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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), founded 1916, is the Democratic Party's Senate campaign arm recruiting candidates, fundraising, and making independent expenditures; counterpart to the NRSC, FEC ID C00042366, chaired by Kirsten Gillibrand for 2026.
Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign
Donald Trump's 2000 presidential campaign was an exploratory bid for the Reform Party nomination, led with Roger Stone, featuring a 14.25% wealth tax proposal, and withdrawn February 14, 2000 before Buchanan took the nomination.
Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: announced June 16, 2015, defeated 17 Republican rivals, and won the Electoral College 304-227 over Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote; rally-centered, media-driven campaign with a Facebook-heavy digital operation.
Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
The Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign was the Republican incumbent's unsuccessful re-election bid with Mike Pence, losing to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in November 2020.
Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign
Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign: announced November 15, 2022, won the GOP primary, chose JD Vance, defeated Kamala Harris 312-226 electoral votes on November 5, 2024, becoming the 47th president.
Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape
Access Hollywood tape: 2005 hot-mic recording of Donald Trump and Billy Bush bragging about groping women, published by the Washington Post Oct 7, 2016; drew GOP condemnations, a brief polling dip, and featured in Trump's hush-money trial.
Electoral history of Barack Obama
Barack Obama's electoral history includes three Illinois state senate victories, a 2004 U.S. Senate win, and two presidential elections, becoming the first Black president in 2008.
Faithless electors in the 2016 United States presidential election
Faithless electors in the 2016 US presidential election: seven electors voted against their pledges (five Clinton, two Trump), casting votes for Powell, Kasich, Ron Paul, Sanders, and Faith Spotted Eagle; the episode led to Chiafalo v. Washington (2020).
Florida's congressional districts
Florida's 28 U.S. House districts, redrawn under the Fair Districts amendment; DeSantis's 2022 map eliminated a North Florida Black-opportunity district for a 20-8 GOP edge, and a 2026 mid-decade map adds up to four more Republican seats amid ongoing lawsuits.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference
The Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference: Rudy Giuliani's November 7, 2020 Trump-campaign event in a Northeast Philadelphia parking lot, held after a venue mix-up as networks called the 2020 election for Biden.
George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign
George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign: the antiwar senator won the Democratic nomination under his own McGovern-Fraser reforms, then lost to Nixon in a landslide, carrying only Massachusetts and DC.
George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos, Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser whose contacts with Joseph Mifsud and Russian intermediaries triggered the FBI's Russia investigation; he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was pardoned in 2020.
Georgia's 14th congressional district
Georgia's 14th congressional district, also known as GA-14, is a U.S. House district covering northwest Georgia and Atlanta's northwestern exurbs, created in 2011 and currently represented by Republican Clay Fuller.
Hillary Clinton email controversy
Hillary Clinton email controversy: her exclusive use of a private Chappaqua server as secretary of state (2009-2013), the 2015 disclosure, FBI investigation, 2016 no-charge decisions, Weiner laptop reopening, and oversight findings.
Hunter Biden laptop controversy
Hunter Biden laptop controversy: MacBook Pro left at a Wilmington, Delaware repair shop in 2019, revealed by the New York Post in October 2020, suppressed by Twitter and Facebook, later authenticated by forensics, the FBI, and a 2024 DOJ filing.
Illinois's congressional delegations
Illinois's congressional delegations: the state's U.S. senators and House members since 1818. Currently two Democratic senators (Durbin, Duckworth) and 17 representatives, 14 Democrats and 3 Republicans, in the 119th Congress.
Internet Research Agency (Агентство интернет-исследований)
Internet Research Agency (Агентство интернет-исследований, IRA, Trolls from Olgino): St Petersburg Russian troll farm founded 2013, funded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, indicted by Mueller in 2018 for 2016 US election interference, disbanded 2023.
Jamie Whitten
Jamie Whitten, formally Jamie Lloyd Whitten (1910–1995), was a Mississippi Democrat who served in the US House from 1941 to 1995, longer than anyone before him.
Jason Palmer (politician)
Jason Michael Palmer (born 1971), Baltimore entrepreneur and impact investor, won the 2024 American Samoa Democratic caucus over Joe Biden, 51-40, becoming the first challenger to beat an incumbent president in a primary since 1980.
Jeremiah Wright controversy
The Jeremiah Wright controversy: 2008 political storm over sermons by Obama's Chicago pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, sparked by released "God damn America" video clips, Obama's race speech, and his May 2008 departure from the church.
Jesusland map
The Jesusland map, also called United States of Canada vs. Jesusland, is a satirical 2004 internet meme map created by G. Webb on yakyak.org after Bush's re-election, merging Kerry states with Canada and labeling red states Jesusland.
Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign
Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign: Green Party run announced November 9, 2023; nominated with Butch Ware August 17, 2024; received 862,049 votes (0.56%) after FEC matching funds and Democratic spoiler-focused counter-campaigning.
Jo Jorgensen 2020 presidential campaign
Jo Jorgensen's 2020 presidential campaign was the Libertarian Party ticket of Jorgensen and Spike Cohen, on all 50 state ballots plus DC, taking about 1.2% of the popular vote as the leading third-party candidate behind Trump and Biden.
Joe the Plumber
Joe the Plumber, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (1973-2023), Ohio plumbing worker famous for questioning Obama's tax plan in 2008; unlicensed, McCain debate icon, later tea party figure and 2012 House candidate.
John Edwards extramarital affair
John Edwards extramarital affair: the 2006 relationship between the Democratic senator and filmmaker Rielle Hunter, producing daughter Quinn, admitted in 2008, leading to a 2011 campaign-finance indictment and 2012 acquittal on one count with a mistrial on five.
John Murtha
John Murtha (Jack Murtha, 1932–2010), Pennsylvania's 12th District Democrat in the US House 1974–2010, Marine colonel, Defense Appropriations chair, 2005 Iraq withdrawal critic, Abscam figure, 'King of Pork.'
Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign: her Democratic run launched July 21, 2024 after Biden's withdrawal, nomination sealed in 32 hours with Tim Walz, over $1 billion raised, September 10 debate win, and a 226-312 electoral defeat by Trump.
Knock Down the House
Knock Down the House (2019) is Rachel Lears' Netflix documentary following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Amy Vilela, and Paula Jean Swearengin in 2018 Democratic primaries; Sundance Audience Award winner sold to Netflix for a record $10 million.
Let's Go Brandon
Let's Go Brandon, also LGB, is an American political euphemism for "Fuck Joe Biden" that originated from NBC reporter Kelli Stavast's on-air mischaracterization of a crowd chant during a Talladega NASCAR interview with winner Brandon Brown on October 2, 2021.
Lincoln–Douglas debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were seven formal Illinois Senate campaign debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, held August 21 to October 15 in Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, and Alton, focused on slavery, with Douglas winning the seat and Lincoln gaining national fame.