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Pritzker looks to take on Trump and win spotlight away from Newsom

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is about to be put to the test.  As President Trump threatens to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, Pritzker, a...

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Democrats urge caution in battle over vaccines, RFK Jr.

Democrats are jumping into the fray to voice their disapproval about Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the broader...

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Newsom is becoming an obsession for Democrats beyond California

Democrats have become obsessed with Gavin Newsom, as the California governor becomes the topic for operatives, donors and lawmakers. Newsom is...

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Gretchen Whitmer takes different approach with Trump than Newsom, Pritzker

As Democratic governors have become vocal critics of President Trump, one governor's response has been more muted. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is...

01.09.2025 20

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Democrats inspired by Newsom, Pritzker look to states, not Congress

Democrats are turning to governors for a shot in the arm, at a time when their party has been rudderless and looking for leadership. For months,...

28.08.2025 10

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Newsom’s Trump act gets cool reviews from White House allies

For the Trump White House, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. As White House officials watched California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mirror...

23.08.2025 10

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Democrats alarmed over new data showing voters fleeing to GOP

Democrats are sounding the alarm on new data showing they are losing voters to Republicans across the country.  A devastating New York Times report...

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Democrats face challenge in countering Trump on crime

Democrats are struggling to mount a response as Trump has federalized Washington, D.C., and seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department while...

18.08.2025 10

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Mamdani moves to widen his tent ahead of New York City election

Moderate Democrats have been wary of progressive upstart-turned-party-nominee Zohran Mamdani since before he secured the Democratic nomination for New...

17.08.2025 10

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Miami-Dade is red, but Democrats aren’t giving up on Florida

MIAMI — When Miami-Dade County helped elect President Trump in November, effectively taking on a conservative bent after nearly three decades of...

10.08.2025 20

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Trump faces Ghislaine Maxwell conundrum

President Trump is facing a Ghislaine Maxwell problem. Publicly releasing testimony from Maxwell, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted in...

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DeSantis inches closer to joining redistricting fight

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) knows what it’s like to have a redistricting fight on his hands.  DeSantis redrew congressional lines after...

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Watch live: Texas Democrats speak in Chicago

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Gene Wu and other members of his party who fled to Illinois over the weekend are expected to speak Monday...

05.08.2025 8

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Texas becomes battleground for Democratic presidential hopefuls

A slew of potential Democratic presidential candidates are taking front-line positions in the battle over Texas and redistricting, a fight with huge...

05.08.2025 4

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Democrats to Obama: Don't get in the mud with Trump

Democrats say former President Obama needs to hold the line when it comes to documents released by Trump officials that claim Obama's administration...

24.07.2025 10

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Zohran Mamdani: 5 lessons for Democrats

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has stoked a debate in the wider Democratic Party with his surprise primary victory. Do Democrats...

22.07.2025 9

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New York establishment Democrats mull over Mamdani charm offensive

New York Democrats cool to their party’s Big Apple mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani are weighing their options as the 33-year-old progressive makes...

21.07.2025 10

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Democrats seek to close social media gap with GOP, Trump

Democrats are grappling with how to up their game on social media following an election cycle where they acknowledged they were trounced by...

17.07.2025 10

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Democrats say Biden needs to quit taking GOP bait

Democrats are slamming former President Biden’s response to a series of investigations of him by Republicans on Capitol Hill and the Trump...

15.07.2025 10

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Democrats see political gift in Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill'

Democrats say Republicans have given them a political gift in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”  They say they can easily sell the bill...

09.07.2025 4

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Democrats might be 'overthinking' strategy to recapture voters

Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they've lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an...

06.07.2025 30

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Dems grapple with where Mamdani fits in party's rebuild

Democrats are grappling with how progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani fits into the party apparatus, a week after his shock defeat of former New York...

01.07.2025 30

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Harris gives California governor’s race a serious look

Kamala Harris is leaning toward entering the California gubernatorial race, sources familiar with the former vice president’s thinking tell The...

23.06.2025 10

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'No Kings' protests give badly needed spark of optimism to Democrats

Democrats have been looking for a jolt of energy since their devastating November loss of the White House to President Trump, and they finally feel...

18.06.2025 10

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Padilla backlash could backfire on Democrats, some in party worry

Democratic Party officials have been united in their public and vigorous support of Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) after he was forcibly removed and...

14.06.2025 50

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Newsom becomes a fighter, and Democrats beyond California are cheering

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is meeting the moment, Democrats say. Amid the growing storm over the Trump administration’s response to protests...

