Thumbs-down emojis flowed onscreen as Washington-area employees learned they would have to show up five days a week. Their union called the move “callous.”
Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, told party employees on Wednesday that those in the Washington area must work in person at the party’s headquarters five days a week beginning in February.
Dale Romans, pitching himself as an independent-minded Democrat in the mold of Joe Manchin, will try to win a seat for the party in the deep-red state.
“I’d caucus with the Democrats, but I don’t have to vote with the Democrats,” Dale Romans, a champion horse trainer turned political candidate, said in an interview.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was presented with a ceremonial quilt by Native American tribal leaders as he appeared on Friday night at a Democratic gala in Omaha.
Republicans have a favorable midterm map, but this week’s elections provided new evidence that President Trump’s leadership in Washington is causing a backlash from voters.
In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party.
Representative Abigail Spanberger, Democrat of Virginia, campaigned on the same issue that propelled her to victory during her first House race in 2018: opposition to President Trump.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia during a trip to the White House this year. He has already signaled his interest in a national campaign, with a July visit to Des Moines.
The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia again made fighting the president central to their bids.
While other Democrats have tried to address their party’s failings with new strategies, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey are hoping to once again tap into anger at the president.
Representative Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey at a campaign event in October. Ms. Sherrill sees similarities between her race for governor and her initial run for Congress.
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