Midterm Elections 2018
Reporting, news analysis, commentary, polling, results from key races, and more
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump's Closing Argument for the Midterms Is Dark and Angry
With just two weeks to go, the president is resorting to the mixture of immigration fearmongering and dishonesty that got him elected.
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Charlie Neibergal / AP The Problem With Pence’s New Talking Point
On the midterm campaign trail, the vice president is assuring voters that Republicans will implement stricter work requirements for food-stamp recipients. He’s probably wrong.
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Mstyslav Chernov / Associated Press DOJ Says Russian Trolls Are Interfering Online With the Midterms
A criminal complaint filed Friday charges a Russian national, employed by a firm linked to Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence, with helping direct interference in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Todd Spoth Heidi Cruz Didn’t Plan for This
She had her whole future mapped out when she met Ted Cruz, starting with her dream job in Washington. This is the story of what came after.
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Rick Bowmer / AP Mitt Romney Isn’t Coming to Help Liberals
The Senate next year could be more MAGA-oriented than ever—and the next senator from Utah isn’t likely to change that.
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Scott Olson / Getty Images Paul Ryan’s Legacy Defines the Race He’s Leaving Behind
The fight for the retiring speaker’s House seat in Wisconsin is a study in contrasts, both ideological and personal, between Republican Bryan Steil and Democrat Randy Bryce.
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Charles Krupa / AP Trump, Warren, and America's Racial Essentialism
The senator’s release of DNA-test results inadvertently validates the president’s taunts about her claimed Native American ancestry.
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Letitia Stein / Reuters In the Georgia Governor’s Race, the Game Is Black Votes
The Republican candidate and Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp denies charges that he is attempting to suppress African American turnout for political advantage—but advocates say barriers to the ballot help his cause all the same.
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Charlie Riedel / AP The Overlooked House Battleground With Big Implications for the GOP
In neighboring contests in Kansas, one Republican candidate is touting his work with President Obama. In the other, the GOP hopeful is clinging to President Trump.
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Melissa Daniels / AP The Epicenter of Republican Vulnerability in the House
The GOP’s chances are dim in the districts Hillary Clinton won in 2016—and it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.
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Whitney Curtis / Reuters The Trump Era Is Destroying Black Civics, but Delivering Black Votes
A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute finds that the past two years have eroded African American participation in politics and activism, even in a watershed election year for minorities.
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Jason Redmond / Reuters Politics as the New Religion for Progressive Democrats
Religiously unaffiliated voters, who may or may not be associated with other civic institutions, seem most excited about supporting or donating to causes, going to rallies, and expressing opinions online, among other activities.
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Elaine Thompson / AP Suburban-Rural Districts Are Turning on the GOP
Washington’s Eighth Congressional District runs from Seattle’s liberal suburbs all the way to conservative apple farms on the other side of the Cascades.
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Charlie Riedel / AP The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party Is Still Raging in Kansas
GOP moderates in the state have recoiled at the party’s polarizing gubernatorial nominee, Kris Kobach, a staunch Trump ally.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Two Moderate Senators, Two Very Different Paths
A bitterly split Senate votes 50–48 to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, leaving Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski on wildly divergent courses.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Chose to Be Silent on Kavanaugh
The president’s evident restraint at a rally in Minnesota seemed the surest indication of just how close the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh could be.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Kavanaugh Pressure Campaign on Red-State Democrats
Of the five lawmakers conservative groups have targeted, only one, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, is still publicly undecided.
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Angelo Merendino / Getty Democrats’ Burgeoning Chances in the Rust Belt
President Donald Trump swept all five states in 2016. But there are signs that many voters there—especially women—won’t vote Republican this year.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters If Democrats Sink Kavanaugh, Republicans Think They'll Surge At Polls
Both parties make a plausible case for how they will benefit from a bad result on the Kavanaugh confirmation.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh—And They Think Other Voters Are, Too
Local- and state-level leaders across the country say they’re ready to lash out against Democrats in the midterm elections.
