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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pennsylvania's two largest cities will hold primaries Tuesday for high-profile municipal offices, while voters across the commonwealth will choose nominees for statewide appellate court judgeships.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cincinnati's mayor faces a primary challenge Tuesday from two first-time candidates, including the half brother of Vice President JD Vance. Meanwhile, voters across the state will decide the fate of a 10-year, $2.5 billion infrastructure spending ballot measure.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press declared that Dane County Judge Susan Crawford won a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court based on the large leads she built in the state's population centers and Democratic strongholds. That outweighed Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel's leads in more Republican areas across the state.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump's political standing two months into his second White House term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wisconsin's spring election on Tuesday for state Supreme Court, state schools chief and a proposed constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for voting will be the first major indication of the state's political climate since Republican Donald Trump recaptured the White House in November.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tuesday's special elections to replace Florida's Republican former U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz will be held in two of the state's GOP strongholds, but Democrats hope that strong fundraising in both districts is an indicator the races will be more competitive than they were in the last election just five months ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tuesday's special elections will fill two vacancies in Pennsylvania's General Assembly. Democrats are defending a state House seat on friendly turf with control of the deadlocked chamber on the line, while Republicans look to maintain their comfortable advantage in the state Senate in a reliably GOP district.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters in Minnesota will choose a new representative Tuesday in a heavily Democratic state House district at the center of a post-Election Day drama to control the chamber.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wisconsin's top school official faces the first big hurdle of her reelection bid in the spring primary on Tuesday, when she's running against two challengers in a far different political and electoral environment than she did in her successful 2021 campaign.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Control of the U.S. House isn't on the line in Tuesday's special congressional primaries in Florida, but Republicans are still eager to find replacements for former GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Michael Waltz to add some breathing room to their slender majority in the chamber.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters in Virginia will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections that could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Louisiana voters on Saturday will decide the fates of four proposed amendments to the state constitution, in the final statewide election of 2024.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters in central Mississippi and the state's Delta and Gulf Coast areas will return to the polls Tuesday to resolve two judicial races in which no candidate received the vote majority needed in the Nov. 5 general election to avoid a runoff.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic incumbent Sen. Jacky Rosen won reelection early Saturday morning after The Associated Press declared she had beat Republican Sam Brown in a race that turned on Rosen's strong performance in the state's two largest counties -- Clark and Washoe.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump won his sixth battleground state of the 2024 election early Saturday, beating Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press declared that Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin won reelection to the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin after it determined that Republican Eric Hovde wouldn't be able to take the lead once the remaining untabulated ballots were counted.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press declared that Republican Donald Trump won Wisconsin -- and with it, a return to the White House -- once it determined that remaining uncounted votes mostly from the greater Milwaukee area would not be enough to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to overtake Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press declared that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz successfully defended his seat against Democratic Rep. Colin Allred based on the incumbent's competitive showing in the state's large population centers, bolstered by his overwhelming leads in more conservative rural areas across the state.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press declared winners Tuesday in some states where polls had just closed, and in some cases before any votes had been released.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Minnesota voters will decide on Election Day how to award the state's 10 presidential electoral votes, including whether to promote their two-term governor to the vice presidency.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump is looking to continue his winning streak in Oklahoma as he competes with Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for the state's seven electoral votes. Oklahoma voters will also decide races for Congress and the state Legislature, and will consider an effort to amend the state constitution to bar noncitizens from voting.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focusing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Montana voters cast ballots in the Nov. 5 general election, they'll decide what may just be the nation's marquee U.S. Senate race, and with it, perhaps which party will control the closely divided chamber in the next Congress. They'll also vote on a high-profile ballot question on abortion, as well as less competitive races for president...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michigan may play a decisive role in a third consecutive presidential election on Nov. 5, while voters there will also decide competitive races that could tip the balance of power in both chambers of Congress and the state House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wisconsin is no stranger to close presidential elections. The margin of victory was less than a percentage point in the state's 2020, 2016, 2004 and 2000 elections. So it might be again this Election Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- North Carolina voters will cast ballots for president and governor in the Nov. 5 general election while many in the state are still dealing with the aftermath and massive destruction caused by Hurricane Helene.