As Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) narrowly trails her Democratic challenger Scott Colom by just a few hundred votes in the unexpectedly close Senate race in Mississippi, Republicans are now hoping a Supreme Court loss on late-arriving mail ballots earlier this year will help save their senator from being the latest victim of the blue tsunami. […]
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) canceled plans to attend a post-midterm elections analysis event at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., after the outgoing congresswoman faced significant backlash for her endorsement of former Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. GWU’s Graduate School of Political Management is set to host an event Thursday night examining what the […]
Shannon Taylor, a top Henrico County prosecutor who campaigned as a law-and-order Democrat, defeated Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA), who has represented Virginia’s 1st Congressional District for nearly two decades. The Associated Press called the race for Taylor on Thursday afternoon. She was leading by about 2 percentage points at the time of the result. Wittman […]
Election officials announced Thursday that a competitive Maine House race will be decided by ranked-choice voting, as Republican Paul LePage fights to defeat Democrat Matt Dunlap and flip the district red. The pair’s tight battle to succeed retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) in Maine‘s 2nd Congressional District came to a head Tuesday, with LePage holding […]
North Carolina Democrat Don Davis won reelection in the state’s redrawn 1st Congressional District, beating Republican Laurie Buckhout in a rematch of their 2024 contest. The Associated Press called the 1st District for Davis on Thursday afternoon. Davis, an Air Force veteran, was one of the most vulnerable House Democrats seeking reelection this midterm election […]
Denys Sienik, Ukraine’s charge d’affaires to the United States, pushed back against some Ukrainian officials’ predictions of an apocalyptic winter for the country, saying Kyiv and other cities wouldn’t depopulate. Sienik, who serves as Ukraine’s most senior official in the U.S. after former ambassador Olha Stefanishyna left her position in August, cast a defiant picture […]
Democrat Amish Shah defeated Republican Jay Feely in the race to replace Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) in Arizona’s competitive 1st Congressional District. Shah, a physician and former state representative, won 52.5% of the vote compared to Feely, a former Arizona Cardinals kicker, who garnered 45.5% of the vote, according to the Associated Press, which called […]
Harmeet Dhillon is preparing to leave her post overseeing the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, becoming the first senior DOJ official to depart following Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories. Two people familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that Dhillon had informed allies she planned to leave after the midterm elections. An announcement could come […]
Newly elected Democrats are gearing up to take their seats after the party swept up a House majority in the midterm elections, meaning fresh lawmakers are moving to caucus and making clear where they stand on the ideological spectrum. The House Democrats have four main caucuses: the Progressive Caucus, the New Democrat Coalition, the Blue […]
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are still running through the fallout from election night. Today we look at prediction market claims that the people are now effectively in charge of calling races, usurping a small elite who jealously guarded that power. Plus we speak to a Kalshi trader who made hundreds […]
