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Oct 22, 2018
Once considered a favorite in the contest for his Senate seat in Montana, Mr. Tester is now at risk.
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Oct 22, 2018
Also: ‘I have news for Donald Trump. I do exist.'
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Oct 22, 2018
If moderate Republicans vote for Democrats, it may not change the Democratic Party for the better.
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Oct 22, 2018
New policies to deter illegal immigration include a plan that would ask migrants to choose between their children and longer detention.
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Oct 22, 2018
Introducing The Tip Sheet, a daily morning analysis of the midterms in the run-up to Election Day.
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Oct 22, 2018
California is being held up by Republican officeseekers in several states as an emblem of high taxes, lax immigration enforcement and overregulation.
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Oct 21, 2018
Democrats have raised more money. But Republicans had more left in the bank, and they are using it on ads that try to nationalize the race.
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Oct 21, 2018
If it means people who stand in opposition to Trump's degradation of the country.
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Oct 21, 2018
Democratic Party strategists hope Latino voters angered by the administration's rhetoric and policies will help deliver resounding victories.
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Oct 21, 2018
Democratic Party strategists hope Latino voters angered by the administration's rhetoric and policies will help deliver resounding victories.
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Oct 21, 2018
The senator from Indiana is testing whether a Democrat can win re-election in a Trump state while running on bipartisanship and moderation.
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Oct 21, 2018
Mr. Hawley, who is challenging Senator Claire McCaskill, has been Missouri's attorney general for less than two years. His tenure has been rocky.
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Oct 20, 2018
Party leaders worry that candidates for governor and Senate are in trouble in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and possibly Wisconsin, and that difficulties could spill into House races.
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Oct 20, 2018
Conservative political apps deliver curated partisan messages, free from the strictures and content guidelines imposed by Silicon Valley giants.
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Oct 20, 2018
Senator Kristen Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, maintains that she is solely focused on her re-election. But her trips and campaign spending suggest otherwise.
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Oct 19, 2018
Ronald DeRisi, 74, was arrested on Friday after the police recovered voice mail messages threatening violence against senators who had voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Oct 19, 2018
The system's vulnerabilities are real, but please do not stay home.
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Oct 19, 2018
During their recent debate, Representative Martha McSally accused her opponent in Arizona's Senate race, Representative Kyrsten Sinema, of treason for remarks made in 2003.
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Oct 19, 2018
Total victory for the G.O.P. would mean Trump unleashed.
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Oct 19, 2018
Martha McSally drew national attention this week when she accused her Democratic opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, of treason.
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Oct 19, 2018
"It's not going to be just one woman running," said Kirsten Gillibrand, one of three senators who positioned themselves this week as potential presidential candidates in 2020.
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Oct 19, 2018
"It's not going to be just one woman running," said Kirsten Gillibrand, one of three senators who positioned themselves this week as potential presidential candidates in 2020.
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Oct 18, 2018
Our genetic code cannot be treated as a matter of simple fractions.
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Oct 18, 2018
Big trade groups in Washington are moving away from hiring former lawmakers, given a divisive political atmosphere.
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Oct 18, 2018
Candidates are pledging to protect pre-existing conditions, a stance often at odds with their votes, but their leaders are vowing to revisit an Affordable Care Act repeal.
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Oct 18, 2018
Which midterm contests are airing the most campaign spots; plus, new polling numbers, a big spend in N.J. and the latest from Opinion.
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Oct 18, 2018
In the On Politics newsletter, which midterm contests are airing the most campaign spots; plus, new polling numbers, a big spend in N.J. and the latest from Opinion.
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Oct 18, 2018
If the president's unpopularity leads to Democrats taking back the House, New York stands to play a larger role in Washington than it has in decades.
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Oct 18, 2018
Democrats appear to be winning on social media, except in some key races.
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Oct 18, 2018
President Trump has taken an interest in the F.B.I. headquarters, which had been set for redevelopment. Democrats wonder if he is trying to protect his hotel.
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Oct 17, 2018
Last week, senators agreed to confirm one last slate of President Trump's nominees, then recess for the midterm campaign. But on Wednesday, Republicans recommenced the judicial rush.
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Oct 17, 2018
A two-term Democrat from Kentucky, he was narrowly defeated by Mr. McConnell, then a county judge and executive, in a Republican campaign engineered by Roger Ailes.
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Oct 17, 2018
Senator Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat of North Dakota, called her campaign's recent newspaper ad a "horrible mistake" after learning that it incorrectly identified survivors of sexual abuse who did not want their names used.
