One of the defining questions of the 2026 midterm elections is whether voters will still cross party lines in prominent statewide races or whether polarization has made straight-ticket voting the default. Maine and Georgia offer near mirror-image tests. In Maine, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Hannah Pingree is running well ahead of Republican nominee Bobby Charles, while […]

Democrats are gearing up for a potentially close and contentious midterm election by hiring lawyers, building out a nationwide “voter protection infrastructure,” and deploying tens of thousands of election observers across the country. The preparations include, for the first time, an internal Democratic National Committee litigation department designed to fight election-related legal battles as President […]

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has emerged as one of Democrats’ most in-demand national surrogates ahead of the midterm elections, campaigning for candidates across the party’s ideological spectrum and in some of the most competitive districts in the country. Raskin has campaigned with more than a dozen Democratic candidates during the August […]

In countless American minds, Brexit and President Donald Trump are linked, and not in a good way. The term Brexit is shorthand for “British exit.” The vote of more than 17 million U.K. citizens on a referendum to leave the European Union and Trump’s shock election to the presidency both happened in the same year, […]