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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Arkansas Supreme Court candidate and Pulaski County Circuit Judge Morgan Welch addresses the audience at the Bowen School of Law in Little Rock, Ark. Welch is running against Barbara Womack Webb in the March 3, 2020, election for the court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Jo Hart. (Stephen Swofford/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, File)

Arkansas candidate backed by GOP groups wins court race

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2018 file photo, then-California congressional candidates Josh Harder attends at the Take It Back California event where former President Barack Obama campaigns in support of California congressional candidates Anaheim, Calif. California is one of the most heavily Democratic states in the country, but Republicans this year are determined to regain a string of U.S. House seats the party lost to Democrats two years ago. President Donald Trump, who wants the House back under GOP control and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demoted, has said that with hard work Republicans &quot;can pick up seven seats in the state of California.&quot;(AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Republicans hope for US House turnaround in California

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

In this Sept. 26, 2019, file photo, former Republican Rep. Darrell Issa speaks during a news conference in El Cajon, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Campa-Najjar leads race for San Diego-area US House seat

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is applauded by sons Josh, center, and Tagg, left, as he speaks at a Colorado Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting in Denver, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

CPAC about-face on Mitt Romney reflects conservatives’ fickle taste in leadership

The Washington Times

In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at The Union Event Center in Salt Lake City. Democratic presidential candidates like to boast about their ability to lure away disaffected Republican voters. If there's a place to test their skills, it's Utah. The deep red state is a bastion of conservative resistance to President Donald Trump. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP, File)

Buttigieg ‘extremely vulnerable’ to attack for relying on Navy service

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2019, file photo, Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C. speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. With three of North Carolina’s 13 U.S. House incumbents not seeking reelection, nearly 30 congressional candidates are scrambling to win Tuesday, March 4, 2020 primaries in these districts with hopes of soon filling the rare number of open seats (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

3 open House seats draw slew of candidates in North Carolina

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

In this Jan. 12, 2020, photo, former Senator and Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks with the Montgomery Advertiser while campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat in Montgomery, Ala. Sessions is part of a crowded GOP primary field competing to challenge U.S. Sen. Doug Jones. (Mickey Welsh/Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Presidential, Senate races on Alabama’s Super Tuesday ballot

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during an Hispanic Heritage Month event, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hispanic voters siding with Trump in head-to-head matchup against Sanders: polls

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, photo, Taylor West poses for a photograph during a &quot;Republicans in Utah supporting Pete Buttigieg&quot; debate watch party in Salt Lake City. Democratic presidential candidates like to boast about their ability to lure away disaffected Republican voters. If there’s a place to test their skills, it’s Utah. Utah is “not a huge delegate win, but it represents who is a candidate that can realistically peel off some Republican or moderate or independently minded voters to build a coalition,” said West, an executive in the mountain town of Heber City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Moderate Democrats woo Utah Republicans turned off by Trump

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Donald Trump wins over Hispanics despite strict immigration stance

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, poses for a photo after a Democratic presidential primary debate at the Gaillard Center, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C., co-hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Pete Buttigieg military service pitch invites ‘Swift Boat’ sequel

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 Holly Grange, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor in the North Carolina primary, is seen during an interview in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Cooper, Forest need primary wins before governor’s showdown

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Oregon state Senate President Peter Courtney pauses after declaring in the state Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2021, that amid a boycott by Republican senators, not enough lawmakers were present to reach a quorum. The drastic move by Republicans in Oregon highlights how pitched the debate over how to respond to global warming is becoming, with the GOP saying leaving the Capitol was the only way to halt legislation they view as too extreme in a Legislature dominated by Democrats. Democrats warn that doing nothing at this point is too dangerous. In an interview with The Associated Press, Courtney, the longest-serving legislator in Oregon history, said he has not found a way out of the impasse and is broken hearted. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Democrats: GOP walkout in Oregon is stalling key bills

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by the GOP leadership, speaks to reporters just after meeting with Attorney General William Barr to discuss expiring provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other government intelligence laws, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related bills

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Kankakee County Sheriff Mike Downey, left, joins Livingston County Sheriff Tony Childress, right, at the state Capitol Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Springfield, Ill., protesting the end of a practice by the Illinois Department of Corrections to transfer released inmates who have warrants or immigration detainers to Pontiac Correctional Center, where the Kankakee Sheriff's Department picked them up and detained them for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation hearings. Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration says it halted the policy because it violates the state's Trust Act which limits local police agencies' cooperation with federal immigration officials. (AP Photo by John O'Connor)

Sheriffs: Illinois halts transfer of some facing deportation

By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press

Tennessee lawmakers look to change sex offender legislation

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

This Sept. 13, 2019, photo shows the closed office of Indiana Virtual School, in Indianapolis, with a message to creditors taped to the door stating that it no longer had assets or bank accounts. A new state audit report said Indiana Virtual School and a sister online school inflated their enrollments by thousands of students and inappropriately paid nearly $86 million to companies linked to the schools' founder or his associates. (AP Photo/Tom Davies)

Indiana Republicans say law adequate despite school fraud

By TOM DAVIES - Associated Press

Minnesota US Rep. Jim Hagedorn announces he has cancer

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, from left, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., greet each other before the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Democratic presidential hopefuls are offering different approaches to the central challenge of how to talk about the polarizing debate over abortion. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Democrats diverge on outreach to anti-abortion swing voters

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

Finance panel pushes GOP tax cuts to full Senate, Assembly

By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press