Incumbent Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) appears to be cruising to victory in New Hampshire’s gubernatorial election, up in recent polls and the prediction markets compared to her fellow statewide GOP candidate on the Senate ballot, John E. Sununu. Both Ayotte and Sununu are former senators running statewide in the Granite State, seeking office in a […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York explained why President Donald Trump has been so prominent on the campaign trail ahead of midterm elections. “The reason that Trump is going to some of these deep-red areas, he appears in Sioux City, Iowa, a congressional district he won by 31 points in [2024], Port Huron, Michigan, […]
First lady Melania Trump’s ceasefire in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city successfully took effect early Tuesday morning, according to Moscow and Kyiv. Trump revealed last week that she had brokered the ceasefire in Oleshky, in a move she said would allow humanitarian aid to enter and to create a safe passageway for trapped civilians to exit […]
Neil Young is suing President Donald Trump’s campaign for $10 million, accusing it of using his song “Rockin’ in the Free World” at a recent rally in Youngstown, Ohio, despite a previous settlement barring the unauthorized use of the track. The 80-year-old singer filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Trump’s campaign committee, alleging that it […]
A British national was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service in connection with an alleged attempted sabotage incident at RAF Fairford last month in the United Kingdom, while another was hit with a national security offense. Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, and Nouman Essghir, 24, both British nationals from London, were charged Tuesday under the National […]
The Trump administration’s hopes for Venezuela’s future are crystallizing, nearly eleven months after Washington intervened to topple the South American country’s socialist government. In January, President Donald Trump authorized the arrest of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro by U.S. military forces, setting up Secretary of State Marco Rubio to begin drawing up plans for the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of high voter turnout in “the Left’s strongholds” in the most important election of his career. Polls opened in the Israeli parliamentary elections on Tuesday, the first election since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas surprise attack that plunged the region into war. The election has turned into a referendum […]
Democrat Annie Andrews is touting more than 100 Republican endorsements in her South Carolina Senate race against Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC), but a Washington Examiner review found that dozens of her purported GOP supporters have donated to Democrats or participated in Democratic primaries. Nearly a third of the 101 people on a “Republicans for Dr. […]
A major problem with predicting who will win the Senate in next Tuesday’s midterm elections is that the signs of a blue wave and a polling miss look alike. Democrats currently lead in nearly all the most competitive Senate races a week out from the election, with Republicans clinging to leads of less than 1 […]
The Supreme Court may not be on the ballot next week, but its rulings over the past year have shaped the midterm elections in significant ways, from determining the maps used for congressional elections to how campaign cash may be used. Republicans are aiming to stave off losses to Democrats, who are favored to flip […]
