Midterm Election News
Coverage of U.S. midterm election races, voter turnout, and campaign strategies. Includes conservative opinion and commentary from The Daily Signal.
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GOP PAC Spending Shift Raises Questions About North Carolina Senate Race
Republican PACs are shifting money away from North Carolina as the Tar Heel State’s former Democrat governor, Roy Cooper, maintains a sizable polling lead over Republican Michael Whatley—but both sides insist the race remains competitive. “A Democrat has not won statewide federal office here in nearly two decades, and North Carolina is a 50-50 state,”… -
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Poll Shows Tight Races in 2 Virginia Congressional Districts
The latest polling indicates that two Virginia congressional races that were cakewalks for Republicans just two years ago are much closer this time around. The election year’s final Washington Post poll, conducted with George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, surveyed voters in the 1st and 5th congressional districts. Those seats are held… -
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The RNC Is Ready to Protect the Ballot Box
With fewer than 35 days until Election Day, one thing should be clear: Republicans are ready to protect the ballot box. Election integrity isn’t something you build in the final weeks of a campaign. It takes years of preparation, a nationwide infrastructure, and a commitment to ensuring that only legal votes are counted and election… -
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Donald Trump, Ohio Republicans Rile Up Crowd One Month Before Election Day
President Donald Trump rallied a crowd on Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, a month from the midterms, with the aim of keeping Ohio a red state. Among Republican speakers were gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Jon Husted, who is running in a special election against former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown. “With your vote, just 31… -
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El-Sayed Loses Local Party Support Ahead of Elections
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has lost key local support just weeks before the general election. A former staffer, a local first responders union, and an elected Democrat sheriff all said they cannot bring themselves to support the candidate, for reasons ranging from his personality to his political views. On Wednesday, citing public safety,… -
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CCP Survivor Looks to Unseat ‘Deep State’ Dem, Fight Left for Propping Up Socialism
Congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams told the Daily Signal that witnessing Democrats push the same policies she experienced under the Chinese Communist Party motivated her to want to unseat Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H. Goodlander, who spent more than 10 years in Washington before running for Congress in 2024 and served as a legal counselor to… -
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North Carolina Democrat Has a New Message on Women’s Sports. Republicans Aren’t Buying It.
In a new political campaign ad, a North Carolina Democrat is claiming to support protecting women’s sports. However, his record isn’t lining up with his new campaign promise, according to his opponent in the race. “There should always be a safe and fair space for women and girls in sports,” Rep. Don Davis says in… -
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Green Energy PAC Drops $15M to Unseat Freedom Caucus Members
Members of the House Freedom Caucus now face a challenge from a major green energy PAC that is spending at least $15 million this campaign cycle to defeat them for voting against former President Joe Biden’s Green New Deal agenda. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC, which, according to Federal Election Commission filings obtained by… -
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Here’s How Ohio Republicans Fare Ahead of Election, According to Top Pollster
The flurry of polls has increased as Election Day approaches, with Ohio having many “toss-up” races. Despite concerns about how accurate the forecasts are, polls coming out of the Buckeye State are showing that the election could produce many nail-biter contests. On Saturday, The New York Times/Siena College poll on battlegrounds was released, showing a… -
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MAHA Moms Helped Elect Trump. Now Democrats Want Them.
There is no doubt that so-called “MAHA Moms” helped secure the election for Republicans in 2024 when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald Trump. Now, ahead of the midterm election, Americans are looking to their congressional representatives to continue to prioritize making America healthy again. Democrats claimed they would be the party to deliver health… -
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Protect College Sports Act: Georgia’s Democrat Senators Surprisingly Disagree Amid Conferences’ Support
The Protect College Sports Act, championed and authored by Sen. Ted Cruz, has now passed the Senate 77-22 and is headed to the House, but with Georgia’s two Democrat Senators lining up on different sides of the issue. The bill has drawn bipartisan support from not only its cosponsors, but also from voices across the… -
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The Election Issue Few Pollsters Are Talking About
Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, was once known as the birthplace of Henry Ford and home of Ford Motor Co.’s headquarters. Today it proudly boasts the title “Arab Capital of America,” with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. In 2023, it officially became the country’s first majority-Arab city, with about… -
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Squad 2.0
The Daily Signal has learned from top Democrat staffers that the 120th Congress will include a new “Squad” of Democratic Socialists of America members, called “the bloc,” with at least seven anti-capitalist members. The bloc will include two of the remaining members of the original Squad, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. The… -
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The Real Reason Some States Still Count Votes for Weeks
Summary Florida was the laughingstock of America in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, when hanging chads and ongoing lawsuits delayed the outcome of the race by 36 days. More than a quarter-century later, the Sunshine State is now a model for how to conduct elections. Florida earned the distinction of ranking fifth on… -
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Republicans Must Either Vote in Droves or Kiss the Trump-GOP Agenda Goodbye
What can Americans expect if Democrats win the U.S. House, Senate, or both on Nov. 3? In 2010, according to Gallup, 50% of Democrats viewed socialism positively. This year: 65%. Last month’s Center for Strategic Politics survey of 638 Democrat voters discovered that 59% would be very positive (43%) or somewhat positive (16%) if a… -
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Election Watchdog Says System Allowed 600 Duplicate Absentee Ballots in Michigan
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An election watchdog in Michigan says it identified more than 600 cases of absentee ballots that were sent to the same voters at least twice ahead of the November election. Check My Vote shared the information with the Daily Signal from a statewide analysis, finding 668 ballots sent twice to people… -
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Hochul Caved to DSA for ‘Sake of Self-Preservation,’ Councilwoman Claims
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, viewed as a centrist Democrat, has drawn criticism from New York elected officials and political strategists alike, who claim that she recently embraced positions of the Democratic Socialists of America in the name of “self-preservation.” The organization, headquartered in the Empire State, has long advocated for reducing prison populations, abolishing… -
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250 Ballots in Amazon Package Prompts Maine GOP Leader’s Skepticism About Expanded Mail Voting
Maine expanded mail-in voting during one of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races in the country, just a year after 250 mail ballots ended up in an Amazon package. Early in-person voting and “no excuse” absentee voting—in which ballots can be mailed in even if voters are not sick or out of town—begin Oct…. -
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Zach Lahn’s Plan to Help Farmers While Cleaning Up Iowa’s Water
Zach Lahn was told he couldn’t win in politics by talking about Iowa’s water quality and the cancer crisis. Now, as the Republican nominee for governor, he is looking to restore the culture in Iowa by running for office on precisely those issues. Lahn sat down with the Daily Signal for an interview on Tuesday… -
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New Ad Spending in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District
The political experts at the Cook Political Report rate the race in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District as the closest in the state. It’s the only race listed as a “toss-up,” while each of the other 10 races is rated as either leaning toward or solid for one of the parties. The district covers most of…