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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
Former Republican Gov. David Beasley and Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges recorded a joint video throwing their support to the Democrat in the tight Senate race.
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Oct 26, 2026
Democrats are targeting G.O.P. strongholds that could set them up for new majorities. But if they don't win those races now, it could be a long time before they have another chance.
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Oct 26, 2026
About an ad in which the candidate's mother calls her a liar and a lawsuit over similar names in a Senate race. Also: "The Twilight Zone"; no smartphones.
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Oct 26, 2026
It's crunch time and still looking bullish for Democrats.
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Oct 26, 2026
Conflict? Cooperation? On the potential of divided government.
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Oct 26, 2026
A Platner superfan's reluctance to support the Democrat now running against Senator Susan Collins reflects the party's challenges navigating left-wing passions.
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Oct 26, 2026
President Trump will stump for a senator in a state he has won three times by double digits, and as Democrats see a path to victory.
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Oct 26, 2026
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.
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Oct 26, 2026
It's crunch time and still looking bullish for Democrats.
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Oct 26, 2026
Democrats are targeting G.O.P. strongholds that could set them up for new majorities. But if they don't win those races now, it could be a long time before they have another chance.
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Oct 26, 2026
The left says its populist message can attract moderates and conservatives in addition to liberals. That theory will be put to the test in a series of competitive races on Election Day.
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Oct 25, 2026
The president contended that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, would "invite hordes of jihadis to our shores" as he sought to bolster the G.O.P. candidate in a tight Senate race.
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Oct 25, 2026
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
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Oct 25, 2026
The 44th president sharply criticized Mr. Trump, who hit back later in the day. Mr. Obama also assailed Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio.
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Oct 25, 2026
Our politics reporter Kellen Browning walks through the four Senate races that progressive Democrats are closely watching in the upcoming midterm elections.
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Oct 25, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall was slow to recognize the steep challenge he faced in his solidly conservative state. Now he is confronting dissent among voters with deep economic worries.
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Oct 24, 2026
Track the latest polls in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District.
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Oct 24, 2026
"There is no legal excuse" for the failure of 18 polling sites to open for early voting, a state lawmaker said.
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Oct 24, 2026
The 44th president appeared in Ohio on Saturday, kicking off a two-state swing with a rebuke of President Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor.
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Oct 24, 2026
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president's instrument of unmediated executive power.
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Oct 24, 2026
Republican candidates are in a sorry state.
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Oct 24, 2026
Republicans are crude, craven, cruel. It's not working anymore.
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Oct 24, 2026
Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day.
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Oct 24, 2026
Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day.
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Oct 24, 2026
The House map looks far different from how it appeared just months ago, with deep-red seats coming into play. Here are the main types of districts that will decide which party comes out on top.
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Oct 24, 2026
Conflict between Michigan's Black and Arab communities could get in the way of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's pitch in the critical Senate race.
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Oct 24, 2026
The president has spread false claims about ranked-choice systems, voting machines, vote counting and past results to question the integrity of elections.
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Oct 24, 2026
The 44th president will appear in Ohio and Michigan on Saturday, while President Trump will be in Georgia. The two men have presented starkly contrasting pitches in the midterms.
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Oct 23, 2026
Track the latest polls in Kansas's 2nd Congressional District.
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Oct 23, 2026
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled months ago that two candidates, both named Dan Sullivan, could appear on the ballot on Election Day.
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Oct 23, 2026
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.
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Oct 23, 2026
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska's Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
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Oct 23, 2026
Democrats are preparing a "first 100 hours" plan to try to roll back some of President Trump's most unpopular policies if they regain control of the House and perhaps the Senate in the midterms. Our congressional correspondent Annie Karni explains what they could accomplish and how they hope to put Republicans on the spot.
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Oct 23, 2026
The move was announced by Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who faces a tough re-election fight amid rising prices.
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Oct 23, 2026
Track the latest polls in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District.
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Oct 23, 2026
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine's military.
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Oct 23, 2026
The charges intensified the administration's efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
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Oct 23, 2026
Trump's latest attempt to denaturalize Representative Ilhan Omar is yet another signal of his abuse of power, argues the columnist Jamelle Bouie. In fact, the entire immoral act, according to Bouie, "encapsulates the president's outright contempt, hostility to, arguably, opposition to the Constitution itself."
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Oct 23, 2026
The spot casts the remark made at a debate by Senator Susan Collins's Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, as evidence of how he treats women.
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Oct 23, 2026
The spot casts the remark made at a debate by Senator Susan Collins's Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, as evidence of how he treats women.
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Oct 23, 2026
The Justice Department, in a highly unusual court filing, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.
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Oct 23, 2026
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.
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Oct 23, 2026
In Ohio, many voters say their frustration about the increase in electricity and fuel prices and the growth of data centers won't influence whom they vote for.
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Oct 23, 2026
The Republican candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany, is best known as a staunch ally of the president. He's trying to change that.
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Oct 23, 2026
President Trump will rally on Friday in a Republican state where Democrats have their eye on several House races.
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Oct 23, 2026
North Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 2008. Can Roy Cooper break that spell?
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Oct 23, 2026
Supporters of Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate, have described his Democratic opponent, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, as un-American and worse.
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Oct 23, 2026
This year has resulted in arguably the biggest challenge to political representation for Black Americans in decades — nowhere has this been felt more than in the south.
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Oct 22, 2026
The president visited Sioux City, part of deep-red Western Iowa, in an effort to boost GOP turnout in a state that was once solidly Republican.
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Oct 22, 2026
Progressive activists released a video of three men making the allegations about the South Carolina Republican, who died in July. The New York Times has not confirmed their claims.
