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A political consultant paid him to add fake votes for certain candidates.

Former Navy combat pilot Mike Garcia won an improbable victory for an open U.S. House seat _ running as a Trump Republican in a district on the fringe of heavily Democratic Los Angeles

A swing U.S. House district north of Los Angeles is up for grabs Tuesday in a special election that has become an early test for President Donald Trump as he seeks a second term. Trump has sought to bring his influence to the fight between Republican Mike Garcia and Democrat Christy Smith for California’s 25th District, which cuts through...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday endorsed Joe Biden’s bid for president during a livestream with the former vice president.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker responded to critics who said Illinois’ March primary should have been postponed after a poll worker died from coronavirus. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced on a live video stream that he would be endorsing Joe Biden for president.

Voters in Wisconsin face a choice Tuesday of participating in a presidential primary election or heeding warnings from public health officials to stay away from large crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump’s campaign has sent a letter demanding his former attorney general Jeff Sessions stop tying himself to Trump in campaign materials

Indiana’s political leaders on Friday announced they’ve decided to postpone the state’s May 5 primary because of the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb said in a news conference at the Statehouse with the state GOP and Democratic chairmen that the primary would be moved to May 2. All dates corresponding with the primary election...

Ohio postpones primary due to coronavirus concerns; Arizona, Florida and Illinois move forward with voting.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday fired back at Chicago Board of Elections officials’ claim that he denied their request to postpone the election or move to all mail-in ballots as the global coronavirus pandemic grips the state.

Polls across Illinois opened Tuesday morning despite the coronavirus pandemic. Susan Carlson reports.

Chicago Election officials say they wanted to move to a mail-in only model and cancel in person voting in Tuesday’s Illinois Primary, but were rejected by the governor’s office. Chicago Board of Elections spokesman Jim Allen said the call was made to Springfield within hours of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifying the coronavirus outbreak as a...

Louisiana will postpone its presidential primaries set for next month, becoming the first state to take the step as fears about the coronavirus outbreak spread.  The state will push its presidential nominating contests back to June 20 from the planned date of April 4, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced Friday. It has also delayed its municipal elections until July…

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is blasting President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and outlining how he would combat the threat differently by relying more heavily on global alliances and listening more closely to the recommendations of scientists

The Democratic National Committee approved up to 12 debates, with six occurring in 2019 and six more set for 2020. The first four debates of 2020 will be held in early voting states, in some cases days before those contests. Who’s Running for President in 2020? The field of Democratic 2020 presidential candidates is packed, though some have already dropped out. Those…

 Bernie Sanders is vowing to press ahead with his presidential campaign at least long enough to debate Joe Biden this weekend, even while acknowledging his deficit in the Democratic race may be insurmountable. The Vermont senator on Wednesday offered no further details on what his campaign may look like before or after he and Biden — the last two major…

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock says he’ll run for the U.S. Senate

For as disappointing as Super Tuesday may have been for Bernie Sanders, it could have been a lot worse had California – one of the youngest states in the country – not moved its primary up several months. But the path ahead is more challenging for the Vermont senator, with some of the states that have the nation’s oldest electorate…

Black voters propelled Joe Biden to huge victories in the South on Super Tuesday, giving his campaign a momentous boost and cementing his front-runner status in the race