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Cruz Defeats O’Rourke, Dashing Democratic Hopes in Texas
O’Rourke was looking to energize voters who don’t typically turn out in midterm elections, including younger voters and people of color.
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O’Rourke was looking to energize voters who don’t typically turn out in midterm elections, including younger voters and people of color.
The contest looks close, but I still find it difficult to believe Menendez will lose during a midterm election about Trump.
Next week’s elections will not only determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill but also will seal the fate of the Trump administration’s legislative agenda for the next two years and set the landscape
During the 17 midterm elections that have occurred since 1950, five have produced single-digit changes, while another four have been in the teens and low double digits.
The Trump administration included provisions in the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico to win Democratic support, but if the midterm elections hand Democrats the majority in either the House or Senate
Whether the progressives’ irritation builds into something more threatening to Schumer’s leadership could hinge on how much, if any, momentum the party’s left wing sees in the midterm elections and
Given the current political polarization, the normal midterm dynamic (which punishes the president’s party) and the added risk of losing open seats, it’s likely that most of those 25 GOP districts will
Culberson and Yoder’s seats are listed as “in play” by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales.
The last time Congress passed each individual appropriations bill before the fiscal year’s end was 1994.
In two of those instances, control of one or both chambers of Congress had flipped — after the midterm elections of 2006 and 2010 — and the incoming majority sought to buy time to write appropriations
Eisenhower, came into office with Republican majorities after the 1952 elections.
Jerrold Nadler as the next ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, a high-profile post that could become even more pivotal after the 2018 elections.
But President Donald Trump won Dent’s district by 8 points in November, according to calculations by Daily Kos Elections.