Tag: 2026 Elections

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley addresses the crowd before Vice President JD Vance speaks Friday, March 13, 2026, in Rocky Mount, N.C.

Washington Secrets

How Michael Whatley’s Senate run is being upended by a sex offender’s picnic

Rob Crilly · March 31, 2026 12:47 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

Democrats will pursue ‘kangaroo courts’ if they retake the House: Tiana Lowe Doescher

Asher Notheis · March 31, 2026 11:54 am

Pile of envelopes with overdue utility bills isolated on white

Healthcare overtakes economy as top voter worry in Gallup poll

Gabrielle M. Etzel · March 31, 2026 11:09 am

A demonstrator holds an illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump wearing a chicken costume during a protest against the 50% U.S. tariff on Brazilian goods outside the U.S. consulate in Brasilia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Nova)

Trump, tariffs, and ‘TACO’: How markets adjusted, but the label stuck

Samantha-Jo Roth · March 31, 2026 6:00 am

A collage of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and FBI Director Kash Patel.

FBI investigation into Eric Swalwell could tip scales in crowded California gubernatorial race

Barnini Chakraborty · March 30, 2026 5:10 pm

Mark Sanford

Trump critic and former Rep. Mark Sanford launches comeback bid for House

Rachel Schilke · March 30, 2026 1:10 pm

FILE - Rep. John James, R-MI., speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee.

Progress with an asterisk for Michigan Republicans

Dennis Lennox · March 30, 2026 11:51 am

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minn., right, and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., left, listen.

GOP faces ‘real problem’ as DHS shutdown prolongs before midterm elections: Bob Cusack

Asher Notheis · March 30, 2026 11:28 am

Roberts Pence

Conservative think tanks jostle for influence months after Heritage Foundation exodus

Barnini Chakraborty · March 30, 2026 8:00 am

AYERS

Democratic lawmakers took cash from infamous ‘domestic terrorist’ Bill Ayers

Robert Schmad · March 30, 2026 5:00 am

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Paxton dominates CPAC as GOP frets over Texas Senate runoff

Samantha-Jo Roth, Mabinty Quarshie · March 29, 2026 9:58 am

Collage of President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

MAHA-MAGA tensions grow ahead of midterm elections

Gabrielle M. Etzel · March 29, 2026 6:00 am