Live updates: GOP senators weigh fates of Trump’s more controversial Cabinet picks
With their confirmation hearings behind them, the fates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence,
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The New DNC Chair Should Put the Working Class at the Center of the Democratic Party
To counter the tech oligarchy of Trump’s second term, Democrats need to offer a clear message: no to corporate power and economic elites, yes to more democracy and worker organizing.
MSNBC Hosts Talk About Democrats’ Next Big Step In Returning From The Wilderness: Picking A DNC Chair
In the DNC race back then, Howard Dean was selected as the next party chair. In the midterms, Democrats routed the GOP and won control of Congress, and two years later Barack Obama was elected to the White House.
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DNC criticizes Trump, GOP for potential elimination of Medicaid expansion
Some 900,000 Michigan residents on Medicaid could lose coverage if the decade-old expansion is reversed by the GOP-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump. The Democratic National Committee revealed estimated losses in 16 of 22 states that would be impacted by the elimination of the Medicaid expansion that took effect in April 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act,
A Democratic Party in crisis will elect its new chairman on Saturday
The Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair Saturday as it tries to guide Democrats through Republican Donald Trump’s second presidency.
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Weekend vote to decide if Ken Martin jumps from Minnesota Democratic perch to national party head
Members of the Democratic National Committee are due to vote Saturday on who will lead the party. After 2024 election, Democrats are regrouping.
Republican plans to cut Medicaid could cost 22 million Americans their health care
The Republican Party is eyeing sweeping cuts to Medicaid, a program that the poorest Americans rely on for health care, to finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and plans for mass deportation. Democrats say those plans could cost some 22 million people their health care,
Ken vs. Ben: The Midwestern men hoping to revamp the DNC
As Democrats plot a path back to power in Washington, Ken Martin and Ben Wikler are front-runners in the race to chair the Democratic National Committee.
Leaderless Democrats move forward on anointing a new DNC chair
As President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House on Monday, Democrats are still in the throes of deciding who will lead the Democratic National Committee after a bruising 2024 cycle.
As the DNC chair race heats up, what's at stake for Democrats?
Desperate to bounce back after their 2024 drubbing, Democrats look for new leadership at the dawn of a second Trump administration
Republicans Lose Iowa Election in District Trump Won by 21 Points
It comes after Trump won the district by 21 points in November. In 2024, Trump flipped Scott County red after Joe Biden previously won by the county by 3 points in 2020, and Hillary Clinton by 2 points in 2016. Jackson and Clinton counties were won by Trump in the last three presidential elections.
The DNC's outgoing chair says Democrats should have stuck with Joe Biden in 2024
As the Democratic National Committee prepares to elect a new chair, its departing leader says Democrats should have stuck with Joe Biden in the 2024 race. In an interview with The Associated Press, Jaime Harrison reflected on why his party lost to Donald Trump and what might have happened had then-Vice President Kamala Harris had more time to campaign after Biden ended his reelection bid following a disastrous debate performance.