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Jun 01, 2026
The president's nonchalance is just a show.
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Jun 01, 2026
Tuesday's Senate primary features two candidates with compelling personal stories. Both have stressed their independence.
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Jun 01, 2026
Here are the places that are expected to decide the midterm elections, according to the most recent ratings by the Cook Political Report.
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Jun 01, 2026
Congressional primaries in Manhattan, Brooklyn and beyond could test the strength of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's socialist movement and reverberate across the country.
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May 31, 2026
Come November, the Republican Party will need the support of voters outside of President Trump's base, many of whom are deeply dissatisfied with the economy and the Iran war.
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May 30, 2026
Two candidates with the same name will be on the ballot seeking the same seat in the state's primary. "It's going to be confusing," one Republican said.
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May 30, 2026
The wife of Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate in Maine, told the campaign he had sent sexual messages to other women.
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May 30, 2026
Track the latest polls in Washington's 5th Congressional District.
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May 30, 2026
Track the latest polls in Alaska's At-Large Congressional District.
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May 30, 2026
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a New Jersey Democrat with big-name support on the left, has touted his humanitarian work, but some opponents want to talk about Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
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May 30, 2026
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a New Jersey Democrat with big-name support on the left, has touted his humanitarian work, but some want to talk about a person he met in 1991.
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May 30, 2026
The president is acting as if the midterms no longer matter.
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May 30, 2026
The president is acting as if the midterms no longer matter.
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May 30, 2026
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a New Jersey Democrat with big-name support on the left, has touted his humanitarian work, but some want to talk about a person he met in 1991.
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May 29, 2026
Democrats hope so, but there are good reasons to be skeptical.
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May 29, 2026
A PAC representing wind and solar energy interests spent $1.1 million to boost the Republican primary opponent of Chip Roy, an opponent of renewables. Now they are trying to save a Republican ally in Iowa.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Tennessee's 9th Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Virginia's 6th Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Missouri's 1st Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Virginia's 7th Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Virginia's 1st Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Washington's 3rd Congressional District.
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May 29, 2026
The president doesn't seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump's midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.
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May 29, 2026
Representative Doris Matsui has been re-elected 10 times with ease. But an upstart Democrat is threatening to end her run in Congress.
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May 28, 2026
A key moment at a Senate primary debate in Michigan showed how pro-Israel Democrats are approaching the issue with caution.
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May 28, 2026
After attacking the Texas attorney general, who won the G.O.P. nomination, Senate Republicans are pivoting sharply to support him in what is now a competitive race.
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May 28, 2026
Readers discuss Senator John Cornyn's loss to Ken Paxton in Tuesday's Republican primary. Also: Investigating E. Jean Carroll; Mets and Knicks; religion and A.I.
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May 28, 2026
Track the latest polls in Florida's 13th Congressional District.
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May 28, 2026
Personal attacks and a packed campaign rally set the tone for what is likely to be a rancorous contest for U.S. Senate between James Talarico and Ken Paxton in Texas.
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May 27, 2026
The two Republican critics of President Trump — Thomas Massie, who lost his House primary last week, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress — met up in the tropics.
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May 27, 2026
With Ken Paxton defeating John Cornyn in Texas' Republican runoff for the Senate, The New York Times's national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why Democrats may now see their best chance in years to flip the seat.
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May 27, 2026
Senator John Cornyn lost to his MAGA-aligned challenger, Ken Paxton, by 28 percentage points. It was a historically poor showing.
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May 27, 2026
Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska is still meeting with constituents long after most G.O.P. members of Congress have concluded it is too politically dangerous to do so.
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May 27, 2026
Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters.
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May 27, 2026
Senators are angry President Trump turned on a respected former leader whom they consider a loyal Republican. Now Mr. Trump faces resistance from his own embittered ranks.
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May 27, 2026
The Texas senate race will come down to the Democratic candidate's strengths — and the Republican's weaknesses.
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May 27, 2026
President Trump's record of ousting those he sees as disloyal continued apace with Senator John Cornyn's defeat. Whether his relationship with Senate Republicans can be repaired is another question.
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May 27, 2026
Paxton's victory for the Republican nomination and a big shift among Hispanic voters have put a Senate seat within reach.
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May 27, 2026
Many Democrats and some Republicans said the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton's victory could turn Texas into a battleground state that will determine Senate control.
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May 27, 2026
Republican voters made a familiar bet, that Texas is conservative enough that any Republican, even the most conservative, will beat a Democrat.
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May 27, 2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general endorsed by President Trump, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff. The race's results reflected Trump's influence over the party.
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May 26, 2026
President Trump's record of ousting those he sees as disloyal continued apace with Senator John Cornyn's defeat. Whether his relationship with Senate Republicans can be repaired is another question.
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May 26, 2026
Mr. Allred beat the incumbent, Representative Julie Johnson, and is now favored to win the general election in a heavily Democratic Dallas-based district.
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May 26, 2026
President Trump's record of ousting those he sees as disloyal continued apace with Senator John Cornyn's defeat. Whether his relationship with Senate Republicans can be repaired is another question.
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May 26, 2026
The victory by Johnny Garcia, a sheriff's deputy, brought relief to Democrats, who hope to hold onto a seat that Republicans redrew to flip it.
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May 26, 2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, overcame scandals and a significant fund-raising disadvantage to win. His victory sets up the general-election clash that Democrats had hoped for.
