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California Secretary of State Alex Padilla reminded voters Tuesday that they have until the end of the night to register to vote or update their voter registration for the state’s March 3 presidential primary. Residents can register or update their registration information by midnight Tuesday. However, voters who miss the deadline will still have the ability to cast a primary…

After North Carolina’s congressional district maps were thrown out by a court last week, Republicans are facing the prospect of having to draw new, fairer boundaries that could give Democrats a boost and put a handful of GOP-held seats in danger, according to experts. Those existing maps cannot be used for the coming elections, including the March presidential primary, the...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign says its headquarters in Manchester, New Hampshire, was broken into, along with other offices in the same building. Andrew Taverrite, Warren’s New Hampshire communications director, says in a statement that the break-in occurred Wednesday night and “we have no reason to believe this was targeted to the campaign or is anything further than a...

The Trump campaign and Republican Party sued California on Tuesday over a new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in the state’s primary.

For the first time, Latino elected officials and voters are getting a real full-court press from Democratic contenders during the early stages of the primary process. The reason for the shift is simple: this time around, they could play a much more prominent role in picking the nominee, NBC News reports. Depending on how the race unfolds, Latinos might even...

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday pitched a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s systems for securing its elections, including the creation of a “uniform federal ballot” and the replacement of the independent commission that currently helps administer the vote. Warren’s latest in a series of hefty policy proposals — which have become a trademark as she climbs in the...

The fish fry is a highlight of a big political weekend in South Carolina. Candidates also attended the state party’s annual fundraising gala Friday evening ahead of the Clyburn party. The state party convention and a Planned Parenthood forum on abortion rights follow on Saturday. For South Carolina Democrats, it’s the culmination of several decades of work raising the state’s...

It was 2016 and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a problem. Wanting to coax the small city’s approximately 4,500 undocumented immigrants out of the shadows to help them access services, Buttigieg toyed with the idea of some type of municipal identification card for those who couldn’t obtain driver’s licenses or other government IDs. The result was an innovative,...

Vermont senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was back in the Bay Area Sunday.

NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June, the Democratic National Committee announced Thursday. The debate could be held over two consecutive nights in prime time, given the anticipated size of the field, the DNC said. NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will broadcast the debate simultaneously on back-to-back weeknights in June, should multiple…

President Donald Trump escalated his immigration rhetoric at a midterm rally in Texas on Monday, falsely accusing Democrats of “encouraging millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation.”

California Gov. Jerry Brown signs legislation to move up state’s 2020 presidential primary to March.

With less than one day to go before Election Day, voters across the Bay Area took advantage of the early voting period to make sure their selections were submitted and accounted for.

Bay Area voters showed up in big numbers Tuesday, but some of them had a complaint about their ballots – namely party affiliation confusion.

Current and former Democratic mayors from around the country were in the Bay Area Saturday, lending their support to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary run.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are gearing up for what is sure to be a tough California primary, with both presidential hopefuls setting up California headquarters in the East Bay.

Tuesday night brought big victories for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the New York presidential primary. Clinton and Trump are now rolling towards their party nominations. California could be the icing on the cake.

George Clooney says most of the money raised at a fundraiser he hosted for Hillary Clinton will not actually be going directly to the presidential candidate. Is that true? Sam Brock investigates.