The Supreme Court has erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years old.
Election officials in states that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day say they are relieved that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an effort to outlaw the practice.
The Republican National Committee vastly outpaced Democrats in 2025, according to year-end filings to the Federal Election Commission.
Wisconsin Democrats are hoping to flip majority control of the Legislature and retain the governor's seat this year.
House Republicans plans to vote on a bill regulating college sports has been scrapped due to divisions within their caucus.
Many Republican leaders insist there's no problem with the GOP's policies, the party's message or President Donald Trump’s leadership, despite big losses in this month's elections.
Michael Whatley, chairman of the national Republican Party, plans to run for an open Senate seat in North Carolina in 2026, with the blessing of President Donald Trump, after Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, passed on the seat.
Certain voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will have their votes counted as long as their ballots were postmarked by Election Day and are received by Friday.
The last time Donald Trump ran for president, some of the lawyers most directly involved in his efforts to overturn the election wound up disbarred, criminally prosecuted or sued for millions.
The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.
Republican activists in swing states say they’ve seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first time next Tuesday as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics.
New U.S. charges allege that a media company linked to six conservative influencers was a front for a Russian influence operation.
In battleground states, a network of Republican political operatives and lawyers is trying to shape the November's election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party is scrambling to rescue a bid to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on Arizona’s presidential ballot.
Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign and its related affiliates say they raised $138.7 million last month.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee that sought to block Mississippi from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after after it.
As the third day of the Republican National Convention kicks off, Republicans are shifting the focus to national security and foreign policy in a bid to draw a stark contrast with Democrats’ handling of ongoing crises in Europe and the Middle East.
Conservative groups are systematically attempting to challenge large numbers of voter registrations across the country before the presidential election.
Former President Donald Trump claims he knows nothing about a plan for a massive overhaul of the federal government drafted by some of his former administration officials.
Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles that took in a record $30 million-plus for a Democratic candidate, according to his campaign.
The Republican National Committee is launching a battleground state initiative to mobilize thousands of polling place monitors, poll workers and attorneys to serve as “election integrity” watchdogs in November.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is calling on Republicans to drop lawsuits targeting mail voting now that Donald Trump has embraced the method.
Right-wing commentators and supporters of former President Donald Trump have flooded social media with images of upside-down American flags in protest of his historic guilty verdict.
Voters in New Jersey will choose candidates vying to replace Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, who has held the seat for more than 18 years.
Lara and Eric Trump both addressed North Carolina Republicans at the state's GOP convention to tout changes at the Republican National Committee and former President Donald Trump's race back to the White House.
The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated as police investigated two vials of blood addressed to former President Donald Trump.
Georgia Republicans have elected to the Republican National Committee a conservative activist who helped organize the pro-Donald Trump rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol.
At rallies and in social media posts, former President Donald Trump has been trying to assure Republican voters that casting ballots by mail and other forms of early voting are “all good options.”.
Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried and failed to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Republican National Committee is suing to stop Nevada from being able to count mail ballots received in election offices after Election Day.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.
House Democrats will vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, avoiding a repeat of when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to oust his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
Donald Trump has promised big plans for recruiting voters in Black, Latino and Asian communities.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others in an election interference case related to the 2020 presidential vote.
As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch.
Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections.
Donald Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the former president became the presumptive nominee and installed new party leadership.
NBC News' messy hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel puts a spotlight on television's practice of paying on-air political contributors.
Donald Trump’s political operation was widely praised for its professionalism and effectiveness throughout the Republican nomination fight.
NBC News will cut ties with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel, hired last week as an on-air political contributor.
Hosts across MSNBC's airwaves are following Chuck Todd in publicly criticizing their network for hiring former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor.
Donald Trump and his Republican allies are well behind President Joe Biden and Democrats on fundraising.
Donald Trump’s lieutenants are cutting dozens of staff across the Republican National Committee in a cost-cutting move that further cements the former president’s takeover of the GOP’s political and fundraising machinery.
GOP officials have voted to install Donald Trump’s handpicked chair of the Republican National Committee.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she no longer feels bound by a pledge that required all GOP contenders to support the party’s eventual nominee in order to participate in the primary debates.
At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization.
Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and handpicked choice to help lead the Republican National Committee said she thinks Republican voters would support having the political organization pay the former president’s ballooning legal fees.
Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new reality.
Michael Whatley, the chairman of North Carolina's Republican Party, has been named by Donald Trump as his pick to lead the Republican National Committee.
Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee.
Donald Trump is calling for a leadership change at the Republican National Committee in an attempt to install a new slate of loyalists — including his daughter-in-law — at the top of the GOP’s political machine even before he formally secures the party’s next presidential nomination.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel has discussed the possibility of stepping down during a private meeting with former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump has issued a warning to the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is calling for the party to unite behind the goal of defeating President Joe Biden.
Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has amassed about $130 million in the final months of last year, but after spending heavily he's headed into 2024 with more than $42 million.
The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors in Las Vegas this week, but top party officials will no longer consider a resolution proposed to declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.
The Republican National Committee has pulled a resolution to consider declaring Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive 2024 nominee” before he formally clinches the requisite number of delegates.
The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention have been released, but a major question is unaddressed: Can delegates vote for a different candidate if the party’s presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony.
By now, Americans should be well aware that the process of electing a president isn’t like electing a senator or governor.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign legislation in the coming days aimed at curbing deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media.
Three debates for next year’s presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9.
The field of candidates onstage for the third Republican presidential debate will be the smallest yet.
A fourth Republican presidential debate has been set for next month, with heightened polling requirements that could make the stage less crowded than before.
The third Republican presidential debate will be held in Miami on Nov. 8, and candidates will be facing the most stringent requirements yet to take part.
Sen. Tim Scott wants the Republican National Committee to change specifications for this month's presidential debate, suggestions that could put the South Carolina Republican in a better onstage position.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez claims he's qualified for next week’s Republican opening presidential debate.
The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election, a move advocates say would safeguard voters against a particularly insidious form of election disinformation.
Some Republican presidential candidates haven’t met polling and fundraising thresholds for the first 2024 debate, and now requirements for making it to the second debate will be even higher.
With six weeks until the first 2024 Republican presidential debate, some hopefuls are finding creative ways to boost their donor numbers and ensure they make it on stage.
Seven weeks before the premiere debate of the 2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event could prove messy and divisive for the party.
The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle will be held Aug. 23, and candidates participating must pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee.
Republican presidential candidates will be blocked from the debate stage this summer if they do not sign a pledge to support the GOP’s ultimate presidential nominee.
A newly released audio recording offers a behind-the-scenes look at how former President Donald Trump’s campaign team in a pivotal battleground state knew they had been outflanked by Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.
The Michigan House voted along party lines Tuesday to move the state's primary to the fourth week of February to match an early presidential primary plan approved by a Democratic National Committee panel last month.
The Republican National Committee is set to resolve a bitter leadership feud that is exposing dangerous divisions within a party that has struggled to move past a disappointing midterm ahead of a critical race for the White House.
Republicans and Democrats are being forced to confront critical questions about the people and policies they want to represent them as the next election season roars into view.
The Republican National Committee is currently consumed by an increasingly nasty leadership fight as the GOP navigates election losses and its delicate relationship with Donald Trump.
The Republican National Committee is moving forward with a new post-election audit designed to examine the GOP’s underwhelming performance in the recent midterms and the party’s broader struggles since former President Donald Trump rose to power.
