decision 2021

Just one month after entering the race for governor of New Jersey on a platform that was ardently pro-Trump, one of the president’s most prominent supporters in the state abruptly ended his campaign. Doug Steinhardt, the former chairman of the state’s Republican Party, announced his candidacy Dec. 11 on a platform whose very first sentence described him as a...

Businessman and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to run for mayor of New York City, the city’s Campaign Finance Board confirmed on Wednesday. Yang’s filing has the potential to immediately upend a race that was shaping up as a contest between long-entrenched city politicians. It comes just days after a new poll giving him a slight...

Statewide judicial races will be among Pennsylvania’s most closely watched election contests in the coming year.