Republican Matt Van Epps is up against a progressive Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn for the seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Mark Green. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have both been aggressively trying to turn out support for Epps and avoid a disastrous upset for the GOP.
Republican Matt Van Epps won a special election on Tuesday to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District.
One political analysts says the results are a “very, very bad omen for Republicans and a very, very good omen for Democrats."
Trump confidently carried Iowa Senate District 35 by about 21 points in 2024. In January, Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped the seat, winning by roughly 4 points over Republican Katie Whittington. The result was about a 25-point overperformance by Democrats compared with Trump’s margin a year earlier.
State and local elections officials across the country are preparing for a variety of ways the Trump administration could interfere with the 2026 midterm elections. We discuss the risks and what tactics the president and his allies have suggested.
The Fulton County election interference case against President Trump and others has been dismissed after the prosecutor who took over the case asked that it be dropped.
Donald Trump’s pick for president in Honduras lost his lead after a second chaotic day of counting in an election overshadowed by the US president’s pardon of former Honduran leader Juan Orlando Hernández.