Inside Elections

2023-24 Gubernatorial Ratings (July 14, 2023)

July 14, 2023 · 1:27 PM EDT

House Rematches: Second Time’s the Charm?

by Erin Covey July 10, 2023 · 2:30 PM EDT

A bevy of congressional candidates who lost competitive races in 2022 are waging comebacks, hopeful that they’ve learned from their mistakes last cycle and can close the gap next November.

Several repeat challengers announced their 2024 plans over the past week, though they’ve been gearing up for…

Podcast Episode 2: Senate GOP Recruitment, Oregon House primary, Rhode Island Special

July 7, 2023 · 12:57 PM EDT

Nathan Gonzales, Jacob Rubashkin and Erin Covey discuss the impact of GOP recruitment on the party's bid for the Senate majority, a critical primary in one of Democrats’ best House takeover opportunities, and the intersection of Vanessa Carlton’s iconic song “A Thousand Miles” and the Rhode Island…

New Jersey 7: Raising Kean

by Jacob Rubashkin June 30, 2023 · 1:30 PM EDT

New Jersey’s 7th District is almost exactly the kind of seat Democrats need to win to take back the House in 2024. 

The party’s path back to the majority runs squarely through the 18 districts represented by Republicans that Joe Biden would have carried in the 2020 presidential election, districts…

Oregon 5: A Battleground Race Around the Bend

by Erin Covey June 30, 2023 · 1:29 PM EDT

A competitive Democratic primary helped deliver Oregon’s 5th District into GOP hands in 2022. Democrats are determined to take it back in 2024, but are dealing with another potentially contentious intra-party fight ahead of the general election.

Rep. Kurt Schrader, a Blue Dog Democrat with a…

Utah 2 Special: Not Over Yet

by Jacob Rubashkin June 30, 2023 · 1:28 PM EDT

A special election in sleepy southwest Utah may yet have some surprises in store.

GOP Rep. Chris Stewart’s initial vagueness on the timing of his resignation, plus a quirk in Utah special election law, briefly created confusion about when the special election would take place. Stewart’s insistence…

Alabama House: Back to the Drawing Board

by Erin Covey June 30, 2023 · 1:27 PM EDT

Alabama is likely to add a second Democratic member to its congressional delegation, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state’s map had violated the Voting Rights Act and deprived Black citizens of the right to elect their own representative.

But the further ramifications of this decision…

Report Shorts (June 30, 2023)

June 30, 2023 · 1:26 PM EDT

Arizona Senate. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hosting a fundraiser for Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego — notable because Democrats’ Senate leadership has avoided talking about this race while independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is still undecided about seeking re-election. Battleground.

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Tim Scott’s Iowa Play Is Working

by Jacob Rubashkin June 26, 2023 · 10:35 AM EDT

A little over a month into his presidential campaign, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has managed to do something no other hopeful has yet accomplished: show some momentum.

Seven months before the Iowa caucuses, the 2024 Republican presidential primary field is largely set, and the dynamics of the…

Podcast Episode 1: Trump’s Legal Problems, Supreme Court & Redistricting, Olympic Figure Skating

June 22, 2023 · 5:10 PM EDT

Nathan Gonzales, Erin Covey, and Jacob Rubashkin discuss the impact of President Donald Trump’s mounting legal problems on congressional races, the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s redistricting decision, and the difficult path for a gold-medal-winning Olympic figure skater who is poised to…