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Nov 02, 2026
Seldom have political food fights been this ridiculous.
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Nov 02, 2026
Experts say it could take days and even weeks before winners are known in key states including Maine, Alaska, Arizona and California that could determine who controls Congress.
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Nov 02, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a progressive Democrat looking to win a Senate race in Michigan. Our national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why a victory for El-Sayed could have broader implications for 2028.
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Nov 02, 2026
Never before has a single ultrawealthy person who was not running for office spent this much during a single election cycle.
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Nov 02, 2026
A state-by-state breakdown of when the polls in each state close on Election Day and when to watch for results.
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Nov 02, 2026
The likelihood of a slim majority leaves room for several hard-to-predict scenarios that could affect the balance of power.
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Nov 02, 2026
Polls show some kind of "wave" seems likely for the Democrats in this midterm election. But will it translate into Democrats flipping the House and Senate? Nate Cohn, our chief political analyst, outlines four possible scenarios.
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Nov 02, 2026
Facing an energized Democratic opponent, the Texas attorney general is testing whether party loyalty can overcome voters' reservations about him.
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Nov 02, 2026
More than 400 journalists across at least 30 states will interview voters, break down results and identify trends.
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Nov 01, 2026
The relationship shattered in part because of Israel, but also because of their sensitive egos and hurt feelings. The split had been months in the making.
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Nov 01, 2026
Democrats have the lead in most of the seven tossup Senate races, according to the latest Times/Siena poll, though some contests remain close. Our polling reporter Ruth Igielnik breaks down what the numbers show.
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Nov 01, 2026
New Times/Siena surveys show Democrats leading in all the key battlegrounds that will decide Senate control.
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Nov 01, 2026
Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska and are effectively tied with Republicans in Iowa, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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Nov 01, 2026
The governor campaigned in the city with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her opponent, Bruce Blakeman, focused on Long Island and upstate.
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Nov 01, 2026
Ms. Stevens, who lost to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, once fashioned herself as one of Mr. Rogers's fiercest critics.
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Nov 01, 2026
Roger Marshall, a Republican senator whose re-election bid has grown surprisingly competitive, wanted to push back against attacks. His team didn't agree. He ignored the guidance.
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Nov 01, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two leading figures of the left, criticized Representative Haley Stevens for backing a Republican in Michigan.
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Nov 01, 2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two leading figures of the left, criticized Representative Haley Stevens for backing a Republican in Michigan.
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Nov 01, 2026
But Senator Dan S. Sullivan of Alaska, who is in a tight election fight with the Democrat Mary Peltola, also suggested that the election could be "stolen."
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Nov 01, 2026
The Connecticut senator, who has been campaigning for fellow Democrats, has been viewed as a potential candidate for president in 2028.
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Nov 01, 2026
Tensions have flared between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, and his former primary rival. "I don't want any distractions," Dr. El-Sayed said Saturday.
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Nov 01, 2026
Beyond hotly contested Senate and governor's races, Alaskans will decide Tuesday whether to scrap the state's unique ballot. The campaign of Mary Peltola may have bolstered critics of the system.
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Nov 01, 2026
John E. Sununu, the Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, has the president's endorsement but is keeping him at arm's length.
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Nov 01, 2026
The New York congresswoman, once a bane of establishment Democrats, has tried to nudge her movement in a bigger-tent direction as she weighs her 2028 options.
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Oct 31, 2026
The time it takes to project winners will depend on two factors: how fast the states count their votes, and how close the races are.
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Oct 31, 2026
"We had a primary, right?" Dr. El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, told reporters. "I understand that some folks are upset about that. I get it. But I'm here trying to beat Mike Rogers."
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Oct 31, 2026
The country's biggest demographic group — women — is the main driver of voting and has grown ever more Democratic in this election cycle.
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Oct 31, 2026
Voting sites in 18 far-flung communities failed to open, the suit claims.
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Oct 31, 2026
Our investigation found that Democratic operatives were behind a plan to bring a potential spoiler into the Senate race.
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Oct 31, 2026
The long-serving senator has delivered millions of dollars to every corner of her state. But in Maine, people say, it's best to avoid getting on her bad side.
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Oct 31, 2026
Doctors like Annie Andrews, Amy Acton and Abdul El-Sayed remind us that Americans don't trust Republicans with their nation's health.
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Oct 31, 2026
Democratic sweep or not, politics are about to change.
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Oct 31, 2026
Doctors like Annie Andrews, Amy Acton and Abdul El-Sayed remind us that Americans don't trust Republicans with their nation's health.
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Oct 31, 2026
Democratic sweep or not, politics are about to change.
