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 […]
WEB HEADLINE: ‘A Talent for Murder’ stars Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith A Talent for Murder is a movie that cried out to be made for a very simple reason: Helen Mirren is capable of looking, sounding, moving, and behaving just like Patricia Highsmith. That Mirren delivers a good performance here — subtle, engaging, full […]
Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that President Donald Trump didn’t lose the midterm elections because of the war in Iran itself, but because he failed to bring it to an end, contributing to economic turmoil across the U.S. “The midterms were not lost because of Iran,” Doescher said on Newsmax’s The Right […]
Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Republicans must now grapple with who will lead their new minority after the party’s massive losses in midterm elections. “I think that there’s a lot of interest in Jim Jordan here,” Bedford said Wednesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. “I mean, [Steve] Scalise was part of the House […]
