Author: David Mark

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised wholesale change for the nation. It will begin even before his Jan. 20 inauguration with complete turnover in Ohio’s Senate delegation. Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno on Nov. 5 beat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a populist liberal icon. Brown was first elected to the Senate in 2006 after…

The race for House control is a political game of inches. Democrats need to net four seats in the 435-member chamber to win a majority after two years in the political wilderness of the House minority. That’s no easy task because most House seats are drawn to favor one party safely. Obvious targets for Democrats…

PHOENIX — From the president down to county offices, Arizona ballots are nearly as long as this state’s record number of 100-degree days this year. The White House race between Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, leads the ballot. Both candidates and their respective running mates, Gov. Tim Walz…

KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — On a recent bustling Saturday night, cars parked in an upscale shopping center of this Philadelphia suburb included a healthy minority of license plates from neighboring Delaware. During President Joe Biden’s 36-year Senate career representing Delaware, he and his family were among these types of frequent, and barely, out-of-state visitors. After…

VANCOUVER, Washington — NFL linemen on Sundays and scattered other game days want to throw their rivals to the ground — or worse. Yet these often 6-foot-7-inch, 315-pound tacklers and defenders also show grudging respect for their professional opponents, who, like them, have reached the pinnacle of their profession through skill and hard work. In…

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump may live in Florida now, but he is embracing his New York roots. The Queens born-and-bred 2024 Republican presidential nominee said he agrees with a bipartisan push by members of New York’s congressional delegation to support expanding federal deductions for state and local taxes paid. That is a reversal of…

It’s a truism of North Carolina’s politics that every four years, the Republican presidential nominee wins the state’s electoral votes while a Democrat takes the governorship. For partisans, it’s like a bowling split, when a player knocks down some pins in a set of 10 but leaves others standing — a decent score electorally but…

Never promise what you can’t deliver. It’s a lesson many of us (hopefully) learn sometime by early adulthood. After all, it only leads to disappointment and loss of respect from the person or people who have been let down. The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has, for the third time in recent weeks, allowed…

CHICAGO — Before President Joe Biden announced he wouldn’t seek a second term, his chances of winning reelection were in the “single digits,” the leader of a big money outside group charged with aiding his campaign said on Monday. Chauncy McLean, head of Future Forward, a super PAC tapped by Biden’s reelection campaign in July…

Former members of Congress generally emphasize their bipartisan credentials. Instead of discussing pitched battles of years past pitting Democrats against Republicans and vice versa, they’re prone to reminisce instead about legislation they sponsored, foreign travel with lawmakers from the opposition party, and other efforts to work across the aisle. But ask any House Republican who…