Nick Corasaniti

Dan Bishop was one of nearly 150 Republican lawmakers who refused to certify Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election even after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

Gov. Jared Polis’s decision to commute the sentence of Tina Peters came after months of tense discussions, including one with President Trump.

Mr. Barr, who serves in the House, consolidated support among Republicans in part by securing the endorsement of President Trump.

Mr. Massie, a Republican who frequently clashed with President Trump, lost to a Trump-backed challenger. The race was a closely watched test of the president’s power to punish his critics.

In his campaign for Georgia governor, Mr. Raffensperger found that G.O.P. voters still blamed him for Mr. Trump’s 2020 loss.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia urged her fellow Democrats, including the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, to stop talking about drawing new congressional lines for partisan advantage.

A top state lawmaker who opposed drawing new maps in time for the fall elections now says he supports eliminating the state’s lone Republican district for the next cycle.

With early voting already underway, it became clear there was no longer enough support to use new lines before the November midterm elections.

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff that confirmed the president’s hold on his party’s voters. Mr. Paxton will face the Democratic nominee, James Talarico, in a race with national implications.

The judge said the 2024 law “constitutes an unjustifiable burden on the right to vote,” and that new voters should be able to prove their citizenship with a sworn affidavit.