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Trump Urges Voters to Back Republicans as Millions of Americans Cast Midterm Ballots: Live Election Updates

People cast early ballots in the midterm elections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Oct. 24, 2026. —Selcuk Acar—Anadolu/Getty ImagesHere’s what to knowThe first polls are set t...

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First Midterm Polls Close, With Hours of Voting Still Ahead Elsewhere in the U.S.: Live Election Updates

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Trump says he will end billions of dollars in military aid to Israel

President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the U.S. will end nearly $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel, an unusually timed announcement on Election Day that could set up a standoff with ...

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The Democrat Who’s Winning Over Voters in Trump Country

Charles Benjamin voted for the first time in 2024, casting a ballot for President Trump. Since then, he’s watched his McDonald’s order—two McDoubles and large fries—go up seven bucks. His Red Bulls...

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Poll: GOP voters say the party isn’t focused enough on the economy

Republicans don’t think their party is focused enough on their biggest issue.The economy — and specifically the cost of living — is far and away voters’ top concern, and new results from The POLITI...

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The DSA's Coming-Out Party

It's not hard to minimize today's national coming-out party for the Democratic Socialists of America. Yes, the DSA caucus in the House of Re...

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British lobbyist in DC who overstayed visa ordered deported — but given months to leave country

A prominent Washington lobbyist from Britain who was well known for his work on behalf of Qatar has been detained for overstaying his visa by eight years — though, unlike many others caught in the ...

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HUGH HEWITT: The ghosts of 2006 are stirring — but will they catch the GOP?

As the past is often prologue, much of the GOP is thinking today about the pounding the party took in 2006, the last time a Republican president led his party into the midterms for the second time....

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“Chaos” in the air: Five ways voting could be disrupted on Election Day

As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, voting experts are watching to see how the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to assert more federal control over elections will play out. Sinc...

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Blast from the past: Elections are looking tight in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Days before the midterms, Florida’s chief financial officer and former state GOP chair warned a crowd of GOP voters that the state had become a “target of our ideological opp...

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‘We forgot what it's like to be populist’: Republicans see Trump’s 2024 crumbling

Republicans’ 2024 coalition is cracking in real time.President Donald Trump roared back into office two years ago after making major gains with young voters and Americans of color. Now those key gr...

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'Clean energy is going to win out': Permitting bill tests greens' faith

Renewable energy companies and environmental groups have a long history of joining forces to push for favorable government policies.Then came the bipartisan bill to overhaul the nation’s permitting...

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The affordability election that teaches Democrats nothing

Republicans have a trust problem on affordability, and Democrats are poised to inherit it.If Democrats do as well tonight as polls suggest, everyone knows the two reasons why: affordability and Pre...

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The Election-Denier Backpedal

Standing next to Donald Trump at a rally in 2022, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacy Garrity told the crowd that Trump had “won” the 2020 election. Garrity is now running for governor—and she has a...

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The Voters Sitting This One Out

Over the past decade, Andrew Leyva shaded the space next to Donald Trump’s name each time it appeared on his ballot, trusting that a tough-talking businessman willing to challenge Washington would ...

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The Deep State is gonna hate – and Americans want it gone. Again

As voters head to the ballot box, there is growing disillusionment with the US two-party system that runs on division, war, and Russophobia Amer...

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Latinos Are Still Swing Voters

Latinos swung further toward Republicans than any other group in 2024, and they could swing further in the opposite direction this year. If Democrats recover the ground they have lost with this blo...

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Shady money boosting third-party ‘spoilers’ in US midterms – Axios

$16.5 million in outside spending could tip key races in a record-breaking election cycle, the outlet has warned More than 40 third-party candid...

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Is It the Dems’ Big Night? Watch These Eight Races With Early Results.

One fact that’s generally true about elections is that if the wind is blowing one way in state A, it’s probably blowing in the same direction in states B, C, D, and so on. In 2024, Donald Trump ...

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Judge tosses Trump administration’s admissions records lawsuit against Harvard

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit seeking Harvard University’s admissions records, the latest win for the Ivy League school in its battle with the White House.The J...

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What the voter records of California’s billionaires reveal

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s 2026 election has been the year of the billionaire.For months, a small handful of very, very wealthy people deployed their vast resources in unprecedented sums up and d...

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