Projections as of March 24, 2023. Elo wins are based on a regressed version of 2022′s final Elo ratings.

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This is a tale of two pastors and two mass shootings. On a balmy June evening in 2015, a young man with a blunt bowl haircut walked into the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in ...

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Facing a Republican Party with a growing anti-democratic contingent, Democrats are debating what to do — to bolster their party and, in the view of some in the party, American democracy itself.