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Democrats recalibrate on Jan. 6 messaging ahead of midterms
↵↵Now, five years after the attack, the campaign dynamics of Jan. 6 have shifted in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections.Â
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↵↵Now, five years after the attack, the campaign dynamics of Jan. 6 have shifted in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections.Â
Democrats are targeting his southwestern Michigan seat, which Trump carried by 6 points last year.
↵↵Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday also pointed to a 2017 special election in a deep-red Kansas district, which Republican Ron Estes won by 6 points before winning reelection the following year by a more
↵↵The Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol hardened the rift, with Trump lashing out against Cheney's daughter, former Wyoming Rep.
"Jack" Smith in his probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would automatically be entitled to big payouts.
The seat would move from one Trump carried by 6 points to one that would have supported Harris by 12.Â
While Kamala Harris carried his current district by 6 points, Trump would have finished ahead by 3 points under the new map. Meanwhile, Democratic Rep.
In Utah, a legislative committee tasked with redrawing the state’s congressional map under a court-ordered process considered several proposed maps this week ahead of an Oct. 6 vote on a recommendation
Mondaire Jones by 6 points as Harris was carrying the seat by less than half a point, according to calculations by The Downballot.Â
Similarly, the average competitive House district has 17,037 children receiving health care through the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which is nearly 6 percent higher than in districts
Harris carried the district by 6 points last fall, according to calculations by The Downballot.Â
Biden would have carried the seat by 6 points in 2020, though district voters backed Trump by 2 points last fall, according to calculations by elections analyst Drew Savicki.Â
He defeated a fellow Republican by 6 points in November.Â
Impeachment Republicans Just two House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for "incitement of an insurrection" after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol remain in Congress. But Reps.