House News & Analysis
If you’re on any Republican list, you’ve undoubtedly received emails from one of the GOP campaign committees or a Capitol Hill communications staffer calling the Democrats “socialists.” To those of us who were around in the 1980s and 1990s, that’s nothing new. We remember the late GOP campaign consultant Arthur…
GOP Sen. Mike Enzi announced Saturday that he won’t seek a fifth term, causing more than a handful of Wyoming Republicans to evaluate their political ambitions.
Only seven men (and zero women) have represented The Equality State in the Senate in the last 50 years, and this is Wyoming’s…
Donald Trump and Chris Christie haven’t made it easy for Republicans in New Jersey. But 2020 presents an opportunity for the GOP: The former governor is out of the picture, and voters can take out their frustrations on the president himself rather than punishing down-ballot candidates.
New Jersey Republicans lost…
The 2020 elections are still more than a year away, but voters in North Carolina’s 3rd District are choosing a new member in a special election after the death of GOP Rep. Walter Jones.
It’s probably the second-best special election takeover opportunity for Democrats looking to add to their majority…
Republicans are enjoying their ride in the White House and basking in the glow of a divided Democratic presidential field, but a monumental identity crisis is looming for the GOP.
Whether you think President Donald Trump won’t be president in two months, two years or six years, Republicans are going…
The 2018 Democratic wave resulted in a new House majority and some districts—namely in the suburbs—that hosted closer-than-expected elections. For some of those districts, the 2018 result could have been an aberration, the result of a particularly strong year for Democrats. For others, however, those margins could be foreshadowing races…
Texas’ 7th District — Lean Democratic
Interview Date: April 9, 2019
Date of Birth: Nov. 13, 1981; Houston, Tx.
Education: West Point (2004); Cornell (M.B.A, M.P.A 2015; MILR 2016)
Elected Office: None; First run for office
Current Outlook: Hunt has the potential to be the type of top-tier challenger Republicans…
Hillary Clinton carried New York’s 15th District with 94 percent in 2016, according to Daily Kos Elections, but that doesn’t mean the race should be ignored. Republicans don’t have a chance of winning, but the Democratic primary will elect a future lawmaker, and a crowd of candidates could become a…
No one really gave Democratic Cornell College professor Dave Loebsack a chance of knocking off GOP Rep. Jim Leach in 2006. But Loebsack won that race and, more than a dozen years later, announced that this, his seventh, term in Congress would be his last. Now Democrats will have…
New York’s 23rd District -- Rating: Solid Republican
Interview Date: April 2, 2019
Date of Birth: May 1, 1958; Rochester, N.Y.
Education: Univ. of Rochester (1981); Binghamton Univ. (Ph.d 1989); Cornell (J.D. 1995)
Elected Office: None; 2018 23rd District nominee
Current Outlook: It says a lot about the 2018 cycle…