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Menin’s Fair Fares push tests Mamdani
DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 36 ALL’S FARE: City Council Speaker Julie Menin portrayed Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration today as stuck running a failing mass transit discount program. The alternative? Her own plan to provide free fares to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Drawing that very particular contrast served as an attempt to turn…
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The POLITICO Poll – April 2026 SAVE Act
The POLITICO Poll results on Americans’ views of the SAVE America Act.
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Tennessee unveils new congressional map poised to erase Dem seat
Tennessee Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a proposed congressional map that slices into the state’s majority-Black district and will likely secure them an all-GOP federal delegation. The redraw comes as Republican-led Southern states scramble to enact new maps in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling that weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act…
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Former ICE official falls short in Ohio battleground district GOP primary
Former ICE official Madison Sheahan lost a GOP primary in a battleground Ohio House district on Tuesday, a relief to Republicans who worried she could sabotage their chances of flipping the seat. Former state Rep. Derek Merrin won the GOP nomination in the 9th Congressional District for the second cycle in a row, and will…
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‘The Kamala Harris problem’: Vance’s 2028 hopes hinge on Trump, Iowa Republicans say
DES MOINES, Iowa — Vice President JD Vance was greeted warmly by Republicans in Iowa on Tuesday, with would-be caucus goers and strategists optimistically curious about his potential as a 2028 presidential contender. But first, they’re hoping he can help turn the economy around. Vance’s fate is unavoidably linked to President Donald Trump’s. He’ll either…
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With Indiana, Trump asserts his grip on the GOP
President Donald Trump flexed his grip on the GOP base in Indiana on Tuesday, vanquishing a majority of the Republican state senators who had dared cross him on redistricting. It was a show of force in the year’s first major test of Trump’s power over the GOP. Trump aligned groups dumped millions against the eight…
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Billionaires of the world, unite!
DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 35 VORNADO CHIEF SLAMS MAMDANI: Billionaire real estate magnate Steve Roth is standing strong with fellow billionaire Ken Griffin in his spat with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Instead of being singled out and scorned in viral videos, Roth, CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, thinks the ultra-rich should be “praised and thanked,”…
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It’s showtime for Trump’s revenge tour. Will he win?
President Donald Trump’s power as the GOP’s kingmaker faces a major test with this month’s primaries. So far, he’s on rocky footing. His revenge tour kicks off Tuesday in Indiana, as he tries to oust eight Republican state legislators who blocked his redistricting effort there. Then it moves on to Louisiana and Kentucky, where he’s…
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Republicans’ youth voter problem
Two years after young voters swung to the right in 2024, helping return Republicans to unified control of Washington, economic concerns are pushing 18- to 34-year-olds back to the left for the midterms, according to a new national survey of more than 1,000 young Americans. The poll from nonpartisan outfit Generation Lab, shared exclusively with…
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A note to our readers
As I begin my first week as POLITICO’s Global Editor-in-Chief, I want to start by thanking you — our readers and subscribers — for the trust you place in POLITICO. Our best-in-class reporters and editors — all 550 of them around the globe — start each day focused on a singular mission: delivering original, authoritative…