2026 Midterm Elections

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cautioned that a redistricting attempt in South Carolina could backfire because of the state's large Black population.

"I would recommend that everybody look at the map and see if it's a net positive [for Republicans]," Graham told SCETV News in an interview this week. "It's up to the state legislature to do this, but in trying to pick up a seat, you don't want to jeopardize other seats."

The Tennessee state Senate Sergeant at Arms forcibly pulled a banner from the hands of Sen. Charlane Oliver (D) during a debate on redistricting.

As the body was considering new maps that would erase the state's only majority-Black district, Oliver held up a banner that said: "No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal."

The Department of Justice is seeking the names of every individual who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton County, where President Donald Trump has long claimed voter fraud robbed him of a win, but a legal expert said those efforts to intimidate election workers are doomed to fail.

Lawyers for the county filed a motion Monday to quash a grand jury subpoena asking for their names and personal information, and a former attorney in the voting section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division explained to Legal AF podcaster Adam Klasfeld the investigation appeared to be a farce.

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump Department of Justice can keep the ballots it seized from the Fulton County election office in Georgia, according to reports.

U.S. District Judge Jean-Paul Boulee ruled that Fulton County's lawyers had not established that the Trump DOJ showed "callous disregard" for the county's rights, CBS News reported. Even so, he noted that the Trump DOJ's affidavit was "defective" in some instances and made "troubling" omissions about the voting mechanisms, according to the report.

Fox News London correspondent Alex Hogan was repositioned to Portsmouth, Virginia, just in time to cover an FBI raid on a Democratic politician who led redistricting efforts that could help her party take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin noted that Hogan was on the scene "where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger."

The California Governor Primary Debate on CNN got heated on Tuesday after a fed-up Democrat gave a Republican an earful over his plan to lower energy prices.

Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, has claimed that he will lower the price of gas to $3 per gallon within a year if he is elected governor. His plan includes releasing the state's strategic oil reserves to boost supply. However, Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose, said Hilton's plan is "unrealistic" and pointed out several flaws in the idea during the debate.

Rahm Emanuel, the former ambassador to Japan, melted down on Tuesday during a panel debate about the direction the Republican and Democratic parties are headed before the midterms.

Emanuel was joined by Glenn Youngkin, the former governor of Virginia, at the Miliken Institute for the panel. While the two former officials fielded questions about the upcoming election, Youngkin's defense of the Trump administration seemed to push Emanuel over the edge.

Republican candidates in the California governor's race appear to be following President Donald Trump's lead on a path toward another party wipeout, according to a new analysis.

Candidates like Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host whom Trump endorsed in April, and Sheriff Chad Bianco have adopted an anti-immigration policy position that is similar to Trump and the MAGA movement's policies. A new analysis from Spanish newspaper El País suggests that this move may be their undoing.