ELECTIONS

We are tracking the Democrats and Republicans who have announced they are running for president in the 2024 election and who might announce next.

It was an awkward start to a campaign that had already hit numerous roadblocks this spring, even as many Republicans still view DeSantis as the most formidable primary challenger to Donald Trump.

Watch how the former president’s positions and rhetoric have grown more confrontational and extreme as he seeks a second term.

“Whatever the step above panicked is, that is what I feel about Trump,” said one of the voters, who picked Trump in 2016 then Biden in 2020

The long-overlapping circles of the two Republicans are coming sharply into focus — and stoking anxieties in a state where everyone knows everyone in local politics.

Republican Doug Burgum is nearing a decision, according to two people familiar with his thinking.

The second-term governor, widely considered at present to be the most viable GOP challenger to former president Donald Trump, has been laying the groundwork for a campaign for months.

The effort comes amid warning signs from polling and election results of Republican vulnerability on the issue of abortion.

In upsets in Jacksonville, Fla., and Colorado Springs, Donna Deegan and Yemi Mobolade said they defeated their Republican opponents by focusing on local issues.

Republican Daniel Cameron makes history in Kentucky’s gubernatorial primary. Democrats hold on to their Pennsylvania House majority.

Cherelle Parker, a former state legislator and city councilor who framed herself as tough on crime, is a strong favorite to become the first female mayor of the city in November.

Philadelphia is one of the United States' last big cities to only have men as the top leader.

Republicans will pick a nominee to try to unseat a popular Democratic governor who has managed to hang on in a red state.

Some past GOP presidential candidates who were serving on corporate boards stepped down from those roles before entering the race for the nomination.

The group, blessed by Pence’s top aides and called “Committed to America,” is partially designed to build a positive image for the former vice president.

The strategy could provide alternate paths to victory if the president falters in other battleground states, Democrats briefed on the plan said.

Donald Trump was expected to hold a dueling rally Saturday in Des Moines but canceled it, citing a tornado watch

The former president has changed the terms of the debate for the coming election, as evidenced by his performance during the CNN town hall.