13.06.2025 10

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Trump, Newsom collide over LA unrest

The fight between President Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom over unrest in Los Angeles reached new heights on Monday, with Trump saying he’d...

10.06.2025 40

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Jean-Pierre triggers Democratic fury with public split from party

Democrats are furious with former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s decision to publicly leave the party and announce she’s a...

05.06.2025 2

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Rahm Emanuel flirts with Democratic run for the White House

While Democrats search for a new party leader, one old name keeps coming up in conversation: Rahm Emanuel. The Democrat has been an investment...

30.05.2025 10

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Democrats say their problems run much deeper than money

Democrats outraised and outspent President Trump in 2024, underscoring how money wasn’t the party’s biggest problem in its loss of power last...

28.05.2025 20

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From Biden to RBG, Democrats feel the anguish of age

The Democratic Party is feeling the anguish of age. The deaths of three House Democrats since March has dispirited the caucus and given GOP leaders a...

27.05.2025 10

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Democrats wince as Trump leans into Biden argument

When news broke about former President Biden’s cancer diagnosis and most Democrats were extending well wishes to the former president, one source...

21.05.2025 30

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Democrats want Biden to take responsibility for loss to Trump

Democrats are tired of Joe Biden saying he would have won. What they want, they say, is for the former president to admit to his part in the...

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Trump’s tariffs threaten to become his Achilles’ heel

Republicans typically love President Trump — no matter what he does. But a growing chorus of those supporters has quietly been expressing...

10.05.2025 3

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Trump’s Hollywood tariff threat greeted with skepticism

President Trump is threatening to rewrite the script on how Hollywood does business, with his talk of a tariff on foreign films alarming entertainment...

06.05.2025 10

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Newsom searches for what went wrong for Democrats

Usually, I’m the one asking the questions. But last week I flew out to California to appear on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast to talk about "FIGHT,"...

01.05.2025 7

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EXCLUSIVE: Newsom on Democrats: 'I don't know what the party is'

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is accusing the Democratic Party of not yet performing a thorough autopsy on what went wrong in...

22.04.2025 20

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Democrats want Joe Biden to stay away

Democrats trying to find their way back from their 2024 election losses are taking aim at former President Biden for reemerging on the national stage....

19.04.2025 40

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5 lessons from the Harris, Trump campaigns we learned in writing our book

"Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," which chronicles the 2024 race for the White House between Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Joe...

14.04.2025 9

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Walz reemerges as Democratic fighter with shots at Musk

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) all but disappeared after he and former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race to President Trump in...

23.03.2025 30

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Wes Moore’s star is rising as Democrats look for a comeback

When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) took the stage at the annual Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday night, he mockingly made mention of the thing Democrats...

20.03.2025 40

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Democrats set themselves up for year of primaries in 2026

Progressives are vowing to run primary challenges against Democrats who do not do enough to stand up to President Trump and the GOP, an effort that is...

18.03.2025 20

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Exclusive: How 'no daylight' from Biden crippled the Harris presidential campaign

Excerpted from "FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House" by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, to be published April 1 by William Morrow....

13.03.2025 8

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Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez lead Democrats searching for an audience

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) launched his podcast last week, his comments on transgender athletes made headlines.  Republicans used it to...

12.03.2025 30

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Democrats suffer Trump joint address hangover: 'Self owns and unhinged petulance'

Democrats woke up furious the morning after some sought to bring the fight to President Trump during his address Tuesday to a joint session Congress,...

06.03.2025 40

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Democrats grapple with Trump, democracy and an argument that didn’t work

Democrats say they are wary of the D-word. On the heels of a grueling loss in the presidential election in November, Democrats find themselves...

03.03.2025 10

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Andrew Cuomo seen as possible White House candidate by some Democrats

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is days away from potentially entering the New York City mayor's race. But even before Cuomo is set to make that...

27.02.2025 20

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Angry Democratic donors turn off the flow of money

Democrats are anxious to rebuild their party on the heels of President Trump’s victory in November. But they have a major problem as they try to...

24.02.2025 60

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Ex-presidents' silence on Trump dismays some Democrats

Former Presidents Clinton, Obama, Biden and George W. Bush have barely uttered a word about President Trump's actions a month into his second term, to...

20.02.2025 70

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Democrats push for tougher resistance to Trump as anger mounts

Democrats are starting to push for a stronger response to President Trump as his policies fuel anger with the party’s base. Members of the party...

13.02.2025 30

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