Republican primary

Georgia election officials are postponing the state’s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus

Fourteen states and one U.S. territory will hold “Super Tuesday” primaries or caucuses on March 3. The elections will award 1,357 delegates for the Democratic presidential candidates, more than a third of the total up for grabs before the party’s convention in July. This year’s Super Tuesday includes the nation’s two most populous states — California and Texas. The delegate...

On Thursday, Arkansas authorities confirmed that the identity of a body found outside of a former Republican state lawmaker’s house in Pocahontas is Linda Collins-Smith. While police have not yet provided a cause of death, they have announced the case as a homicide. Collins-Smith served one term in the Arkansas state House, where she was originally elected in 2010 as...

Outgoing Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat has been named the new dean of Liberty University’s business school.

Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who became a hero within the Democratic Party while losing a surprisingly tight race against Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, has already been invited to New Hampshire to speak with voters and meet experienced political operators in the key primary state, CNBC has learned.

Montgomery County Council member Marc Elrich easily won the three-way race for county executive.

Democrat Marc Elrich will be Montgomery County’s new county executive, taking almost two-thirds of the vote in a three-candidate race. Chris Gordon reports.

The candidates addressed Sen. Ted Cruz’s relationship with President Donald Trump and how it’s evolved since the 2016 presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump’s Florida rally couldn’t have come at a better time for Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, who may have locked up a primary victory as he seeks to become Florida’s next governor.

The state lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series will resign, according to a spokesman for Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. Rep. Jason Spencer will step down at the end of the month, spokesman Kaleb McMichen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Tuesday. In Sunday night’s broadcast of Cohen’s Showtime series...

The first state lawmaker in the nation to be first kicked out of office amid sexual misconduct claims since the #MeToo movement started can run for state Senate, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The justices said Don Shooter’s name can appear on the ballot in the Aug. 28 Republican primary because it appears he’s still a resident of the...

Angela Alsobrooks is projected to win the Democratic primary for Prince George’s County executive. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, she had won 62 percent of the vote.

Six candidates are running for Montgomery County executive. Chris Gordon introduces three of them.

West Virginia residents voted Tuesday in the state’s Republican primary. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke with likely voters about why they did or did not choose Don Blankenship, Patrick Morrisey or Evan Jenkins, the top candidates.

Missouri lawmakers will convene in an historic special session later this month to consider impeaching Republican Gov. Eric Greitens following allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of charity resources for his political campaign. Republican House and Senate leaders said Thursday night that they had gathered more than the constitutionally required signatures of three-fourths of the members of each chamber to...

A former campaign aide to Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens testified that he was duped into taking the fall when the governor’s campaign was trying to explain how it had gotten a list of top donors to a veterans’ charity that Greitens had founded, according to a legislative report released Wednesday. The report from a special House investigatory committee indicates that...

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek is set to moderate a debate in this year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race.

Gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy left the stage during a forum on Monday after State Rep. Jeanne Ives argued the solution to the state’s gun violence was having “more fathers in the home.”

Most Republican leaders in Alabama say they plan to vote for Roy Moore on Tuesday, despite sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge that have prompted others around the country to say he should never be allowed to join the U.S. Senate. “I have stated both publicly and privately over the last month that unless these allegations were proven to...

Seth Meyers discusses Roy Moore’s win in the Alabama special election, and what it means for President Donald Trump.