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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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Which party will control Congress after the midterm elections and why does it matter?
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Oct 26, 2026
Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.
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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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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
"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
Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.
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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
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
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
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
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
Fueled by tens of millions from Elon Musk, President Trump's super PAC, Michael Bloomberg and other big donors, both parties are pumping enormous amounts into the final days of the midterms.
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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 23, 2026
A remarkable $1.4 billion worth of political ads are scheduled to air over the final two weeks as the parties fight for control of Congress.
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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
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
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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