Elections

The three leading D.C. mayoral candidates made their pitch to voters and sharpened contrasts between each other during a lively 90-minute debate aired on WAMU 88.5 on Wednesday evening. Key differences emerged on whether the city should…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Democratic rivals faced each other in a debate hosted by WAMU Wednesday, ahead of the District primary election next month.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser described the two council members challenging her in the June Democratic primary as “equivocating and waffling” as she sought in a radio debate on Wednesday evening to portray herself as a proven leader…

Karim Marshall, a lawyer who worked in the city government for more than a decade, is running for an at-large position on the D.C. Council, becoming the latest independent to launch a bid for the seat.

D.C. Councilmember Robert White (D-At Large) on Wednesday pledged to dramatically expand vocational education and open a network of public boarding schools if he’s elected mayor.

D.C. mayoral candidate Robert C. White Jr. said he wants to open more public boarding schools in the District, perhaps for students as young as kindergarten.

The lobbyist says she hasn’t voted in the same sort of local Democratic primary she’s now running in.

Four of the seven Democratic candidates for the Ward 5 D.C. Council seat had plenty to say about their platform and each other during a candidates forum Saturday at the Union Wesley AME Zion Church in Northeast.

Knocked off the ballot, the outgoing Ward 5 councilmember contemplates an uncertain political future.

Facing few if any options to get on the ballot for the June 21 primary, D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) on Monday suspended his campaign for attorney general — but said he remained open to running for office in the future.

D.C. Council Member Kenyan McDuffie has suspended his campaign for attorney general of the District.

D.C. attorney general candidate Kenyan R. McDuffie (D) on Monday suspended his campaign for the position, announcing at a news conference that he was giving up a fight to appear on the June 21 primary ballot after he was deemed ineligible…

As a native Washingtonian who has been engaged in D.C. politics for 25 years, I have seen all sorts of candidates, political upsets and underdogs come through. But out of all of my experiences, the removal of Kenyan R. McDuffie by the D.C.…

D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s fight to stay on the ballot in the race for attorney general may be over after a judgment handed down by the D.C. Court of Appeals.

The D.C. Court of Appeals on Saturday denied attorney general candidate Kenyan R. McDuffie’s request for a full rehearing in his fight to get back on the June ballot, just days after a panel of three judges unanimously upheld a Board of…

As the D.C. Board of Elections pulled names out of a hat Friday to determine the order of candidates on the June 21 Democratic primary ballot, one name was notably missing: Kenyan R. McDuffie.

D.C. Councilman Kenyan McDuffie’s bid to remain on the ballot for D.C. attorney general may not be dead yet.

The ruling leaves the outgoing Ward 5 councilmember, the presumed frontrunner for attorney general, out of the race.

Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie lost a court appeal to save his campaign for D.C. attorney general on Thursday, after a panel of judges unanimously sided with elections officials who ruled he was ineligible for the job because he is not an…

The D.C. Court of Appeals on Thursday dealt a fatal blow to Kenyan McDuffie’s hopes of becoming D.C. attorney general, upholding a ruling from the D.C. Board of Elections that knocked the Ward 5 councilmember off the ballot because he…