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2018 Primaries
2018 primaries
Sept. 13, 2018
Rhode Island’s Raimondo Brushes Aside Progressive Challenge Called by her opponent “an extreme corporatist Democrat,” the incumbent became the 13th woman to win a gubernatorial nomination this year.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Sept. 12, 2018
New Hampshire Democratic Front-runners Win, Famous Son Loses New Hampshire will elect either its first black congressperson or its first openly gay congressperson in the fall.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 primaries
Aug. 28, 2018
Progressive Andrew Gillum Wins Florida Democratic Gubernatorial Primary in Upset Bernie Sanders–endorsed Gillum, who hopes to be Florida’s first black governor, will face Trump pick Ron DeSantis in a high-stakes general election.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 primaries
Aug. 22, 2018
Trump Didn’t Get a Win for His Billionaire Buddy in Wyoming Foster Friess’s vast wealth and Trump’s Election Day endorsement weren’t enough in a very competitive gubernatorial primary.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 primaries
Aug. 21, 2018
Trump Endorses Right-Wing Billionaire Foster Friess in WY Gubernatorial Primary The man best known for advocating women putting an aspirin “between their knees” as contraception picks up the late POTUS nod.
By Ed Kilgore
2018 primaries
May 30, 2018
Turnout for an Epochal California Primary Will Probably Be Terrible The stakes in the June 5 top-two primary in the Golden State are very high. But voters aren’t that excited, and the outcome is hard to predict.
By Ed Kilgore
It’s the Year of Democratic Women. The GOP Remains a Party of Men A lot more women are running for Congress as Democrats — and winning primaries — while the GOP remains a boy’s club.
By Ed Kilgore
GOP Primary Loser Chided for Not Getting Over Smears Like Trump’s Rivals Did If Lyin’ Ted Cruz and “nutjob” Lindsey Graham could forgive Trump, other Republicans should grin and bear it, too.
By Ed Kilgore
Stacey Abrams and the New Democratic Coalition in the South In the past, southern black Democratic voters were expected to loyally support white centrist candidates with rare representation. That has changed.
By Ed Kilgore
Another Big Primary Night for Democratic Women Primaries in three southern states plus runoffs in Texas continued to shape a competitive midterm, with Democratic women doing particularly well.
By Ed Kilgore
Abrams Wins Georgia’s ‘Two Staceys’ Race, Could Be First Black Female Governor With Abrams heading the Democratic ticket, the Georgia governor’s race might finally be competitive again.
By Ed Kilgore
Blankenship Sunk in West Virginia After Giving National GOP a Scare Both Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump worked to take down the eccentric ex-con who was beginning to look like another Roy Moore.
By Ed Kilgore
