Twelve years ago, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, took the stage at his election night party in Columbus to celebrate winning a second term. Barack Obama had just carried Ohio for the second time, after emphasizing his administration’s rescue of the auto industry. Mr. Brown wanted to proclaim that …
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Thirty minutes south of Portland, as rain pattered down from gray skies, Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican of Oregon, was at a wedding venue railing against Democrats in her state for decriminalizing hard drugs and accusing them of failing to support local law enforcement. Progressive experiments with policing, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer told …
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Representative Marc Molinaro has spent his decades of public service building a reputation as a particular brand of New York Republican: a measured and courteous pragmatist more interested in responsible governing than in ideological battles. But that reputation is being tested as Mr. Molinaro, a first-term congressman, seeks re-election against …
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Black state lawmakers in Michigan are calling on the state’s attorney general and a local county prosecutor to investigate the congressional campaign of Tom Barrett, a Republican, for an ad in a Black-owned newspaper that incorrectly listed Election Day as Nov. 6. The complaint from the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, …
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