Dan Balz

The Democratic primary campaign is unlike any previous competition, driven by a complicated and relentless calendar. The winner will face a sophisticated and well-funded Trump campaign.

Economy and easing of perceptions of financial strains boost president’s approval and narrow margins in tests against possible Democratic rivals

The two men, pillars of competing ideologies, are locked in a more crowded knot of candidates in Iowa and New Hampshire, whose results could alter the national findings.

Senior Trump campaign officials have lobbied the nonpartisan organization over moderators and the makeup of its board of directors.

On issues, progressives say they’ve made strides. Whether they can get their preferred nominee is another matter.

Nearly two-thirds said it is a “bad time” to be a black person in America.

It’s not the question of acquittal versus conviction but how GOP senators meet the test of rendering “impartial justice” in the face of evidence about the president’s actions on Ukraine

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren avoided open conflict in Tuesday’s debate, but they remain on a collision course.

Sanders’s rise in Iowa highlights the aspirations of the party’s progressive wing. A Post-Ipsos poll underscores Biden’s dependence on black voters.

The survey, one of the most extensive studies to date on the views of African Americans about the 2020 election, finds that defeating President Trump is personally important to an overwhelming majority in that group.