2026 Midterm Elections

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says the Minnesota Republican Party has shut him out of a major gubernatorial debate — and he's not staying quiet about it.

"They have a big GOP endorsement where they have this big debate, and I'm not allowed to come," Lindell told Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast. "They've shut me out because the establishment doesn't want me, Steve."

New reporting on President Donald Trump's age-related decline opened fresh questions about his leadership of the Republican Party.

The Atlantic published a new report detailing how the president's team has adjusted to his limitation, and reporter Jonathan Lemire discussed his findings Monday while co-hosting MS NOW's "Morning Joe."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) thought he had a slam dunk. He posted a photo collage of the only four Black Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and declared, "This is NOT the party of Jim Crow."

There's just one problem: every single one of them is leaving.

President Donald Trump appears to have set a "five-alarm fire" ahead of the upcoming midterm election, and it ought to give Democrats the reality check they need, according to one expert.

Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney, warned on a new episode of the "Democracy Watch" podcast, co-hosted by Brian Tyler Cohen, that Trump's recent claim that he will "do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections" should be a hair-raising alarm for anyone concerned about democracy. Not only does it signal that Trump will challenge the midterm election results if Republicans suffer losses, but it also reveals that Democrats need a new strategy to counter Trump, Elias argued.

Much has been written about President Donald Trump’s tendency to fudge the truth, with The Washington Post having tracked more than 30,000 individual false or misleading claims made by the president during his first term – but nearly 16 months into his second term, Americans by the millions are largely disregarding Trump’s words entirely, one columnist argued on Sunday.

“Trump’s credibility gap endangers our national security,” wrote attorney, columnist and former television host Alan Scott Bolden in an op-ed published Sunday in The Hill.

House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already “resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night.

“At times, the president has seemed resigned to losing, pointing out that the party in control almost always suffers in the midterms,” The Journal’s report reads. “Privately, Trump has occasionally told aides that he doesn’t care about the outcome, according to people familiar with the comments.”

A former lawmaker from a red state warned that something ominous is hiding behind the latest "five-alarm fire" from the Supreme Court, according to a new report.

G.K. Butterfield Jr., a former Democratic representative from North Carolina, told The Atlantic recently that the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is a "five-alarm fire" for voting rights. The ruling allowed states to gerrymander their maps for partisan purposes, even if there is a racially discriminatory effect from the move, which effectively gutted the last remaining section of the Voting Rights Act that protected minority voters.

Fox News host Jesse Watters sparked outrage on Thursday after he uttered a "trash" claim about the Voting Rights Act during a segment on the show he co-hosts, "The Five."

During the segments, Watters claimed that Black people don't have enough babies to justify their proportionate share of representation in Congress. He made the claim at a time when the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that states can gerrymander their maps for partisan purposes, even if there is a racially discriminatory effect. Red states like Louisiana, Florida, and Tennessee have all passed new maps since the ruling that eliminated Democratic seats held by Black representatives and cracked majority Black voting districts.

Rick Jackson is running to be the Republican nominee for governor in Georgia — but his wife may have different allegiances.

According to filings from the Federal Election Commission, Melody Jackson, the candidate's spouse, gave a $1,000 contribution to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in February 2025 — a key Democratic lawmaker that Republicans were hoping to seriously contest this year.

A political analyst warned on Thursday that Democrats have reached a "do or die" moment ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as a red state escalates its efforts to gerrymander its map.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, announced on Thursday that he is calling a special session for state lawmakers to redraw their election map ahead of the midterms. The announcement comes after McMaster refused to call a special session earlier this month after the state legislature failed to secure a veto-proof majority supporting the new maps during its regular session.