Midterm Elections: Who Is Winning the Race for Congress?
It’s Oct. 19 — 15 days from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.

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It’s Oct. 19 — 15 days from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
NBC’s Steve Kornacki brings his big board to Studio 1A with a closer look at where things stand with just 15 days to go until the midterm elections.
The ad opens with a shot of a quiet neighborhood street in western Nebraska, a bright red content warning about sexual assault splashed across the top of the frame. “I have a story to tell,” a woman’s voice states, “about our senator, Pete Ricketts.” Jody Snogren goes on to describe what she told The 19th…
Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to rally the Republican faithful — and keep them from staying home in the midterms — arguing that polling is bad and the party of President Donald Trump can still defy political gravity. “Even even some of our own candidates who are doing internal polling, even they have a hard…
The figures are consistent with other data pointing to a favorable environment for Democrats.
Trump's policies have complicated his support among beef producers, a key constituency in states where tight Senate races could sway control of the body.
The president described France as “a once great nation that is being conquered, looted and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists who hate Christianity.”
HOUSTON — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is keeping his powder dry from talk of a 2028 White House run as he campaigns for GOP colleagues on the ballot in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, but that could soon change. The two-term senator and 2016 presidential candidate told the Washington Examiner in an interview Monday that…
Rosie O'Donnell spewed another conspiracy-soaked screed about the upcoming midterm elections being rigged to her millions of followers on the Chinese social media platform TikTok.