For most of his first term as president and as a candidate in 2024, Donald Trump had one particular superpower: Americans ...

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is — once again — stuck between a rock and a hard place.The Republican can’t cross President Donald Trump, lest he anger the GOP base and draw a primary challenge. But ...

Thanks to rapid population growth across the Mountain West, Idaho is on track to gain a third congressional district in 2032.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds surprised the political world on Friday by announcing that she would not pursue reelection to a third ...

Last week’s 2025 Cook Partisan Voting Index release underscored two important dynamics in the battle for House control: Democrats have to play an unusually robust game of defense for a party out of ...

For the past several election cycles, Democrats have had a significant fundraising advantage over Republicans. And even with massive investments from Republican super PACs, Democrats often still ...

Although the November 2026 midterm elections are a full 19 months away, the turbulence in the economy leads us to wonder whether President Trump will be a liability for the Republican Party in ...

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… of those seats are rated either lean Republican or lean Democrat. And then we have an additional twenty nine seats that are rated likely Republican or likely Democrat, which we define as seats that ...

First Person is a series of quick videos from the Cook Political Report editors exclusively for our premium members. This week, Amy details the reasons congressional Republicans are unlikely to take ...

As liberal voters become increasingly frustrated by their leaders’ response to the Trump presidency, a crop of young Democrats is attempting to direct that anger at longtime members of Congress. “What ...