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2 days ago | rollcall.com | Mary Ellen McIntire

One candidate got arrested and then sued an ally of President Donald Trump in response. Another ran an ad depicting a shirtless AI image of him fighting Trump in a boxing ring. A third has faced attacks over past campaign donations from a PAC linked to Trump’s onetime “first buddy,” Elon Musk. Such is this year’s Democratic primary for New Jersey’s open governorship: a six-way race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov.

3 days ago | rollcall.com | Mary Ellen McIntire

The special election to complete the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly’s term will be held on Sept. 9, Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Tuesday. Youngkin’s announcement sets off a just over three-month sprint to succeed Connolly, who died last month weeks after announcing that his esophageal cancer had returned. Connolly was in his ninth term representing Virginia’s 11th District, a safely blue suburban seat centered on the city of Fairfax, outside Washington.

3 days ago | rollcall.com | Mary Ellen McIntire

Antonio Delgado, a Democrat who left Congress in 2022 to serve as New York lieutenant governor, will challenge his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, for the state’s top job. His announcement Monday was not wholly unexpected. Delgado said in February that he would not run alongside Hochul next year and that he would explore “all options” as he weighed his next steps. Still, it’s unusual for a lieutenant governor to directly challenge a sitting governor in a primary.

4 days ago | rollcall.com | R.J. Matson

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4 days ago | rollcall.com | David Lerman |Paul Krawzak

Skip to content Reconciliation headaches in Senate Republican senators want changes to the “big, beautiful” House reconciliation bill, from Medicaid to tax cuts and more. And House appropriators begin writing their fiscal 2026 spending bills while the Trump administration tries to claw back already approved funding. CQ Roll Call’s Paul M.