Deb Haaland could be the first Native American woman to head to Congress. She's one of a record number of Native American candidates running for office this year.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump said his advisers told him not to ask potential Supreme Court nominees whether they would overturn Roe v Wade. "But I'm putting conservative people on," he said.
Michel Martin talks election surprises and Justice Kennedy's departure with former Sen. Barbara Boxer; Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona; and Julian Ivey, who's running for Maryland's House of Delegates.
Elections are Sunday, and more than 3,000 women are running for office. "We women will continue to work three times as hard as men," says one candidate.
The Supreme Court justice may believe that rights once recognized will not be taken away, but President Trump is about to get his second nominee to the court and it's sure to be a conservative.
A narrowly divided Senate is putting two Republican women who support abortion rights and three red-state Democrats in the spotlight as the critical votes in the Supreme Court confirmation process.
The president said Friday that he has his list narrowed to "about five" candidates, including two women, and he may interview one or two candidates this weekend at his golf club in New Jersey.
28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset primary victory over a leader of the Democratic Party this week is part of a trend of women under 30 running for Congress this year.
"On their phone, on their desktop, on their laptop, on their tablets, however they are seeing information, they're entitled to know where it's coming from," said FEC Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub