Republican Pat Toomey always knew that his re-election run this year would be difficult in a perennial battleground state like Pennsylvania. But he could hardly have imagined the challenge of running alongside a presidential nominee like Donald Trump.
The first-term lawmaker won a seat in the Senate in 2010, thanks…
Donald Trump winning the Republican presidential nomination is the biggest surprise of the election season, but GOP senators’ success in primaries has to be a close second.
Two years after Pat Roberts, Thad Cochran and Mitch McConnell labored through competitive primaries, four years after Richard Lugar lost his primary…
Donald Trump is slipping further behind Hillary Clinton in the presidential race and is now in danger of taking the Republican Senate majority down with him.
Up until the conventions, most of the vulnerable Republican senators looked poised to withstand Trump losing the presidential election. But recent polling data…
“Quitting the Republican Party” is the easiest way to make the news these days, but the stories about Donald Trump defectors don’t go far enough to understand the potential impact on the November elections.
Conservative columnist George Will revealed in late June that he had changed his voter registration to…
With both party conventions in the rearview mirror, Republicans and Democrats are preparing for the general election sprint. And the forecast is not good for the GOP.
While Donald Trump’s presidential campaign appears to be spinning wildly out of control and is potentially cratering from lack of support from GOP…
After two consecutive weeks of covering both party conventions, standing in both arenas and being on the floor for parts of all eight nights, I came away with at least one big takeaway: We live in a divided country—a very divided country.
At first glance, this isn’t breaking news.…
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. — Stephanie Peditto is a reminder that it’s good for reporters to venture outside the bubble because normal people don’t always follow the campaigns closely.
After nearly two consecutive weeks of covering party conventions, it was time to take a break from the overwhelming world of…
CLEVELAND — Nine freshman Republicans took the stage Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention to celebrate the GOP majority in the Senate. Six hours earlier, top GOP strategists made the case that they won’t be in the minority next year.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee's chairman, Sen.…
Former Sen. Evan Bayh will run for the Senate after all, buoying Democrats’ chances of winning the open seat in Indiana and the Senate majority.
Bayh’s decision was surprising, considering he didn’t seek re-election in 2010 and had shown no interest in running or serving again despite Democratic recruitment…
Republicans are obsessed with one high-profile Democrat who isn’t going to be indicted — while giving a collective shrug after two Democratic House members have been indicted within the past 12 months.
On Friday, Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida was indicted on conspiracy and fraud charges related…
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