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November 13, 2018 at 10:27 am

Democrats eye US Senate seat in Republican-led Mississippi

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — National Democrats are focusing on Mississippi's U.S. Senate runoff, a year after winning a longshot contest in another Deep South state...

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November 12, 2018 at 9:34 pm

Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days after the midterm election, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker worked the phones with Democratic luminaries in Iowa. Montana Gov....

November 8, 2018 at 3:05 am

Trump, Democrats can take 2020 clues from midterm elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — This week's midterm elections offered revealing lessons for both parties as battle lines begin to emerge for the 2020 presidential election. For...

November 7, 2018 at 9:25 pm

Democratic gains over GOP after midterms come with cautions

WASHINGTON (AP) — This week's midterm elections offered revealing lessons for both parties as battle lines begin to emerge for the 2020 presidential election. For...

November 7, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Midterms offer clues for Trump, Dems in ’20 presidential bid

WASHINGTON (AP) — This week's midterm elections offered revealing lessons for both parties as battle lines begin to emerge for the 2020 presidential election. For...

November 2, 2018 at 4:00 am

In House battle, Democrats see hope in Trump territory WATCH

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — White, working-class voters fueled President Donald Trump's rise to the White House. If his party loses the House majority on...

October 31, 2018 at 4:58 pm

Iowa Rep. Steve King keeps low profile amid new controversy

HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) — Rep. Steve King is keeping a low profile. Engulfed in controversy for his past support of white supremacist groups and leaders...

Former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a rally with Wisconsin Democrats on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus, Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018, in Madison Wis. Biden called for more civility and dignity in politics during a rally, offering a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump while telling the students they can “own” next week’s election if they vote. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) WIMAW204 WIMAW204

October 30, 2018 at 12:35 pm

Biden laments Trump-era tone, offers possible 2020 preview VIEW

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden bemoaned the tone of Trump-era politics at a campaign stop in Iowa on Tuesday, previewing...

In this July 10, 2018, photo, U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur speaks about the opioid epidemic during a talk at the Express Scripts mail-in pharmacy in Florence, N.J. In an election that hinges on Trump’s standing, candidates from both parties are tiptoeing around the man in the Oval Office as they deliver closing messages in the nation’s top House battlegrounds. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) NYHK101 NYHK101

October 28, 2018 at 11:59 pm

Candidates sidestep Trump in midterm closing message

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. (AP) — Tom MacArthur is doing something that's familiar to dozens of candidates in the most fiercely contested congressional races: Tiptoeing around...

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October 23, 2018 at 10:11 pm

Senate slipping away as Dems fight to preserve blue wave

NEW YORK (AP) — In the closing stretch of the 2018 campaign, the question is no longer the size of the Democratic wave. It's whether...