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Oct 16, 2026
Plus, Katie Zacharia's ouster, A.O.C. on the trail, and another tense debate in Maine.
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Oct 16, 2026
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.
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Oct 16, 2026
The transfer represents an unusually large amount for a House member to give to a Senate race.
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Oct 16, 2026
Iowa is seemingly at the center of the pushback against President Trump as the state grapples with the impact of both tariffs and higher fuel costs.
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Oct 16, 2026
This year's midterm elections are a test of whether a party can be a success and a failure at the same time.
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Oct 16, 2026
Both Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, grew up in Aroostook County, a vast, isolated northern wilderness. Those roots have helped define them.
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Oct 16, 2026
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
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Oct 16, 2026
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
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Oct 16, 2026
The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.
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Oct 16, 2026
The world's richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton's Senate bid in Texas.
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Oct 16, 2026
The world's richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton's Senate bid in Texas.
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Oct 15, 2026
The race's fourth and final debate centered around whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.
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Oct 15, 2026
There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
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Oct 15, 2026
Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon's inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.
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Oct 15, 2026
The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.
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Oct 15, 2026
Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating a series of letters mailed to members of Congress and secretaries of state in recent days.
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Oct 15, 2026
The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.
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Oct 15, 2026
As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Adam Hamilton speaks of his work leading the state's largest church — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.
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Oct 15, 2026
Despite hopes for a blue wave, Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Maine and Michigan are facing local political headwinds and have struggled to open up clear daylight in the polls.
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Oct 15, 2026
The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.
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Oct 15, 2026
With an eye on retaking control of Congress, Democrats are introducing a bill that would hold banks accountable for their handling of Jeffrey Epstein's finances.
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Oct 15, 2026
There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
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Oct 15, 2026
The right wing is scrambling for wins in the elections as Democrats lead in the polls.
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Oct 15, 2026
There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
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Oct 15, 2026
As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Mr. Hamilton speaks of his work leading one of the state's largest churches — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.
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Oct 14, 2026
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
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Oct 14, 2026
The newest inflation report gave Democrats a chance to tie pain at the pump to President Trump's decisions.
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Oct 14, 2026
Steve Pajcic, a lawyer and philanthropist in Florida, started a group that is airing ads in Kansas and South Carolina. Florida and Mississippi are next.
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Oct 14, 2026
Senator Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent, and Representative Mike Collins, the Republican challenger, debated inflation, tariffs and the Epstein files during the second and final Georgia senate debate.
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Oct 14, 2026
With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals' records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.
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Oct 14, 2026
The Trump era is ending. It's time for Democrats to decide what happens next.
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Oct 14, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will also rally for Democratic candidates in Georgia and Nevada.
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Oct 14, 2026
"I'm running for re-election to the Senate," the Democrat said during a debate on Tuesday. Barack Obama said the same thing 20 years ago.
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Oct 14, 2026
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
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Oct 14, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.
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Oct 14, 2026
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
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Oct 13, 2026
The president has stepped up his offers of financial rewards to voters with just weeks until the midterms. On Tuesday at a rally in Alaska, he announced pardons.
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Oct 13, 2026
Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.
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Oct 13, 2026
A quarter-billion dollars to help Republicans hold Congress.
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Oct 13, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.
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Oct 12, 2026
The president rallied in Youngstown for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are in competitive contests against Democratic opponents.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
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Oct 12, 2026
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.
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Oct 12, 2026
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for the mistake.
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Oct 12, 2026
It's Oct. 12 — 22 days away from the midterms. Here's the state of play.
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Oct 12, 2026
Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.
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Oct 12, 2026
The world's richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans' Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Oct 11, 2026
Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic challenger, accused Senator Darline Graham of taking her cues from President Trump. Ms. Graham said Dr. Andrews wouldn't say no to socialists.
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Oct 11, 2026
Three months after a jarring summer candidate switch, some Democrats in the state are worried about the enthusiasm for their nominee, Troy Jackson, who is in a close race.
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Oct 11, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker's story went viral online.
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Oct 11, 2026
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins's voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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Oct 11, 2026
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Oct 10, 2026
A New Hampshire insider-outsider candidate is executing a complex political dance.
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Oct 10, 2026
This week in politics: Which Democrats? And whose A.I. morals?
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Oct 10, 2026
The president's despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Oct 10, 2026
The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what's at stake with A.I.
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Oct 10, 2026
This week in politics: Which Democrats? And whose A.I. morals?
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Oct 10, 2026
The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what's at stake with A.I.
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Oct 10, 2026
A New Hampshire insider-outsider candidate is executing a complex political dance.
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Oct 10, 2026
We assess three campaign ads in the battleground states that have focused on the cost of living.
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Oct 10, 2026
Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.
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Oct 09, 2026
Adam Hamilton wants to be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there in nearly 100 years.
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Oct 09, 2026
Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with "a nasty case of the flu."
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Oct 09, 2026
A majority of voters now cast their ballots ahead of Election Day, and we are tracking the returns in key Senate battleground states.
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Oct 09, 2026
A majority of Americans cast their ballots before Election Day, but early-voting data is limited in how much it can tell us about important races.
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Oct 09, 2026
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
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Oct 09, 2026
The $500 checks are accompanied by a letter signed by the president that criticizes the Biden administration for overcharging Americans for health insurance.
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Oct 09, 2026
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.
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Oct 09, 2026
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, ahead of the primary. She also appeared with him at a fund-raiser in New York this week.
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Oct 09, 2026
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, learned how to take his fights to the floor and prevail — except in one crucial case.
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Oct 09, 2026
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, learned how to take his fights to the floor and prevail — except in one crucial case.
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Oct 09, 2026
The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.
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Oct 09, 2026
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate's growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Oct 09, 2026
Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.
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Oct 08, 2026
Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.
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Oct 08, 2026
Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, called his Republican opponent, Representative Mike Collins, a bigot. Mr. Collins called the incumbent a radical "trust-fund kid."
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Oct 08, 2026
Plus, a big debate night in Senate battlegrounds.
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Oct 08, 2026
The former congressman is vying to be the first Republican from Michigan to win a Senate seat in three decades.
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Oct 08, 2026
Explore possible outcomes in battleground states to see how each party could win a majority in the Senate.
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Oct 07, 2026
In a top Senate battleground, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, sparred with Josh Turek, her Democratic rival, on policy issues ranging from Medicaid to term limits.
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Oct 07, 2026
The president offered support for the Republican Senate candidate, after earlier grumbles, but focused much of his speech on a defense of his own record.
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Oct 07, 2026
Trump is in Texas tonight to stump for the Senate candidate.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.
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Oct 07, 2026
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton's Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, faced off on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents," Senator Thom Tillis details his regrets about backing President Trump's agenda.
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Oct 06, 2026
Different blocs are moving left. They could swing key Senate races.
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Oct 06, 2026
Democratic Senate candidates have generally out-raised Republicans, but are struggling to match outside spending from Trump-affiliated groups.
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Oct 06, 2026
Widespread anger at a billion-dollar fishing industry is shaping Alaska's key Senate race — and could determine which party takes control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
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Oct 05, 2026
Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, and Josh Turek, her Democratic opponent, have both been targeted over campaign donations.
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Oct 05, 2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Oct 05, 2026
Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.
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Oct 05, 2026
Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.
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Oct 05, 2026
Inside the weird campaign that could flip the Senate to the Democrats.
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Oct 04, 2026
The state hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century. Economic challenges during President Trump's second term, as well as other factors, have put it in play.
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