Politics News How The Trump Effect Could Lift Democratic Senate Candidates

The Democrats Had One Huge Shutdown Win. Trump Tried to Thwart It. He Just Failed.

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the ruling and its encouraging implications for the separation of powers and a bolstered ... Read More

How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump

Both parties are now preparing for “affordability” to play a major role in the midterm elections next year. How did it emerge so quickly? Read More

After clashes with Trump, could a Rep. Jasmine Crockett Senate run energize Republicans in addition to Democrats?

Dallas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D) will announce tomorrow once and for all whether she is going to run for U.S. Senate and not run for re-election in her House district. Democratic and ... Read More

The White House says the midterms are all about Trump. Democrats aren’t so sure

Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico have kicked off their Texas Senate campaigns with contrasting strategies. Read More

A controversial Democratic message makes a return: From the Politics Desk

🚨Breaking news: The Indiana Senate voted against a GOP-drawn congressional map, rejecting a monthslong pressure campaign from Trump. A majority of Republicans (21 of 40) in the chamber wound up ... Read More

As Rep. Jasmine Crockett ponders Senate bid, other candidates wait

The filing period for the March 3 primaries has been relatively calm, but a storm is on the horizon. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crocket is considering running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn ... Read More

Michael Whatley ties himself closely to Trump in the early stages of North Carolina's critical Senate race

While Trump's approval ratings have sunk nationally, Whatley is betting the president remains resilient in a battleground state he's won three times. Read More

It’s called the ‘six-year itch.’ Democrats hope it favors them for the Senate.

Sheldon Whitehouse, then a Democratic Senate candidate, greets supporters at a community dinner in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 2006. (Joe Giblin/AP) Column by Paul Kane In early 2005, during gloomy ... Read More

Jasmine Crockett calls would-be opponents as she weighs jumping into Texas Senate Democratic primary

Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based in Washington D.C., who has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since 2021. Killion has also served a key role in CBS ... Read More

Trump led Republicans to power in 2024. But 2026 could be a different story

President Donald Trump successfully harnessed voter anxiety over the economy, immigration and crime last year to retake the White House — and lift plenty of other Republicans into office with him. But ... Read More

Republicans dumbfounded by Trump’s calls for harsh retribution against Democratic lawmakers

President Trump’s heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his Republican allies in Washington dumbfounded and skeptical ... Read More

Supreme Court Grapples With Whether to Lift Campaign Finance Limits

The dispute before the court involved a Republican effort to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates. Read More