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At the Races: Sitting tight in Texas
Gonzales of Inside Elections. And barring any major development, Cornyn enters the March 3 primary as the decided underdog, Nathan writes.
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Gonzales of Inside Elections. And barring any major development, Cornyn enters the March 3 primary as the decided underdog, Nathan writes.
Gonzales of Inside Elections writes. ↵↵During wave elections, in particular, outraising your opponents is no guarantee of victory, according to Nathan.
↵↵At the Races is back for 2026, with the midterm election year upon us.
In a change from previous elections, Louisiana will hold partisan primaries in 2026, with a runoff required if no one takes more than 50 percent of the vote. Florida: former Rep.
↵↵It's all happening on a compressed timeline: The Texas primary is March 3, the earliest date on the congressional primary calendar.
↵↵Back in early March, when Inside Elections released its first set of race ratings, the races rated Solid for either party were nearly even (180 for Republicans and 179 for Democrats).
In March, 10 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus backed a procedural motion to advance a stopgap funding bill and avert a government shutdown. Minority Leader Charles E.
The battle for the House is shaping up to be the centerpiece of the 2026 midterms.
Ritchie Torres says he’s unlikely to run for governor of New York in 2026. The Bronx Democrat had been weighing a primary challenge to Democratic Gov.
Abbott has no similar legal guardrails, and he seems to be in no hurry to call a special election to fill the seat left behind by freshman Democrat Sylvester Turner, the former Houston mayor who died on March
Ro Khanna said he expected much of the party’s messaging ahead of the 2026 midterms to come from Capitol Hill, rather than the DNC.
Many of the districts were in a March 2023 announcement of NRCC “offensive pickup opportunities” — but not all of them.
He got 10 votes in that election, showing there was a group of senators looking to move on from McConnell, the longest-serving party leader in Senate history.
The consumer price index rose 3.5 percent in March over the past year, higher than expectations and topping the 3.2 percent annual rate the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported for February.
Wiley Nickel joined that party on Thursday morning, announcing a 2026 Senate campaign instead.
Barbara Comstock told Mary Ellen at the Principles First Summit that Republicans planning to run in suburbs should wait until 2026 if Trump is on the ballot.
At a briefing of the White House coronavirus task force in March, Trump said that he brought the issue up with Chinese President Xi Jinping personally.