- RINO Poaching: Cornyn’s Top Policy Adviser Applying for Job with Talarico
Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) top policy adviser is interviewing for a position with radical Democrat Senator-elect James Talarico.
Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) top policy adviser is interviewing for a position with radical Democrat Senator-elect James Talarico.
Senator-elect James Talarico (D-TX) confirmed that he supports terminating the filibuster, explaining that the filibuster, "which is not in the Constitution," is a "Jim Crow relic."
A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen's left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of...
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Democratic Rep. Representative Chris Pappas beat a former Republican senator, John E. Covered by 19 outlets: 9 lean left, 5 are centre, 4 lean right, 1 are not rated.
Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, the first openly gay man to win a Senate seat, spoke about a Democratic victory over the “broken status quo” and gave a shoutout to his husband. Read the story here:...
New Hampshire senator-elect Chris Pappas made history on election night, but his family has another claim to history: inventing chicken tenders.
New Hampshire senator-elect Chris Pappas made history on election night, but his family has another claim to history: inventing chicken tenders.
Chris Pappas' family is taking credit for inventing chicken tenders.
Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches In the cold, twilight days of 2008, inside the University of Michigan’s fortress-like Fleming administration...
Thanedar pointed out that El-Sayed's use of a PAC is notable given his stance against accepting certain PAC money during his Senate campaign.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan, in an interview with CNN re-iterated that he doesn’t care what the policy is called as long as it passes. 'Donald (Trump), if you're watching, you can put...
Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that he supports "cradle-to-grave" health care and "what you call it is a secondary issue."
This year’s midterms were a success for Democrats across the board. Candidates like Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed ran their campaigns on progressive causes like Medicare for All, taxing billionaires and...
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The remarkable show of support for President Donald Trump's backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she was uninvited to a joint event the same day with El-Sayed, who defeated the congresswoman by a slim margin in the...
What does Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate win mean for the future of the Democratic Party? His victory is energizing progressives, challenging the Democratic establishment, and raising a new question for 2028: Is this the...
Researchers say a Wikipedia account removed or softened references to controversies involving Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed before his election, though the edits do not prove political coordination.
Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said some people wanted to make his race a “referendum on me and my name and my faith” in a speech at the Arab American Leadership and Empowerment at National CONNECT Summit in...
Asked why he devoted so much time to Michigan, Jim Clyburn compared the hostility Abdul El-Sayed faced to the struggles of civil rights icon John Lewis, citing Lewis’ beating on the Edmund Pettus Bridge and El-Sayed...
Democratic Lt. Republicans told donors a week ago that their Senate nominee in Minnesota was “TIED.” She lost by about 10 points. Covered by 12 outlets: 5 lean left, 3 are centre, 4 lean right.
The Senate's new Democratic majority is unlikely to approve any Republican judges.
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Peggy Flanagan's projected victory in Minnesota closes the door on one of the few pickup opportunities for Republicans in the Senate.
Former MLB star wins for Republicans in Texas Turek’s Iowa victory clinches Senate for Democrats Tafoya loses to Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota Former World Series champion turned Republican politician Mark Teixeira...
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A reporter from Reuters asked the president why he no longer plans to attend a rally in Kansas Saturday for Republican Sen. Hamilton, a megachurch pastor who has positioned himself as a centrist, has defeated incumbent Republican Sen....
Seward County, Kansas, swung 52 points to the Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton in last week’s midterm elections. After ICE agents raided areas near meatpacking plants and dairy farms in the region in late...
Hamilton says many people in Kansas view Schumer as ‘polarizing’ The Hill Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton says he’d be disappointed if Democrats focus on investigating Trump NBC News Opinion: US Sen. Roger Marshall lost his...
Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, D-Kan., a pastor of the largest church in Kansas, tells "Meet the Press" how he plans to use his faith as “a blessing to care for people” after he’s sworn into Congress.
Vainqueurs des élections de mi-mandat mardi, les démocrates auront la majorité à la Chambre des représentants et au Sénat à compter du 3 janvier.
2026 ELECTION COVERAGE: Watch Live | Poll Closing Times | All Live Results | Live Updates | Live Fact Check Democrat Juliana Stratton won election Tuesday to the U.S. Illinois Lt. Covered by 8 outlets: 2 lean left, 3 are centre, 1 lean...
Friday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said she thinks President Donald Trump is “detached from reality.” Griffin said, “After the midterms I think the MAGA moment, the MAGA movement is officially...
<p>Senator-elect Juliana Stratton is best known for her work as lieutenant governor, her “F*** Trump” campaign slogan and for being a proud South Sider.</p><p>But she’s also a Beyoncé fan and a self-proclaimed “house...
