2026 Midterm Elections

Less than two years into his second term, a substantial portion of the Republican coalition is reported to be actively seeking a candidate who will take the party in a fundamentally different direction than Donald Trump — a significant splintering in what remains his dominant grip on GOP politics.

According to a New York Times/Siena poll, while Trump's "grip on the Republican Party remains indisputable," there are clear signs that fissures are widening within his coalition. Thirty-seven percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents want to see the party's next nominee move in a different direction.

A national coalition of prosecutors put President Donald Trump “on notice” Tuesday morning that if he dispatches federal immigration officials to polling places during the midterm elections – as he’s refused to rule out doing – those officials would be criminally investigated, charged and jailed.

“The right to vote without fear of armed government agents at the polls is not negotiable, and it is not subject to the whims of a president," said Mary Moriarty, a Minnesota-based county attorney, in a press release published Tuesday.

A federal judge has blocked the body that oversees state judicial elections in Georgia from issuing ethics criticism against a pair of liberal state Supreme Court candidates, in a sudden new twist in the emerging drama in the race set to take place this week.

According to Atlanta News First, "In a temporary restraining order, U.S. Chief Judge Leslie A. Gardner said the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) cannot issue a non-confidential 'public statement' about the allegations outlined in April notice letters to Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, finding that kind of late-campaign disclosure could chill protected political speech without meaningful constitutional review."

A Florida congressman went on Real America's Voice on Monday and unleashed a kitchen-sink attack on fellow Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — the latest GOP lawmaker to fall in line behind President Donald Trump's all-out campaign to oust the libertarian-leaning Kentuckian in Tuesday's primary.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), appearing with host Eric Bolling, hurled allegations ranging from ties to Iran to sexual misconduct involving an ex-girlfriend — and didn't stop there.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a video of himself playing the banjo with some other musicians to his campaign account on Monday, ahead of a primary in which he is fighting for his political life.

"Pickin and grinnin!" said the post.

A consultant for Rep. Tom Kean Jr. — the New Jersey Republican who has been missing from Congress for 74 days — decided Monday that the real scandal isn't his boss's 2 1/2-month disappearance, it's the journalist asking about it.

Kean last cast a vote in the House on March 5 and has since missed 68 votes, been out of the public eye, skipped the campaign trail in one of the most competitive districts in the country, and his office has only offered vague references to a "personal health matter."

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.