Midterm Elections 2018
Reporting, news analysis, commentary, polling, results from key races, and more
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Ayanna Pressley's Win Is the Biggest Upset Yet for Progressives
There wasn’t much daylight on policy matters between the Boston city councilor and 10-term incumbent Mike Capuano. But she still beat him by 18 points.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters A Major Boost for Young Veterans Running for Congress
A nonpartisan group backing candidates who served in recent wars hauls in some big donations.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Kavanaugh Has a Strong Chance of Confirmation—and of Becoming an Election Rallying Cry
The Supreme Court nominee has become a symbol of the president’s quiet judicial legacy and the anti-Trump resistance.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Republican Leadership Member Most Likely to Lose
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the most powerful Republican woman in the country. But in the “year of the woman,” she’s in a fight for her political life.
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Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle via AP This Race in Houston Is the Future of Texas Politics
The Republican incumbent John Culberson has held the minority-majority Seventh Congressional District for almost two decades, but the Democrat Lizzie Fletcher hopes to finally turn out progressives and minorities.
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Eric Gay / AP How the Democratic Party Can Turn the Sun Belt Blue
From Florida to Texas, November’s elections provide an opening for Democrats to shift the balance of power—and make up for lost ground in the heartland.
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Conor Ralph / Reuters Arizona’s Voters Have Spoken and Rendered Joe Arpaio Irrelevant
The “toughest sheriff in America,” pardoned by Trump a year ago, was crushed in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Arizona.
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Chuck Burton / AP North Carolina's Gerrymandering Drama Is Only Going to Get Worse
Federal judges have ruled—again—that the state’s congressional map is unconstitutional. But it just used that map to elect candidates for November.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Environmentalists’ Unlikely Republican Ally in Florida
During a months-long environmental crisis that’s left the state’s beaches covered in green slime, a Trump-backed candidate for governor blames Big Sugar subsidies for causing the pollution.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Even Scott Walker Says He’s ‘at Risk’ in Wisconsin
Polling shows a tight race for governor, and a series of special elections has hinted at Trump fatigue in big swings for Democrats.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why So Many Democratic Candidates Are Dissing Corporate PACs
Their pledge not to accept money from business entities is mostly symbolic. But voters can expect to hear it a lot more often in elections to come.
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Stan Honda / Getty Images Democrats Don’t Need a National Message
A bottom-up approach is better than a single line imposed by party leadership.
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Chris Keane / Reuters The Women Who Gave Trump the White House Could Tip the Midterms to Democrats
The fate of the House majority may depend on whether working-class white women turn on the GOP this fall—or simply sit out the election.
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Matt Rourke / AP Republican Candidates Can’t Keep Trump Out of Their Districts
Ego may be driving the president’s campaign itinerary more than anything else.
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Ted Cruz’s Basketball Charm Offensive
The much-maligned Texas senator is using the game to remake his image in the middle of his reelection campaign. For real?
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Trump Made Socialism Great Again
The president has disrupted democratic complacency, and that’s a good thing.
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William Philpott / Reuters The Democrats’ Quest to Win the Senate
They must hold 10 seats in Trump country and overperform in contested states. But with a blue wave forecast, anything could happen.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters How a 'Race-Class Narrative' Can Work for Democrats
New research suggests talking overtly about race can help progressives sell their message to persuadable voters.
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Steve Dipaola / Reuters Oregon’s Hard Road for a Moderate Republican
Knute Buehler, a rare GOP moderate, thinks he can knock off Kate Brown, Oregon’s not-so-popular Democratic governor. But the Trump winds could make it a hard year for ticket splitting in a blue state.
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Timothy A. Clary / Getty Missouri’s Labor Victory Won’t Reverse the Decline of Unions
Organized labor has enjoyed public support for decades. It’s still dying.
