2026 Midterm Elections

Donald Trump says he has “no regrets” about backing Ken Paxton in Texas. A new CNN analysis suggests his party may soon have plenty.

After the March primary, Trump was widely expected to endorse Sen. John Cornyn in his runoff against Paxton, the state’s scandal-plagued attorney general. CNN’s Aaron Blake writes that Cornyn simply had the better shot at holding the seat. Trump even said an endorsement was coming “soon.”

Legendary veteran Democratic strategist James Carville went toe to toe with Fox News' Will Cain on Friday, discussing Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Cain tried to corner Carville on a few times El-Sayed, who himself has gone on Fox News for high-drama interviews, didn't give a direct answer on Iran and Israel on certain occasions — but Carville had a ready retort.

A joint investigation by Kansas Reflector and MS NOW suggests Sen. Roger Marshall's office blurred the line between official work and his 2020 Senate campaign, according to records and experts.

The outlets reviewed audio, video, calendars and over 200 text messages from Marshall's first Senate run. Experts told them the materials show Marshall and his chief of staff, Brent Robertson, regularly using congressional staff and taxpayer-funded travel for campaign purposes.

GOP Senate hopeful Mike Rogers raced to distance himself Thursday from Flock cameras — the surveillance tech that is now viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans — but was immediately fact-checked using his own legislative record.

“Flock cameras shouldn't be used to track law-abiding citizens,” Rogers, a former House member, wrote in a statement published on social media. “As a former FBI guy, I know security and liberty aren’t enemies. Good government protects both.”

President Donald Trump dropped two hints this week that a major “surprise” would materialize ahead of the midterms next month, hints that former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance argued Friday could not be clearer.

“Trump seems to be preparing to try and salvage a potential electoral loss in ways that are all too familiar for those of us who lived through January 6,” Vance wrote in an analysis published Friday on her Substack. “We understand the concept. And like always, Trump says the quiet part out loud.”

A newly unearthed deposition shows Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton struggling under oath to explain his finances in the Servergy investment scandal, which led to his 2015 indictment on securities fraud charges.

The New York Times obtained the December 2014 deposition from a person who opposes Paxton’s Senate bid and independently confirmed it was authentic, and the document shows lawyers for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission questioning Paxton for hours about Servergy Inc., a tech startup in McKinney, Texas.

President Donald Trump’s approval numbers are “laughably bad” heading into the midterms, according to CNN's Harry Enten, who says no president in modern history has been in a worse position this close to Election Day.

The data analyst pointed to new Pew Research Center polling showing Trump’s net approval rating 38 points underwater, and he expressed astonishment.

President Donald Trump’s shocking statement published Thursday demonstrated his aim to “start a race war” as a midterm strategy, Zeteo’s Martin Pengelly argued Friday, an accusation he confidently argued was “not hyperbole.”

Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump called on Minnesotans to “fight back” against Somali immigrants living in the state, accusing them of stoking “violence, murder and mayhem.” He also told Minnesotans that the federal government was ready to “come to your rescue” and demanded Minnesota leaders “immediately ask for federal help.”

Sen. Darline Graham’s (R-SC) bid to hold onto the Senate seat that her brother held until his death got a thumbs down from Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist Kathleen Parker.

Parker, it should be noted, is a longtime resident of Camden, South Carolina.

Republicans are bracing for the worst with less than four weeks before Election Day, as internal polling circulated among top party officials shows “close-to-catastrophic scenarios” in a string of formerly safe red seats.

GOP House leadership, major political operations and individual campaigns received the polling in late September, three people with direct knowledge of the matter told Politico, and those numbers showed competitive races in parts of Kentucky, North Carolina and Nevada that President Donald Trump won by 10 points or more in 2024.

A “key pocket” of Republican voters is furious with GOP leaders as the party is “already facing headwinds” heading into the midterms, and many are now threatening to buck the Republicans altogether at the voting booth next month, The Hill reported Friday.

Those voters are followers of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, or MAHA, many of whom feel betrayed by Republican lawmakers who have backed a legislative provision that would delay a deadline for pesticide safety reviews.