Four Democrats are running for Democratic National Committee chair, looking to take on the task of reinvigorating a party demoralized by a second loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

Nearly a month after a devastating election loss that exposed cracks in the very foundation of their party, Democrats remain deeply divided over the extent of their political problem — or even if they have one.

Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, says he's joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington.

The chair of the Democratic National Committee has informed party leaders that the organization will elect his successor just days after Donald Trump is inaugurated.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.

The Democratic Party faces existential questions after Donald Trump’s resounding victory.

Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West.

The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week have embarked on a bus tour through their states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid.

Democrats have denounced the conservative Project 2025 blueprint in hundreds of ads and billboards, printed it in oversized book form as a convention prop and mentioned it frequently.

Presidential contenders Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are using the week before their debate to sharpen their economic messages about who could do more for the middle class.

Vice President Kamala Harris has used a New Hampshire campaign stop to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep Robert F.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it's now raised $540 million for the presidential race against Donald Trump.

Would she be there or not.

It’s been nearly two weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris officially won the Democratic presidential nomination in an online vote.

Black male voters are traditionally one of the most consistently Democratic-leaning demographics in the nation.

Four days before the Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, the platform the party’s delegates are poised to approve there names the wrong candidate for president.

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Cities seldom launch big-ticket infrastructure projects to host a political convention, but landing the high-profile events often provides a nudge to speed up construction.

The Democratic National Committee is launching its first round of paid advertising in seven battleground states for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign.

Vice President Kamala Harris says she's ready for the fight against Republican Donald Trump after securing enough votes from Democratic delegates to become her party’s presidential nominee.

Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison says Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough votes from party delegates to become the party's presidential nominee.

Democratic delegates have selected Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nominee.

Vice President Kamala Harris is the only White House hopeful who has qualified to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination.

President Joe Biden decried “extremism” that he says has undermined public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court, as he called on Congress to quickly establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices.

Democratic National Convention delegates can make Vice President Kamala Harris their presidential nominee — and even approve her yet-to be-named running mate — in online voting beginning next week.

Vice President Kamala Harris has about a month to convince the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to make her the party’s presidential nominee.

The Democratic Party plans to push forward with a virtual roll call in which delegates to its convention can choose its presidential nominee before they meet in person for next month in Chicago.

Kamala Harris is smashing fundraising records as the Democratic Party’s donors — big and small — open their wallets for the vice president in the immediate aftermath of President Joe Biden's stunning decision to step aside.

President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from his reelection bid and his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris to take on Republican Donald Trump in November has scrambled what had once been a settled and suspense-free Democratic presidential nomination contest.

President Joe Biden giving up his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris makes her the prohibitive favorite to be the party’s nominee in November.

Democrats are quickly rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris as their likely presidential nominee after President Joe Biden’s ground-shaking decision to bow out of the 2024 race.

Some House Democrats are wary of swiftly nominating President Joe Biden as the party’s pick for reelection.

Democrats are trying to offer political counterprograming to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, announcing $15 million to fund campaign operations in seven key swing states.

For more than two weeks now, the Democratic Party has been mired in crisis.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee have reported raising $264 million in the year’s second quarter.

Alarm bells have been going off ever since in what many in Biden’s own party classified as a shaky performance as he shared the debate stage with presumptive Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump.

Being a political boss in New Jersey ain’t what it used to be.

The presidential primary calendar has officially come to an end with weekend victories for Democratic President Joe Biden in Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee say they they raised more than $51 million in April, falling well short of the $76 million that Donald Trump and the Republican Party reported taking in for the month.

The Democratic National Committee’s rulemaking arm has voted to seat New Hampshire’s full slate of delegates at the party’s convention this summer, ending a bitter feud with the state over its presidential primary no longer being the first in the nation.

Rep. Dean Phillips will receive at least three delegates from the Ohio Democratic primary, but he is encouraging those delegates to support President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention this summer.

The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal.

In any election year, there’s a fuzzy line between governing and campaigning.

