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Have the Democrats found a new strategy to scare Trump?

Trump more widely, beyond this November’s midterms and into the 2028 presidential elections. Justin and Anthony unpack what Maine tells us about Democrat strategy and why Graham Platner, currently polling first

The three clocks of the Iran war

midterm,” warned one Republican strategist. ## Tehran: Holding burning coal Iran’s calculus is equally time-sensitive, but inverted. Where Trump needs a quick exit, Tehran’s survival strategy depends on endurance. The war, which began

Georgia's GOP Senate primary is a mess. Republicans are blaming each other.

midterms into a needless intraparty squabble that wastes time and resources,” the memo reads. “Instead of spending the majority of 2026 focused on defeating Jon Ossoff, Republicans are on track to not be unified until

‘True Maga warrior’ takes on old-guard Texan in key test of Trump’s GOP grip

Strategy Labs said: “Someone came to my house today that was a construction worker and was like, Cristina, have you seen how much gas is? It’s $4.20 a gallon. People are struggling

Democrats up in Virginia, but US voters may pay price for redistricting war

2026 midterms”. This comes as Republicans are already expected to face a punishing election season, with wariness over the US-Israeli war in Iran and the stubbornly high cost of living in the US. Democratic

'Homeland Security' has spawned political insecurity since DHS was born

midterm election since FDR in 1934. Cleland and other Democrats had no doubt that the White House strategy in that 2002 Homeland Security Act debate had been engineered to make them somehow "soft on terrorism

Voters are caught in the middle as the redistricting battle intensifies

Trump, GOP](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5805193/redistricting-virginia-trump-midterms) More than 3 million Virginians [voted in the referendum](https://apps.npr.org/primary-election-results-2026/states/VA.html), which drew millions of dollars in ad spending. Chris Melody Fields Figueredo — the executive director of Ballot Initiative

Democrats prepare for potential election interference in midterms – US politics live

strategies and considering legal action amid fears that [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump), or malign foreign actors, will try to influence the midterm elections.** Ten Democratic senators, including minority leader Chuck Schumer, met with

Friday briefing: How Gaza, Lebanon and Iran have found themselves caught in an escalation without end

2026.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f2a7b90b48a0c77be4425fd212bfbfaa639a940c/637_0_6880_5504/master/6880.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Donald Trump is losing face at home while he continues to attempt a peace deal in the Middle East. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images As the week draws to a close, Donald

In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting

2026 midterms — the unprecedented mid-decade redistricting, President Trump's sagging favorability numbers and Democrats' hopes of retaking the House and potentially the Senate — is an election story that could have implications

‘Where can we find hope?’: your questions about the US supreme court’s voting rights decision answered

Trump [started pressuring](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/us-politics-redistricting-trump-maps?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) Republican states to gerrymander their congressional maps to help the party hold onto its slim House majority. Several states have [redrawn those maps](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/02/us-redistrcting-congressional-map?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) since last year