This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the ...

Republican governors pledged to use every tool at their disposal to go after illegal immigrants, while some Democratic ...

Democratic-led states that have vowed to challenge President-elect Donald Trump's initiatives will face a tough legal ...

North Carolina retaining its status as the nation's most prominent ticket-splitting state was the state's top political story ...

Donald Trump's impressive 2024 victory, sweeping in a Republican Congress on his coattails, has prompted much talk about “realignment”—evidence of the arrival of a new, sustainable MAGA coalition in ...

Some Arizona Republicans had already been skeptical of her political future in the state, given the losses, though her name had been floated both for state Republican Party chair and Arizona ...

At least eight possible contenders are seeking the Democratic nomination in a pending special election for the ...

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, said Saturday that she's removing herself from consideration to be a ...

Trump appears focused on remaking the federal government in his own image. Some of his choices could face difficult confirmation battles.

The resistance went quiet on Nov. 6 because that specific Nov. 5 battle was lost. Just because that movement isn’t now ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a portion of a law ...