Four years ago, Dan Cox won the Republican primary for governor of Maryland thanks to more than $1 million in television advertising on his behalf funded by the Democratic Governors Association. Now Mr. Cox — a devotee of President Trump who wrote on social media during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that…
President Trump’s grip on the Republican Party in the South, where he has enjoyed perhaps his greatest success lifting his chosen candidates over those he has perceived as disloyal, will be tested on Tuesday in three states featuring primary or runoff contests with candidates he backed. The top race of the day is in Georgia,…
Say this for Tom Steyer: He is persistent. Many billionaires, after blowing $342 million on a failed presidential run in 2020, would abandon the idea of trying to buy themselves a high-profile political office for which they were unqualified. Not Mr. Steyer. He just dropped $216 million on a failed bid for California governor. His…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — June is widely recognized as Pride Month, but a handful of Republican governors have bestowed alternative titles that both supporters and opponents view as counterprogramming. Without directly saying the idea was to replace Pride, the governors of Indiana and Tennessee rebranded June as Nuclear Family Month to celebrate units made…
After a turbulent primary campaign, Xavier Becerra, a former Biden administration official, was on the verge of pulling off a Lazarus-like comeback in the California governor’s race, based on election night returns. And Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host endorsed by President Trump, also appeared likely to advance to the general election for the…
Reporting Highlights Treated as a Liability: Emily Waldorf was denied care for a risky miscarriage due to Arkansas’ abortion ban, even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor’s office and got a lawyer. Lawyers, Not Doctors: Medical standards say it’s necessary for doctors to offer abortion. Women have died without it. But in…
For two hours on national television, seven candidates running for California governor wasted little time attacking one another on Tuesday night as they looked for memorable ways to differentiate themselves in the final weeks of the campaign. The debate at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, Calif., aired on CNN just as California began…
Tom Steyer, one of the front-runners in the California governor’s race, has said that he “walked away” from the hedge fund he managed years ago to “focus full-time on fighting climate change.” Mr. Steyer did step down as the chief executive of Farallon Capital, one of the nation’s largest hedge fund firms, in 2012. But…
The California primary election will begin to chart a course for the nation’s most populous state for years — and possibly generations — to come. The state’s long-ruling Democratic Party is at an inflection point, and residents continue to struggle with the high cost of living, fears over immigration raids and the ever-rising threat of…
From the water, the private sea wall in Rom Reddy’s backyard looks like a concrete fortress guarding his mansion in Isle of Palms, S.C., a wealthy beachfront community east of Charleston. A sign on it reads: “No trespassing. Private property.” Since 2023, he has been in a legal battle with South Carolina’s primary environmental agency…
