On June 16, as Benjamin Netanyahu continued his year-long defiance of Joe Biden over the war in Gaza, eight U.S. House members and two staffers arrived at Tel Aviv’s luxurious Kempinski Hotel for a four-day immersion in Israeli politics. The lawmakers and aides toured the nation and met with a lineup of speakers largely aligned […]
Candidates: Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) vs. veteran Sam Brown (R) Ad spending since Labor Day: $47.8 million for Democrats; $36.7 million for Republicans Past results: Rosen won her first term in 2018, ousting incumbent Sen. Dean Heller by 5 percentage points, 50.4 to 45.4 percent. 2020 presidential result: 50.1 percent Biden, 47.7 percent Trump Cook […]
Candidates: Rep. Mike Lawler (R) v. former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) Ad spending since Labor Day: $10.3 million for Democrats; $8 million for Republicans Past results: Lawler won arguably the upset of the 2022 cycle when he took down then-DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) by a narrow 50.3 to 49.7 percent margin — […]
WAUSAU, Wisconsin — Democrats have spent 12 years and hundreds of millions of dollars fighting for a chance to dismantle the dominant conservative majorities that locked them out of power in Wisconsin’s statehouse. But to regain clout in Madison, they’ll need to rebuild trust with voters in a place that’s become increasingly hostile to Democrats […]
Candidates: Rep. Jared Golden (D) v. Austin Theriault (R), member of the Maine House of Representatives Ad spending since Labor Day: $10.8 million for Democrats; $10.3 million for Republicans Past results: Golden defeated former Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R) under the state’s ranked-choice voting system, 53.1 percent to 46.9 percent. 2020 presidential result: 45.5 percent Biden; […]
Candidates: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and businessman Eric Hovde (R). Ad spending since Labor Day: $55.8 million for Democrats; $48.5 million for Republicans. Past results: Baldwin won reelection in 2018 with 55.4 percent of the vote against then-challenger and state Sen. Leah Vukmir (R), who received 44.6 percent. 2020 presidential result: Biden 49.6 percent, Trump […]
Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asked Vice President Kamala Harris in a rare joint statement to tone down her rhetoric in the lead-up to Election Day, days after Harris said she considered Donald Trump a fascist. The two top Republicans accused Harris of fanning “the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of […]
Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the House Oversight panel’s top Democrat, asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The two senior Democrats sent a letter on Thursday to Garland, urging the Justice Department to appoint a special […]
Sen. Mike Lee is calling on candidates running for Senate GOP leadership to weigh in on Mitch McConnell’s recent remarks against Donald Trump, which included him referring to the former president as a “sleazeball,” “narcissist” and “stupid as well as being ill-tempered.” “Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this […]
Candidates: Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, Republican Nick Begich, Democrat Eric Hafner and Alaska Independence Party candidate John Wayne Howe Ad spending since Labor Day: $15.7 million for Democrats, $11.9 million for Republicans Past results: Peltola won the special election to succeed the late Republican Rep. Don Young in August 2022, and then was elected to […]