Juliana Stratton's election victory will make history as three Black women prepare to serve together in the US Senate for the first time in January 2027.
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Les luttes sont particulièrement serrées dans plusieurs États clés pour les élections de mi-mandat, dont le Texas.
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Mississippi Republican Sen. Democrat Scott Colom wins election to U.S. Covered by 42 outlets: 17 lean left, 17 are centre, 4 lean right, 4 are not rated.
His margin of fewer than 5,000 votes caps a midterm wave that has handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress.
Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi’s Senate race, becoming the state’s first Black senator since 1874.
The result was also a historic victory for African Americans in a former slave state that was a hotbed of repression during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Democrat Scott Colom addressed a crowd of supporters after his historic projected win in Mississippi’s Senate race.
About a half-dozen Democratic doctors and nurses ran for Congress. The potential for partnership between newly ascendant Democrats and the "Make America Healthy Again" movement is already threatened by their deep disagreements over...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vacationed on a donor’s yacht in Greece without listing it in his ethics filing, The Wall Street Journal reports . The trip took place in July 2025 on the Loloma, a 151-foot...
Two Democratic senators launched a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week after financial reports revealed he received over $250,000 in gifts last year from a former...
RFK Jr. Says Big Developments Coming In Wake Of Midterms Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times , Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Nov. 9 that multiple recent changes are paving the way for major...
(MedPage Today) -- When the new Congress convenes on January 3, 2027, Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should be impeached by the House of Representatives and then removed by the Senate. Can this be done? Yes....
Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-Ohio) hasn't been sworn in yet, but he's making a name for himself on Capitol Hill as one of the most outspoken anti-establishment progressives in the incoming freshman class. Covered by 9 outlets: 5 lean left,...
As returning and newly elected U.S. lawmakers descend upon Capitol Hill, questions remain about what happens now after the Democratic Party's big midterm election win. What might President Donald Trump's vague...
Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-Ohio) hasn't been sworn in yet, but he's making a name for himself on Capitol Hill as one of the most outspoken anti-establishment progressives in the incoming freshman class. Why it...
Newly elected Congress members are in Washington this week for freshman orientation after Democrats won both the House and the Senate in the midterms. Here’s what it takes to get ready for the job.
Dozens of newly elected members of Congress are descending upon Washington, D.C., as Democrats prepare to retake control of the House and Senate in January. The newly elected lawmakers won’t be seated until January,...
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Murphy's chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, said in a statement the 53-year-old senator "started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son's hockey game" on Saturday. Democratic senator was at his son’s hockey game when he felt a...
The Democratic senator from Connecticut, who is 53, began experiencing symptoms while attending his son’s hockey game on Saturday, his office said.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, was still in the hospital as of Tuesday, his office confirmed.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is recovering after having a stroke on Saturday. According to his chief of staff, Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son's hockey game. NBC News medical...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital after suffering a stroke, a leading cause of disability for adults in the United States. Murphy, 53, was taken to a local hospital on Sunday, where...
Evelyn Hockstein / REUTERS Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says he has no plans to resign, despite there being concerns in his party that a Democratic governor will choose his replacement if he dies in office. Questions about the future...
"This is the closest we have come to actually finding something that can get signed into law, and I'm not going to wait," Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico said.
Mark Schiefelbein / via REUTERS Donald Trump’s Kansas Senate pick stammered as he awkwardly answered why the president left him hanging by canceling a rally in his state this weekend. Trump, 80, had planned to lead a rally alongside...
MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough said on “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump has injected Islamophobia into Michigan’s Senate race as a closing argument, and that the campaign “has just been fed by bigotry.”...
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The 53-year-old Democrat said in a statement Friday that doctors are "encouraged by the progress" he's made so far. Covered by 12 outlets: 5 lean left, 3 are centre, 3 lean right, 1 are not rated.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) will miss several weeks of Senate votes while undergoing rehabilitation after a stroke, his office said Friday, leaving him out of the chamber when lawmakers return to Washington next week.
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Sen. Chris Murphy, 53, won’t be returning to the floor next week for the post-blue-wave session due to recovery from a stroke he suffered last weekend. Although his condition and...
The liberal Connecticut Democrat had been treated at Johns Hopkins since the Nov. 1 incident caused him to feel numbness in his left arm, prompting him to call 9-1-1.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said on Friday that he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss "several weeks" of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a...
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Maine's Senate election pits incumbent Republican Sen. One of Tuesday's midterm races to watch is in Maine, where five-term Republican incumbent Sen. Covered by 27 outlets: 15 lean left, 5 are centre, 7 lean right.
