Politics

Unlike in the first nominating contests, when these failures did not stop Mr. Sanders from winning, his inability to expand the electorate was crucial to his losses on Super Tuesday, when Mr. Biden beat him in 10 of 14 states, including Texas, Virginia and North Carolina. After Mr. Sanders’s dominant performance in Nevada less than […]

In a conference call with reporters, Mr. Garcetti cited turnout increases of 76 percent in three Virginia congressional districts that include parts of Norfolk and the suburbs of Washington and Richmond. Over all, 1.3 million voters in Virginia went to the polls on Tuesday, surpassing the votes cast in 2016 by nearly 70 percent and,

The Trump campaign has recently put money and time into trying to expand the president’s popularity among black voters, employing tactics like opening storefronts in black neighborhoods and devoting a Super Bowl ad to overhauling the criminal justice system. Mr. Trump won only 8 percent of the black vote in 2016, but his campaign operatives

In raising the testing issue, the president appeared to refer to a practice that limited the ability of laboratories run by states, universities and private companies to conduct medical screenings not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. On Saturday, the agency’s commissioner, Stephen M. Hahn, allowed those labs to use tests that they had

Jeremy Corbyn said a government “cannot be judge and jury” when he asked the PM about bullying claims made against Priti Patel. The Labour leader spoke of a “shocking and unacceptable pattern of behaviour” across three government departments. But Boris Johnson defended his home secretary and said her actions were “keeping this country safe”. UK

“I fully intended to vote for Pete, and then when he dropped out, I was like, OK, Klobuchar seems like a good idea, but then she dropped out, so it helped that they both endorsed Biden,” said Haley Walton, 26, as she went to cast an early-morning ballot in a downtown Dallas courthouse. “That kind

Labour needs someone who can unite the party, take on Boris Johnson, and “unrelentingly focus” on winning the next election, says Sir Keir Starmer, naming the qualities he would bring as party leader. The leadership contender had been asked by Andrew Neil if the party required someone with more charisma and zeal than the shadow

WASHINGTON — Racing to confront a growing public health threat, key lawmakers in the House and Senate reached a deal on Wednesday to provide $8.3 billion in emergency aid to combat the novel coronavirus, and the House planned a vote later Wednesday to approve it, according to three officials familiar with the negotiations. The bipartisan

Labour has to “fine tune” its manifesto and how it is presented, with a message that resonates with voters, says Rebecca Long Bailey, looking at what party needs to “get right next time” with her as leader. The leadership contender was asked by Andrew Neil why Labour would win if she led the party into

In Nevada, the protesters took the stage and interrupted Senator Bernie Sanders as he addressed a crowd of supporters last month. In Los Angeles, they disrupted Senator Elizabeth Warren’s stump speech this week. And on Super Tuesday, activists campaigning against the dairy industry had their highest-profile moment yet when two women rushed onstage and crashed