New Mexico isn’t on the Senate battlefield — yet. In a cycle dominated by Trump-state Democrats in Montana and Ohio and presidential battleground mainstays such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the Land of Enchantment has flown under the radar.
For much of the cycle, Sen. Martin Heinrich…
At the confluence of New York’s Hudson Valley, Southern Tier, and Capital Region, Democrats are hoping a rematch of one of 2022’s closest House races is not just a replay of last cycle’s outcome.
Armed with better fundraising and unburdened by the lack of a gubernatorial slugfest at the top of the…
Earlier in the cycle, June 4 looked like a must-watch primary night with marquee Senate primaries in New Jersey and Montana. But most of the drama dissipated long before voters went to the polls on Tuesday, and the remaining notable races played out as expected.
Voters in five states cast primary…
Now what? Now that Donald Trump is the first current or former president convicted of a felony, what does that mean for the 2024 presidential election? It’s a valid question — without an instant answer. And that’s not popular in a world that rewards, and sometimes requires, instant insightful…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Gabby Birenbaum of The Nevada Independent look ahead to key races in Nevada including upcoming primaries and a handful of consequential races that will help determine who sits in the White House and which party controls Congress.
North Carolina has been at the center of the House battlefield for much of the last decade, with the evenly divided state often hosting multiple competitive races.
Not so in 2024.
A Republican takeover of the state Supreme Court in 2022 cleared the way for the GOP-controlled state legislature to…
Pennsylvania was long a part of Democrats’ “blue wall” strategy in the Electoral College, but Donald Trump’s narrow win in 2016 forced both parties to revamp their playbooks.
Trump flipped Pennsylvania in 2016 by appealing to the state’s many white working-class voters, as Hillary Clinton failed…
By Nathan L. Gonzales & Jacob Rubashkin
Primary voters cast their ballots in four more states, clarifying a key general election race and nominating a likely new member of Congress in a key primary.
Even with Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oregon now in the rearview mirror (except for a Georgia…
Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Dirk VanderHart of Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) look ahead to key House primaries in Oregon and look back at consequential results in Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia.
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Three small-ish states hosted more than a handful of consequential primaries. Results in Maryland, Nebraska, and West Virginia either clarified key general election contests or offered nominations to candidates who will likely be coming to Congress next year because they are running in solid states…
