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They will mark the first nationwide referendum on the Trump era.

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CAPITAL SOURCE If no one else gets into the special election, it would be a match up between two young Democrats in a diverse district.  capital source State Representative Nick Collins of South Boston announced Friday that he will run.  “Look, I cannot be a woman of color. You know?” Congressman Mike Capuano, half-Irish and half-Italian, said.  CAPITAL SOURCE The primary for the seat previously held by Linda Dorcena Forry is April 3, and the special election is May 1.  Here’s a very short story about it.

Senator Orrin Hatch met with Mitt Romney in a hotel room in Washington last March and he had an idea: that Romney should run for Senate.  The Maryland senator filed for reelection, saying he will run very aggressive campaign on the issues.  Jay Gonzalez, a former state budget chief, said the one-time Senate president ought to leave the Legislature.  A poll found that Democrats are as likely as Republicans to say they plan to vote in this year’s congressional elections.  President Trump accused Democrats of being ‘‘un-American’’ — and perhaps treasonous — for refusing to cheer during his

Senator Orrin Hatch met with Mitt Romney in a hotel room in Washington last March and he had an idea: that Romney should run for Senate.  The Maryland senator filed for reelection, saying he will run very aggressive campaign on the issues.  Jay Gonzalez, a former state budget chief, said the one-time Senate president ought to leave the Legislature.  A poll found that Democrats are as likely as Republicans to say they plan to vote in this year’s congressional elections.  President Trump accused Democrats of being ‘‘un-American’’ — and perhaps treasonous — for refusing to cheer during his

Senator Orrin Hatch met with Mitt Romney in a hotel room in Washington last March and he had an idea: that Romney should run for Senate.  The Maryland senator filed for reelection, saying he will run very aggressive campaign on the issues.  Jay Gonzalez, a former state budget chief, said the one-time Senate president ought to leave the Legislature.  A poll found that Democrats are as likely as Republicans to say they plan to vote in this year’s congressional elections.  President Trump accused Democrats of being ‘‘un-American’’ — and perhaps treasonous — for refusing to cheer during his

“In all likelihood no, we won’t have a single unified position on that. There will be wide varieties based on where your state is. ... We won’t have a single Republican message,” Sen. MORE (R-Okla.) told reporters. A growing number of Senate Republicans are backing a scaled-back plan that would include only a DACA fix and a border security package — though the details of such an agreement would still need to be sketched out.  Sen. MORE (R-S.D.), the No. 3 Senate Republican, said the idea “may be the best we can hope for.”  Sen.

Democratic House campaigns made significant fundraising gains in the final months of 2017, putting the party in a strong position to fight for the House majority in the midterms.  Dozens of House Democratic challengers outraised their Republican incumbents in the last three months of the year, while only a small handful of Republican challengers outraised the Democratic incumbents they hope to face.  And Democratic challengers in races targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), House Democrats’ campaign arm, are in far better financial shape than GOP candidates in race

MORE on Sunday sent a Super Bowl message to Americans that called on them to stand during the national anthem. In a presidential message, Trump said that Americans “owe” the “greatest respect” to members of the armed forces, adding that their defense of the “American way of life” helps make the Super Bowl possible. “Their sacrifice is stitched into each star and every stripe of our Star-Spangled Banner,” Trump said.

Democrats on Sunday argued that the release of a controversial memo accusing the Justice Department of surveillance abuses does not vindicate MORE in the Russia investigation — and Republicans are also avoiding declarations of Trump's exoneration. Trump made the claim that the memo "totally vindicates" him in the Russia investigation in a Saturday tweet following the memo's release the day before. But Rep.