Sen.-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) pulled off one of the most unexpected victories of the 2026 midterm elections, unseating Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and ending more than four decades of Democratic losses in the state’s Senate races. Colom, a district attorney who had been largely overlooked by national political observers for much of the campaign, narrowly […]

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is rekindling his feud with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) after Florida partially avoided last week’s midterm blue wave, suggesting that Election Day was actually a letdown for state Republicans and that DeSantis should not be putting the spotlight on himself. In an interview, Scott said he had not seen the triumphant […]

New White House chief of staff Stephen Miller will be a key player in whether any bipartisan immigration deal gets done or is even seriously talked about as the Trump administration adjusts to the new normal of big Democratic congressional majorities. The selection of Miller, an immigration hard-liner, as a replacement for former chief of […]

House Democrats‘ midterm euphoria came to a crashing halt on Capitol Hill this week, as two voting setbacks pierced the party’s victory lap. The caucus failed to defeat a Republican effort to kill articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, a measure cutting some veterans’ benefits to increase […]