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Former South Carolina governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, a Republican, has lost the first four presidential primary contests, but has vowed to stay in the race for the foreseeable future. Haley seems to be counting on support from her home state of South Carolina to put her in a more competitive position against former President Donald J. Trump. Political Science gives Haley a good reason to bank on doing well in South Carolina. For one thing, a candidate has naturally higher name recognition in their home state after having built a career and reputation there. Voters have gotten to know them and their record of achievement, and the candidate knows the culture of the state and its political pressure points. Shared ties in a state are also a meaningful identity that strengthens connections with voters based on trust. Being an out-of-towner, on the other hand, can make you seem out-of-touch. Just ask Dr. Oz, whose many gaffes during his 2022 campaign for the U....

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson marked the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham, Ala., church bombing and called for vigilance in teaching civil rights history. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday delivered a stirring defense of the need to educate American school children about the nation's dark History of racial inequality and violence in a still-ongoing battle for civil rights. "The work of our time is maintaining that hard-won freedom, and to do that, we're going to need the truth -- the whole truth -- about our past," Jackson said in a speech at the Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan killed four young girls and injured dozens of others 60 years ago. "We must teach it to our children and preserve it for theirs," Jackson said. "Knowledge of the past is what enables us to mark our forward progress. If we're going to continue to move forward as a nati...

DeSantis sought to contrast himself with Trump while defending against criticism of his campaign and speaking about his plan for the southern border and other issues In a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sought to contrast himself with former President Donald Trump -- whom DeSantis hopes to catch up to and defeat in the 2024 Republican primary race -- while defending himself against outside criticism of his campaign and speaking about his plan for the southern border and other issues. He also responded to Trump attacking him for signing a six-week abortion ban in his state. (More here.) DeSantis sat down with Davis at the site of an oil rig in Midland, Texas, before he rolled out his proposed presidential energy policy in front of reporters and oil workers. On Trump: 'We have a lot of differences' Asked to differentiate himself from Trump, the leading GOP primary candidate in polls, DeSantis pointed to ...