Elections News How Midterm Elections Less Than One Year Away Are Shaping Political Decisions Now Wvtf

What the November election results in one key state mean for the battle for the House

In Virginia, where Democrats are talking about an early 2026 redistricting, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger carried eight of 11 congressional districts. Read More

Democracy Watch: The one-year countdown begins to midterm elections with big stakes. Can the nation live up to the ideals it embraced 250 years ago?

Next Nov. 3, just 52 weeks from now, voters from across the country will cast ballots in what is historically seen as a second-tier election. Its very name — midterm — defines it by its date midway ... Read More

Trump enters election year with big wins - and bigger political headwinds

The president faces the inevitable waning of power in a second term, but he also will begin the year with an erosion in political support. Read More

An Election ‘Off Year,’ but Not a Year Off

Polling in off-year election cycles is challenging because it’s hard to know who will turn out to vote. This year, the polls significantly overestimated the Republicans in the Virginia and New Jersey ... Read More

Why Trump’s political shadow is a mixed blessing for the GOP in 2026

The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term. 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

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

How could Trump interfere in the midterms? Here's what voting officials are watching

Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by a federal government ... Read More

New poll reveals signs of hope for Democrats and red flags for Republicans

With the midterm elections now less than a year away, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll has signs of hope for Democrats and a few red flags for Republicans. Amna Nawaz and NPR's Domenico Montanaro break ... Read More

What will and won’t matter in the midterm elections from Tuesday’s results

Tuesday’s election results struck fear into Republicans’ hearts about what they might mean for the party’s fragile congressional majorities a year from now. Democrats felt similarly lost a year ago, ... Read More

Midterm elections are coming in 2026. Here’s what 100 years of data tell us about how stocks may react.

Hopefully most American families managed to avoid politics during their Thanksgiving gathering. But for investors, political fallout is not so easy to eschew. And going into 2026, markets face the ... Read More