Alexis Levinson is a reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
“If this is in their path to take back the House, they’re fucked,” Rep. Max Rose told BuzzFeed News.
There are now more than 20 Democrats running for president.
“I don’t know how I’d fit into this place in the absence of the president,” the Florida Representative told BuzzFeed News.
“If the election were held tomorrow, I know that I wouldn’t win tomorrow,” Julián Castro says. “But the election’s not tomorrow.”
Hickenlooper, who was governor for eight years, has kept busy recently in the 2020 early voting states.
On her first trip to Iowa, the Hawaii lawmaker did all the normal things before friendly crowds — answered questions, shook hands, posed for photos — but the first month of Gabbard’s campaign has hardly been normal.
The last time Schultz took a big step outside of Starbucks, he bought the Seattle SuperSonics. Just a few years later, the NBA team was sold and moved to Oklahoma.
The Los Angeles mayor, who has traveled ahead of a potential run, said Tuesday night that he wants to stay in his current job.
The former Starbucks CEO said in New York that he no longer feels like a Democrat, as Democrats reacted with some agita about his potential role as a 2020 spoiler.
Gabbard’s minimal public engagement with the controversy since saying she would run for president has left some Democrats baffled.
The freshman Florida Republican is getting tons of attention as he zealously guards the president against allegations of collusion with Russia. “People have to know who you are and what you’re doing if your opinions are to matter,” he told BuzzFeed News.
A primary for a Kansas House seat on Tuesday is giving voters double vision.
Dennis Hof, who called himself the “Trump of Pahrump,” was found dead the morning after his birthday party on Oct. 15 by porn star Ron Jeremy, a close friend.
Democrats have pointed to five races in California as a path to gaining a majority, but the areas have long been Republican strongholds.
Some progressives believe EMILY’s List has outlived its usefulness and is now functioning as just another branch of the Democratic establishment.
“It’s been seven years and he’s still blaming me,” Christine O’Donnell says of the Senate majority leader. “He is very much like an ex-boyfriend who can’t move on.”
Republican voters in Alabama are being put in the uncomfortable position of choosing between a Republican accused of sexual misconduct with minors and a Democrat who believes in abortion rights.
“He is better off in Argentina,” Trump tweeted Tuesday.
The Ohio Democrat easily won reelection even as many of his longtime Democratic constituents went for Trump. He thinks he knows what Democrats did wrong, and he wants to spread that wisdom — funnily enough, in all kinds of early primary states.
Don Blankenship is moving up in the polls. It may be too late for Trump or anyone else to do anything about it.