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Defeated state Sen. Jeff Klein was endorsed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "We're going to keep this state moving forward, and Jeff Klein is going to be a leader who is going to make that possible," Cuomo said in the campaign flyer.
Letitia James, a longtime New York City politician with ties to both the state's underclass and its elites, beat three other candidates in a Democratic primary for attorney general, then turned her sights on the man she saw as her real opponent: President Donald Trump. "This campaign was really never about me, or any of the candidates who ran," James told supporters at her Thursday victory party in Brooklyn.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo easily beat back a primary challenge from activist and actress Cynthia Nixon on Thursday, thwarting her attempt to become the latest insurgent liberal to knock off an establishment Democrat.
Democrats across New York are choosing their candidates for governor, attorney general and the state Legislature in the nation's last primary election of 2018.
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, is willing to testify before the Senate intelligence committee, said his lawyer, Thomas Breen. Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison last Friday for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian intermediaries.
New York City Public Advocate Letitia James won a four-way Democratic primary for attorney general in New York on Thursday in a race that was a competition over who could best use the office to antagonize President Donald Trump. James, 59, would become the first black woman to hold a statewide elected office in New York if she prevails in the general election, where she will be heavily favored.
Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is set to headline a high-dollar Denver fundraiser in late September for Colorado Democrats, including gubernatorial nominee U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. The event, set for Sept.
In this April 11, 2018 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter, 93, sits for an interview before a book signing in Atlanta. Carter is cautioning Democrats that their path to defeating President Donald Trump depends on independents and moderates.
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, is willing to testify before the Senate intelligence committee, Thomas Breen, his lawyer, said Wednesday. Now that the criminal case is resolved, Breen said, "we'll make him available upon a proper request."
When the Democratic Party told Lauren Underwood she needed to raise $100,000 in six weeks to get her campaign for Congress off the ground, she wasn't sure what to do. The nurse from suburban Chicago had never run for office, and her fundraising experience was mostly limited to selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 a box.
Here's the thing about campaigning as an outsider, as Donald Trump did in 2016: If you win the election, you are the person in charge. You are expected to accomplish what you said you would do, or make a darn good effort to do so.
Amid explosive allegations that some White House officials are actively working against President Donald Trump's agenda, Donald Trump Jr. told ABC News the number of people in the White House that his father can trust is smaller than he'd like. "I think there are people in there that he can trust, it's just - it's a much smaller group than I would like it to be," Trump Jr. said in an interview aired Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America .
Then- CIA Director John Brennan endorsed the Christopher Steele dossier when he first acquired a copy in December 2016, saying it matched the Russia collusion charges from his sources, according to "Fear," a Bob Woodward book on the Donald Trump presidency that debuted Tuesday. A spokesman for Mr. Brennan said he never approved of the dossier.
In a recording newly released by Omarosa Manigault Newman of a White House communications meeting last October, President Donald Trump asks staffers if "Russia seems to have turned around." Manigault Newman, who appeared on ABC's "The View", claimed Trump and the administration lied to the American people about the nature of the Robert Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia .
Omarosa Manigault Newman released a new audio recording of President Donald Trump in an appearance on ABC's " The View ," in which the president "crashed" a meeting of White House communications staffers and talked to them of how it was Hillary Clinton who was linked to collusion with Russia. "I think Hillary is getting killed now with Russia.
Washington: Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday morning came more than prepared to make headlines during an appearance on ABC's The View . "I suspect it is Pence's chief of staff," she said, fingering Vice President Pence's top staffer, Nick Ayers, as the anonymous author of the now-infamous commentary in the New York Times that portrayed President Donald Trump as incompetent and dangerous, something she had previously suggested.
New Jersey Democratic congressman Donald Norcross and New York Times' columnist Brett Stephens told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle that while Trump may be denying everything said in both Bob Woodward's book and the anonymous New York Time's op-ed, the series of leaks only "reconfirms what we've been hearing literally for years now." Neither expected the new revelations to have any impact on Republican voters or leadership.
Eight weeks out from the 2018 midterm election, it feels like the stakes have never been higher - particularly for LGBTQ citizens, as issues like "religious freedom" and gender identity become explosive talking points for candidates fighting for control of the House and Senate. With a recent poll suggesting that only 28 percent of young voters are certain they'll turn out to vote, it's easy to feel anxious about the results.