President Donald Trump has unleashed more than $277 million in a last-minute TV and direct mail advertising blitz over the final six weeks of the midterm
October 21, 2026Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people with participating in a long-running scheme to allegedly arrange hundreds of sham marriages in
October 21, 2026With his approval rating at record lows, President Donald Trump attempted to defy political gravity in a pep rally in North Carolina on
October 21, 2026Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.
October 21, 2026U.S. President Donald Trump and leading Republicans are trying to leverage widespread riots in France ahead of midterm congressional elections by making unsubstantiated claims that the social unrest in Europe is caused by Muslim migrants
October 20, 2026Trump’s approval rating hits a new low as midterms enter final stretch: CNN poll
October 21, 2026At President Donald Trump's urging, Republicans pursued an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting campaign ahead of November's midterm elections, redrawing dozens of US
October 21, 2026Texas Democrats' best chance at a statewide win in more than three decades is facing a wall of Republican money,
October 21, 2026President Donald Trump's administration has revoked over 300,000 US visas during his second term, the State Department said on Tuesday as the federal
October 20, 2026Senate Democrats' campaign spending group is wading into Mississippi's Senate race for the first time this cycle
October 20, 2026Investigators interview Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister
October 20, 2026US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that there was not much a Democrat-led House of Representatives could do to stop the Trump administration's agenda.
October 20, 2026Poll chaplains and lay peacekeepers have maintained a calm presence over the last few election cycles
October 20, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday the US Department of Agriculture will launch what he called a new "harvest fuel relief
October 20, 2026US President Donald Trump on Monday used violent unrest in France as an argument against Democrats in his battle to defend a
October 20, 2026Rising fuel prices coinciding with harvest season are frustrating farmers across the Midwest and raising concerns for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections
October 19, 2026President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to a record low as Americans worried about high gasoline prices and appeared ready to punish his Republican
October 19, 2026Early voting has been underway for weeks ahead of the November
October 19, 2026US government debt hit a milestone $40 trillion in August, triggering a potentially uncomfortable debate for President Donald Trump and Republicans
October 19, 2026‘I will not comment on his anatomy’: Ohio Republicans buzz about Trump’s analysis of a senator’s body
October 19, 2026Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he doesn't regret telling Susan Collins that she should “shut up” after the Republican senator suggested that a protester who interrupted their recent debate was one of his campaign’s backers
October 18, 2026The path to a House majority on Capitol Hill runs through heavily Latino districts in states such as Arizona, Colorado and Texas
October 18, 2026It wouldn’t be easy to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her citizenship, legal experts say
October 17, 2026President Donald Trump is blaming senior aides and political operatives for a faltering midterm strategy, questioning
October 17, 2026Democrats and aligned advocacy groups are hitting the airwaves with a flood of campaign ads on the Iran war as they seek to win back in the House and Senate
October 17, 2026White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning out of the role after a brief and rough tenure as President Donald Trump’s chief spokesperson
October 16, 2026GOP-controlled local boards restrict voting on Sundays and find other ways to make voting harder
October 16, 2026Few Republican members of Congress in swing districts may be more closely linked to President Donald Trump than Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
October 16, 2026The town of Shirley, Illinois, population 135, is an unlikely place for a campaign stop.
October 16, 2026President Donald Trump says he wants voters to pretend that he's on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections
October 16, 2026Two women are suing former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, accusing him of sexual exploitation in violation of a federal anti-trafficking law
October 16, 2026GOP allegations that voter fraud is rampant in the US may drive more Democrats – and fewer Republicans – to the polls in November.
October 15, 2026Just over half of major party candidates in the most competitive US Senate races told Reuters they will accept election results regardless of the outcome
October 15, 2026A decade after Republican Donald Trump peeled away working-class and union voters who had long been a cornerstone of Democratic support in Ohio,
October 14, 2026Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics
October 14, 2026President Donald Trump's tariffs are turning factory workers against his Republican Party over fears the import taxes could lead to fewer jobs instead of the manufacturing renaissance he promised
October 11, 2026Mayhem at the polls on Election Day 2026? Americans are worried. But a scholar of election law who has also run a nationwide election protection program says he doesn’t believe it will happen.
