Although the winners for the Washington presidential primary were known minutes after the 8 p.m. deadline – if there was any doubt before then – that doesn’t mean there is nothing to learn from the final results, which are just finalized on Friday.
House Republicans are falling further behind on campaign cash with little-known House Speaker Mike Johnson at the helm. Unlike his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, Johnson is struggling to build a donor network. His difficulties come just months before the November election with Republicans’ narrow majority at risk.
Former president Donald Trump is expected to enlist Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager he pardoned, as a campaign adviser later this year, according to four people familiar with the talks.
On the final day of a presidential election with only one possible result, Russians protested Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian hold on power by forming lines to vote against him Sunday - answering the call of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who had urged the midday action before dying suddenly in prison last month.
WASHINGTON – If it wasn’t clear enough already, Tuesday’s primaries in Washington and three other states made it official: Joe Biden and Donald Trump have enough delegates to clinch their parties’ nominations for president.
Ukrainians in territories occupied by the Russian military are being forced to vote in the Russian presidential election under the watch of heavily armed, masked soldiers who are accompanying election officials going from house to house, knocking on doors as they seek to compel participation.
A likely delay in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is the latest complication of prosecutors’ efforts to try his other criminal cases before Nov. 5, raising the prospect that he could be elected president — and perhaps take office — before being tried on the most serious charges against him.
When Donald Trump prepared to speak publicly at a NATO summit in 2018, his own advisers didn’t know if he would blow up the alliance that has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy since 1949.
The campaign to vote “uncommitted” in the Democratic presidential primary picked up statewide and national momentum in the new year as the death toll in Gaza continued to climb and surpassed 30,000 people late last month, with thousands more missing, the associated press reported.
Former President Donald Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, and it was Washington state that gave him the last delegates to do so.
The Spokane County Republican Party on March 2 adopted the first changes in a decade to its platform, clarifying the shifting priorities of a local party whose members increasingly believe that elections are not secure and that splitting off from Washington state may be necessary.
Republicans hoping to win a coveted seat representing Eastern Washington in Congress have begun making early pitches to their base, trying to distinguish themselves through the force of their personalities, their records in office or their claim to be political outsiders, and in some cases their support for former President Donald Trump.
Washington Republicans who already marked and mailed their presidential primary for Nikki Haley and Democrats who voted for Dean Phillips might be wondering what will happen to those votes Tuesday night after each dropped out of their respective races last week.
President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on Thursday may have been the most consequential of his term, and Northwest lawmakers believe it highlighted exactly why – or why not – he should serve another four years.
On a night that brought a near sweep of delegate-rich states and took him to the cusp of the Republican nomination, Donald Trump walked into a ballroom full of adoring fans, meeting their enthusiastic triumphalism with a dark and subdued speech that barely touched on the night’s results.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, an awkward embrace marking the final capitulation of the party’s establishment to the former president.
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, ended her presidential campaign Wednesday and pointedly declined to endorse her rival, former President Donald Trump.
Voters in five states picked nominees for congressional seats on Tuesday. California and Texas voted in Senate primaries, and more than one-quarter of the seats in the House were up in primaries in those states plus Alabama, Arkansas and North Carolina.
Five school districts in Spokane County that suffered rejected tax proposals last month are regrouping and may be back to voters with smaller plans later this year.