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Utah Republican Chris Stewart recently made a surprise announcement that he would resign from Congress before the end of his term to care for his ailing wife. Stewart’s early exit —he told Roll Call he was aiming for September — will set up a special election to fill his seat for the remainder of…
By Nathan L. Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin, and Erin Covey
What is everyone waiting for? Republicans are clinging to a narrow House majority and a quarter of the 2024 election cycle has already passed, and yet potential candidates in districts around the country are waiting on the sidelines.
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Alaska. Filing deadline June 1.
At-Large, Mary Peltola, D, re-elected 55%. Trump 53%. Republicans believe that Peltola is highly vulnerable if the GOP can coalesce behind one candidate before the all-party primary. But who that candidate is, nobody is quite sure. GOP strategists in D.C. point to…
Kansas. Filing deadline June 3, 2024.
3rd District (Kansas City suburbs) Sharice Davids, D, re-elected 55%. Biden 51%. Some Republican strategists believe that Davids will be vulnerable this year if the GOP nominates a candidate without ties to unpopular former Gov. Sam Brownback. Other national…
North Carolina
Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map, leaving up to four Democrats in serious danger of losing their seats in 2024. Last year, the North Carolina Supreme Court threw out the GOP-controlled state Legislature’s gerrymandered map, putting in place a temporary…
Arizona Senate. 2022 gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake lost another legal challenge, questioning the validity of ballot signatures, in her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Lake is making another appeal and is non-commital on running for future office. According to Time, Lake has delayed a potential…
Delaware Sen. Tom Carper announced Monday that he wouldn’t seek a fifth term in the Senate, signaling the end of a political career that began nearly a half century ago.
Carper’s decision opens up a Solid Democratic Senate seat, but don’t expect a messy primary. If Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester runs,…
Senate Democrats are on defense all over the country. But in no place are they more vulnerable than in West Virginia, where Sen. Joe Manchin is the last remaining Democratic statewide office holder in the Republican bastion.
Manchin has clung to his seat even as the the Mountaineer State has…
There aren’t a lot of opportunities for ambitious Democrats in Dallas to go to Congress. But Democratic Rep. Colin Allred’s decision to take on GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has created a rare open congressional seat.
Dallas is a longtime blue bastion in the Lone Star State, and the metroplex’s growing…