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee report raising more than $90 million in March and ending the year’s first quarter with $192 million-plus in cash on hand.

The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission, accusing presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr_ of a “ballot access scheme.”.

Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has amassed about $130 million in the final months of last year, but after spending heavily he's headed into 2024 with more than $42 million.

There’s something different this year about this year's first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, at least on the Democratic side.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee have announced raising more than $97 million in the final three months of last year.

New Hampshire’s attorney general has ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop calling the state’s unsanctioned presidential primary “meaningless,” saying doing so violates state law.

National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year’s election.

Police and protesters have clashed outside Democratic National Committee headquarters during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Michigan Democrats have warned the White House that President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war could put his reelection campaign in jeopardy in the key swing state next year.

President Joe Biden wasn’t successful in unseating New Hampshire from the first-in-the-nation primary slot it has held for more than a century, but his decision not to appear on the state’s 2024 primary ballot has nonetheless added a new wrinkle to the contest and created complications for his campaign, state election officials and voters.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $71 million for his reelection in the three months ending Sept. 30, a strong indication that party donors remain united behind him going into a 2024 race that may feature a rematch with Donald Trump.

Iowa’s Democratic Party says it will hold a caucus on Jan. 15 but won’t release the results until early March.

President Joe Biden is staking his reelection bid on the political and financial muscle of the Democratic National Committee.

After having just four official staffers on payroll last quarter, President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign has announced that former White House aide and congressman Cedric Richmond is joining as co-chair.

Iowa Republicans say the party’s presidential nominating caucuses will be held Jan. 15, on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. That announcement Saturday puts the first votes of the 2024 election a little more than six months away as the GOP tries to reclaim the White House.

President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul his party’s 2024 presidential primary schedule remains unsettled.

President Joe Biden has named Tom Perez, the former labor secretary and Democratic National Committee chairman, as a senior adviser and his liaison to state and local governments.

President Joe Biden’s small but notable past missteps when courting Hispanic voters have some activists worried that his reelection campaign won’t get crucial details right ahead of the 2024 election.

President Joe Biden’s small but notable past missteps when courting Hispanic voters have some activists worried that his reelection campaign won’t get crucial details right ahead of the 2024 election.

Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has set the battleground state’s 2024 presidential primary for March 12.

Iowa Democrats are proposing a novel way to get around their demotion from the leadoff spot on the party’s presidential nominating calendar: They would still put on the first-in-the-nation caucuses but would be open to withholding the results until after other states hold their contests.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris feted about 150 of the Democratic Party’s top donors in Washington Friday evening.

Democrats have chosen Chicago to host their 2024 national convention.

The Democratic Party has approved the reordering of its 2024 presidential primary.

President Joe Biden sounded like a candidate making his case for a second term as he rallied a raucous meeting of national Democrats who chanted, “Four more years!”.

Bitter divisions dominated a recent national Republican Party gathering.

New Hampshire Democrats are asking the national party not to “punish” them while overhauling its 2024 presidential primary calendar.

No sooner had President Joe Biden told Democrats his preference for reordering the presidential primary calendar than states began balking.

President Joe Biden says Democrats should give up “restrictive” caucuses and move to champion diversity in the order of their presidential primary calendar.

Democrats gathering to consider shaking up the order of their 2024 presidential primary are waiting on President Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his high-dollar fundraisers for Democratic candidates and party committees in the closing weeks before Election Day in November.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Sept. 27, will be in Orlando to attend a Democratic National Committee rally, according to a news release from the White House.

A boisterous mood marked the Democratic National Committee’s recent summer gathering near Washington.

President Joe Biden says if Democrats lose the upcoming midterm elections, it’s going to be a “difficult two years,” and he’s going to be spending a lot of time “with the veto pen.”.

Democrats are poised to boot Iowa from its traditional lead-off spot in the presidential nominating calendar in 2024.

The Democratic Party is delaying a decision on potentially reordering its primary calendar for the 2024 presidential election until after November’s midterm elections.

