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Democrats flipped GOP seats in Texas, Ohio, Iowa, North and South Carolina as a blue tsunami swept midterm elections far beyond expectations.
The Democrats had a bad weekend before the midterm elections, but for Republicans it could be too little, too late.
It would be lightning striking a functioning Ford Pinto on a sunny day for the American voting public to learn anything.
John Thune intends to run for Senate minority leader after Republicans lost at least five seats in the 2026 midterm elections, a source says.
Two recent films offer very different portraits of Chris Hansen, the controversial journalist behind America's hit TV show ‘To Catch a Predator.’
Throughout American history, political combat has remained subject to legal limits. The boundary between shady and illegal activity isn't always clear, but there is a zone that, when entered, can expose political operations and operatives to accus…
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
If voters feel like they’ve been falling behind for a while, it’s probably because many of them have been.
Facing down the Election Night Doom.
As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race had seemed implausible.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
Monday, November 2nd on RealClearPolitics - Joined by RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende, and White House Correspondent Carolina Lumetta
Josh Turek's Iowa Senate win over Ashley Hinson marks the first time Democrats captured the seat since 2008 in a state Trump won by double digits.
Johnny Garcia defeated Republican Carlos De La Cruz in Texas' redrawn 35th Congressional District, defying a Trump-backed redistricting map.
It has been a nasty and disappointing midterm election campaign and whatever the result, few will be unhappy to see the end of it. The irrational and almost sociopathic hatred of President Trump even in civilized, ostensibly Republican circles is …
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Westchester County, N.Y., has got ballot-counting problems.
‘I don’t trust them when they say it is temporary.’
The son of Nicolas Sarkozy on the riots, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and why he thinks France may have to burn before it can rebuild.
If the good news for Democrats is that they lead in almost all of the tossup Senate races, the good news for Republicans is that the margins are typically small, and if the GOP vote is underestimated by the pollsters, the way it has often (but not…
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
It’s not about American aid. It never was.
Our White House correspondents Tyler Pager and Erica L. Green called President Trump to ask whether he would accept the results of the election.
Attorney General Aaron Ford ousts Gov. Joe Lombardo to become Nevada's first Black governor, handing Democrats unified control of state government.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
As the Chinese Communist Party hurtles headlong into the AI dilemma, its successes and failures will leave behind some kind of rudimentary map for the rest of us.
Trump's approval rating in January was about 44 percent in the RealClearPolitics average: not great, but survivable. Indeed, the GOP had a decent story to tell. Economic growth was solid, unemployment and gas prices low, the Southern border sealed…
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
Trump squandered his mandate to be normal, to bring back prosperity, to be more than simply not Joe Biden’s Woke Democrats.
In Michigan, Adbul El-Sayed outlasted former Representative Mike Rogers in a Senate campaign marred by ugly attacks.
Abdul El-Sayed mocked Trump and JD Vance in a combative victory speech after defeating Mike Rogers, calling his opponents "the bad guys" who lost.
To toast a great victory or drown your sorrows, we devised a game for Americans of all political stripes.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Democrats won shocking victories all over the map and flipped the Senate and House with ease, leaving the president weakened. “There was a mood in the air, I guess,” he said.
On TV, the outcome of the midterm elections became clear early on. Pundits celebrated and grieved by turns.
Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump’s agenda.
A G.O.P. voter in Kansas put it bluntly: “The Republican Party has lost its way.”
Republican leaders have urged voters to ignore polls warning of big losses on Election Day - and for some downballot races in Florida, that message is resonating.
We are probably going to look back on this as a generational shift.
Over the past decade, former mommy blogger Rowan (née Amanda) Jetté Knox has come out as bisexual, pansexual, polyam, a ‘giant lesbo,’ a ‘non-binary queer person,’ a polyamorous ‘trans guy,’ and, as of last month, ‘two-spirited’ (and Indigenous).
In a new book about the Carolingian Empire, historian James T. Palmer argues that its founder was more than just a brutal warlord. He was also ‘a savant with a large library and a taste for the obscure.’
Americans voted absentee from the International Space Station, Antarctica and remote Alaskan villages.
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In one of the nation’s hottest congressional races, in Westchester County, N.Y., ballots are being collected in orange bags.
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After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
While the president attributed sweeping losses to the fact that he was not on the ballot, others in his party dismissed his explanation and pinned blame squarely on him.
Sen. Ron Wyden's one-word post — "Subpoenas" — set the tone as Democrats celebrated reclaiming both the House and Senate in 2026 midterms.
The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem on her family’s Sephardi history, 7 October, and why she wants Jewish students to study in Israel.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
Abdul El-Sayed toppled Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim U.S. senator, overcoming Trump's attacks on his faith and alleged foreign ties.
Podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a…
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is deploying state election observers amid concerns the DOJ's federal monitoring could intimidate voters.
The New York Democrat who is in line to be the first Black speaker was raised by a Black nationalist family in Brooklyn, is a moderate and loves a hip-hop reference.
President Donald Trump blamed rising gas prices from the Iran conflict for GOP midterm losses, saying Americans backed the war but not the pain.
If the administration had a more plausible theory of victory, those who argue for more airstrikes haven’t articulated it.
Adam Hamilton ended nearly a century of Republican Senate dominance in Kansas by defeating Roger Marshall in a brutal midterm battle.
Speaker Mike Johnson is seeking a fifth term representing Louisiana's 4th Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
We treat every hour as preparation for some future payoff, but some of the best ways to spend a life accomplish nothing at all.
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.