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With just three months to go before the general election, primary voters in five states went to the polls in a batch of consequential Senate, House and gubernatorial races.  While the marquee race was the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, November matchups are now officially set in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia and Washington as well. Here’s […]

The good news for Republicans is that President Donald Trump’s job approval rating isn’t getting any worse. The bad news is that many of the issues that drove his rating down in the first place are making their way back into the news, with the midterm elections creeping closer with each passing day. After beginning […]

If either party falls a single seat short of a Senate majority in the fall, Republicans and Democrats might end up playing a two-year game of “What If.” On Tuesday, Michigan Democrats will limp to the end of a contentious and expensive Senate primary. Either Rep. Haley Stevens or public health official Abdul El-Sayed will […]

The full Inside Elections team breaks down the latest in the midterm elections and key races. Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin, and Inshara Ali are joined by Contributing Data Editor Bradley Wascher to analyze the impact of redistricting on the fight for the House using Inside Elections’ Baseline metric. And summer interns Nicholas Demba and Ashleigh […]

By Ashleigh Jones It’s no secret that Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina are at the center of the fight for the Senate majority. But a look below the surface reveals a handful of swing counties in each state that will likely decide whether Republicans or Democrats are in control of the chamber next year. Democrats […]

Maine’s critical Senate race entered arguably its fifth distinct phase this week, as former state Senate President Troy Jackson emerged as the likely replacement Democratic nominee to take on GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Jackson’s rapid ascent comes just two weeks after the original Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, withdrew from the race after he was accused […]

Less than two weeks after GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden passing, South Carolina’s Senate race has drawn a crowd. President Donald Trump has endorsed Darline Graham, the late senator’s sister, a former vocational rehabilitation worker and now the incumbent after she was appointed by GOP Gov. Henry McMaster. But that hasn’t stopped Reps. Ralph Norman […]