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Oct 31, 2026
In this episode of "The Call", veteran political journalist Robert Draper, a Texas native who has written about the state's politics for decades, calls the host Natalie Kitroeff to report what he's seeing on the ground there with James Talarico's Senate campaign. All eyes are on the competitive Texas Senate Race, the most expensive in the country, as the Democratic nominee Jame Talarico battles it out with the Republican nominee, former state attorney general Ken Paxton.
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Oct 31, 2026
In a frank interview, she described her disappointment and also said she was considering converting to Judaism. Her fiancé had thoughts, too.
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Oct 31, 2026
The Democratic candidate for Senate has led in polls. But because it's Texas, he remains the underdog.
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Oct 31, 2026
Voters see Dan Osborn, the independent seeking to unseat Senator Pete Ricketts, as more like a Democrat than an independent, a Times/Siena poll found.
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Oct 31, 2026
The ghost stories, dating back to the 19th century, are fitting for a building where the past rarely stays dead.
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Oct 31, 2026
Rebecca Bennett, a Democrat, is vying to unseat Representative Thomas Kean Jr. in a New Jersey district that includes President Trump's Bedminster golf club.
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Oct 30, 2026
Your Senate candidates are probably richer than you.
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Oct 30, 2026
Justice Democrats, which gained prominence backing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is on track to see more of its candidates elected. Will the party listen to them?
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Oct 30, 2026
In the final days of the race, Josh Turek, the Democratic Senate nominee, appears to be in a dead heat against his Republican rival, Representative Ashley Hinson.
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Oct 30, 2026
The whiplash over the president's schedule comes as polls show Republicans in danger of losing seats, including in areas Mr. Trump won handily in 2024.
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Oct 30, 2026
Mr. Musk's rhetoric, heated as it is, partly explains why he has spent nearly $475 million to back Republicans in the midterms.
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Oct 30, 2026
Mr. Musk's rhetoric, heated as it is, partly explains why he has spent nearly $475 million to back Republicans in the midterms.
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Oct 30, 2026
Peltola told supporters on Thursday that she "knew nothing" about decoy Senate candidates recruited to run.
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Oct 30, 2026
Peltola told supporters on Thursday that she "knew nothing" about decoy Senate candidates recruited to run.
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Oct 30, 2026
The wealthy are well represented in the ranks of major candidates for the chamber, according to a New York Times review of financial disclosure forms.
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Oct 30, 2026
A backlash over high prices helped Republicans capture a majority in 2024. Now, it may be the source of the party's own undoing.
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Oct 30, 2026
Polls show the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham in a virtual tie with her Democratic opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews. An upset was unthinkable just a few months ago.
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Oct 30, 2026
Young men swung to Donald Trump in 2024. Polling shows they are now moving away — but to what? Sabrina Tavernise, a reporter for The New York Times, went to Michigan to find out.
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Oct 30, 2026
The fate of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive candidate in the race, will serve as a litmus test for the left's potency heading into the next presidential contest.
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Oct 30, 2026
Representative Tom Kean Jr. inherited a name and a family legacy that helped carry him to Washington. It might not be enough to keep him there.
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Oct 29, 2026
The Justice Department issued subpoenas, a House oversight committee sought interviews and the state opened its own inquiry into a Democratic plan to recruit a spoiler into a Senate race.
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Oct 29, 2026
President Trump has been holding hours-long rallies for GOP candidates nearly every day for weeks.
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Oct 29, 2026
Senator Ashley Moody, Republican of Florida, campaigned in Miami-Dade County, an area with a large Cuban population that the G.O.P. is hoping to keep red.
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Oct 29, 2026
Both sides have a long tradition of promoting spoiler candidates.
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Oct 29, 2026
The president's attack line follows a similarly divisive campaign strategy from 2024, when Mr. Trump sought to drive a wedge between Jewish and Arab voters.
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Oct 29, 2026
President Trump insulted Black and Jewish supporters of Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed during a rally in South Carolina on Thursday.
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Oct 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District.
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Oct 29, 2026
In Alaska's Senate race, two candidates share the same name: Dan Sullivan. But that's no coincidence. A New York Times investigation uncovered a secret plan by Democratic operatives to recruit candidates with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator, hoping to confuse voters and split the Republican vote.
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Oct 29, 2026
Readers react to the Alaska controversy. Also: Punishing critics of President Trump; victories for democracy; help for farmers; a women's health agenda.
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Oct 29, 2026
The other Dan Sullivan in Alaska has drawn the most attention, but both parties are quietly trying to use little-known candidates in other battlegrounds to siphon votes, too.
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Oct 29, 2026
In today's Backstory, an election night dress rehearsal, surveillance towers at the border and A.I. in the newsroom.
