Politics

CNN By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made their rematch all but official, with both notching huge Super Tuesday wins and Nikki Haley dropping out of the GOP presidential race. More than a dozen states held primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, the

CNN By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg and Simone Pathe, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made their rematch all but official, with both notching huge Super Tuesday wins and Nikki Haley expected to drop out of the GOP presidential race. More than a dozen states held primaries or caucuses on

By Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Barry Moore will defeat fellow Republican Rep. Jerry Carl in an Alabama primary for the state’s newly redrawn 1st Congressional District, CNN projects. It is rare to see two incumbents run against each other, and the member-on-member matchup comes as House Republicans oversee a historically narrow majority and face

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey have advanced to the general election in the open primary for California’s open Senate seat, setting up an uphill battle for the state’s beleaguered GOP. Schiff and Garvey were competing in two Senate contests Tuesday: one to fill the remainder of the

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — US Rep. Colin Allred has won the Democratic nomination in Texas to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Allred defeated state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and seven other contenders in the Democratic primary Tuesday. And by crossing the 50% threshold, he avoids an automatic primary runoff in May. Six years

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden was handed his first defeat so far in the Democratic presidential primary by a man who very few knew before Tuesday night: venture capitalist Jason Palmer. The little-known candidate from Baltimore won the American Samoa Democratic nominating contest. While Palmer won in the tiny US territory

CNN By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — The gubernatorial showdown in North Carolina is set for what is expected to be one of the most competitive races of the year, after Democrats chose moderate, strait-laced state Attorney General Josh Stein to square off with Republican nominee Mark Robinson, a right-wing firebrand currently serving as lieutenant

By Ted Barrett, CNN Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is miffed that Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas did not call her or other Republican leaders to notify them of his intentions to run for the third ranking position in GOP leadership, a post she might want to move up to in the scramble for open

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — The gubernatorial showdown in North Carolina is set for what is expected to be one of the most competitive races of the year, after Democrats chose moderate, strait-laced state Attorney General Josh Stein to square off with Republican nominee Mark Robinson, a right-wing firebrand currently serving as lieutenant governor.

By Jennifer Hansler, Jeremy Diamond and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — When top Biden administration officials conveyed their frustrations over the “unacceptable and unsustainable” situation in Gaza to Benny Gantz, they were delivering their message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu’s chief political foe. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met

By Betsy Klein, CNN Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) — Dr. Jill Biden leaned into her personal experience as an educator and as first lady on Tuesday as she spoke out sharply against gun violence and called for further action. “I don’t want to have to put my hand on another cross with an 8-year-old’s name. We

CNN Opinion by Patrick T. Brown (CNN) — Super Tuesday marks the end of whatever competitiveness was left in the primaries on either side of the aisle and unofficially kicks off the general election campaign. America is faced with the rematch no one is particularly excited about: President Joe Biden, who voters repeatedly tell pollsters

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Kim Ogg, the Democratic district attorney in Harris County, Texas, is raising alarms about voting procedures there after she was turned away from the polls early Tuesday morning because her ballot had already been cast. In a statement posted on X, Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth said that Ogg’s life

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — More than 6 in 10 of North Carolina primary voters say that they’d consider former President Donald Trump fit for the presidency if he’s convicted of a crime, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of Republican primary voters in the state, with slightly over half of

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden raised at least $42 million for his reelection campaign and the Democratic Party in February, campaign officials told CNN, a total fueled by the strongest month of grassroots donations during this election cycle – which campaign officials say demonstrates an under-appreciated level of enthusiasm for

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors say that Donald Trump’s effort to disqualify Michael Cohen as a witness at this month’s criminal trial related to hush money payments is “unprecedented” and unwarranted. District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said in a filing Tuesday that it opposes several of the former president’s motions to prevent jurors from seeing certain evidence in

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted Tuesday on a dozen new criminal charges related to a years-long bribery scheme involving the governments of Egypt and Qatar. The new charges come days after Jose Uribe, one of the New Jersey businessmen who was previously indicted alongside Menendez,