The Senate minority leader's more aggressive posture in this shutdown fight isn’t inoculating him in the pending midterms.

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Senate Democrats need a net gain of four seats in the 2026 midterm elections to take back the majority from Republicans.

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Texas Rep. James Talarico is running for U.S. Senate, as Democrats try and flip the statewide seat held by John Cornyn. Talarico, an Austin Democrat, has been a member of the state House since 2019.

Murkowski-Collins is tag-team nomenclature that political watchers will get in the habit of using. Murkowski-Collins, working as a team, will have de facto control of the Senate. In the final two ...

The fight for who will control the House of Representatives after the 2026 election has turned into a national mud war. Perhaps the redrawing of congressional district maps in state after state will ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has closed the gap in recent polling as he squares off against state Attorney General Ken Paxton in a bitterly fought primary, though observers acknowledge he still faces a ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is challenging President Trump to follow up his executive order to rename the Defense Department the War ...

(The Hill) — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) compared the modern-day political landscape to the pre-World War II era in the United States, pointing specifically to tariffs and foreign policy. In an ...