Elections News Cultural Issues And The 2024 Election

Trump ‘most important president in maybe 100 years’

Pollster Brent Buchanan's new book said when it came to nailing emotion in the 2024 race, Trump won hands down. Read More

Democrats made gains with young men in 2025, but holding edge for midterms is no sure thing

Democrats saw increased turnout from young men during the 2025 elections, but both parties view the group as unpredictable in the 2026 midterm elections. Read More

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards

From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds. They empha ... Read More

What we can — and can't — learn from next week's elections: From the Politics Desk

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign ... Read More

A big election night for Democrats and the Supreme Court’s tariffs showdown: Morning Rundown

What the big race election night results tell us about the future. The Supreme Court takes on Trump's signature economic policy. And, the conservative American families searching for a new home in ... Read More

Election Day takeaways: Democrats dominate as economic woes take a toll on Trump's GOP

Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. And while a debate about the future of the Democratic Party may have only just begun, there ... Read More

Hearing in case that could rewrite the rules of religion in politics

A Texas hearing saw pushback to the federal government's recent reversal of a decades-long precedent that banned churches from endorsing politicians. Read More

Economic anxiety keys Dem sweep in high-stakes races as left leverages voter frustration

Democrats claimed victory in a trio of high-stakes elections that largely focused on economic anxiety and affordability issues. New Jersey Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill defeated Republican ... Read More

Harvard Researchers Say Strong Campaigns, Effective Anti-Trump Messaging Boosted Democrats in 2025 Elections

He was listening. People don’t do that.” Ganz, who met with Trump and Harris campaign leadership immediately after the 2024 election, said he recalled that the Harris campaign “had been trying to tell ... Read More

Here's the real reason Trump won in 2024, according to economists.

Many observers saw the 2024 election as a triumphal affirmation of Donald Trump’s Republican agenda, and as a sweeping repudiation of the Democrats. One year later, a number of economists say the ... Read More

The real reason why Democrats are so unpopular

The Democratic Party has spent most of the past decade deciding to lose. Or so argues a new report from Welcome PAC, an organization that backs center-left candidates, so as to build “a big-tent ... Read More