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Oct 22, 2026
At an event in Maine, an audience member told the New York progressive that "a lot of trans people in America feel that we have been abandoned by the Democratic Party."
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Oct 22, 2026
The Justice Department is reviewing whether Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, broke the law when she became a U.S. citizen decades ago. Here's what we know.
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Oct 22, 2026
In a year when the wealth of the rich soared while workers lost ground to inflation, class has become political, especially in the Nebraska Senate race.
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Oct 22, 2026
The justices had been asked to weigh in on a New Hampshire directive that prevented election officials from considering student IDs to prove a voter's identity.
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Oct 22, 2026
Trump's grotesque rerun of the Gilded Age demands a rebuke.
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Oct 22, 2026
The minority leader plans to kick off campaigning in a Hudson Valley, New York, district that is one of the most competitive in the country.
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Oct 22, 2026
A former three-star admiral fired by Pete Hegseth is making his competence a campaign issue.
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Oct 22, 2026
Russian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.
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Oct 22, 2026
Trump's grotesque rerun of the Gilded Age demands a rebuke.
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Oct 22, 2026
Chris Pappas, the Democratic nominee in New Hampshire, would be the first openly gay man in the Senate. On the campaign trail, he doesn't dwell on it.
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Oct 22, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, and Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate, sparred in their final debate on Wednesday.
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Oct 21, 2026
The Republican incumbent, Roger Marshall, is facing a surprisingly tough challenge from the Democratic nominee, Adam Hamilton.
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Oct 21, 2026
Abdul El-Sayed accused Mike Rogers of being overly devoted to President Trump. Mr. Rogers accused Dr. El-Sayed of not enough loyalty to the country. It was still more cordial than their last debate.
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Oct 21, 2026
Mr. Trump is barnstorming across conservative America this week to shore up support for Republican candidates in unexpectedly competitive races.
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Oct 21, 2026
The Republican incumbent is trying to hold on to his seat and keep his state from sending a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century.
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Oct 21, 2026
The candidate, a political newcomer, is hoping to be the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate in nearly a century.
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Oct 21, 2026
County election officials have rejected ballots for such issues as an unsealed "inner" envelope. Voting rights groups are urging voters to fix their ballots or vote in other ways.
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Oct 21, 2026
The Israeli military detained Brad Lander, a New York congressional candidate, in the West Bank while he was helping Palestinian farmers.
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Oct 21, 2026
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee generally supports Democrats, but it has spent heavily against Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel. Its general election spending comes after initial concerns from the campaign of Mike Rogers, the Republican.
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Oct 21, 2026
The map favors Republicans, but cracks in their base are leaving them vulnerable in defending House and Senate control.
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Oct 21, 2026
In the final weeks of Michigan's Senate race, the Democratic nominee finds himself facing both ugly attacks and pointed questions about family members. He has pushed back forcefully.
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Oct 21, 2026
The state's challenging geography and newspapers' broader economic struggles have stretched reporters in Alaska, just as its competitive U.S. Senate race has grabbed national attention.
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Oct 21, 2026
Track the latest polls in Florida's 21st Congressional District.
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Oct 21, 2026
The president is preoccupied with summoning the image of a consolidated authoritarian state.
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Oct 21, 2026
Trump is preoccupied with summoning the image of a consolidated authoritarian state.
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Oct 21, 2026
Likely voters favored Democratic candidates over Republicans by 11 percentage points in their congressional district, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
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Oct 20, 2026
The enormous spending by the term-limited president's super PAC has no parallel in American history, and could offer struggling Republican candidates a lifeline.
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Oct 20, 2026
The rolling release of long-secret files could add detail to the history of a legally disputed Bush-era counterterrorism program.
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Oct 20, 2026
In Colorado, two millennial candidates are thinking about A.I.
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Oct 20, 2026
In Tarrant County, a fight over polling places has energized Democrats as Republicans seek to defend their grip on a longtime stronghold.
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Oct 20, 2026
Mike Rogers and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the candidates in the tight race, defended their economic policies at the Detroit Economic Club.
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Oct 20, 2026
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama was the latest national Republican to visit Iowa to campaign for Representative Ashley Hinson. President Trump will follow on Thursday.
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Oct 20, 2026
A changing of the congressional guard in January could leave room for meddling, though most legal scholars doubt it would happen.
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Oct 20, 2026
The money from the former New York City mayor and megadonor, who is focused on ensuring a sizable Democratic House majority, will help cut into Republicans' financial advantage.
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Oct 20, 2026
President Trump said that opponents of Senator Roger Marshall had unfairly cast him as "some kind of a Shylock-type guy." Mr. Trump used the same slur last year at a rally in Iowa.
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Oct 20, 2026
Our interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas.
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Oct 20, 2026
The liberal pro-Israel advocacy group's ads denouncing incumbents in Iowa and Pennsylvania put it at odds with the larger organization for the first time.
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Oct 20, 2026
A once-in-a-generation shot to turn a solidly Republican state blue.
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Oct 20, 2026
Our interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas.
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Oct 20, 2026
James Talarico joined Michael Barbaro on "The Daily" to talk about why he thinks he can become the first Democrat in Texas to be elected to the Senate in 40 years. If he and his party successfully flip the chamber, would he consider impeaching President Trump or members of his cabinet?
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Oct 20, 2026
A once-in-a-generation shot to turn a solidly Republican state blue.
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Oct 19, 2026
The man had been detained at an immigration center in Laredo, Texas, since June. Immigration officials said he had received proper medical care.
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Oct 19, 2026
Former Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia said he told Senator Susan Collins, who is locked in a tough re-election fight, "Whenever you run again, I'm going to come."
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