Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.

For Trump, the argument that Democrats have let lawlessness run rampant in the cities and states they run goes back even further, as have his efforts to invoke race in his discussions of crime, which my colleague Erica Green wrote about today.

"Pod Save America" host Jon Lovett lamented during a podcast interview with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that Democratic voters don't know what the party stands for.

Democrats are searching for a positive vision to inspire voters, and leading the pack, at least among party elites, is the brand of “abundance”. Popularised in a recent book by journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson,

Democrats hoping to retake the Senate in the midterm elections next year are targeting the seat of Senator Collins, a Maine Republican who is seen as a moderate.

The governor is the top presidential contender among Democratic-leaning voters in the state, according to the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey.

Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort on Monday and return to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Democrats have struggled to counter GOP efforts to frame itself as the party of "law and order." Some see it as a problem of messaging, while others think past and current policies may be to blame.