Alex Seitz-Wald
Senior political reporter
I'm a national politics reporter for NBC News, covering breaking news and writing feature stories on everything from the big trends to the little quirks that help explain our unprecedented political moment.
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Latest from Alex Seitz-Wald
DNC chair candidates say the party needs to do a postmortem of the 2024 election
How Kamala Harris’ campaign burned through more than $1.4 billion in 15 weeks dominated the storyline of the vice president’s devastating loss to Donald Trump on Nov. 5.
New England Congress members targeted with bomb threats on Thanksgiving
Most of Connecticut's congressional delegation said they were the subject of bomb threats at their homes as they were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, although no bombs ultimately were found.
D.C. protested Trump's first term. Now, Washingtonians worry he'll crush them in his second.
Forget statehood. District of Columbia officials are just hoping to protect what little self-government they already have in Trump's second term.
Democrats to elect a new party chair Feb. 1
The Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair on Feb. 1.
Maine lawmaker accused of choking wife wins re-election by one vote
CAMDEN, Maine — A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount.
After Democrats lost the working class, union leaders say it's time to 'reconstruct the Democratic Party'
President Joe Biden proudly called himself the most pro-labor president in American history, but working-class voters moved further than ever from their traditional home in the Democratic Party in this year’s election, leading some to rethink their approach to winning working-class voters.
Democratic jockeying for the 2028 presidential election is already underway
As the dust settles from Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat at the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats are already jockeying to emerge as the party’s next leader — looking to shape the opposition response to Trump’s second term and position themselves in the party’s 2028 presidential primary.
Democrats won 4 big Senate races in states Harris lost. Their ads looked very different.
Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t win Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada or Arizona. But her party still did: Democratic Senate candidates in each of those battlegrounds emerged victorious, even as voters rejected Harris.
Muslim voters once abandoned the GOP. Now they may leave the Democrats.
Arab and Muslim voters moved away from the Democratic Party this year in ways that led some community leaders to warn of a lasting shift from a voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic for two decades since it abandoned the GOP.
How Trump won — and how Harris lost — the 2024 election
Democrats’ recriminations started immediately, but Trump’s victory was decisive enough that there may have been little Kamala Harris could have done.
'This is a realignment': Shattered Democrats grapple with Harris' loss
Democrats called for a party reckoning on Wednesday, as they attempted to pick up the pieces of their shattered organization a day after Kamala Harris’ loss.
