The latest coverage of the 2024 presidential, House and Senate elections.
She is the not-so-secret weapon behind her husband. And unlike four years ago, she didn’t have reservations before he chose to run.
Four years ago, Jill Biden was hesitant about her husband making a White House run, fearing the toll it could take on him and the family.
In the months before Joe Biden formally announced he'd make a reelection bid, she had no such reservations.
The Florida governor's crusade against the corporate giant is drawing increasing criticism.
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy made a dig at one of his likely opponents, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, over the governor’s public battle with Disney.
“Here's where Ron DeSantis really lost it here. He’s gone on the wrong path as he claimed — and this part actually sounded good to me — Disney should have never had crony-capitalist, lobbying-related privileges in the first place,” Ramaswamy said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
CHICAGO — It's a pretty good bet that abortion access, indictments swirling around a top contender and the question of electing — or reelecting — an octogenarian to the White House will play a factor in the 2024 campaign.
But no one was counting on Covid in 2020, and that ended up completely revamping the election cycle. No one anticipated Donald Trump in 2015 either. No one saw the banking crisis in 2008. So, what are we missing this time?
The oldest president ever is doing better than any Democrat since Al Gore among this key voting group.
President Joe Biden’s age is prompting internal party doubts and struggles with the nation’s youth, as he embarks on a reelection bid. But it actually may be helping him with a critical cohort of the electorate: older voters.
The latest example of this tradeoff came this week.
But many green campaigners are lamenting administration actions that favored oil drilling and natural gas exports.
The most aggressively climate-minded president in history is getting flak from his green base — thanks to a series of pro-fossil-fuel moves that are starting to remind environmental activists of his old boss' first term.
To some green groups, the Biden administration’s approval of a massive oil project in Alaska, embrace of natural gas exports and slowness to announce its plans on offshore drilling fall far short of the president’s 2020 campaign promises of bold action to wean the nation off fossil fuels. Instead, they’re evoking echoes from the early years of Barack Obama's administration, when the then-president embraced the economic gains of the fracking boom and delayed politically awkward decisions like the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The president targeted "MAGA Republicans" as he kicked off an ambitious fundraising push.
President Joe Biden lambasted "MAGA Republicans" and emphasized abortion rights in a pitch to more than 100 supporters and elected officials Friday, as part of the first in-person donor confab of his 2024 reelection campaign.
The reception, while not a fundraiser, was the first of a two-day meeting that offered Democratic Party officials the opportunity to sell donors on Biden’s reelection campaign strategy and begin an ambitious fundraising push aimed at topping the $1 billion the campaign raised last election cycle.
When the super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis turned its fire on Nikki Haley, it said volumes about the shifting dynamics of the 2024 campaign.
For months, the presidential primary looked like the Ron DeSantis-Donald Trump show.
So it came as a surprise to some top Republicans this week when the well-funded super PAC supporting DeSantis turned its fire on Nikki Haley, a candidate still registering in the low-single digits in national polls.
The move by GOP legislators comes shortly before the governor is expected to jump into the race for president in the next few weeks.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature on Friday approved sweeping election law changes, including a provision that clears the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president without having to resign his current position.
It marks the third straight year that Florida Republicans, who hold supermajorities in both chambers, have pushed through alterations to the state’s election laws.
The Senate Republican leader sees a Trump nomination as complicating the task of defeating Joe Biden next year, according to confidantes. So he's executing his own end-around.
As former President Donald Trump prepared his third straight campaign for the White House, Mitch McConnell’s mind was elsewhere.
The Senate GOP leader quietly flew to West Virginia in mid-October to begin wooing Gov. Jim Justice to challenge incumbent Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in 2024, according to a person familiar with the previously unreported trip. The upside to McConnell's visit was simple: Courting Justice early would limit the risk if the former president backs another Manchin challenger and wins the party’s presidential nomination.
Despite recent stumbles, the potential Trump challenger sits on a mountain of money.
It’s been a tough stretch for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ putative presidential campaign, as chief rival Donald Trump racks up endorsements in the governor’s backyard and hammers him on the airwaves.
But DeSantis has one big advantage heading into his likely White House bid: A heap of donor cash.
Mondaire Jones is gearing up to run for his old House seat, a must-win for Democrats in 2024. And his allies are unhappy that he’ll likely have to run against the sister of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Mondaire Jones is gearing up for a potential run for his old House seat, which could tee up a ugly primary with the sister of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in must-win territory for Democrats.
While the ex-congressman is publicly saying he’s undecided, four people familiar with his plans say he’s prepping a run for his former New York seat. That’ll likely pit him against Liz Whitmer Gereghty, who has filed federal campaign paperwork and is slated to officially launch her bid soon.
The former president held a campaign event in Manchester as a New York defamation trial continued and as former Vice President Mike Pence testified to a grand jury.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — In New York, the woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her decades ago sat on the stand for a second day. In Washington, former Vice President Mike Pence testified before a federal grand jury, part of the special counsel investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
But here in Manchester, hundreds of miles away, those legal troubles were far from the focus as Trump spent more than an hour on Thursday riling up his faithful over the economy, international trade tariffs and his newly nicknamed adversary —“Crooked Joe” Biden — in a key early state ahead of next year’s presidential election.
Wednesday's vote is kicking off a new phase in the high-stakes standoff that will test Democrats’ ability to stay united.
President Joe Biden spent four months challenging Republicans to do one simple thing when it came to the debt ceiling: Show a plan.
Now, House Republicans’ narrow Wednesday passage of a debt limit bill packed with spending cuts and conservative priorities is forcing Biden to shift tactics.
Some 2024 presidential candidates are lashing out at the Florida governor for his yearlong feud with Disney.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis grows his fight against Disney, some 2024 presidential candidates are lashing out at the Florida governor for his yearlong feud with the entertainment giant.
On Wednesday, Disney sued DeSantis and his hand-picked oversight board for allegedly retaliating against the company and violating Disney’s First Amendment rights, among other claims.
The popular West Virginia governor is a prized recruit for the party to flip a state that went for Trump by nearly 40 points in 2020.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced on Thursday that he is running for the Senate, challenging Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin in what will likely be one of the most hotly contested and closely watched Senate contests in the country.
"The nation needs us as Republicans to win," said Justice.
It’s still quite early, but the parade of sycophants to Mar-a-Lago worries Chris Christie and others who’ve rejected the ex-president.
HENNIKER, N.H. — Standing before a room filled with lightly interested college students, self-described “political tourists” and even some honest-to-God undecided New Hampshire voters, Chris Christie used a town hall here last week to sketch out the political indictment against the defendant, Donald J. Trump, he thinks Republicans must prosecute to deny the former president his party’s nomination.
Yet near the end of his remarks, Christie articulated something more revealing: The sense of fatalism that’s fast gripping Republicans of all stripes about the inevitability of Trump again being the GOP standard bearer.
The president’s comments were his first on the 2024 race after Tuesday’s launch, and his first addressing the obstacles hovering over his reelection.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday brushed off concerns about his age and sagging approval rating, saying voters will have to judge “whether or not I have it” in his first public comments addressing his 2024 reelection bid.
Speaking at a Rose Garden press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, Biden was asked to respond to Americans who believe he shouldn’t run again. The president was measured in his response, noting that he may not be the only candidate to take on his predecessor, Donald Trump, but that he knows the “danger he presents to our democracy.”
