Author: David Mark

EXCLUSIVE — A Nebraska Republican Party official resigned over the weekend, days after the failure of a legislative effort to change Electoral College vote rules that helped President Joe Biden in 2020 and could again this year in one of the nation’s otherwise reddest states. Doug Petersen stepped down as 2nd Congressional District chairman after…

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Most defeated presidential candidates skulk away and stay silent, at least for a while as they try to regroup. Not Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). Since exiting the 2024 Republican primary, the Florida governor has remained very much in the public eye. DeSantis announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new toll relief for…

The job of House leaders in both parties includes trying to get veteran lawmakers to stick around and seek reelection. For House Republican leaders in 2024, it’s a more pressing matter of ensuring they finish out their current terms. GOP House members’ early departures are aggravating the party’s existing problem of a perilously slim majority.…

WEST COVINA, California — Gil Cisneros’s good luck is back. The California Democrat, previously a House member for a single, two-year term, is on track to return to Congress. Cisneros is among six former House members seeking, or having sought, a comeback in 2024. And so far, their record is 2-0. It’s unclear how many…

QUITMAN, Georgia — President Joe Biden’s White House and, by extension, his 2024 reelection campaign are out to prove the close Georgia win last time was no fluke. If Biden can claim a second Peach State victory while facing taunts that, at 81, he’s too old for a second term and concerns by fellow Democrats over…

ANAHEIM HILLS, California — Rep. Michelle Steel’s (R-CA) reelection bid, against likely Democratic opponent Derek Tran, an attorney and U.S. Army veteran, is one of several hotly contested House races in California that could help decide the majority. Republicans are trying to chip away at Democrats’ 40-12 edge in the House delegation California sends to…

WESTMINSTER, California – President Joe Biden’s disco-era opposition to resettling Vietnamese refugees in the United States is ancient political history to most voters, if they’ve heard about it at all. But not for a small yet politically potent group in Southern California’s Little Saigon. It’s living history for immigrants from Vietnam after the war, and their…

PALM DESERT, California — The budding White House race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump is hardly the only campaign rematch worth watching heading into November. The neck-and-neck fight for a House majority will play out in California’s 41st Congressional District, with its eastern edge about a two-hour drive east of Los…

HOBOKEN, New Jersey — Rep. Rob Menendez’s (D-NJ) name was his greatest political asset in his initial House bid. Now, as he seeks reelection for the first time, it may be his biggest liability. Menendez, elected in 2022 to the Jersey City-area 8th Congressional District, hasn’t been accused of wrongdoing or committed other unforced errors…

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has a California Republican Senate rival, Steve Garvey, about where he wants him, hovering around second place. The Golden State’s “top two” Senate primary on March 5 will send the first- and second-place finishers to the Nov. 5 general election ballot. With polls showing Schiff leading, second place…