Countdown ’24

In the lead-up to the 2024 election, some state lawmakers have ramped up efforts to protect GOP gerrymanders and curtail the power of both voters and election officials.

There are just four months left until Iowa Republicans and Democrats plan to caucus Jan. 15, 2024. But there are still a number of remaining questions on the presidential nominating calendar in both parties.

Can the 14th Amendment keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot because of his alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection?

The trials of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants are set to start in October in the Fulton County, Georgia case over racketeering charges for allegedly attempting to overturn 2020 presidential election results.

Key hearings in two of former President Donald Trump's four criminal indictments are scheduled for Monday, with expectations of new information on Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump holds a strong lead in the latest Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll published Monday morning. 

It's been a busy week on the 2024 campaign trail, with candidates headed to the Iowa State Fair to mingle with caucus goers, meet with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and grill pork chops in the lead-up to the 2024 Iowa caucuses.

In the wake of former President Donald Trump's most recent indictment for allegedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election, fellow Republican contestants for the 2024 presidential nomination renewed criticisms of the federal justice system.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has faced backlash from both Democrats and members of the Republican Party for his support of Florida’s new Black history curriculum standards, which include guidance for students “to be told that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

As the campaign season progresses, some Republican supporters are predicting a shake-up in candidates leading the 2024 presidential race. 

Money isn't everything, but the weekend's campaign finance reports are making the chatter in the political world go 'round. Of key significance: Republican candidates have to reach a threshold of 40,000 individual donors to qualify for the first presidential primary debate next month.

Can activists persuade states to move to an open primary system? There are initiatives in South Dakota and Idaho to move from the states' closed party elections to an open primary. This allows voters to weigh in on candidates regardless of party -- either the voter's or the candidate's -- with the top two vote-getters advancing to the general election.