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Democratic donors are reportedly "coming back in droves" after President Joe Biden decided to step aside from the 2024 presidential race.

On Sunday, CNN's Priscilla Alvarez said she was in contact with Democratic insiders just moments after Biden announced he would "stand down" from the race.

"What I am learning now is that I'm getting text messages from sources who say donors, big-dollar donors, are now abruptly, suddenly reaching out again to advisers to say they want to donate," Alvarez told CNN host Kaitlan Collins. "We had seen in recent weeks that some big-dollar donors were starting to hold back their checks over concerns and questions about President Joe Biden's candidacy."...

President Joe Biden is probably smiling on Wednesday after one of his few challengers for the 2024 Democratic nomination reportedly dropped out of the race.

Self-help and spirituality author Marianne Williamson, who has been challenging Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Thursday reportedly notified her supporters that she was dropping out of the race.

Williamson, who denied similar reports after they surfaced last week, was polling in the single digits in the primaries against the president....

A Connecticut superior court judge has thrown out the results of the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport and ordered a new election, following allegations of fraud and a challenge to the results, reported CT Mirror on Wednesday.

Primary challenger Jim Gomes filed the complaint back in September after incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim won by 200 votes in a race that came down to just a few thousand mail-in ballots. Gomes had been leading prior to the counting of the ballots. The outcome raised red flags in particular because State Elections Enforcement officials previously recommended criminal indictment of three Ganim associates over the way they handled absentee ballots in his 2019 election bid.

Before being elected mayor in 2015, Ganim previously served in that same office from 1991 to 2003, but was jailed on federal corruption charges....

A Montana man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for threatening to kill Democratic Sen. John Tester, the Associated Press reported.

Kevin Patrick Smith made the threats in voicemails to Tester's office because he was upset with Tester's policy decisions, court records say. He was sentenced to to 2-and-a-half years in federal prison.

The profane messages included threats to “rip your head off.” The caller said in the messages that he was making the threats "on purpose." ...

An unknown group handed out misleading fliers to voters in a primarily African American polling place in Houston, Texas, reports KTRK.