National Politics

By Daniel Dale, CNN Polls suggest California voters are poised to defeat an effort to recall the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The polls could be wrong or change fast. At present, though, their findings are entirely unremarkable. California has nearly twice as many registered Democrats as registered Republicans. Newsom was elected by almost 24

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Sen. Joe Biden was on the phone with his wife during his morning commute from Delaware to Washington, DC, when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.” “Jill, what is it?” “Another plane … the other tower.” Biden, then the chairman

By Clare Foran, CNN John Fetterman thinks Senate Democrats are making a big mistake. The party has a rare opportunity with a majority in Congress and control of the White House. But Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor who is running for Senate, fears Democrats are wasting that opportunity by not eliminating the filibuster and failing to

By Tierney Sneed, CNN In its lawsuit challenging Texas six-week abortion ban, the Justice Department is throwing a Hail Mary pass to get over the procedural stumbling blocks that have thwarted other attempts to block the ban in court. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a federal court in Austin, relies on a novel strategy in

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN In the middle of chaos 20 years ago, Sen. Joe Biden wanted to get inside the US Capitol. That was the safest place to be on September 11, he argued when his daughter Ashley called him, pleading that he leave Washington as the terror attacks were unfolding. Blocked

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of the GOP incumbents targeted by former President Donald Trump, putting the California Republican directly in the crosshairs of the right as he seeks to win back the majority. Half

By Maeve Reston and Dan Merica, CNN The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom took off last year amid a backlash to his aggressive restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But when the last ballots are cast in Tuesday’s special election, it may be the fears about the surge of the Delta

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director The landscape of political polling is changing, and so too is the way CNN carries out its polls. Beginning with Friday’s newly released CNN poll conducted by SSRS, the network is implementing a new methodology for measuring public opinion. The new approach relies on both online and telephone interviews,

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN The tentatively positive public outlook that marked the first months of the Biden administration has faded, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The survey, released Friday, finds a rising share of Americans who say things in the US are going badly and that the economy

By Kylie Atwood, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday evening as relations between the two countries have remained tense in recent months, particularly in cyberspace, with the US having accused China of widespread malfeasance, including a massive hack of Microsoft’s email system and other ransomware attacks. “The two leaders

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Federal prosecutors cited seditious conspiracy as a crime under investigation in a recent search that appears to be related to the US Capitol riot probe, according to a court document supporting the search. The move, made known through the iPhone search of the Oath Keepers-linked Texas lawyer

By Michael Warren and David Wright, CNN Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday urged Republicans “to face the realities of the 2020 election and learn, not hide from them,” as he lobbed several thinly veiled criticisms at his one-time ally, former President Donald Trump. “​​We need to renounce the conspiracy theorists and the