Ed Kilgore

One of the big narratives of the 2026 midterm elections is that in Democratic primaries, young progressive insurgents are knocking off old centrist

Polls can tell you, with varying degrees of certitude, the state of play of individual midterm-election contests for the Senate and the House.

The first session of the 119th Congress was characterized by frenetic activity, even if some of it was simply a matter of getting out of the way of Donald Trump 's various executive-branch power grabs.

Polls can tell you, with varying degrees of certitude, the state of play of individual midterm-election contests for the Senate and the House. But with the partial exception of the generic congressional ballot (which estimates House national popular-...

We're now two months out from the 2026 midterm elections, and in some ways, the outcome is even more uncertain than usual.

Democrats have reason to hope that a “blue wave” in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trump 's unpopularity, will help them flip the House and maybe even the Senate this year.

For the first time since Democrats tried it twice (with poor results) in the 1970s , a major U.S. political party is holding a “midterm national

The Beltway media loves to frame differences on the left as a “struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.” That's evident in an Axios piece

Widespread dissatisfaction with Jeffries and Schumer isn’t helping Democrats’ effort to become the party of change and reform.

New Hampshire, much like Ohio, Iowa, and Florida, is a onetime red-hot battleground state that has recently become a bit more predictable.