Election 2024

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks at South Carolina's "First in the Nation" dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 27, 2024. Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks at South Carolina’s “First in the Nation” dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Jan. 27, 2024. Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Dean Phillips gains his first delegates. Here’s why they’ll likely vote for Biden at the convention

Rep. Dean Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

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Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

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FILE - Voters check in at their polling place before casting their ballots on election day in Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 2023. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters April 23, 2024, in Pennsylvania's presidential primaries, a prelude to the November general election when the commonwealth is expected to once again to play a critical role in the race for the White House.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FILE - Voters check in at their polling place before casting their ballots on election day in Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 2023. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters April 23, 2024, in Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries, a prelude to the November general election when the commonwealth is expected to once again to play a critical role in the race for the White House.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Pennsylvania’s presidential and state primaries

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters next week in Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries.

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Voters headed to the polls to cast their ballots for Pennsylvania’s primary election

As both parties’ presidential nominees are set, voters in Pennsylvania talk about the November general election. (AP Video: Tassanee Vejpongsa)

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FILE - Former Massey CEO Don Blankenship speaks during a town hall to kick off his Republican U.S. Senate campaign in Logan, W.Va., Jan. 18, 2018. Blankenship is running in the May 14 primary as a Democrat for the seat being vacated by Sen. Joe Manchin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate. He’s trying again as a Democrat

Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat.

FILE - Police in Riot gear stand guard as demonstrators chant slogans outside the Columbia University campus, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in New York. U.S. colleges and universities are preparing for end-of-year commencement ceremonies with a unique challenge: providing safety for graduates while honoring the free speech rights of students involved in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Biden tries to navigate the Israel-Hamas war protests roiling college campuses

Student protests over the war in Gaza have created a new and unpredictable challenge for President Joe Biden as he resists calls to cut off U.S. support for Israel while trying to hold together a coalition of supporters he’ll need for reelection.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., stands for a portrait overlooking the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Monday, April 8, 2024. An election later this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Gaza poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized the war. Lee is facing a primary challenge from Bhavini Patel. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Why AP called the Pennsylvania 12th District primary for Summer Lee: Race call explained

In her primary victory Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, first-term Democratic U.S. Rep.

FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., departs Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 11, 2023. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the former U.S. representative said he's dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

George Santos ends comeback bid for Congress after raising no money

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he’s dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges.

President Joe Biden arrives to speak at Prince William Forest Park on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2024, in Triangle, Va. Biden is announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving low- and middle-income communities and expanding his American Climate Corps green jobs training program. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s Morehouse graduation invitation is sparking backlash, complicating election-year appearance

President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia’s Morehouse College and at West Point next month.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial.

Brad Chambers speaks during a debate organized and hosted by the Indiana Debate Commission, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, Pool)

Indiana GOP candidates for governor make their pitch to voters at debate in Sen. Braun’s absence

Sen. Mike Braun has missed the final GOP debate in the race to become Indiana’s next governor, instead attending a vote in Washington on a foreign aid package.

Former president Donald Trump speaks to the media after the first day of opening arguments in his trial at Manhattan Criminal Court for falsifying documents related to hush money payments, in New York, NY, on Monday, April 22, 2024. The former President is expected to spend the next 6 or so weeks in attendance at his trial for falsification of business records, to cover up payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who allegedly had an encounter with the President before he was in office. Photographer: Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post/ Pool

Trump called this visa ‘very bad’ for Americans. Truth Social applied for one

The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict.

Former president Donald Trump, center, awaits the start of proceedings at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, April 22, 2024, in New York. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he thought might hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Trump trial: Highlights from opening statements and first witness testimony

Opening statements in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial are underway. For the first time in history, prosecutors are presenting a criminal case against a former American president to a jury.

FILE - The Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico's Capitol as in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 29, 2015. Puerto Rico’s Republican Party held a district assembly Sunday, April 21, 2024, and awarded former President Donald Trump all 23 of their national delegates. About 77% of the 1,340 members that make up the U.S. territory’s Republican Party participated. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Puerto Rico Republicans award Trump all 23 of their delegates

Puerto Rico’s Republican Party held a district assembly and awarded former President Donald Trump all 23 of their national delegates.

FILE - President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, March 11, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The White House and the Democratic National Committee are splitting the cost of Biden’s travel while he runs for a second term. It’s part of a longstanding arrangement that prevents taxpayers from being stuck with the full bill for political trips. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

When it comes to government planes and political trips, who pays for a president’s campaign travel?

In any election year, there’s a fuzzy line between governing and campaigning. President Joe Biden’s recent travels across Pennsylvania, a pivotal state in the 2024 election, included a mix of both.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Scranton, Pa., April 16, 2024. Rarely a day goes without Biden mentioning insulin prices, constantly touting a $35 insulin price cap for Americans with diabetes who are on Medicare. But many people benefiting from the price cap were already paying far less than that for insulin. Others were already Biden supporters. That raises questions about how whether the issue can be as effective as the president believes. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Biden sees a $35 price cap for insulin as a pivotal campaign issue. It’s not that clear-cut

President Joe Biden frequently cites insulin prices as he promotes a $35 price cap for Americans with diabetes who are on Medicare.

