2026 Midterm Elections

Republicans suffered yet another blow in their legal war against mail-in voting — this time in the state of Delaware.

A Delaware court has once again upheld the state's 16-year-old permanent absentee voting law, dealing a fresh defeat to Republican state Sen. Gerald Hocker in his years-long crusade against the program. The opinion was flagged by the liberal elections outlet Democracy Docket on Tuesday.

Some surprising allies have joined the fight against President Donald Trump's effort to sow chaos in this fall's election.

More than 250 sitting and former members of Congress — including a bloc of former Republican lawmakers — have asked the Supreme Court to block the president's executive order to restrict mail-in voting ahead of November's midterms, arguing the president illegally seized election authority that belongs to Congress and the states, reported MS NOW.

Veteran election handicapper Charlie Cook says the worst-case scenario he outlined for Republicans this cycle would have sounded absurd to him just six months ago — but he now considers it the most probable outcome of the midterms.

"If I read what I wrote six months ago, I would have thought I'd been on some kind of mushrooms or something," Cook told The New Republic's Greg Sargent. "It just didn't seem possible, didn't seem realistic. But we're seeing what we're seeing."

Sen. Roger Marshall, the Kansas Republican who helped lead House Republicans' 2017 push to repeal the Affordable Care Act, spent decades building his medical career and personal wealth in part by suing patients who could not afford to pay their bills, according to new reporting.

A New York Times analysis of Kansas court records found Marshall, before entering politics, practiced as an obstetrician-gynecologist and co-founded a Great Bend surgical center that grew into a full-service hospital generating tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

Dan Osborn, a candidate for U.S. Senate from Nebraska who’s running as an independent, was captured in leaked audio trashing President Donald Trump’s border wall as a “symbol of racism,” despite having lavished praise on the wall during his campaign, Politico reported on Tuesday.

Obtained by Politico, the leaked audio was recorded during a private and "occasionally tense” meeting in July between Osborn and Hispanic and Black Democrats amid his campaign to shore up support with Nebraska voters. During the meeting, Osborn was asked by an attendee about his past praise for Trump’s border wall.

A combination of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy and immigration has dealt Republicans nationwide a “striking” blow just ahead of the midterms, Axios reported Tuesday after getting its hands on new data.

Trump made historic gains with Hispanic voters in 2024, securing between 46% and 48% of the Hispanic vote. That voting bloc has appeared to have since turned on Trump and Republicans, however, with new polling from Hart Research/TelevisaUnivision shared exclusively with Axios revealing a bleak picture for the GOP just weeks ahead of the midterms.

GOP Convention organizers are trying to lure crowds with free tickets to avoid embarrassing President Donald Trump with empty seats — but there's a serious catch involved, according to a new report.

Tim Bates, a 65-year-old longtime Collin County GOP precinct chair, wanted in on the Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas — just not badly enough to pay for it, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.

Not even a $10 million donation from President Donald Trump can save Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's flailing campaign, a political analyst argued Monday.

Puck’s Abby Livingston appeared on MS NOW with Peter Alexander to discuss whether Trump was “growing anxious” about the Senate seat flipping to Democrats.

President Donald Trump took a moment on Labor Day to remind roughly half of the country he hates them.

Trump's Labor Day message to the nation was hardly one of unity, arguing unintelligent and dangerous leftists want to destroy the U.S.

Retailers hawking MAGA merchandise may soon be looking for new jobs as President Donald Trump's economy empties out their wallets, according to a new report.

The Wall Street Journal talked to wholesalers, sales reps and shop owners nationwide who described a business in free fall — moving even faster downhill than Trump's own poll numbers — leaving stores that sell nothing but his gear staring down closure.

Republican Party hopes of picking up a reachable Senate seat were dashed on day one after a campaign blunder left critics rolling in the aisles, according to a new report.

The GOP once saw Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) as very beatable when President Donald Trump anointed Rep. Mike Collins to take him on, but that optimism has since collapsed, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

There was a bipartisan roasting on MS NOW Sunday afternoon as a Republican strategist and former Democratic lawmaker joyfully mocked President Donald Trump's midterm convention.

Susan Del Percio and former state Rep. Don Calloway (D-MI) chuckled gleefully on "Alex Witt Reports" over the GOP Convention slated to begin in Dallas on Tuesday.

The Republican party received a stark warning on CNN Sunday morning as a group of political experts tried to figure out which exactly was Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's biggest problem.

Paxton's campaign against Democrat state Rep. James Talarico — which has Republicans wringing their hands over their vulnerable majority in the Senate — has three major problems, according to the panel.