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DETROIT — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has opened a seven-point lead over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s race for the United States Senate, according to a new CNN poll released on…
A Filing System Goes Dark at the Worst Possible Moment For nearly 41 hours this week, the main window the public has into last-minute money in federal elections was closed.…
A Statistical Dead Heat in the Final Days Early voting ends Friday, Oct. 30, in Texas, and the race that could reshape the fight for control of the U.S. Senate…
President Donald Trump has cancelled the two in-person rallies that were supposed to close out his final weekend of campaigning before the midterm elections, scrapping a Saturday appearance in Salina,…
From Sacramento to San Diego, the reports have accumulated all month: unmarked vehicles idling outside an election office in Northern California, workers pulled from their cars, vans of farmworkers stopped…
The arithmetic of the House of Representatives is brutal in its simplicity: 435 seats, all of them on the ballot on November 3, and 218 needed to govern. Republicans currently…
Alaska’s senior senator has done it again. On Tuesday, Lisa Murkowski — a Republican who has built her political identity over more than two decades in the Senate around defying…
Five days before Election Day, one of the most reliably Republican states in the country is producing one of the closest Senate races in America. A New York Times/Siena College…
The offer could hardly be simpler, and President Donald Trump repeats it at nearly every campaign stop: if Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate in the November…
Katie Zacharia’s tenure as White House press secretary lasted five days, included a single briefing at the podium, and ended, by her own telling, in a blaze of online mockery…