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New York 3 Special: Immigration Dominates Campaign Messaging
February 6, 2024 · 5:14 PM EST
GLEN COVE, N.Y.— Tom Suozzi may be a political institution here on the North Shore of Long Island. But the upcoming special election feels like a home game for Republicans when it comes to the messaging.
The contest to replace the expelled GOP Rep. George Santos, is between Suozzi, who was born to…
New York 3 Special: On Weekends, We Campaign
February 2, 2024 · 9:31 AM EST
GLEN COVE, N.Y.— Two weeks before the most important special election of the cycle, a solitary Tom Suozzi for Congress staffer sat at a folding table at a campaign headquarters in New York’s 3rd District. Behind him loomed empty shelves bearing signs for GNC supplements and one-hour photo…
Podcast Episode 15: California Senate and House Primaries with Melanie Mason of Politico
February 1, 2024 · 6:11 PM EST
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Melanie Mason of Politico discuss the upcoming California primaries including the race to replace Dianne Feinstein in the Senate and more than a dozen consequential and interesting House primaries. And Nathan contemplates buying a track suit fashioned after a…
Iowa 3: Des Moines Melee
January 26, 2024 · 2:30 PM EST
The presidential circus left town, but the most consequential political fight in Des Moines is just getting started.
Iowa’s 3rd District is one of the most evenly divided seats in the country, and has been for the better part of two decades. The Des Moines-based district has switched hands…
California Senate: Only the Top Two Survive
January 26, 2024 · 2:29 PM EST
One of the most hard-fought and expensive Senate races this cycle has absolutely nothing to do with who controls the majority in the upper chamber.
The race to succeed the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in California features three sitting members of Congress, a former MLB all-star, a half-dozen media…
Michigan Senate: Primary Focus
January 26, 2024 · 2:29 PM EST
Longtime Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s decision not to seek a fifth term makes Michigan an intriguing pickup opportunity for Senate Republicans this fall, albeit one that is not nearly as ripe as the party’s top priorities.
Despite success at most other levels of electoral politics, Michigan…
2022 Vote Above Replacement: House Challengers Running Again in 2024
January 26, 2024 · 2:27 PM EST
There’s no shame in finishing second, because Congress is filled with losers.
In 2020, Republican Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna failed to unseat Democratic then-Rep. Charlie Crist in Florida’s 13th District. Two years later, Luna, now without worry of Crist, who was running for governor,…
Report Shorts (Jan. 26, 2024)
January 26, 2024 · 2:26 PM EST
Louisiana’s 6th District. A redrawn congressional map is the result of a legal challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and is poised to deliver an additional seat to Democrats. The Supreme Court’s ruling in a similar case in Alabama last year set off a domino effect throughout the South,…
