Forget who controls Congress, consider how the nation’s gubernatorial election cycle over the next 16 months will be chock-full of significant implications for the country’s political future. There ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger's win Tuesday over Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears makes her the first woman to be elected governor of Virginia. Spanberger, 46, is a former U.S. representative and ...

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House ...

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