Minnesota’s 1st District — Rating: Toss-up
Interview Date: July 11, 2018
Date of Birth: July 23, 1982; St. Paul, Minn.
Education: Georgetown Univ. (2005); Harvard (MPP, 2013)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Democratic Rep. Tim Walz’s run for governor leaves an open seat in a western…
Texas 32nd District — Rating: Toss-up
Interview Date: July 11, 2018
Date of Birth: April 15, 1983; Dallas, Texas
Education: Baylor Univ. (2005); Cal-Berkeley law school (2014)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Allred is challenging GOP Rep. Pete Sessions in a Dallas-area district that Hillary Clinton…
Kentucky’s 6th District — Rating: Toss-up
Interview Date: July 12, 2018
Date of Birth: June 3, 1975; Cincinnati, Ohio
Education: US Naval Academy (1997); Johns Hopkins (2014)
Elected Office: None; First run for office.
Current Outlook: McGrath came from behind to win the Democratic primary against Lexington Mayor Jim Gray.…
Iowa’s 1st District — Rating: Toss-up
Interview Date: July 11, 2018
Date of Birth: Dec. 12, 1988; Dubuque, Iowa
Education: Drake Univ. (2013)
Elected Office: State House (2014; re-elected 2016)
Current Outlook: Finkenauer will face GOP Rep. Rod Blum in a district that President Donald Trump carried with less than…
California’s 45th District — Rating: Lean Republican
Interview Date: July 11, 2018
Date of Birth: Jan. 3, 1974; Fort Dodge, Iowa
Education: Yale (1996); Harvard Law School (2001)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Porter, a UC-Irvine law professor, will face GOP Rep. Mimi Walters after receiving…
New Hampshire’s 1st District — Ratings: Tilt Democratic
Interview Date: July 23, 2018
Date of Birth: March 2, 1968; Atlanta, Ga.
Elected Office: None; Ran for state senate in 2014
Current Outlook: Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is retiring, leaving behind an open seat that President Donald Trump carried by less…
I swore I’d never do it again.
In October, I interviewed 16 Democratic House candidates in two days. As much as I enjoy having face-to-face conversations with people running for the offices we cover, it might have been too many in a row.
But when Democratic candidates descended on Washington…
CONCORD, N.H.- From Merrimack to Raymond to Wolfeboro, most of the whopping 18 candidates running for New Hampshire’s 1st District took to the streets to march in annual Fourth of July parades, reaching out to voters as the clock counts down towards the state’s early September primary.
The race for…
While much of the country is focused on the final wave of primaries, Ohio is hosting a special election to fill former GOP Rep. Pat Tiberi’s 12th District seat on Aug. 7. It’s the fourth House special election across the country this year, and two of the previous ones got…
New York’s 19th District — Rating: Tilt Republican
Interview Date: July 11, 2018
Date of Birth: Jan. 19, 1977; Schenectady, N.Y.
Education: Colgate Univ. (1999), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar, 2001), Harvard Law School (2005)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Delgado faces one of the most vulnerable GOP…
