Retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., has abandoned his neutrality in Michigan‘s high-stakes Democratic Senate primary, backing U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens as party leaders rally to stop progressive rival Abdul El-Sayed from winning the nomination. Peters, who is retiring after two terms in the Senate, announced the endorsement Monday, saying Stevens “will be ready on day one to fight for Michigan.” The move reverses his position from late May,...

Nominations, renewed fighting in Iran, government funding and President Donald Trump’s flagship election bill await the Senate as it returns this week. The upper chamber is coming back after a more than two-week hiatus to sprint through the remainder of July and march into the first week of August. And priorities have piled up, be it over divisions between the aisles or within the Senate GOP. Adding to...

The high-stakes fight between the left-wing and the center-left establishment for the future of the Democratic Party is moving to a much larger stage. After victories by far-left and socialist candidates in dark blue congressional districts in New York City and Colorado the past couple of weeks drew plenty of national attention, the spotlight now shifts to Midwestern battlegrounds. Hours after Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) backed challenger...