According to earlier projections, the Republican Party flipped four seats from the Democratic Party in the Senate, winning back majority in the upper chamber. The 53-seat majority in the 100-member Senate will be a boon to the Republican agenda next year. The presidential race between Donald Tr...
And that’s a very effective strategy for winning reelection. The obvious example is Ronald Reagan, who won a landslide in 1984 even though (or, actually, because) he aggressively fought to reduce the burden of federal spending. But not everybody agrees with me. In a column for the Washing...
nrakich(Nathaniel Rakich, senior elections analyst): Yes, Republicans could absolutely lose Wisconsin. According to the Deluxe version of the FiveThirtyEight forecast,the race is a toss-up: Johnson has a 51-in-100 chance of winning, and Democrat Mandela Barnes has a 49-in-100 chance of winnin...
On the one hand, the task isn’tthatdaunting for Democrats. Our model calculates that Democrats would be favored to keep the House if they win the House popular vote — or lose it by less than 0.7 percentage points — something that Democrats did in both 2018 and 2020. Moreover, Democra...
the trump campaign, republican officials, and gop lawyers have framed their efforts through the lens of election integrity, claiming that the democratic proposals would allow for the illegal voting like the kind the president has falsely claimed prevented him from winning the popular vote in 2016. ...
As demonstrated in the terrific documentary GetMe Roger Stone, the GOP has been masterful at whisper campaigns, PAC money laundering and sloganeering. How else to explain that our last two Republican presidents managed to take office despite not winning the popular vote? (If the Demsdowin enoug...
that former President Donald Trump carried in 2016, 2020 and, as it turned out, in 2024, too. Meanwhile, Democrats had few realistic possibilities of gaining ground from the GOP. Understandably,538's final Senate forecastgave Republicans slightly better than a 9-in-10 shot of winning the ...
For Republicans, winning in 2028 requires a clear, strategic plan. First, the party must address the potential MAGA drop-off by emphasizing the broader conservative movement rather than relying solely on Trump’s personality-driven base. Turnout strategies must target new and disenchanted voters. Se...
Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) agreed that the comments were "forward thinking" and "about winning the election." It's a flip from Trump's previous behavior. Since that second impeachment vote in early 2021, Trump had habitually attacked the 10 House Republicans who supported it, including...
During his rally Saturday night, Trump brought up members of the university’s national championship-winning wrestling team. On Sunday, Trump is holding a rally in his hometown of New York, renting out the iconic Madison Square Garden arena in what his campaign hopes will be...