Election forecaster Cook Political Report shifted Minnesota’s Senate race toward GOP nominee Michele Tafoya on Tuesday, while shifting two other Senate races in favor of of Democrats in Mississippi and South Carolina. The forecaster moved Minnesota’s Senate race from “Likely Democrat” to “Leans Democrat” in a blow to Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan as […]
A lawful permanent resident detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas died over the weekend, prompting public outcry about why he was detained in the first place. Mexican citizen and U.S. green card recipient Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias died on Saturday while being held at ICE’s Rio Grande Processing Center in South Texas. Andrade-Covarrubias had […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said President Donald Trump’s presence on the campaign trail both helps and hurts Republican candidates. “It seems that Republican voters are much more energized than maybe they were a month ago,” Concha said Monday on Fox Business’s Varney & Company. “Then, the downside to that is, well, Trump can energize […]
Sabato’s Crystal Ball changed the ratings for 28 House races on Tuesday, pushing the number of seats that are rated “leans Democratic” past 218. The changes come two weeks before the midterm elections, which will determine whether Democrats retake control of the House from Republicans. Right now, the election forecaster has 223 congressional districts in […]
A federal judge on Monday denied an attempt to block stricter standards for mail-in ballots in North Carolina, marking a blow to Democratic-affiliated efforts to reverse Republican-backed changes to the election process made earlier this year. Last month, the North Carolina State Board of Elections approved several changes to voting that it said were aimed […]
Over 1 million voters have already cast their midterm ballots in Georgia this year as the purple state is one week into its early voting period. Compared with the 2022 midterm elections, the Peach State has seen a 12% increase in ballots cast in the 2026 elections, according to data released by Georgia Secretary of […]
New Hampshire officials are urging the Supreme Court to lift a last-minute block on a state law barring student identification cards from being used as valid forms of ID to vote, weeks ahead of the hotly contested midterm elections. Officials from the Granite State filed an emergency petition seeking to halt what it calls a […]
U.N. “human rights” experts are taking six-figure donations from leftist nonprofit groups without properly disclosing them all, a watchdog group alleges. Research unveiled by the Geneva-based UN Watch on Monday traced funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation to current and former U.N. special rapporteurs. The watchdog raised concerns that such […]
Some of the largest pockets of the more than 1 million Ukrainian Americans in the United States live in swing districts and battleground states, raising the potential political consequences for President Donald Trump’s latest tiff with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just two weeks out from the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Trump has eased Russian sanctions […]
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu told France’s parliament that “far-left” and “ultra-left” groups had forged an “insurrectionary plan” against the government, speaking shortly after he was briefed by French intelligence services. Monday night was comparatively calm compared to the pandemonium that engulfed Paris and other major cities over the weekend, when rioters battled police across […]