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Oct 17, 2018
DNA can't tell us about identity.
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Oct 17, 2018
The anger is about what it means to be Native American, and who gets to decide.
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Oct 17, 2018
During their debate, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, Representative Beto O'Rourke, accused the Republican incumbent, Senator Ted Cruz, of being dishonest with voters, a line of attack President Trump used against Mr. Cruz in the 2016 campaign.
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Oct 17, 2018
It has joined middle-class stagnation and climate change as a central challenge of our time.
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Oct 17, 2018
The abortion debate has become a proxy for the fight over the Democratic Party's future in the state.
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Oct 17, 2018
The most recent ad from Bob Hugin, Robert Menendez's Republican rival in the New Jersey race, focuses on unproven allegations by an anonymous tipster.
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Oct 17, 2018
The Florida governor and Senate candidate could become the richest member of the next Congress. He'd bring with him a tangle of investments that could benefit from his policies.
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Oct 16, 2018
The North Dakota Senator, an endangered Democrat, ran an ad criticizing her opponent for comments about sexual abuse. But it backfired, just three weeks before the midterms.
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Oct 16, 2018
Mr. Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, will try to use the face-off to widen his lead in the polls, while Mr. O'Rourke, the Democratic congressman challenging him, is hoping to recapture momentum.
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Oct 16, 2018
Mr. Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, will try to use the face-off to widen his lead in the polls, while Mr. O'Rourke, the Democratic congressman challenging him, is hoping to recapture momentum.
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Oct 16, 2018
In Missouri, where Democrats' fortunes have been dwindling for years, party members are trying to figure out how to win back voters.
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Oct 16, 2018
Does a much-covered Texas representative looking to unseat Ted Cruz stand a chance? And what if he — gulp — loses? Well, we've been here before.
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Oct 16, 2018
As the Democratic Party struggles to establish its identity in Missouri, the issue of abortion has taken center stage.
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Oct 16, 2018
Donald Trump seems to have evaded Hispanics voters' wrath.
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Oct 16, 2018
That could spoil Democratic dreams of a big blue wave.
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Oct 16, 2018
Focusing on subtleties makes sense when you're engaged in a conversation. It may be less useful when that conversation turns into a battle.
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Oct 16, 2018
Energized voters on the right dim prospects for big Democratic gains in red districts and states.
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Oct 15, 2018
The senator's genetic analysis was sound, scientists said. But whether the senator may claim a cultural kinship with Native Americans is a very different question.
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Oct 15, 2018
As the Texas Senate race moves into the homestretch, incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and challenger Beto O'Rourke prepare for what could be their last debate.
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Oct 15, 2018
As the Texas Senate race moves into the homestretch, Mr. Cruz, the Republican incumbent, and Mr. O'Rourke, the Democratic challenger, prepare for what could be their last debate on Tuesday night.
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Oct 15, 2018
Democrats paid a political cost for decades after F.D.R. tried it in the 1930s. They probably would again.
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Oct 15, 2018
It's time to end the longest stretch in American history without a new state.
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Oct 15, 2018
What to watch for in the run-up to the Nov. 6 elections.
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Oct 14, 2018
And why it's time to make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., the 51st and 52nd states.
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Oct 14, 2018
While many of the attacks are misleading, the fear-based appeal demonstrates how President Trump has overcome negative headlines on immigration to make the issue profitable.
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Oct 13, 2018
Tennessee progressives were unhappy with their options in a close Senate race. A 28-year-old pop star explained the stakes.
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Oct 13, 2018
We asked readers how to make confirmations less partisan and contentious. Here are some of their ideas.
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Oct 12, 2018
The president singled out Richard Cordray, the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, to deliver a one-two punch against longstanding political rivals.
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Oct 12, 2018
In ruby red Texas, a Democrat hasn't been elected to a statewide position since 1994. But ahead of this year's midterms, a Senate race between an unflinching liberal and a religious conservative is unexpectedly close.
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Oct 12, 2018
Will voters pull back from Trumpian partisan warfare?
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Oct 12, 2018
He had an active single term as what the White House called a "liberal radical" from Maryland. He later objected to Trump's appropriating his family seal.
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Oct 12, 2018
Mr. Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, held an eight-point lead in a new Times poll over Mr. O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, in one of the most closely watched Senate races this year.
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Oct 12, 2018
Mr. Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, held an eight-point lead over Mr. O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, in one of the most closely watched Senate races this year.
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Oct 12, 2018
Senator Jon Tester is less of a cookie-cutter Democrat and more of a Bull Moose wild card, "a Montanan who understands Montana."
