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Some states make it much easier to get on the ballot as a minor-party presidential candidate, compared with running as an independent. That's why RFK Jr. and Cornel West have made their own parties.

Opinion polls show the twice impeached, quadruply indicted ex-president narrowly leading Biden – and experts say ‘it would be a disaster for America’

Experts say Trump is acting more like an incumbent than a traditional candidate in a packed presidential primary field.

Fourth criminal case against Donald Trump unlikely to immediately affect his push for 2024 GOP nomination, experts say.

Amid the legal and political drama of Donald Trump’s latest indictment, this time on four counts of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and disrupt the transfer of power, is a contest for the Republican presidential nomination. While Democrats will most likely unite around Joe Biden’s reelection bid in 2024,…

The president sparred with Republicans at the State of the Union and has won legislative victories but polls show little enthusiasm for a re-election bid

After Trump’s pick for speaker narrowly won, what sway will the former president hold over Congress’s Republican majority?

WASHINGTON — The balance of power in both houses of Congress was still in question Tuesday, defying the historical precedent of punishing losses for the president’s party and lending a fittingly uncertain air to the conclusion of this unsettled election season.

WASHINGTON — The balance of power in Congress was still in question Tuesday after polls closed across the country and governors races in Florida, Massachusetts and several other states were called.

WASHINGTON — The balance of power in Congress was still in question Tuesday after after polls closed in much of the East and governors races in Florida, Massachusetts and several other states were called.

WASHINGTON — Republicans are favored to take at least one chamber of Congress, shifting the balance of power in Washington, as voters head to the polls in the first major test of the country’s democracy since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.