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Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona outside the Capitol on August 10, 2021. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Mark Kelly has a 47%-45% lead over Blake Masters in the Arizona Senate race, per a new Emerson poll. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and former television journalist Kari Lake are tied at 46% support. […]
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon speaks to reporters at the US Capitol. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act contains nearly $ 80 billion in funding for the IRS. Republicans have said that the funding will go towards hiring an "army" of IRS agents. Sen. Ron Wyden said that Republicans want to save their billionaire […]
Insider The races & the stakes Democrat Mary Peltola won the US House special election for Alaska's at-large US House seat, vacated by the death of longtime Rep. Don Young in March. Peltola's win makes her the first-ever woman to represent Alaska in the US House, the first Alaska Native person to serve in Congress, […]
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has indicated her desire to run for president in 2020. The outspoken anti-war advocate said that she is thinking of how she can “best be of service” to the US in a meet-up in New Hampshire. Speculation has been rife that Gabbard, who backed Bernie Sanders in 2016, is contemplating a […]
REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman (L) and REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photos Mississippi voters elected Cindy Hyde-Smith to a full Senate term on Tuesday, ending a closely watched runoff election again her Democratic challenger Mike Espy. Hyde-Smith had a lead of more than 68,000 votes over Espy as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday night. It is the last Senate […]
Associated Press/Steve Cannon Democrat Andrew Gillum conceded the Florida governor’s race and congratulated his Republican opponent, Ron DeSantis. Gillum initially conceded on election night, but retracted it after the vote margin narrowed. After a recount, DeSantis still led the race by more than 30,000 votes. Democrat Andrew Gillum says he is ending his hard-fought race […]
Chip Somodevilla/Tasos Katopodis/Win McNamee/Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images/Business Insider Every woman touted as a Democratic 2020 candidate would beat President Donald Trump if the election was held today, an Axios poll has found. High-profile names, women senators, and women that Trump has repeatedly targeted are all more popular with voters according to the poll. The poll also […]
Eliza Relman/Business Insider Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is running for US Senate as a centrist Democrat in a race that could determine control of the chamber — and his campaign looks nothing like the “resistance.” Rep. Marsha Blackburn, an eight-term GOP incumbent, is running for the seat on President Donald Trump’s agenda. And the competitive battle […]
Mark Thiessen/AP Alaska Governor Bill Walker, a political independent, halted his re-election campaign and endorsed his Democratic challenger, former Sen. Mark Begich. Neither had appeared capable of defeating the Republican front-runner, former state Senator Mike Dunleavy. Walker said his decision to bow out was based entirely on what he felt was “best for Alaska.” Public […]
Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool, File The Houston Chronicle has endorsed Democrat Beto O’Rourke for US Senate in Texas over the Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz. The newspaper endorsed Cruz in 2012, but this time around, it had some harsh words for the junior senator, saying Cruz has “exhibited little interest in […]
