Jacob Weindling

Trump-backed judge Daniel Kelly became the first incumbent justice on Wisconsin's Supreme Court to lose reelection since 2008, as longtime swing districts like Kenosha County broke strongly for the Democrat in a result that has Republican strategists increasingly concerned about the presidential election.

Trump claimed that the president has "total" authority to reopen states against the wishes of governors, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo fired back: "We don't have a king."

President Trump falsely claimed he has the power to re-open states even if governor's object, and there are centuries of constitutional law and Supreme Court rulings proving that no president has the ability to do what Trump claims he can do.

Trump has claimed vote-by-mail is "corrupt" and that it would hurt the Republican Party, but many Republican governors and secretaries of state have moved in recent weeks to expand vote-by-mail.

Trump has boasted about his tariffs stopping China from taking advantage of the U.S. and helping American businesses, but those same tariffs seem to be limiting his administration's coronavirus response.   

Instead of recording the votes for and against the recent $2.2 trillion spending bill, Congress passed it via a "voice vote" where members' votes are not recorded in the congressional record.

Republicans like Nikki Haley are growing weary of Trump's daily coronavirus briefings, asserting that he should take a step back and allow medical experts more time to speak at the White House podium.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., both have proposed similar programs that differ greatly in size and scope, but the basic concept is the same: The government should pay worker's salaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new poll from Data for Progress indicates that black people and Americans under 45 have so far taken the most damage from the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joe Biden has pledged to choose a woman as his running mate, and given his advanced age and the lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy expressed in polling, there may not be a more consequential VP pick in modern history than this one.

The Federal Reserve announced a slate of unprecedented measures designed to help cities, states and small businesses struggling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, going much farther to backstop struggling finances than it did during the 2008 financial crisis.

The massive jobless claims coming in every week since the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown cast a cloud over President Trump's re-election chances. Or do they?

Seven of the most influential youth groups in the country who supported Bernie Sanders have begun to place pressure on Joe Biden, and issued a list of demands that if he accepts them, will unlock their $100 million in financial support and use of their political outreach resources to aid Biden's campaign.

In response to uproar around their sale of stock right after Sen. Loeffler's private coronavirus briefing, the NYSE CEO and Georgia Senator sold their individual stock holdings.

Senator Sanders emphasizes specific policy prescriptions to address the coronavirus crisis, while the former Vice President focuses on amorphous declarations of leadership, and the results to date provide an instructive window into how Democratic voters make decisions at the ballot box.

Trailing in delegates, Sanders suspended his campaign and cleared the way for Joe Biden to face Donald Trump in November.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an order of 200 million masks to be fulfilled every month, and if he is successful in doing so, California will obtain the same amount of N95 masks in four months that the federal government will procure in 18 months.

In the absence of widespread testing, epidemiologists have been using "flu-like" data to track the early spread of the coronavirus in the United States, and Florida has stopped reporting that data in a move that experts say will make tracking COVID-19's spread more difficult.

Despite public claims by President Trump that "we have it very much under control in this country," contemperaneous memos from one of his top economic advisers paint a much more dire and much less controlled picture of the situation.