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Oct 12, 2018
The last two weeks of polling have been good for the Republicans.
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Oct 11, 2018
Republicans exacted a steep price for an arrangement that will let vulnerable senators, mostly Democrats, leave town: expedited approval of 15 judicial nominees.
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Oct 11, 2018
Readers criticize President Trump's attack on "wacko" Democrats and lament that the hearings eroded faith in the Supreme Court.
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Oct 11, 2018
Dissatisfaction with President Trump among Nevada voters has not had the ripple effect Democrats hoped for. Senator Dean Heller, a Republican, holds a slight edge over Jacky Rosen.
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Oct 11, 2018
Ahead of the midterm elections, false and divisive messages on social media — once the specialty of Russian-linked operatives — are now increasingly being created and spread by Americans.
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Oct 11, 2018
Ahead of the midterm elections, false and divisive messages on social media — once the specialty of Russian-linked operatives — are now increasingly being created and spread by Americans.
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Oct 11, 2018
President Trump said he was not in favor of stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is accused of killing a prominent journalist in its consulate in Turkey.
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Oct 11, 2018
Hugo Black rose from his past in the Ku Klux Klan to become one of the great civil libertarians.
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Oct 10, 2018
The bureau's director, Christopher A. Wray, said the White House directed the F.B.I. to conduct a narrow background investigation into Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh that was "specific in scope."
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Oct 09, 2018
Hurricane Michael arrives in the height of campaign season in Florida, and Gov. Rick Scott, who is running for the Senate, already is in heavy public service mode. So are other Florida politicians.
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Oct 09, 2018
Registrations on Vote.org typically increase in October, the month before Election Day, but "this is leaps and bounds beyond what we typically see," a spokeswoman said.
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Oct 09, 2018
In the Texas race, any small shift among evangelical voters could be a significant loss for Senator Ted Cruz — and a signal to Democrats.
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Oct 09, 2018
How the showdown over the Supreme Court is affecting crucial midterm races in the nation's heartland.
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Oct 09, 2018
Republicans are working to harness outrage over the confirmation hearings among their voters in races where a surge of energy from the left is a threat.
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Oct 08, 2018
Senator Joe Manchin III was the only Democrat to vote for Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. That's O.K. with his home state of West Virginia.
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Oct 08, 2018
A reader says she can't forget his treatment of Anita Hill in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in 1991.
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Oct 08, 2018
If it swings too far to the right, expect a response.
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Oct 08, 2018
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh takes his place on a Supreme Court whose reputation has suffered significant damage from the battle over his confirmation.
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Oct 07, 2018
In North Dakota and other farm states, the heated debate over the Supreme Court has nationalized the fight for the Senate, elating Republicans and worrying Democrats.
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Oct 07, 2018
In North Dakota and other farm states, the heated debate over the Supreme Court has nationalized the fight for the Senate, elating Republicans and worrying Democrats
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Oct 07, 2018
The midterm elections are the smart way to make your influence felt in today's toxic political atmosphere.
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Oct 07, 2018
Activists and Democratic officials in New Jersey are growing worried that the national party is taking its eye off an unexpectedly contested race.
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Oct 07, 2018
Accusations, threats, attacks: The confirmation process of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh entered new territory from the beginning, and senators from both parties fear lasting institutional damage.
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Oct 07, 2018
For the women rallying against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, the senator's announcement brought anguish.
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Oct 07, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford. Deborah Ramirez. Julie Swetnick. Lisa Murkowski. Even Amy Chua. They will face the consequences. Justice Kavanaugh won't.
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Oct 07, 2018
While some have bemoaned recent cutthroat politics in the Senate, history shows many failed or hard-fought nominations back to the 1700s.
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Oct 06, 2018
Over repeated interruptions by protesters in the gallery, the Senate on Saturday voted 50 to 48 to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice.
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Oct 06, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh's angry Senate testimony, urged by the White House counsel, Don McGahn, turned the tables and emboldened demoralized Republicans.
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Oct 06, 2018
After a highly contentious nomination process, senators delivered the final vote on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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Oct 06, 2018
After a highly contentious nomination process, senators deliver the final vote on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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Oct 06, 2018
His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump's slobbering manservant.
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Oct 06, 2018
As the senators entered their final hours of debate, hundreds of protesters were massed on the steps of the Supreme Court and later the Capitol.
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Oct 06, 2018
As the senators entered their final hours of debate, hundreds of protesters were massed on the steps of the Supreme Court and later the Capitol.
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