Two years after prolonged ballot counting led to one of the most chaotic presidential elections in history, mail-in voting and other ballot processing issues may postpone the results in key races beyond Nov. 8 and perhaps delay determining which party will control the U.S. Senate.
Parental backlash over COVID-19 school closings, mask mandates and curricula laced with critical race theory and LGBTQ issues has kept education at the forefront in the 2022 midterm election, even though it doesn’t always land at the top of the polls.
Since starting his campaign to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Majewski has repeatedly said he was a combat veteran who served a tour of duty under "tough" circumstances in Afghanistan. By his own account, he once went more than 40 days in the country without a shower due to a lack of running water.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he believes his party now has a "50-50 shot" of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed bills barring male-born athletes from female sports not once but twice, a pair of decisions coming back to haunt the Democrat in her reelection bid as the transgender issue surges to the forefront.
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer declined Wednesday to endorse for reelection a fellow Democrat who has been a thorn in the side of leadership: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar was widely ridiculed on the right after implying that a Democratic victory in the November election would somehow curtail hurricanes.
Republican Mehmet Oz's campaign has posted a billboard in Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's backyard attacking the Democrat for being soft on crime, which has emerged as a top issue in their battle for a Senate seat.
During his campaign, Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has alluded to proposals that would be a transformative overhaul of the state's more than $30 billion K-12 education system, with public dollars eligible to fund students' private education.
With less than two months until the midterm elections, progressive Democrats are facing a test of their power.
Hurricane Ian's looming threat to Florida is poised to be the biggest challenge of Gov. Ron DeSantis' first term in office, and it could affect his political future as the nation gets a close look at how he steers the state through a natural disaster.
Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams shot into the political stratosphere four years ago when the fresh-faced Democrats electrified the party on their way to better-than-expected showings in statewide races in deep-red Texas and purple Georgia. But the pair is struggling to build on those near-success stories in a pair of gubernatorial races this year.
