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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.
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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.
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.
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
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
“Comparing the composition of the electorate in the 2024 presidential race with the one in 2020, Democrats dropped a significant 6 points in party ID, going from 37 percent to 31 percent and becoming,
He invoked something he’s said previously while referencing the events of Jan. 6, 2021. “For some people, it’s a time for victory, to state the obvious.
The rest of the House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and have since left Congress are largely keeping a low profile this election
Elissa Slotkin in Michigan’s 7th District, of misleading Black voters by running an ad that misstates Nov. 6 as Election Day in a Black-owned newspaper.
Dunn visited Nevada State Democratic Party offices as part of a Biden-Harris campaign tour of battleground states to highlight former President Donald Trump’s actions (and inactions) during the Jan. 6,
ICYMI Not happening: There’s no indication that Hill Democrats will use Congress’ role in counting electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2025, to enforce the 14th Amendment’s Insurrection Clause to stop another
But many in the GOP viewed Majewski, a Trump supporter who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, as a risky choice: Revelations that he misrepresented his military record helped doom his 2022 run, and they feared
Amash and two other former House members, Mike Rogers and Peter Meijer, are among the candidates running in the Aug. 6 primary.
Valadao, one of 10 House Republicans who supported impeaching Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, also faces a challenger from the right in Republican Chris Mathys, a former member of
Running back to the Hill: Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who rose to prominence speaking out after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, resigned from the force to run for Congress.
Jamaal Bowman, whose challenger in the June primary, George Latimer, raised $1.4 million between Dec. 6 and Dec. 31, tells The Daily Beast he “regrets” and does not believe conspiracy theories about the
The debate, which is co-hosted by Politico, Fox 11 Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Dornsife Center for the Political Future, will begin at 6 p.m.
Starting gate Capitol comeback: Harry Dunn, a former Capitol Police officer who defended the building on Jan. 6, 2021, and later testified about his experience that day, is running for Congress in
Along with finding that Trump was not protected by the First Amendment when he “incited and encouraged the use of violence and lawless action to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power” on Jan. 6, 2021,