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US Sen. Ron Johnson: Liberals feel America isn't good enough

By Todd Richmond Jun. 26, 2021 08:10 AM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Saturday that America is making progress on racism but liberals feel it's not good enough and they want to...

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2020, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers speaks during a news conference in Kenosha, Wis., as Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, left, accompanies him. Gov. Evers made it official Saturday, June 5, 2021, announcing his bid for a second term in the battleground state where he stands as a Democratic block to the Republican-controlled state Legislature. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Wisconsin Democrats focus on beating Johnson, helping Evers

By Scott Bauer Jun. 05, 2021 09:19 PM EDT

Puneet Ahluwalia, candidate for Lt. Governor, works the line of cars during the Virginia GOP drive-thru primary to select candidates for the 2021 general election, Saturday, May 8, 2021, in Annandale, Va. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP)
GOP delegates in Virginia to choose nominee for governor

May. 08, 2021 01:03 AM EDT

This Jan. 10. 2021 image provided but the Youngkin for Governor campaign shows Glenn Youngkin in Richmond, Va. The GOP gubernatorial candidate will be chosen during the party's May 8 nominating convention. (Kate Magee Joyce/Youngkin for Governor Campaign via AP)
GOP seeks a candidate that can end its exile in Virginia

By Matthew Barakat And Bill Barrow May. 07, 2021 04:11 PM EDT

GOP candidates for governor make video pitches to delegates

By Matthew Barakat May. 02, 2021 01:35 PM EDT
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia's Republican candidates for governor touted plans to reopen schools and lift pandemic restrictions as they made videotaped...

Gov. Baker receives his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

Apr. 06, 2021 09:05 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker received his COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. The Republican governor got his first dose of the...

Virginia GOP to choose nominees at convention in Lynchburg

By Matthew Barakat Feb. 24, 2021 10:13 AM EST
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans have opted to hold an in-person convention at Liberty University in May to choose their nominee for governor,...

Georgia senators seek term limits, balanced budget conclaves

By Jeff Amy Feb. 22, 2021 01:11 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republicans are again pushing for the state to call for conventions to amend the U.S. Constitution to require a balanced federal budget...

In this Feb. 2, 2021, photo, Virginia Sen. Amanda Chase and Republican gubernatorial candidate, speaks from her desk at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond, Va. The national Republican Party is at war with itself, struggling to reconcile a bitter divide between former President Donald Trump’s fierce loyalists and those who want Trumpism purged from their party. Chase is a polarizing state senator who seems to have won the hearts and minds of the Trump faithful with her fiercely anti-establishment, pro-gun positions and her embrace of the false notion that Trump is the legitimate winner of the November election. (AP Photo/Ryan M. Kelly)
Chase sues Virginia GOP over gubernatorial convention plans

By Matthew Barakat Feb. 09, 2021 05:23 PM EST

FILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, candidate for Lt. Governor of Virginia, Pete Snyder, center, gestures as he talks to delegates during the opening of the Virginia Republican convention in Richmond, Va. Snyder has joined the crowded field seeking the Republican nomination for Virginia governor. The CEO of a capital investment firm, Snyder said in a campaign video released Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 that he was running as an innovator, disruptor and problem solver seeking to shake up state politics after “eight years of failed leadership” by Democrats in the governor’s mansion. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Republican Snyder joins crowded Virginia governor contest

By Sarah Rankin Jan. 26, 2021 04:58 PM EST

Arizona Republicans reelect fervent Trump ally as chair

By Jonathan J. Cooper Jan. 23, 2021 06:15 PM EST
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republicans on Saturday reelected Kelli Ward as party chair, giving a second term to one of Donald Trump's most unflinching supporters...

Michael White stands for a portrait Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in San Diego. The Navy veteran kept a handwritten document detailing the nearly two years he spent imprisoned in Iran. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the manuscript. In it, he catalogues physical abuse from his jailers and taunts from fellow inmates while held on dubious allegations. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Diary shows how quest for love landed Navy vet in Iran jail

By Eric Tucker Jan. 16, 2021 12:52 AM EST

FILE-In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, lobsterman Jason Joyce speaks at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump at the harbor at Camp Ellis in Saco, Maine. Joyce also spoke at the Republican National Convention, touting Trump's efforts to help the state's lobster industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Lobster biz hopes for stability after tumultuous Trump era

By Patrick Whittle Nov. 22, 2020 10:39 AM EST

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos observes a classroom setting Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Trump tests limits as Cabinet members fan out to key states

By Ben Fox Oct. 29, 2020 04:49 PM EDT

President Donald Trump stands on the balcony outside of the Blue Room as returns to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. A federal appeals court says Trump's accountant must turn over his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled Wednesday, Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Latest: Harris says Breonna Taylor didn't get justice

Oct. 07, 2020 02:30 PM EDT

People watch video screens before President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Health experts decry Trump's shunning of virus rules

By Darlene Superville And Deb Riechmann Aug. 29, 2020 11:15 PM EDT

President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AP FACT CHECK: Is US great again or dystopian? GOP says both

By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen And Josh Boak Aug. 29, 2020 08:51 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention in Washington. Trump sought to use this past week to make the case he alone has what it takes to maintain law-and-order and steer a virus-battered nation out of the public health and economic crisis, while branding the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as a Trojan horse being use by the radical left. But as the incumbent president emerges from the Republican National Convention, voters and GOP strategists say he still has work to do as he tries to win over suburban women and bolster his position with waffling supporters. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Trump still faces skepticism in suburbs following convention

By Thomas Beaumont, Aamer Madhani And Jonathan Lemire Aug. 29, 2020 12:04 AM EDT

FILE - Atlanta police officer J. Coleman, left, and protester Elijah Raffington fist bump while officers kneel down with protesters in a symbolic gesture of solidarity outside the CNN Center, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Atlanta during a protest sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. "These are images from Donald Trump's America today," Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. "The violence we're witnessing is happening under Donald Trump. Not me. It's getting worse, and we know why." (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn't always match reality

By Michelle R. Smith And Gillian Flaccus Aug. 28, 2020 04:18 PM EDT

A maintenance worker power-washes the state seal at an entrance of the capitol building on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The building has been closed to the public since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Legislative meetings and gubernatorial addresses are broadcast online. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
GOP delegates must self-quarantine in New Mexico, state says

By Morgan Lee Aug. 28, 2020 03:47 PM EDT