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May 26, 2026
With the support of President Trump, Mr. Paxton unseated Senator John Cornyn in a high-profile Republican runoff.
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May 26, 2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, overcame scandals and a significant fund-raising disadvantage to win. His victory sets up the general-election clash that Democrats had hoped for.
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May 26, 2026
The showdown, manufactured by a Republican gerrymander, created one of many generational clashes consuming Democrats this cycle.
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May 26, 2026
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, has been raising money and looking to unite his party for the general election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas primary runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Mr. Paxton, a Texas Senate candidate, has led Senator John Cornyn in all but one independent poll in the Republican primary runoff.
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May 26, 2026
President Trump has sought revenge in G.O.P. primaries. Democrats have turned out to vote in large numbers. Republicans have gained a redistricting advantage.
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May 26, 2026
The plaintiffs had sought a temporary restraining order, arguing that the map violated a state ban on partisan gerrymandering that voters passed in 2010.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas elections.
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May 26, 2026
The race between Senator John Cornyn and his right-wing rival, Ken Paxton, has cost mountains of cash. More of it has gone to help Mr. Cornyn — but that money may not be enough.
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May 26, 2026
The plaintiffs had argued that the map violated a state ban on partisan gerrymandering that the state's voters passed in 2010.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas primary runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas runoff election.
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May 26, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Texas elections.
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May 26, 2026
Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost Democrats a majority-Black district.
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May 26, 2026
All eyes will be on the Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. But Tuesday's runoffs in Texas will feature other key contests.
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May 26, 2026
All eyes will be on the Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. But Tuesday's runoffs in Texas will feature other key contests.
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May 26, 2026
An obsession with the most doomer prospects of A.I. is blinding progressives from thinking about serious, realistic policies.
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May 26, 2026
Voters in Texas head to the polls on Tuesday for a Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent, John Cornyn, and a Trump-backed challenger, Ken Paxton.
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May 25, 2026
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a critic of President Trump who lost his primary last week, filed papers for another candidacy but said he was not sure which office he might seek.
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May 25, 2026
Republican officials said they have talked to Tom Kean Jr., who has been absent from Congress for weeks. His office said Mr. Kean will eventually explain his absence.
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May 25, 2026
"The stupid stuff is killing our chances," said a retiring Republican senator.
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May 25, 2026
Democratic leaders accused Maureen Galindo of antisemitism and are trying to stop her from winning the party's primary in a contested U.S. House district.
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May 25, 2026
Saikat Chakrabarti, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former chief of staff, is running in San Francisco to succeed Representative Nancy Pelosi, whom Mr. Chakrabarti irked with an incendiary tweet seven years ago.
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May 24, 2026
Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine, blamed private equity for destroying "our favorite baseball team." NESN, which is owned by the team, pulled his campaign ad, citing an intellectual property violation.
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May 24, 2026
Lawmakers, including some of President Trump's closest allies, slammed the emerging agreement as effectively undermining the president's own war goals.
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May 24, 2026
Vacant seats, and consistently poor attendance on both sides of the aisle, have exacerbated the challenges of already razor-thin margins in the House and Senate.
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May 24, 2026
In highly competitive House races that Democrats need to flip in November, the left is betting that calls for universal health care and taxing the wealthy will resonate — even among Republicans.
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May 24, 2026
A tough re-election race grew more daunting after President Trump backed Mr. Cornyn's opponent, Ken Paxton. The Texas senator has vowed to fight to the end.
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May 23, 2026
Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, made the donation after agreeing to an interview with lawmakers about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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May 23, 2026
The president's $1.8 billion slush fund is causing further cracks in the Republican Party.
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May 23, 2026
President Trump continues to act like he's politically all-powerful, even in the face of indications that he is not.
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May 22, 2026
The visit by President Trump was meant to promote Representative Mike Lawler's bid to defend his swing seat in New York, but it had the earmarks of a Trump rally.
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May 22, 2026
Why 2026 might tell us a lot about 2028.
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May 22, 2026
A top state lawmaker who opposed drawing new districts for the fall elections now says he supports producing an all-Democrat map for the next cycle.
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May 22, 2026
Republicans, seeing President Trump's personal agenda diverging from their political interests, vented their outrage about paying those who threatened their lives on Jan. 6, 2021.
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May 22, 2026
Republicans drew the former D.N.C. chairwoman out of her district. Her decision to run in Florida's 20th Congressional District, however, has stoked tensions with Black Democrats.
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May 22, 2026
Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia urged her fellow Democrats, including the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, to stop talking about drawing new congressional lines for partisan advantage.
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May 22, 2026
America is witnessing the greatest decimation of Black political power in over a century.
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May 22, 2026
Why 2026 might tell us a lot about 2028.
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May 21, 2026
The legislation to build a Smithsonian museum to honor women became contentious after it was amended to say the museum could only recognize "biological" females.
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May 21, 2026
President Trump faced a wall of opposition from Senate G.O.P. lawmakers, in part over his plan to create a $1.8 billion fund to reward his allies.
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May 21, 2026
House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.
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May 21, 2026
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, went to Capitol Hill to allay Republicans' concerns over a fund to pay people who claim government mistreatment. It did not go well.
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May 21, 2026
The G.O.P. abandoned its plan to quickly pass a $72 billion immigration crackdown bill as senators revolted over his plan to pay people who claim government persecution.
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