A Democratic candidate won a state Senate special election in Iowa, which wouldn’t be especially notable were it not for the fact that it was a Republican-held seat in a district that Donald Trump won by 21 points.

Gary Peters' exit creates a highly contested U.S. Senate battleground seat expected to be coveted by both major political parties.

Pete Buttigieg, 43, a former presidential candidate who's viewed as a rising star by many in Democratic politics, had been floated as a potential candidate for governor next year.

Not if she wanted to reach the target audience aged 14 and older. “They pick up on it if you’re not playing straight. They know if you are talking down to them or if you are trying to brag when it’s not merited,

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to propose “record high” per-pupil funding in her upcoming budget proposal for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026, her office told the Michigan Advance. The current FY 2025 School Aid budget,

Mallory McMorrow, a state senator who won national Democratic acclaim in 2022 with a speech defending liberal values while identifying herself as a “straight, white, Christian, married suburban mom,” said she had not ruled out a run for either governor or the Senate.

Friends and family of the Detroit man want him to be able to serve a life-in-prison sentence in Michigan instead of being executed in Alabama.

Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene.

Gov Gretchen Whitmer agreed with "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin, who said during the show on Tuesday that "Brown people" were being targeted by Trump's immigration policy.

President Trump last week ordered an end to diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies in the federal government.

Donald Trump has ordered a halt on federal funding, as he talks about lowering taxes for billionaires. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) joins The ReidOut with Joy Reid to discuss this and her new book,

In a little-noticed move, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a directive Friday for the heads of state departments and agencies to review executive orders issued by President Donald Trump that would,