The Washington state Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to make harassing election workers a felony, three months after four county election offices received envelopes containing suspicious powder — including three testing positive for fentanyl — and had to be evacuated. “This cannot be something we take as normal,” Democratic Sen. Manka Dhingra said during the vote. “We have to make sure that our election workers are protected, that people...

Sen. Tim Scott, talked up former President Trump as he spoke with reporters after early voting on Thursday in South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary. Scott, the positive conservative champion who ended his own White House run in November and endorsed Trump last month, said Americans want “someone who was more forceful, more provocative and a little bit more rambunctious” as he pointed towards Trump. Trump, the commanding front-runner...