“Hakeem Jeffries’ path to winning the majority and becoming speaker runs through his backyard in New York, and he is methodically staging a takeover of Democratic House campaigns in the state to make it happen,” CNN reports. “Jeffries, a New York Democrat, is installing his own loyalists in key

David Leonhardt: “About 60 percent of U.S. voters do not have a four-year college degree, and they live disproportionately in swing states. As a result, these voters — often described as the American working class — are crucial to winning elections.” “Yet many of them are deeply skeptical of

“Federal prosecutors are investigating conservative-backed efforts in Wyoming to infiltrate the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2020 election,” CNN reports. The investigation appears to stem from a 2021 New York Times article that, citing interviews and documents, detailed “an undercover

Mark Mellman: “We Democrats have some extremists too, but they are far fewer and far less extreme than the Republicans. It’s all readily apparent to us. But not to ordinary voters.” “Equal numbers see the two parties as extreme…” “Neither party has a lock on the extremist label. While we Democrats

Asian American voters tend to lean away from the Democratic Party as their roots in the U.S. deepen, according to data from a Pew Research Center study.