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Showdown for the House: Democrats, Republicans brace for high-stakes midterm clash

Democrats, energized by their convincing victories earlier this month in the 2025 elections, are betting those results foreshadow a House flip in next year's midterm showdowns. The party out of power ... Read More

Setting the stage: What the 2025 elections signal for next year's midterm showdowns

With the 2025 elections fading into the rearview mirror, the campaign spotlight moves 100% towards next year's midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their fragile House majority and ... Read More

Can Democrats Flip a Deep-Red Seat? Special Elections Often See Big Swings.

Tennessee’s Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024. By Christine Zhang ... Read More

Republicans avoided a nightmare in Tennessee. Their electoral picture is still scary

Republicans avoided disaster on Tuesday night by winning a special election in a solidly red Tennessee congressional district. But the single-digit race there is merely the latest in an unambiguously ... Read More

Democrats face a fork in the road after 2025 election wins

Democrats won contests in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City in this year’s elections, pumping much-needed energy into the party after brutal losses across the board in 2024. Looking forward, the ... Read More

Republicans emerge victorious and anxious after Tennessee special election

Republicans held onto a reliably conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee's special election, but only after a late burst of national spending and high-profile campaigning helped them secure a ... Read More

How the state Republican Party is implementing Trump’s plan to sway next year’s elections

The press release distributed by the North Carolina Board of Elections last month seemed the stuff of everyday news from the agency empowered to oversee voting. It reported on an exchange of ... Read More

It’s beginning to look a lot like … a traditional midterm election

ANALYSIS — The special election result in Tennessee’s 7th District is just the latest piece of evidence that, in spite of President Donald Trump’s reputation as a political savant, 2026 is beginning ... Read More

This strategy is creating some tension within the Republican party

As the GOP looks at 2025 election results, it's sounding a proverbial alarm ahead of the midterms on messaging, particularly on the economy as President Trump shies away from the term "affordability." ... Read More

Republicans have lost ground with Latino voters after Trump’s 2024 gains

Trump made considerable inroads with Latino voters in 2024, losing this group by just 5 points nationally after losing by 38 and 33 points in 2016 and 2020, respectively, according to CNN’s 2024 exit ... Read More

Social media reactions reveal why both parties celebrated after GOP candidate won special election

After Republican candidate Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat candidate Aftyn Behn in Tuesday's special election race for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, both parties cheered the results. Read More

Tennessee's special election shows why GOP should be worried | Opinion

The special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District was the GOP’s to lose. Yet, it was still a close call – a possible signal that even reliable Republican voters are growing tired of ... Read More