Charlotte Alter

Like a lot of Democrats these days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, was one of the nation’s most […]

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Rep. Jake Auchincloss’s Massachusetts district is so safe he didn’t even face a Republican opponent in 2024.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Jared Golden knows a thing or two about how swing voters think of the Democratic Party. First

In 2016, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got more than 132,000 votes across the pivotal swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, helping Donald Trump eke out victories in those battlegrounds—and with them the election—by a margin of roughly 77,000

With less than three weeks until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris is ramping up her pitch to a core group of voters who could help flip a coin-toss election: anti-Trump Republicans. In a speech backed by Republican supporters on

J.D. Vance attempted to distort his own position on abortion in the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, suggesting that he “never supported a national ban.” In the past, he has said that he “certainly would like abortion to be