Mitch McConnell admits his party’s in serious trouble in November
The Senate Majority leader becomes the latest to ring very loud alarms about the midterms.
By Eric Boehlert - April 05, 2018The Senate Majority leader becomes the latest to ring very loud alarms about the midterms.
By Eric Boehlert - April 05, 2018Cambridge Analytica has already set its sights on the 2018 midterm elections.
By Caroline Orr - April 04, 2018While Democratic women set campaign records, Republican women are forced to watch from the sidelines.
By Eric Boehlert - April 03, 2018A brutal new poll shows young Americans are not impressed by the tweeter-in-chief.
By Caroline Orr - March 30, 2018Lawsuits involving Trump and his alleged mistresses, especially Stormy Daniels, are piling up and making the GOP nervous.
By Eric Boehlert - March 27, 2018‘This is a district we shouldn’t even be talking about.’
By Eric Boehlert - March 26, 2018The GOP is facing huge losses come November, but Trump is already trying to explain why that shouldn’t be his fault.
By Tommy Christopher - March 22, 2018Republicans are trying to distance themselves from the Nazi who won their party’s nomination this week — but he’s not the only white supremacist representing the GOP in 2018.
By Caroline Orr - March 22, 2018All of a sudden, the reality TV star in the Oval Office thinks lack of political experience is a bad thing.
By Tommy Christopher - March 21, 2018Republicans seem to think sending out a scandal-ridden, unpopular president will be the key to victory in November.
By Eric Boehlert - March 19, 2018GOP candidate Leslie Gibson’s attacks on the Parkland shooting survivors brought his campaign to an abrupt end Friday.
By Caroline Orr - March 16, 2018A new study shows that violence spikes when Trump comes to town.
By Caroline Orr - March 16, 2018If this is the best they can come up with, Republicans are in even more trouble than they think in 2018.
By Caroline Orr - March 08, 2018In the Center for Politics’ latest House forecast, there are no longer enough seats leaning or favoring Republicans for a GOP majority.
By Matthew Chapman - March 08, 2018“We have a reached a tipping point.”
By Caroline Orr - March 03, 2018A new poll shows the majority of Americans want politicians who’ll stand up to Trump and his radical agenda.
By Eric Boehlert - March 01, 2018The reviled GOP senator is warning his party that, even in deep-red Texas, Democratic voters are a real threat.
By Matthew Chapman - February 12, 2018The GOP is panicked about the looming special election in Pennsylvania. It should be an easy win for Republicans, but it’s not.
By Eric Boehlert - February 06, 2018Democrats are crushing Republicans at fundraising in the districts where it matters most to win back the House in 2018.
By Oliver Willis - February 02, 2018Democrats have a 35-point lead with women and it’s only getting bigger.
By Eric Boehlert - January 22, 2018One of the “Mothers of the Movement” is now running for office.
By Matthew Chapman - January 17, 2018Prominent Democrats are getting a free ride in 2018 as the GOP fails to recruit top challengers.
By Eric Boehlert - January 17, 2018A new poll shows huge swaths of the American public absolutely shunning Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The release from Quinnipiac University continues a theme that has thrown cold water on the right less than two weeks into the year, with midterm elections looming. Immigration policy, the border wall, marijuana policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, […]
By Oliver Willis - January 11, 2018House Republicans, already growing nervous about the prospects for retaining the majority this year, just hit a new milestone. According to NPR, 30 Republican members of Congress have declined to seek re-election in 2018 12 of whom are pursuing runs for higher office, and 18 of whom are retiring outright. The most recent addition […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 10, 2018The GOP is poised for a crushing defeat in November amid public outrage and rock-bottom polls. But even before a single vote is cast in the 2018 midterm elections, House Republicans are already hemorrhaging powerful members of their caucus as retirement announcements keep coming. Monday afternoon, California Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 08, 2018By all accounts, it was supposed to be easy for Republicans to hold the Senate this year. Ten Democratic incumbents are up for election in states Donald Trump carried. But thanks to Trumps massive unpopularity and public malaise against the GOP, the party has failed to field good Senate candidates in most states. For months, […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 05, 2018Donald Trump’s nightmare of a presidency managed to get even more terrifying this week, but the prospect of a huge Democratic sweep in 2018 offers hope that an end is in sight hope that even some Republicans are clinging to. On Thursday morning’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough asked longtime GOP strategist Rick Tyler […]
By Tommy Christopher - January 04, 2018