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nevada is once again home to competitive races that could determine control of the White House and the U.S. Senate. It is also one of 10 states where voters will decide a high-profile ballot measure on abortion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pennsylvania voters are almost sure to play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress and the state Legislature in the balance.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters in Arizona have no shortage of competitive races to decide in the Nov. 5 general election, with control of the White House, the U.S. Senate and House and both chambers of the state Legislature in the balance.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nov. 5 is Election Day in Missouri, where the race for the White House tops the list of federal, state and local contests that voters will decide.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are in a tight race for the White House, but in Ohio, it's a contest further down the ballot that has been getting the bulk of the attention in the Nov. 5 general election.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's election night, the polls have closed and chances are you're waiting on The Associated Press or one of the major television networks to say who will be the next president. But why does the news media play that role in the first place? Shouldn't that be the government's job?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Control of the White House and the narrowly divided Senate and House may hang in the balance on Nov. 5, but don't expect election night to be all nail-biters and barn burners. Chances are some winners will be declared before a single vote has been tallied, just as the polls close in those states.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters had plenty to argue about in the 1972 election, but they overwhelmingly agreed that when it came time to vote, they would do so in person on Election Day.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's usually possible to determine who won an election before the vote counting is 100% complete. But doing so requires determining how many ballots still need to be tabulated at any point in the vote count, and that's not as straightforward or clear-cut as you might imagine.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One question will be asked over and over on election night: Who won?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voters in New Jersey's 10th Congressional District will choose a successor on Wednesday to the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died in April after more than 11 years in office.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Delaware's most prominent elected official, President Joe Biden, may have upended the presidential race in July when he dropped his bid for a second term, but it's the impending departures of two other prominent Democratic officeholders, Gov. John Carney and U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, that are having ripple effects throughout the ballot in Tuesday's state primaries.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Republicans will choose candidates to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch in state primaries on Tuesday. The contests top the list of federal, state and local races that will be held across the commonwealth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three Republican Oklahoma state lawmakers will go before voters for the second time in about two months in runoff elections on Tuesday. They are among the candidates in 10 state legislative districts to compete once again for the Republican nomination after failing to win an outright majority in the June 18 primary.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once more, with feeling!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Once more, with feeling!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Rick Scott 's bid for renomination for a second Senate term tops the list of races that Florida voters will decide in Tuesday's primary.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Connecticut Republicans will pick nominees in state primaries on Tuesday to challenge two longtime Democratic lawmakers, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democrats will compete in Vermont's state primary on Tuesday for the right to challenge four-term Republican Gov. Phil Scott in November. The race is the highest profile of a handful of contested primaries on the ballot.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Voting concludes Saturday in Hawaii's state primaries, where candidates for Congress and the Legislature will compete for their parties' nominations.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wesley Bell's sizable vote lead in St. Louis County and competitive showing in St. Louis city propelled him to victory over U.S. Rep. Cori Bush in the Democratic primary in Missouri's 1st Congressional District, according to an Associated Press analysis of initial vote results.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic delegates have selected Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party's presidential nominee, according to final vote results released late Monday by the Democratic National Committee. But don't expect a balloon drop just yet.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee, according to Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison, but it's not time for the balloon drop just yet.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kansas voters will choose their parties' nominees for the U.S. House, the state legislature and the state Board of Education in primaries on Tuesday.
NEWAYGO, Mich. (AP) -- While Michigan remains one of the crown jewels of the fall presidential campaign, the focus on Tuesday turns to state primaries that may play a major role in deciding control of the narrowly divided U.S. Senate and U.S. House as well as the state legislature.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't expect a balloon drop, at least not yet.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't expect a balloon drop, at least not yet.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris is the only White House hopeful who has qualified to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Democratic National Committee said in a statement on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Candidates for federal and state legislative posts will compete for their parties' nominations in Thursday's primaries in Tennessee. Among the notable current or aspiring lawmakers on the ballot are a member of the conservative U.S. House Freedom Caucus who's drawn a strong primary challenge and a Democratic state representative who was almost expelled from office following a...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arizona is already expected to play a critical role in the White House race as it did in 2020, but Tuesday's state primaries will set the stage for competitive contests that could determine control of the closely divided U.S. Senate, U.S. House and both chambers of the state legislature.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden's withdrawal from his reelection bid and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to take on Republican Donald Trump in November scrambled what had once been a settled and suspense-free contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even before President Joe Biden's long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November.