U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is poised to lead the House Judiciary Committee after Democrats won control of the chamber, clashed with a Republican colleague on CNN Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s impeachments and the direction of the new Congress.

Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who currently serves as the committee’s ranking member, is ...Read more

NEW YORK — Progressive Rep-elect Claire Valdez, D-New York, Thursday said she hasn’t decided whether to support Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for speaker of the House but projected optimism that Democrats will be unified behind an agenda of economic populism after their sweeping midterms landslide.

Valdez, a Democratic Socialists of America member ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday called on officials to shift votes in the still-uncalled Alaska Senate race to Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, in order to defeat Democrat Mary Peltola, who holds a narrow lead.

The president said Alaska authorities should hand Sen. Sullivan all the votes that went to the other two candidates in the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Tom McClintock won another term representing California’s 5th Congressional District despite a Democratic-backed redistricting effort that reshaped his sprawling Sierra Nevada and Central Valley seat, The Associated Press projected Thursday.

McClintock, R-Elk Grove, who has served in Congress since 2009, defeated ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, a prolific Democratic lawmaker who has reshaped state policy on a host of fronts — from housing to transgender rights — will succeed House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi in Congress after San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan called Wiener on Wednesday to concede, her campaign...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, has lost his race for reelection, a stinging defeat for the man charged with preserving the House majority for the GOP.

Hudson fell to Democrat Richard Ojeda, a former West Virginia state senator who was leading 51% to 49% ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The incoming freshman class of the 120th Congress includes several people who scored historic wins in their states and the nation at large.

Among them were women breaking glass ceilings in the Senate and trailblazers for Native American representation. Beyond Washington, a handful of nominees pulled off milestone victories in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland voters reelected Gov. Wes Moore, approved a constitutional amendment concerning congressional redistricting and elected new county executives in several of the state’s largest jurisdictions Tuesday.

The results also included a closer race in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District, changes in the state’s congressional...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Associated Press on Thursday officially called Virginia’s 1st District for Democratic Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor. Taylor unseated Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman, who had held the seat since 2009.

Taylor led the race and appeared poised to win Tuesday evening, but the race was too close to call...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Voters’ sweeping support of Democratic candidates in Tuesday’s midterm election didn’t translate into similarly clear outcomes for ballot initiatives on abortion access and transgender issues.

In Missouri, a state President Donald Trump carried by an 18-point margin in 2024, voters rejected a proposal to ban both abortion ...Read more

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Democrat Sean McCann has defeated long-time Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga in a closely watched race for a southwest Michigan congressional seat, 50% to 48.6%, according to unofficial returns.

The race was called Wednesday afternoon by the Associated Press and NBC News.

Acknowledging the long odds he faced, McCann, a ...Read more

Nevada followed the trend Tuesday, as Democrats routed Republicans up and down the state ballot. The domination was deep and widespread.

The results, nationally and statewide, signify widespread displeasure with President Donald Trump and serve as a sharp rebuke of White House policies — Iran, tariffs and overzealous immigration enforcement, ...Read more

Florida Republicans dramatically redrew four Democratic-held U.S. House districts this year to favor candidates of their own party.

But in all four of those districts, the Democrat won Tuesday night.

Most of the races were not particularly close, either.

In South Florida, incumbent Democrat Jared Moskowitz won despite being drawn out of his ...Read more

Donald Trump has always been a master of a singular, alternate-reality art form: claiming total credit for every victory and accepting zero responsibility for any defeat. Following the historic Democratic sweep of both the House and the Senate in the 2026 midterms, the president once again deployed his favorite shield. "I don’t like to ...Read more

Lawmakers from California are poised to lead two of Congress’ most consequential energy and environment committees, putting the Golden State at the forefront of efforts to scrutinize the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to federal climate policy.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-San José, and Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, have served as the top ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Republicans headed into the 2026 election with their strongest slate of candidates in years and a persuasive anti-fraud message after scandal rocked the DFL under Gov. Tim Walz.

Yet the GOP was wiped out anyway, crushed by a historic Democratic wave in which voters handed the DFL control of every statewide office and ...Read more

In the midst of what pundits are calling a blue tsunami nationwide, Florida remained resolutely red, electing Republican Byron Donalds as its first Black governor and sending Republican Ashley Moody back to the U.S. Senate.

Donalds ran on a promise to continue the legacy of his predecessor, Gov. Ron DeSantis.

His victory was ...Read more

Amid the drubbing Republicans received in midterm elections on Tuesday, one point shouldn’t get lost: Voters have summarily rejected the president’s tariffs, and the new Democratic congressional majority should do what it can to overturn them.

Erratic tariff policy has now been disrupting the the U.S. economy for close to a decade. Although...Read more