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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to close the door last week on leaving his party's primary amid a bitter fight with the Democratic National Committee over its rules. The Kennedy family members have long been standard-bearers in the Democratic Party -- a fact Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to capitalize on in his bid to defeat President Joe Biden in the contest for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. But Kennedy -- the nephew and son of party stalwarts President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, respectively -- refused to close the door last week on leaving his party's primary amid a bitter fight with the Democratic National Committee over its rules governing the nomination process, even after saying he would only run as a Democrat. Speaking during a town hall in North Charleston, South Carolina, last week, Kennedy said he was keeping all options open when asked by an attendee if he was prepared to run an independent campaign amid perceived hurdle...

Americans' opinions were shifting on Israel and the Palestinians prior to the latest war in the Gaza Strip, with thoughts on the two largely divided along party lines. Hamas' militants launched a brutal, expansive terror attack on Israel over the weekend, killing at least 1,200 people, and Israel went to war in response, with President Joe Biden and other top administration officials pledging aid to the Israelis. That underlines the U.S.'s continued support for Israel. Gallup polling in recent decades shows that adults broadly remain very or mostly favorable to Israel compared with the Palestinian Authority, one of the Palestinians' major governing bodies. Still, according to Gallup surveys as recently as February -- months before the Hamas attack -- Americans' opinions had been shifting on Israel and the Palestinians, with thoughts on the two largely divided along party lines. Americans overall also remain supportive of Israel, with 54% in the February Gallup s...

New Hampshire Democratic Party chair says Biden likely not on state primary ballot, amidst conflict between state party and DNC. ST. LOUIS, Missouri -- Over a year of contention about presidential nominating dates and rules in two of the nation's first state s to cast ballot s in 2024 – New Hampshire and Iowa – came to a head on Friday. New Hampshire Democrats conceded that Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden is unlikely to be on the ballot in the Granite State's Democratic primary, even as Iowa Democrats announced a change to their proposed caucus process that allows them to not conflict with New Hampshire. The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws committee closed out its fall meeting in St. Louis on Friday by voting that another version of New Hampshire's Democratic delegate selection plan was non-compliant with their new White House-backed calendar– a move that likely precedes Biden not filing to be on their state's ballot. In this Feb. 3, 20...