When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seized the speaker’s gavel in January, it was a moment of triumph.

Last week’s Democratic debate marked the end of the beginning of this winding campaign season, and while most of the events witnessed so far will fade from view, we did see two trends likely to remain with us for the foreseeable future.

With the first half of the Democratic debates in the rearview mirror, let's take a quick look back at some of the early winners and losers.

Both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden sought to be the standard bearer of a party that had moved past their brand of politics.

Warren's momentum has caught the attention of her competitors on both the left and right and re-shuffled the debate stakes.

Pennsylvania, a reliably Democratic state that was flipped and carried by Republican Donald Trump in the last presidential election, could be up for grabs next year.

Before she was upended Friday morning by questions about her false claims to minority status, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was enjoying another positive week in her presidential campaign.

Robert Mueller’s surprise appearance Wednesday did little to alter the substance of the debate over election interference but it did roil a simmering political cauldron.

Offering esoteric and impractical policy ideas might be great for starting conversations in the hallways of Ivy League classrooms, but it’s not a workable governing philosophy.

Delaying the launch of his campaign allowed Joe Biden to avoid one political landmine while sending him careening headfirst into another, highlighting both the upside and the ugly of slow walking a presidential rollout.