Democrats’ dominance in Tuesday’s elections reset expectations ahead of next year’s midterm battle for House and Senate control, reinvigorating a party that has been in the political wilderness and leaving Republicans lamenting that the gains President Donald Trump made a year ago with key portions of the electorate all but evaporated.

Republican Senator Jim Justice warns that the GOP needs to address voters concerns ahead of the 2026 elections.

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says the party needs to address high electric bills, healthcare costs and housing affordability to win voters.

Trump’s urgency to end the shutdown, which began on Sept. 30, comes after new polling shows that the majority of Americans blame Republicans and the Trump administration for the extended disruption. The two longest government shutdowns in U.S. history have been under Trump’s watch.

Trump's campaign-style speech to business leaders in Miami was designed to tout his economic accomplishments as voters increasingly say his administration is not doing enough.

Montana Democrat Haley McKnight, who cursed out Sen. Tim Sheehy in a threatening voicemail that made headlines this week, failed to reach the top two in her local city commissioner race.

California Republicans appeared down but not out Wednesday after enduring a resounding defeat on Prop 50, handing Democrats a potential gain of up to five House seats in next year’s midterms

Exit polls show that the big winners in yesterday’s off-year elections — Democrats Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherill and Zoran Mamdani — share one common denominator: They won in large part because voters are dissatisfied with how President Donald Trump is handling the economy.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, is sounding the alarm for the GOP and President Donald Trump ahead of the 2026 midterms. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Flake on Thursday directly warned his party: “A migration has begun.”