FILE - A ballot is handed to a voter, far right, as early voting takes place at the Warren City Hall, Feb. 21, 2024, in Warren, Mich. The Republican National Committee has filed voting-related lawsuits in two dozen states targeting such things as voter rolls, mailed balloting and policies related to poll watchers. Democrats say it’s a strategy designed to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the vote this fall and potentially delay certification of the results. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election

As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch.

FILE - Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., speaks at a news conference, Jan. 31, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mark Houck's campaign to unseat Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania's GOP primary could offer hints about swing-district party sentiment in a heated presidential election year. The congressional district in suburban Philadelphia is one of 16 nationwide that Democrat Joe Biden carried in 2020 where voters also sent Republicans to Washington. The Republicans' House majority is so slim that Democrats need to flip just four seats to retake control. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Republicans’ defense of the ‘Biden 16' House districts starts with Pennsylvania’s primary election

Mark Houck’s campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania’s GOP primary could offer hints about swing-district party sentiment in a heated presidential election year.

FILE - A sign on the border of Wyoming and Montana appears on the side of Belfry Highway, May 24, 2017, in Powell, Wyo. Republicans in Wyoming will decide Saturday which presidential candidate will get their state's votes at the GOP national convention but there's only one choice.(AP Photo/Robert Yoon, File)

Trump picks up more national delegates as the only choice for Wyoming Republicans

Republicans in Wyoming have awarded former President Donald Trump all 29 of their national delegates in a presidential preference poll.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump file out of the rally after it was canceled due to threatening weather in Wilmington, N.C., Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Trump cancels rally because of weather, proving the difficulty of balancing a trial and a campaign

Donald Trump has canceled his first planned rally since the start of his criminal hush money trial because of a storm in North Carolina.

FILE - Businessman and Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Eric Hovde speaks Tuesday April 2, 2024, at a former President Donald Trump rally in Green Bay, Wis. Hvode emphasized this week that he doesn't oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that “almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote.” (AP Photo/Mike Roemer, File)

Republican Wisconsin Senate candidate says he doesn’t oppose elderly people voting

The Republican candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched U.S. Senate race emphasized this week that he doesn’t oppose elderly people voting after initially saying that “almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote.”

Arizona Republican drops reelection effort after accusation he forged signatures

A leader of the conservative group Turning Point Action has resigned from the organization and dropped his bid for reelection to the Arizona House of Representatives after he was accused of forging signatures on his nominating petitions.

FILE - U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, R-Kan., speaks to Republican volunteers during a campaign stop with other GOP candidates, Nov. 7. 2022, in Topeka, Kan. LaTurner announced Thursday, April 18, 2024, that he is not running for reelection this year in his GOP-leaning eastern Kansas district so that he can spend more time with his four young children. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Kansas GOP congressman Jake LaTurner is not running again, citing family reasons

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner is not running for reelection this year in his GOP-leaning eastern Kansas district so that he can spend more time with his four young children, he announced Thursday.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. waves to supporters during a campaign event, Saturday, April 13, 2024, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. secures ballot access in battleground state of Michigan

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has secured a place on the ballot in the battleground state of Michigan.

Vice President Harris returning to Wisconsin for third visit this year

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to return to Wisconsin next week for her third visit to the battleground state this year.

FILE - Wisconsin Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, speaks in the Assembly chamber at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday, March 5, 2015. On Thursday, April 18, 2024, Barca announced his bid against Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, who is seeking a fourth term. (M.P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Former Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Peter Barca announces new bid for Congress

A Democrat who served one term representing southeast Wisconsin in Congress in the 1990s before going on to become a leader in the Assembly and state revenue secretary announced Thursday that he’s running for Congress again.

President Joe Biden returns a salute from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 18, 2024. The President is traveling to Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Kennedy family makes ‘crystal clear’ its Biden endorsement in attempt to deflate RFK Jr.’s candidacy

President Joe Biden has accepted endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Poland’s president becomes the latest leader to visit Donald Trump as allies eye a possible return

Former President Donald Trump met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda. It’s the latest in a series of meetings with foreign leaders as Europe braces for the possibility of a second Trump term.

President Joe Biden reaches to touch the name of his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan, Jr., on a wall at a Scranton war memorial, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Scranton, Pa. His uncle died in WWII. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military

President Joe Biden has misstated key details about his uncle’s death in World War II as he honored the man’s wartime service and said Donald Trump was unworthy of serving as commander in chief.

Appeals court leaves temporary hold on New Jersey’s county line primary ballot design in place

A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to order New Jersey Democrats scrap a ballot design widely viewed as helping candidates with establishment backing.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing on "A Review of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Dubious claims about voting flyers at a migrant camp show how the border is inflaming US politics

A humanitarian organization in northeastern Mexico is saying it did not create flyers urging border-bound migrants to vote for President Joe Biden.

Alabama lawmakers advance bills to ensure Joe Biden is on the state’s ballot

Alabama lawmakers have advanced legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state’s November ballot.

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan visits the Bridge Boat Show in Stevensville, Md., Friday, April 12, 2024, as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Anti-Trump Republican Larry Hogan navigates dangerous political terrain in pivotal Senate contest

Larry Hogan has transformed Maryland’s sleepy Senate race into a top-tier contest in the fight for the Senate majority.

Campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri raises nearly $5M in 3 months

A campaign to legalize abortion in Missouri has raised close to $5 million. Missourians for Constitutional Freedom on Tuesday announced a $4.8 million haul from January through March.