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Oct 29, 2026
Track the latest polls in California's 4th Congressional District.
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Oct 29, 2026
What are the key differences between now and two years ago? Between now and 2016?
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Oct 29, 2026
An investigation by The New York Times looked at how two people named Dan Sullivan ended up on the ballot for the Senate.
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Oct 29, 2026
What are the key differences between now and two years ago? Between now and 2016?
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Oct 29, 2026
Expectations are cresting for Democrats, and some kind of wave seems likely, but so much will depend on a few close Senate races.
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Oct 29, 2026
In battleground Michigan, residents disagree on which candidate in a marquee House race has the better solution to a data center proposal.
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Oct 29, 2026
Democrats need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats to regain the majority, but some of their targets are in states President Trump won by double digits in 2024. Our election data reporter Evan Reynolds explains just how difficult that might be.
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Oct 29, 2026
Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother.
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Oct 29, 2026
President Trump had lashed out at Mary Peltola after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime may have been committed.
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Oct 29, 2026
Representative Chris Pappas and former Senator John E. Sununu both stressed their willingness to buck their parties on occasion. Neither had kind words for President Trump.
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Oct 29, 2026
Representative Haley Stevens has been less than enthusiastic about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, injecting late intraparty tensions into a race that could decide Senate control.
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Oct 28, 2026
The White House has been rocked by turnover and anxiety over the midterms. The president, who is tightening his inner circle, has lashed out at critics, held meandering rallies and feasted on a diet of news clips and "A.I. slop," as one aide put it.
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Oct 28, 2026
The president lashed out at the former representative after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime was committed.
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Oct 28, 2026
Plus, ballot-stacking in Alaska and a polling surprise in South Carolina.
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Oct 28, 2026
At The New York Times, we test every part of our election night process and workflow, including the technology, the communication and the space in the newsroom. Go behind the scenes of a full dress rehearsal before the big day.
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Oct 28, 2026
Algorithms are making politicians focus more on positive messaging in short video.
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Oct 28, 2026
Readers discuss an editorial about ending gerrymandering. Also: Africa's progress; A.I. mirrors humans.
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Oct 28, 2026
Congress needs a plan to prevent the program's funds from running short by 2032. Many Senate candidates have shared their positions — some of them unexpected.
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Oct 28, 2026
Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.
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Oct 28, 2026
The former president will rally in Atlanta for Senator Jon Ossoff, who is seeking re-election, and Keisha Lance Bottoms, a candidate for governor.
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Oct 28, 2026
Senator Darline Graham, the South Carolina Republican, is struggling to replicate her late brother's success. Republicans lead in the Florida Senate race and Democrats are up in Minnesota.
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Oct 28, 2026
A look at candidates from President Trump's party who are running on a platform of criticizing him.
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Oct 28, 2026
Senator Darline Graham, the South Carolina Republican, is struggling to replicate her late brother's success. Republicans lead in the Florida Senate race and Democrats are up in Minnesota.
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Oct 28, 2026
Former students and teachers at the San Antonio school where he spent two years with Teach for America recalled a conscientious educator, though there are questions about how big his classes were.
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Oct 27, 2026
Much of the online discourse about Senate races in Texas and Kansas is coming from accounts that appear to be automated, according to new research.
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Oct 27, 2026
The Texas attorney general has been silent about his relationship with Tracy Duhon, a New Orleans woman who has built a personal brand around faith and redemption.
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Oct 27, 2026
Anger has focused on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has become a political lightning rod in the United States, and the high death toll in Gaza.
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Oct 27, 2026
The administration had filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of the election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
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Oct 27, 2026
President Trump on Monday was the latest big political star to swing through Mississippi and boost a candidate in a red-state Senate race that suddenly seems competitive.
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Oct 27, 2026
The American people have a chance to allow the nation to glimpse the end of the Trump era and the start of something brighter.
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Oct 27, 2026
More than 100 candidates under the age of 29 filed to run for Congress this election cycle. The New York Times spoke to five of these Gen Z candidates and asked them a series of questions to understand their qualifications and positions on key issues.
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Oct 27, 2026
Which party will control Congress after the midterm elections and why does it matter?
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Oct 27, 2026
Blake Gendebien, a Democratic dairy farmer, is trying to flip a House seat in upstate New York, and his opponent's loyalty to President Trump may be helping.
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Oct 27, 2026
Our guide to the most brazen, twisted and even innocuous maps that will help determine the midterms.
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Oct 26, 2026
As the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan seeks to overcome intraparty tensions, his opponent in the primary, Haley Stevens, said a PAC's ad was "fearmongering about Israel."
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