Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments — and the stunning failures — in the 2024 election. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so sign, up here.) The Washington dance that played out in the U.S. Capitol this week is a familiar one by now. Efforts to overhaul our […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday will confront the critical question of Donald Trump’s eligibility to return to the White House, hearing argument in an unprecedented case that gives the justices a central role in charting the course of a presidential election for the first time in nearly a quarter-century. The justices will decide whether Colorado’s […]Read More

When Juliana Buonaiuto moved from New York to attend Kent State University in 2020, she had her heart set on voting in her college community in Ohio. “I wanted my vote to count where I was living,” Buonaiuto said. Four years later, Buonaiuto is planning to vote absentee in New York, in part because of […]Read More

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is tapping his personal wealth to try to enshrine abortion access in battleground states, making an election-year push to support ballot measures and expanding his national footprint in the Democratic Party, within which he is regarded as a potential 2028 presidential candidate. Think Big America, a nonprofit founded and solely funded […]Read More

One is a familiar face at the Supreme Court and a former Texas solicitor general. The other is appearing before the high court for the first time. Both have experience as law clerks to Supreme Court justices. Jonathan Mitchell, the Texas lawyer, is representing Donald Trump on Thursday as he asks the justices to toss […]Read More

“Gun violence is the leading cause of death of children.” — White House news release, Jan. 25 “Gun violence is the leading cause of death of the children of America — leading cause of death — not car accidents, not some form of cancer — gun violence.” — Vice President Harris, remarks at the U.S. […]Read More

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassing defeat Tuesday in a nonbinding Republican primary in Nevada where she was the only major candidate on the ballot, while President Biden notched an easy victory on the Democratic side. In a contest that Donald Trump skipped and does not count toward delegates to the nominating convention, […]Read More

Moments before the vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas narrowly failed Tuesday evening, a chaotic scene unfolded on the House floor. The vote had unexpectedly come to a tie after three Republican lawmakers bucked party lines to vote against the measure. Two of those lawmakers — Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) and Ken Buck […]Read More

The Republican-led House on Tuesday failed to pass a bill that sought to provide billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, extending an impasse over how to address some of the United States’ top national security concerns in a Congress increasingly paralyzed by political infighting. The outcome was 250 to 180 in favor, but […]Read More

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is expected to leave her job this spring after former president Donald Trump had increasingly grown critical of her leadership, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision came as she visited Mar-a-Lago and met with Trump on Monday, but the situation remained fluid, according to the people, […]Read More