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race, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) also declined to endorse Platner on Wednesday. Cortez Masto rattled off other top Democratic targets in Iowa, North Carolina and Alaska, while Duckworth said she's "focused
Senator Ivan Cepeda. Though the overall result surprised few, de la Espriella’s strong showing upended pollsters’ predictions. Cepeda, President [Gustavo Petro’s](/news/longform/2026/4/14/historic-but-not-enough-colombias-gustavo-petro-defends-cocaine-seizures) chosen successor, had been expected to win the most votes, based
2026, leading a pack of Democrats who outraised Republicans in several key Senate matchups. **Eric Gay/AP** Eric Gay/AP [*Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly*](https://www.npr.org/newsletter/politics)*.* --- In their quest
main issues in the election, Bonner said: “It’s the guns and it’s the immigration. Everybody’s familiar with Paxton’s scandals*.”* Keenly aware of those scandals, Republican leaders pleaded with Trump to stay
races spent more on campaign ads mentioning abortion than on any other issue, according to data from AdImpact. [ The incumbent Republican has already signaled that continuing to send federal dollars directly to Maine will
issued a statement saying that attacks or [threats would not go unanswered](https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5853016:x). NPR's Franco Ordoñez says there is a real danger of Iranian retaliation against the strikes, which could spark
2026 midterm elections. Platner will face the [senator Susan Collins](https://www.collins.senate.gov/), a Republican running for a sixth six-year term, in November. The race is seen as a must-win for Democrats
2026, Grindr spent $432,500 on its in-house lobbying operation, as well as an additional $120,000 across two large lobbying firms working on its behalf, according to disclosures published this week. The legislation
race earlier this year after struggling to raise enough funds, seemingly on course to receive nearly one in five votes without even campaigning. That protest vote should set off alarm bells about the damage done
2026, and we are outpacing Democrats where it counts in the battlegrounds that will decide the majority.” But Democrats’ improvements compared to 2024 extend across races and districts that are very different from one another
Maine’s swingy 2nd District. And former Gov. Roy Cooper, who's making a bid for the North Carolina Senate seat that could swing control of the chamber, rejected an endorsement from Swalwell’s Remedy
senator who has promised to carry on a fraught plan to achieve "total peace" by negotiating peace pacts with guerrillas and criminal gangs. He was consistently leading polls in the run up to the Sunday
Maine's Senate race, where political newcomer Graham Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee against Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has held the seat for 30 years. Platner faces allegations published by *The New York
race from the left against Rep. James Walkinshaw, a six-month incumbent who slid into the seat held by Rep. Gerry Connolly, his former boss, after Connolly died in May 2025. Fram’s candidacy highlights