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2026 midterms so far.** Voters in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania will participate in crucial contests. President Trump's influence on his party will be tested in several Republican primaries
Trump’s influence is in Texas, where the state’s controversial attorney general, Ken Paxton, has just secured the president’s endorsement in his bid to unseat four-term incumbent Republican senator John Cornyn
influence Trump still holds as a potential kingmaker with Republican voters. The Ohio Senate race is also essential for the Democratic Party’s hopes of recapturing the US Senate, where Republicans currently hold a slim
Republicans to vote him out. The Louisiana GOP primary is the latest stop in Trump’s revenge tour this month, with a number of his biggest enemies fighting for reelection. It began in Indiana, where
2026 campaign cycle. Loading... The Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and allied super PACs Congressional Leadership Fund and Senate Leadership Fund also have roughly double the cash
primaries across the country and despite high profile races. Meanwhile, [Democrats have been showing up](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-5770114/democrats-wisconsin-georgia-election-shift-overperformance-trump) in 2026 in a [big way, starting in Texas](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/13/nx-s1-5745932/texas-primary-democrats-turnout-talarico-crockett). So if Republicans cannot appeal
2026 in Schertz, Texas. **Brandon Bell/Getty Images** Brandon Bell/Getty Images Brandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, says the Texas GOP primary is emblematic of a bigger national fight. "The Republican
2026.](https://static.politico.com/f3/b2/bcba204c425fa6cd54582b6d1d3b/20260408-georgia-governor-race-0093-edit.jpg) Cobb County is one of several former Republican bastions surrounding metro Atlanta that have flipped blue as the Trump-styled GOP turned off suburban voters. Once the homebase for conservative stalwart
influence over the Republican Party and dealt a major blow to the party establishment in Washington, DC. Cornyn, a longtime establishment conservative and former Republican whip, had represented Texas in the Senate since
2026 election, with [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) trying to redraw maps to pick up more seats in Congress. Lawmakers enter the session in Tallahassee cloaked in mystery, with no preview of a proposed
primary politics](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/18/grindr-ai-politics-california-interview-00879011), pushing moderate San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan as the next governor. Even amid Trump’s anti-DEI and LGBTQ+ crackdown, Hack told POLITICO he’s found room for bipartisan agreement
Trump administration and a model for alternative governance at home and abroad. California [Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats) enjoy a two-to-one registration advantage over Republicans, hold supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature
Republicans were on the verge of passing the immigration enforcement funding, but some [withdrew their support over concerns](https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5831005:x) about the $1.8 billion fund and Trump's White House ballroom plans. The ballroom
2026, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) **Andy Kropa/AP/Invision** Andy Kropa/AP/Invision To Spencer Pratt and his supporters, becoming mayor of Los Angeles first means winning the internet. Pratt has amplified outlandish artificial intelligence videos
influence the midterm elections.** Ten Democratic senators, including minority leader Chuck Schumer, met with the party’s top election officials last week to run through a series of extreme scenarios that could play out, [Politico
2026 [File: Brendan McDermid/Reuters] A [tracker](https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/03/key-2026-primary-elections-pennsylvana-state-house-senate-competitive/) for state primaries from the Pennsylvania news outlet Spotlight PA says that there are 228 legislative primaries this year, many of them uncontested. The tracker
primary tomorrow, the results will be a [test of Trump's power of political retribution](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5788979/trump-indiana-primary-redistricting-retribution-midterm-election). **After an NPR investigation, lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in Congress aiming to stop "claim sharks
Republicans in the state legislature to get his priorities through — and readily punish detractors by wielding his line-item veto. Last year, he [killed 16 spending projects](https://www.nola.com/news/politics/jeff-landry-targeted-republicans-with-line-item-vetoes/article_b020e78d-c5fc-4f94-ac62-7726890d2860.html) in districts held
primaries](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/cyrpto-super-pac-illinois-primaries-00784504?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it) through its network of PACs. Both industries are also spending big on Washington lobbyists to ensure their influence continues past Election Day. The AI lobby in particular has ballooned in recent
2026 or 2028. “Let everyone finish venting about ‘24 now and get it out of their systems,” former Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.), who narrowly lost her reelection that year as Trump carried her state