Republican primary

Georgia election officials are postponing the state’s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus

Fourteen states and one U.S. territory will hold “Super Tuesday” primaries or caucuses on March 3. The elections will award 1,357 delegates for the Democratic presidential candidates, more than a third of the total up for grabs before the party’s convention in July. This year’s Super Tuesday includes the nation’s two most populous states — California and Texas. The delegate...

Gov. Ron DeSantis filed an appeal Friday in a bid to lift a federal judge’s temporary order allowing some felons to regain voting rights despite failing to settle unpaid fines and other legal debts.

Singer John Legend was on hand to lend support Friday as 18 former felons were granted the right to vote in what Miami officials called a simple and streamlined process. NBC 6’s Steve Litz reports.

On Thursday, Arkansas authorities confirmed that the identity of a body found outside of a former Republican state lawmaker’s house in Pocahontas is Linda Collins-Smith. While police have not yet provided a cause of death, they have announced the case as a homicide. Collins-Smith served one term in the Arkansas state House, where she was originally elected in 2010 as...

Ducks Unlimited said Adam Putnam advocated for Florida’s water resources as commissioner and expanded its best management water practices program.

Florida Republican Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis is tapping a former House speaker to be education commissioner and a Democratic state representative to head the state’s Division of Emergency Management.

Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who became a hero within the Democratic Party while losing a surprisingly tight race against Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, has already been invited to New Hampshire to speak with voters and meet experienced political operators in the key primary state, CNBC has learned.

The Elections Canvassing Commission finalized the results shortly after 9 a.m., two weeks after the Nov. 6 election, after which candidates traded allegations of uncounted ballots and voter fraud.

The latest NBC News / Marist poll finds Gillum holding onto a slight lead, 50 to 46 percent, over GOP candidate and former U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis while Nelson also has a 50 to 46 percent lead over current Florida Governor and GOP candidate Rick Scott.

The candidates addressed Sen. Ted Cruz’s relationship with President Donald Trump and how it’s evolved since the 2016 presidential campaign.

The lawsuit from the League of Women Voters of Florida and Common Cause Florida maintains that Scott does not have the power to make the appointments ahead of when the positions will be vacant.

Democrats are hoping South Florida’s District 26 seat will be turning blue in November.

The pair will debate just over a week after President Donald Trump held a rally in Florida to pump up DeSantis’ campaign.

President Donald Trump’s Florida rally couldn’t have come at a better time for Republican U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, who may have locked up a primary victory as he seeks to become Florida’s next governor.

Few elections have as big an impact as the 2018 mid-terms, when a number of positions at the municipal, state and federal level are in play, including the Florida governorship, the election of a U.S. Senator from Florida and a couple of national Congressional seats. With the elections set for November 6, it is vital to be well informed in...

The state lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series will resign, according to a spokesman for Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. Rep. Jason Spencer will step down at the end of the month, spokesman Kaleb McMichen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Tuesday. In Sunday night’s broadcast of Cohen’s Showtime series...

The first state lawmaker in the nation to be first kicked out of office amid sexual misconduct claims since the #MeToo movement started can run for state Senate, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The justices said Don Shooter’s name can appear on the ballot in the Aug. 28 Republican primary because it appears he’s still a resident of the...

Corcoran said it’s expensive to run for a statewide office and he didn’t think he’d have the resources to mount a campaign.

Missouri lawmakers will convene in an historic special session later this month to consider impeaching Republican Gov. Eric Greitens following allegations of sexual misconduct and misuse of charity resources for his political campaign. Republican House and Senate leaders said Thursday night that they had gathered more than the constitutionally required signatures of three-fourths of the members of each chamber to...