTON -- As [...]

Democrats expected better. What happened? This column has been updated to reflect news developments. Like many Americans demoralized by the softness of the spanking that voters just gave President Trump, [...]

Maricopa County spawned the careers of Republican hard-liners like Joe Arpaio. Now the children of immigrants targeted in the state's nativist crackdown are challenging G.O.P. dominance. PHOENIX -- Ten years [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. Republicans' civil war is well underway. President Donald Trump, his sons, MAGA types such as Matt Schlapp, self-promoters and ex-officials such as Ric [...]

Republicans on Capitol Hill, including the party's top leaders, remained largely silent on Thursday as President Trump and his campaign continued to baselessly claim that Democrats were trying to ''steal'' [...]

The two parties grappled for advantage in the fight for the Senate majority as Democrats aimed to add to their majority in the House. Democrats were on track early Wednesday [...]

No matter who wins, Democrats will be split between younger progressives and a moderate old guard. And a Republican Party redefined in President Trump's image will start weighing where it [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey An unparalleled four-year battle over Donald Trump's shock election and disruptive presidency raced to a suspenseful conclusion this weekend, as the candidates blitzed an [...]

President Trump and his party pushed Justice Barrett's confirmation through in record time. But they could find that satisfied voters, who no longer fear the specter of a liberal court, [...]

House Democrats are training their resources on once-solid Republican footholds in affluent suburban districts where voters feel alienated by President Trump. VERONA, N.Y. -- Pushing further into Republican territory one [...]

The quest to entrench political conservatism in the country's highest court comes with a steep cost. What happened in the Senate chamber on Monday evening was, on its face, the [...]

Of all the things President Trump has destroyed, the Republican Party is among the most dismaying. ''Destroyed'' is perhaps too simplistic, though. It would be more precise to say that [...]

Democrats, including Biden, are competitive in a red state, and Bullock is three points behind in the contest the party cares about most. Republicans hold a narrow lead up and [...]

President Trump won Kansas by more than 20 points, but he leads Joe Biden by only seven in a Times/Siena College poll. The Republican Senate candidate leads his Democratic rival [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. Former vice president Joe Biden is ahead, according to the FiveThirtyEight poll averages, by about eight points in Michigan, seven points in Wisconsin [...]

I'm a gay, Jewish Democrat -- the perfect target for an internet cult obsessed with pinning pedophilia on gays, Jews and Democrats. Before I became the center of a QAnon [...]

Our latest survey shows a shift toward Biden among college-educated white voters, but surprising Trump gains among nonwhite voters. A shift against President Trump among white college-educated voters in Georgia [...]

Democrats lead in overall numbers, as well as early voting, but voter registration gains in three critical states have given Republicans a cause for hope. With President Trump trailing in [...]

QAnon, with encouragement from the president himself, has moved from online message boards to political rallies and congressional campaigns. DALTON, Ga. -- Sitting in the local Republican office most days [...]

Byline: Max Boot For Print Use Only. What's the biggest scandal of the week? Is it that: (a) U.S. spy agencies have warned that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy [...]

Even if Trump loses, his party can do immense damage. After 2016, nobody will or should take anything for granted, but at this point Joe Biden is strongly favored to [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. Now that President Donald Trump is facing the reality of a widening deficit in the polls, he has suddenly lurched back in the [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips With less than a month until Election Day, Democrats are picking up momentum toward winning the Senate majority: Challengers are outraising Republican incumbents, and they are leading [...]

Byline: Matthew Dallek President Donald Trump didn't seem to mind, or maybe even understand, that his joyride outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last weekend would expose Secret Service [...]

Byline: Hugh Hewitt For Print Use Only. In February 1987, the Democratic and Republican parties announced the creation of a Commission on Presidential Debates, seizing control of the general election [...]

Byline: Hugh Hewitt For Print Use Only. In February 1987, the Democratic and Republican parties announced the creation of a Commission on Presidential Debates, seizing control of the general election [...]

Byline: David Byler For Print Use Only. The Senate's structure, which gives both small, rural red states and the less-numerous big blue states the same two representatives, is strongly biased [...]

The Republican Party's slide from statewide power to irrelevance in Delaware mirrored its swerve from moderation to the fringe. Now a QAnon fan is running for the Senate. WILMINGTON, Del. [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. President Donald Trump's shattering of the 'blue wall' states in 2016 shocked many observers into believing that he possesses a quasi-mystical grasp of [...]

Our democracy is in terrible danger -- more than since the Civil War, more than after Pearl Harbor, more than during the Cuban missile crisis. President Trump has made it [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman For Print Use Only. Republicans are about to reach the modern apotheosis of minority rule, a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority despite the fact that [...]

Mitch McConnell has a tricky needle to thread. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, delights in confirming Republican-nominated jurists. District courts, appeals courts, most especially the Supreme Court -- he [...]

His pick is likely to galvanize Democrats while bringing him few new voters, and could hurt some Republican Senate incumbents. But the president needs to steer the debate away from [...]

Byline: Joe Scarborough For Print Use Only. The Republican Party is sealing its fate. While President Donald Trump refuses to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power, his vassals in the [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman For Print Use Only. President Donald Trump is turning the 2020 election into a nightmare of chaos and instability, one that may culminate in a constitutional crisis. [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin For Print Use Only. No president in U.S. history has ever refused to accept the peaceful transfer of power (or term limits) after an election. We have [...]

A Republican vote-by-mail campaign in swing states may be undercut by President Trump's rhetoric about election fraud. [ Follow our live coverage of the 2020 election between President Trump and [...]

The swift rally behind President Trump's push to fill a Supreme Court seat before the election reflects his lock on the Republican Party. WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitt Romney of Utah [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes WASHINGTON - If the bare-knuckles partisan fight over the Supreme Court results in a triumphant President Donald Trump adding a third justice to the bench, three areas [...]