Primary elections

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, Gov. John Bel Edwards acknowledges his supporters as he comes out onstage for a debate with Eddie Rispone and Republican Rep. Ralph Abraham in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards is battling to hold onto the Democrats’ only governorship in the Deep South. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool, File)
October 12, 2019 - 11:35 pm

Louisiana's Democratic governor forced into runoff

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' quest for a second term as the Deep South's only Democratic governor will stretch over another month, as voters in his crimson state denied him a primary win Saturday and sent him to a runoff election. The Democratic incumbent was unable to...
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President Donald Trump speaks during his Keep America Great Rally at the Civic Center in Lake Charles, La., Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (Rick Hickman/American Press via AP)
October 11, 2019 - 9:52 pm

The Latest: Trump calls Little Leaguers to stage at rally

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on Donald Trump's rally in Louisiana (all times local): 8:50 p.m. President Donald Trump is incorporating the winners of the 2019 Little League World Series into his political campaign rally as he tries to make inroads with Louisiana voters before a gubernatorial...
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Democratic presidential contender and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks about the student loan debt relief legislative effort she's sponsoring on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C. House Majority Whip Clyburn, who is sponsoring a House version of the bill, hosted the town hall. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
October 09, 2019 - 7:46 pm

Warren vows to skip big fundraisers if she wins nomination

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says she will keep shunning large-dollar fundraisers if she is the nominee, changing her earlier stand that doing so would be tantamount to "unilateral disarmament" against President Donald Trump and Republicans. The Massachusetts...
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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
October 09, 2019 - 4:10 pm

For 1st time, Biden declares that Trump must be impeached

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own reelection. Biden made the remarks as part of a blistering 25-minute speech in New Hampshire,...
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Democratic organizer Bill Chandler reviews his voter contact sheet while canvassing on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, in Whitewater, Wis. Chandler is executing the Democratic strategy to win back Wisconsin _ a block-by-block rebuilding of the infrastructure they let crumble ahead of the last presidential election. Many Democrats in Wisconsin, and across the Rust Belt states that President Donald Trump flipped Republican in 2016, believe their weak neighborhood network contributed to their defeat. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
October 05, 2019 - 11:44 am

Block by block, parties build Obama-style Rust Belt networks

WHITEWATER, Wis. (AP) — It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday in late September — 200 days from Wisconsin's presidential primary, nearly 14 months from Election Day 2020— and retired orchestra teacher Bill Chandler is out talking to his neighbors about politics. Tromping from yard to yard in the small town of...
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FILE - In this July 30, 2019 file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., embrace after the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
October 04, 2019 - 12:59 pm

Warren relies on small donors to raise $24.6 million

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Elizabeth Warren raised $24.6 million over the past three months, relying largely on a massive small donor operation to solidify her status as a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Massachusetts senator's haul, announced on Friday, is just less than...
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at the Charleston NAACP banquet on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
October 01, 2019 - 4:15 pm

The Latest: 2020 hopeful Harris raises $11.6M in 3rd quarter

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential candidates' third-quarter fundraising (all times local): 4:15 p.m. California Sen. Kamala Harris has raised $11.6 million in the past three months, a sum that leaves her trailing several rivals in the Democratic presidential primary's money race...
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a campaign event Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in Hollis, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
September 28, 2019 - 6:50 pm

Correction: Election 2020-Warren story

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story Sept. 27 about Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign in South Carolina, The Associated Press erroneously referenced the city of Rock Hill as a "heavily military community." Rock Hill is not home to a major military installation, and U.S. Census data show veterans make up...
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FILE- In this Aug. 26, 2019 file photo former Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio poses for a picture in his office in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Arpaio is aiming to get back his previous job as metro Phoenix’s sheriff even though he could easily walk away from politics and enjoy retirement. The former six-term sheriff denies he's running to stroke his ego, quench a thirst for publicity or lessen any boredom he might be experiencing. Instead, the 87-year-old says he wants to do whatever he can to help President Donald Trump and vows to bring back his immigration crackdowns and complex of jail tents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
September 23, 2019 - 2:29 pm

'Tom, this is the sheriff.' Joe Arpaio, 87, runs for old job

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. (AP) — In a memorabilia-packed office that could serve as a museum to his career, Joe Arpaio plots about how he might, at the age of 87, get back his old job as the sheriff of metro Phoenix. The man who became a national lightning rod for immigration, loved by some and loathed...
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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden puts on a Beau Biden Foundation hat while speaking at the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
September 22, 2019 - 8:36 pm

Biden, Warren face same challenge in Iowa: keeping momentum

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A fire truck, a marching band and hundreds of supporters ushered Joe Biden into this weekend's Iowa Steak Fry, a show of force intended to solidify the former vice president's front-runner status. His closest rival, Elizabeth Warren, slipped in with little fanfare, delivered...
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