Tag: 2026 Elections

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters speaks at the RNC winter meeting with a line of American flags behind him in Santa Barbara, California, on Jan. 23, 2026. (Barnini Chakraborty/Washington Examiner)

RNC takes first step toward greenlighting Trump’s midterm convention

Barnini Chakraborty · January 23, 2026 5:30 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider-trading case, in New York. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Collins. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses when he learned that a drug trial by a small pharmaceutical company had failed. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump’s first Congressional backer announces comeback House bid in Florida

Molly Parks · January 23, 2026 5:22 pm

Vice President JD Vance addresses the 2026 March for Life.

March for Life participants say Vance is future of movement for GOP

Gabrielle M. Etzel · January 23, 2026 2:17 pm

Democrats filled their seats on the left side of the Minnesota House chamber in the state Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, as they ended a boycott that they began Jan. 14 in a power struggle with Republicans. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Democrats see hope in plan to crack GOP supermajorities in state legislatures

David Zimmermann · January 23, 2026 2:08 pm

California Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher.

DOJ urges Supreme Court to block California’s new congressional map

Jack Birle · January 23, 2026 1:28 pm

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference.

READ IN FULL: Vice President JD Vance’s interview with the Washington Examiner

Christian Datoc · January 23, 2026 11:54 am

Chris Murphy and Mallory McMorrow speak at their respective events.

Chris Murphy backs progressive Democrat Mallory McMorrow in Michigan Senate race

David Zimmermann · January 23, 2026 9:51 am

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer's vest.

Democrats push to blacklist ICE officers from future government jobs

Ramsey Touchberry · January 23, 2026 7:00 am

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign event at Dane Manufacturing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Waunakee, Wis. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Is Trump’s 2024 coalition coming apart ahead of the midterm elections?

W. James Antle III · January 23, 2026 7:00 am

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and other senators arrive for a classified briefing about President Donald Trump's directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend and his announcement on Monday that the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump injects ICE controversy into Susan Collins reelection fight

David Sivak · January 23, 2026 7:00 am

President Donald Trump.

Time is Trump’s greatest enemy

W. James Antle III · January 23, 2026 6:10 am

The Rotunda of the Michigan State Capitol is shown after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered her State of the State address, Jan. 29, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.

Michigan’s overlooked state Senate special election could become an early bellwether for 2026

Samantha-Jo Roth · January 23, 2026 6:00 am