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Texas cattle rancher Bill Martin is a lifelong Republican who owns more than 20 firearms and has been shooting guns since the age of 6.
He is now considering the once-unthinkable: voting for a Democratic Senate candidate who wants tougher gun laws.
A federal judge will not force Georgia to use paper ballots for the November election, citing the potential for last-minute confusion, but expressed concern that the state's electronic machines could be vulnerable to hacking.
The fight for which party controls the U.S. Senate has escalated in recent weeks as polling shows a neck-and-neck race in a handful of states.
By Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general‘s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office.
A number of groups announced they would stage protests during the Trump visit, in which the president had been expected to visit the capital Dublin and his golf resort in the west coast village of Doonbeg.
By Simon Johnson and Johan Sennero
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedes voted on Sunday in an election dominated by fears over asylum seekers and welfare, with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats vying to become the biggest party in a country long seen as a bastion of liberal values.
Former President Obama had a message for Trump, the Republican Party, and his fellow Democrats. Obama warned the GOP, "We are going to fight."
Bill Maher believes now is the time for Al Franken to bring back his voice, even with the baggage he might carry with him.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jump back into the political fray on Friday, telling Democratic voters the stakes are too high to sit out November's elections, when the party is seeking to wrest control of Congress from President Donald Trump's Republicans.
Democratic lawmakers and voters shouldn't just have their sights set on winning the House of Representatives. They should be fighting for the Senate, too.
The Democratic Party looks like the future of America – inclusive, diverse and full of hope – and the GOP is a spitting image of Donald Trump.
By Letitia Stein
TAMPA (Reuters) – Florida‘s marquee governor’s race heated up on Wednesday, when the Trump-backed Republican candidate said the state should not “monkey this up” by electing his opponent, Democrat Andrew Gillum, who is African-American, in November.
Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis needed less than 24 hours before he launched a Trump-style racist attack on his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum.
"The facts are going to come out about Russia. I hope they do. But there's a lot more to this. Just like Russia, just like racism has been a thing, long before Trump. It pains me to say this, but Russia was a problem long before Trump too. And I think that in the same way we fail to confront racism, we failed to confront Russia."
By Letitia Stein
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans loyal to Donald Trump scored victories in nominating contests for Florida and Arizona, giving momentum to the insurgent wings of America’s two main parties ahead of November elections.
By John Whitesides and Letitia Stein
(Reuters) – A liberal Democrat backed by Senator Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset in the Democratic primary for Florida governor on Tuesday, setting up a November showdown with a Republican backed by President Donald Trump.
By John Whitesides
(Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Representative Ron DeSantis easily won the Republican primary for governor in Florida on Tuesday after a campaign in which he highlighted his enthusiastic loyalty to President Donald Trump.
Win or lose in Texas, the fact that Democrats are competing this closely should be of great concern to the Republican Party.
Democrats finally listened to more than a decade worth of criticism and reduced the influence of superdelegates, but there will also be no more Independent candidates running for the presidential nomination.
Corey Stewart's comments suggest that GOP candidates are already working on a blame-the-media pivot if the tape does exist.