Alaska Senate Race — Rating: Likely Republican
Interview Date: July 9, 2020 (Google Meet)
Date of Birth: April 13, 1962; Juneau, Alaska
Education: UMass-Amherst (1985); Univ. of Washington medical school (1989)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Alaska is a…
Kentucky’s 6th District — Rating: Solid Republican
Interview Date: July 16, 2020 (Google Meet)
Date of Birth: Sept. 12, 1978; Brenham, Texas
Education: Morehead State Univ. (2008); Univ. of Kentucky law school (2011); Georgetown College (attended)
Elected Office: None; 2018 nominee for Kentucky…
Minnesota’s 2nd District —Rating: Solid Democratic
Interview Date: July 27, 2020 (Google Meet)
Date of Birth: September 24, 1987; St. Louis Park, Minn.
Education: University of Minnesota (2010); New England College (Masters, 2020)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook:…
Whereas Biden and Trump have seemingly stayed locked into their current positions, Hillary Clinton and Trump found their poll numbers slippin', tumblin', sinkin', and fumblin' all throughout the campaign. In other words, the polls this year have been substantially less volatile. 2016 is not…
Marine veteran Tyler Kistner is one of the few Republican challengers to outraise a Democratic incumbent in the second quarter of the year. But his difficult path to election in the Twin Cities suburbs in Minnesota is a microcosm of the House GOP’s struggle nationwide as President Donald Trump…
Predicting election outcomes can be a fraught business. You don’t have to look further than the 2016 presidential race to see that.
But for some races, one candidate has such an advantage -- due to the constituency’s partisan lean, candidate quality, or other factors -- that their path to…
After taking over a seat Donald Trump carried in 2016, Jeff Van Drew might have thought switching to the GOP was the best way to survive. But that path has become more complicated as support for the president slumps in New Jersey and nationwide.
In 2018, Democrats cheered when Van Drew, a longtime…
At the time of Ted Kennedy’s death in 2009, Massachusetts had been represented by a Kennedy in the Senate for 54 of the previous 56 years.
Now, the scion of America’s most famous family seeks to reclaim the perch from which his forefathers exercised their national influence. There’s just one…
Texas’ 22nd District — Rating: Toss-Up
Interview Date: June 24, 2020 (via Google Meet)
Date of Birth: October 6, 1978; Ruston, La.
Education: Univ. of Texas, Austin (2002); Harvard (MPA, 2017)
Elected Office: None; 2018 Democratic nominee for the 22nd District
Current Outlook: Kulkarni came up…
