While it may take a few days, or even weeks, to properly digest the 2025 elections, the results are clear: Democrats won decisively. In races from New Jersey and Virginia to Georgia and California, there really wasn’t any ambiguity about who won and who lost.
Even though votes are still…
In a major departure from normal redistricting practices, four states have now approved new congressional maps for the 2026 midterms. (A fifth, California, looks like it will enact a new map via ballot measure next week, and several other states…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Melanie Mason of Politico analyze the fate of Proposition 50 in California as Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats try to counter President Donald Trump and Republicans’ efforts to redistrict in GOP states nationwide. The crew also walks through more than half a dozen individual seats…
If there’s one state that’s accustomed to mid-decade redistricting, it’s North Carolina. The Tar Heel State drew itself new congressional districts for the 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections — and so it’s not too surprising that it’s jumping on the bandwagon…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Alex Seitz-Wald of The Midcoast Villager take a deep dive into Maine with a focus on the Democratic Senate primary between Gov. Janet Mills and oysterman Graham Platner before taking on Republican Susan Collins, a look at the 2nd District battle between Democratic Rep. Jared…
Each party has their own white whales in Congress, the representatives who avoid defeat cycle after cycle despite running in difficult districts and facing fierce opposition. This cycle, Republicans’ biggest white whale is Maine Democrat Jared Golden.
Since coming from behind to win America’s first ranked-choice voting congressional election in…
Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani has been in the spotlight since he stepped on the national political stage four years ago. The young, telegenic candidate was an instant hit with GOP donors and power players, and his story — immigrating from Mexico and climbing from working class beginnings to become the…
Kentucky Senate. Former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath joined the Democratic race for the open seat left by retiring GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell. After losing a close House race to Republican Andy Barr in 2018, McGrath gained national attention for her run against McConnell in 2020. She raised and spent…
One of the most competitive House races in the country has gotten a little more complicated with Republican Rep. David Schweikert announcing that he won’t seek re-election to Arizona’s 1st District.
After winning by less than a point in 2022 and 4 points in 2024, Schweikert was near the…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Steve Kornacki of NBC News take a fresh look at the battle for the House majority with a little more than a year before the midterm elections, analyze the latest numbers in the race for governor in New Jersey this year and talk about how…
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