Canada First: Democrats Aim The Opening Shot Of Their Tariff Rollback At Trump's Smoot-Hawley Levies... But Veto Math Says Good Luck Three days after a blue tsunami swept both chambers, Democrats have picked their...
“Collins was an institutionalist when Trump was tearing down the very institutions of government.”
Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Republican Susan Collins in a major Maine upset, ending her nearly 30-year Senate career. Al Jazeera's Eva McKend reports from Portland. #USMidterms #MidtermElections #USPolitics...
Maine’s soon-to-be ex-Sen. Susan Collins complained Thursday that voters weren't satisfied with her record when it came to Donald Trump — despite her vote to convict him. “Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to...
Rising rent and gas prices are shaping voter sentiment in New Hampshire, where Democrat Chris Pappas faces former Republican Senator John Sununu in a closely watched Senate race. #midterms #uspolitics #newhampshire #senate...
Americas Editor John Lyons takes us through the races he's watching. Michigan, Texas, Maine, Alaska and more ... 🎥 Video by John Lyons and Lia Walsh from the ABC's Washington bureau. #MidtermElections #Elsayed...
New Hampshire's Senate race could determine which party controls the chamber. Republican John Sununu and Democrat Chris Pappas are battling for independents as cost-of-living anger reshapes the contest. NBC News'...
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Ossoff was the only Senate Democrat seeking reelection in a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024, and holding his seat was critical to his party's hopes of flipping control of the Senate. Democrat Jon Ossoff addressed...
Political analyst Juan Williams named Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia as the 2026 Politician of the Year due to his impactful social media messaging and influence on the midterm elections.
Kamala Harris made democracy a campaign theme, but Washington Democrats now seek to overturn Initiative 638 after voters backed girls sports separation.
Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.
Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff led an informal 2028 Democratic presidential straw poll at Crooked Con, despite saying he has no interest in running for president.
Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) and outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) met on Monday in Washington as newly elected lawmakers gather for orientation on Capitol Hill. “I just met with Senator John Cornyn. He has served our state...
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Holding South Carolina is essential if Republicans have any hope of keeping their Senate majority. About 6 in 10 Senate voters in South Carolina say Darline Graham does not have the right experience to serve as a senator, though most...
The official’s letter comes on the day the White House told congressional Democrats that investigations into the administration could be a crime.
Nikki Haley, former Republican governor of South Carolina, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that Republicans need to speak up when the Trump administration "does something wrong" in the wake of the midterms.
A Homeland Security Task Force investigation in South Carolina netted 36 arrests, seizing 346 kilograms of fentanyl and $2.8 million in cash.
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) gave President Trump a failing grade for his performance in South Carolina’s midterm elections after a Trump-backed Senate candidate defeated Norman in the Republican primary but lost to a...
The former congresswoman and interior secretary pledged to resist the Trump administration. Haaland will be the first female Native American governor of any U.S. Covered by 8 outlets: 4 lean left, 3 are centre, 1 lean right.
From the first Native American elected to the U.S. Senate and the first Muslim who will join the upper chamber to the Senate's first Paralympian, voters elected historic candidates in the midterms.
In New Mexico, former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was elected governor, making her the first Native American woman elected to lead a U.S. state. In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan became the first Native...
Minnesota's Peggy Flanagan became the first Native American woman to be elected to the US Senate.
US midterms 2026: Women and minority candidates make history as nine states elect their first Black, Native American, Latino and women governors.
Kamala Harris urged Democrats to focus on investigations and accountability over impeachment, saying the votes aren't there and the party should focus on getting things done. Covered by 8 outlets: 1 lean left, 2 are centre, 5 lean right.
Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom says he invited former Vice President Kamala Harris to Mississippi to draw attention to rural healthcare threats. His pitch to Republican voters, he said, is a promise to...
"The View" co-hosts agreed with Kamala Harris that Democrats should focus on policy and investigations rather than impeaching President Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris warned Democrats against impeaching President Donald Trump, and "The View" co-hosts agreed the focus should be on accountability and investigations.
On this full episode of LARRY with Larry O’Connor, President Trump goes ALL IN ahead of the midterms, and even CNN is taking notice! Elon Musk issues a DIRE warning about the Democrats’ plans for America, Kamala...
"Democrats won by being populist economic fighters who were unafraid to call out the corrupt politicians and corporate interests," writes Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Senator Ted Cruz intensified his attacks on political streamer Hasan Piker, accusing him of hateful rhetoric and criticizing Democrats who associate with him.
An election lawyer fresh from a deep-red state's ballot count says one embattled MAGA senator has hit a dead end. Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's...
In one of the more surprising developments in this election cycle, former Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina and Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia both appear to be cruising to victory in states that are normally very hard for Democrats...