October 13, 2026GOP senator said gas prices would decide the midterms. Now they’re threatening his reelection
October 13, 2026Trump holds raucous Ohio rally as he tries to shore up base voters for GOP
October 13, 2026Federal agents have searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar
October 12, 2026By Nolan D.
October 12, 2026Elon Musk has spent roughly $366 million in the 2026 US midterm election cycle so far, $276 million of it since July to help Republicans retain control of
October 12, 2026Trillionaire Elon Musk has quietly become the biggest known spender in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in the House and Senate
October 12, 2026Elon Musk emerges as the top booster for Republicans with $276 million in donations
October 12, 2026Victor Martinez runs a Spanish-language radio station in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and talks about voters' frustration with everyday realities like higher fuel prices and inflation ahead of next month’s midterm election
October 12, 2026With little more than three weeks to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump will make a new campaign swing this
October 12, 2026John Kennedy takes his ‘baton twirler’ act on the road for the midterms — and tests it out for 2028
October 12, 2026‘Trump is dragging the party down’: GOP scrambles to stop steep midterm losses
October 12, 2026The United Auto Workers is working to regain political influence in closely contested Michigan
October 10, 2026Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say
October 10, 2026President Donald Trump says the Norwegian Nobel Committee should have given him the Peace Prize, not South African jurist Navi Pillay
October 09, 2026Some 78% of Americans blame President Donald Trump's policies for rising prices that are outpacing their earnings,
October 09, 2026Siding with Republicans, the US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Federal Communications Commission to avoid for now a judicially imposed deadline in a
October 09, 2026Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News he does not know if he will remain in politics if his party loses control of the chamber in next
October 08, 2026Fact check: Republicans’ deceptive ads on key Democratic candidates’ stances on gender surgery for children
October 09, 2026Trump stumps for embattled Texas Senate candidate at raucous rally
October 08, 2026President Donald Trump fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton as a series of protests disrupted his rally in San Antonio
October 08, 2026US President Donald Trump made his third trip to Texas in a month on Wednesday to campaign for Republicans who now face unexpectedly tight midterm
October 07, 2026‘The list of his failures goes on’: El-Sayed’s Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rally
October 08, 2026Michigan Republican Mike Rogers, locked in one of the nation's most competitive Senate races, called on Wednesday for an end to the US-Canada tariff dispute, breaking
October 07, 2026Trump floats firing top political advisers after report they helped a pro-Russian government
October 07, 2026An armed voter suppression campaign in New Jersey in 1981 finds echoes today in the Trump administration’s persistent efforts to suppress the vote and undermine trust in elections nationwide.
October 07, 2026Two-thirds of Republican candidates in competitive US House and Senate races have broken with President Donald Trump on policy or played down ties to
October 07, 2026A day after President Donald Trump said he would start paying for controversial taxpayer-funded ads with a campaign account, a White House official insisting on anonymity said Trump’s promises don’t mean there’s any reimbursement coming
October 06, 2026A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid
October 06, 2026President Donald Trump encouraged supporters on Saturday and again on Monday to vote by mail if they wanted, a change of tone for the US president, who
October 06, 2026US President Donald Trump pledged to expand access to tax-exempt diesel fuel while warning of a dark future if Democrats
October 05, 2026President Donald Trump has taken his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska
October 05, 2026US Vice President JD Vance cast Alaska as Republicans' midterm election firewall in their bid to retain control of Congress as he rallied with
October 06, 2026‘A five-alarm fire’ confronts President Trump in red-state October blitz
October 05, 2026President Donald Trump is campaigning in Nebraska alongside GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts, who faces an independent candidate backed by national Democrats
October 05, 2026Tennessee's top Republicans are exploring alternative execution methods after the failed execution of Christa Pike
October 06, 2026President Donald Trump's approval rating held at a record low in recent days, as many Hispanic voters panned his job performance and planned to spurn his
October 06, 2026Democrats say their nominee for governor in Ohio, Dr. Amy Acton, represents the party’s best chance in years to win that office
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