At first glance, Democratic performance in last year’s House races was great. But a close look under the hood reveals that, with a few smarter moves and a little more luck, we’d have Speaker Jeffries.

The new Democratic governor is setting a moderate tone for her early days in office, but trouble is already brewing with the state GOP.

A combination of inaction and inattention allowed the newly elected Republican lawmaker to win office despite having apparently fabricated wide swaths of his biography.

Maxwell Frost of Florida, Gen Z’s lone congressman-elect, has gotten a rude awakening to the economic realities of the nation’s capital.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

After Democrats’ success in the midterms, Biden keeps defying the chattering class of pundits and proving politically savvy.

The midterms are a reminder that prognosticating is a dangerous game for journalists.

While crime got a lot of attention during the midterms, just as many voters rated climate change as their top concern. Could this be the next big voting bloc?

If control of the upper chamber is determined before the Peach State’s upcoming runoff election, it could complicate Herschel Walker’s path to victory.

Michael Tomasky and Felicia Wong discuss the policies that underlie the politics of the midterms.

After the shock of 2016 and the narrow margin of 2020, it’s time for liberals to finally reset their expectations back to normal.

While she’s not yet tried to claim outright victory, her supporters are readying a “Stop the Steal” redux.

Abortion mattered. Latinos did not desert the Democrats. Neither did independents. Why does the mainstream media fall for right-wing narratives every time?

Ahead of a challenging election, a spike in voter enthusiasm has given Democrats a small reason to hope that they might stem the expected red tide.

After the Peach State went blue in 2020, the GOP-controlled state legislature went to great lengths to make sure it didn’t happen again.

A group of law enforcement officers who think their authority supersedes the federal government’s are running for elections across the country—and monitoring voters at the polls.

Race-baiting and fiscal brinkmanship. That’s Newt Gingrich’s legacy.

Economic issues have dominated this year’s campaigns. But talking candidly about climate change could hold the key to a majority in Congress.

Karoline Leavitt, a 25-year-old former Trump staffer running in New Hampshire, is part of a wave of competitive House candidates in presumed Democratic territory.

In his final worship service before Election Day, the reverend and Georgia senator struck an optimistic tone.