State Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt is the second well-known candidate to enter the race to succeed Whitmer, who has ...

Republican state Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt announced his candidacy, becoming the first major party candidate in ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she does not want to pick a fight with President-elect Donald Trump, but she won't back ...

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Alaska has a Republican triplex and a divided trifecta. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor and attorney general. The Republican Party controls the upper chamber of the state ...

The reason has less to do with Trump and his ambitions than with how power dynamics have shifted within the Republican Party. In our forthcoming book, “The Origins of Elected Strongmen ...

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jefferies attempted to push past the Republican tumult of the past two years, saying it was time to come together, put party politics aside “to get things done ...

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