The Democratic National Committee is launching a digital ad campaign to energize its voters after last month’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

President Joe Biden is calling his predecessor, Donald Trump, “the great MAGA king” and continuing sharp criticism against Republicans ahead of midterm elections that could be bruising for Democrats.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation.

During the recent standoff over the nation's debt limit, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell showed just how far he'll go to stop President Joe Biden’s agenda.

Staff members at the Democratic National Committee in Washington have opted to organize a union for collective bargaining rights, party and union officials said Tuesday.

Nevada’s governor has signed a law making the Western state the first to vote on the 2024 presidential primary contests, bumping Iowa and New Hampshire from their leadoff spots.

House Democrats are hustling to pass the most ambitious effort in decades to overhaul policing. The bill would ban chokeholds and “qualified immunity” for law enforcement and create national standards for policing in a bid to bolster accountability. “Our law enforcement officers need more funding not less,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., said during Wednesday's debate. AdPolice unions and other law enforcement groups have argued that, without such legal protections, fear of lawsuits will stop people from becoming police officers — even though the measure permits such suits only against law enforcement agencies, rather than all public employees. California Rep. Karen Bass, who authored the bill, understands the challenge some House members face in supporting it.

Democrats in Nevada are making a play to bump Iowa and New Hampshire from their early spots on presidential primary calendar. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)LAS VEGAS – Democrats in Nevada are making a play to bump Iowa and New Hampshire from their early spots on the presidential primary calendar. Nevada Democrats also plan to make their case in the coming months to the DNC, which sets the party's nominating process. Some of the state party's governing committee acknowledge there's internal debate over whether the leadoff caucus is worth fighting over. But others say Iowa Democrats should instead be focused on winning elections — after years of watching the state trend Republican.

Sen.-elect Warnock shares more than a party with Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail and their victories are emboldening religious liberals. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail — and their victories are emboldening religious liberals. Warnock and Biden are hardly the only two national-profile Democrats driving the party’s evolution toward engagement on spiritual matters. Despite coming from different partisan backgrounds, both Head and Wear advised Democrats to avoid embracing religious rhetoric for purely political purposes. She described the disparate religious backgrounds of Warnock, Ossoff, Biden and Buttigieg as an unsung asset for the party.

President Donald Trump speaks during an NBC News Town Hall with moderator Savannah Guthrie, at Perez Art Museum Miami, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami. His Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, participated in an ABC town hall from Philadelphia at the same time. __9:50 p.m.Democrat Joe Biden says President Donald Trump has not been “chastened” by the claims of racial injustice that have marked his presidency. ___9:20 p.m.President Donald Trump tried to end his contentious town hall meeting on a positive note. ___9:15 p.m.President Donald Trump demurred when asked whether he supports overturning Roe v. Wade.

But their task has been complicated by President Donald Trump baseless claim that mail voting will lead to massive fraud, which has led far fewer GOP voters to request mail ballots than Democratic ones. The site even allows voters in certain states to provide signatures on their online ballot applications. Other Democratic-aligned groups have also invested in new ways to get out the mail vote. Priorities USA, a major Democratic group, launched a $7.5 million digital ad campaign last month promoting mail voting to voters of color who have never voted by mail before. The ads will pop up alongside searches for mail voting and information about the election.

FILE-In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 file photo, Tom Perez, left, chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Nikema Williams, chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, speak with reporters, in Atlanta. Georgia Democrats have selected state Sen. Nikema Williams, chair of the state party, to replace Rep. John Lewis on the ballot in November. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Even if one candidate has more delegates than the other, that’s only a “plurality,” not a majority, per party rules. Candidates who earned delegates, but have since dropped out of the race, can try to push their delegates onto another candidate. A candidate needs to earn 2,375 delegates on subsequent ballots to win the nomination. However, having a contested convention is something the Democratic National Committee will do its best to avoid in the coming months. The last time a contested convention occurred was in 1952.