As Donald Trump once again seeks to subvert America’s elections, voters in three dozen states will have the opportunity next ...

A trio of conservative billionaires is spending like wild to stop Wisconsin Democrats from winning complete control of state government, but the latest survey from the state’s top pollster shows ...

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Let’s try something a little different in this week’s open thread. I’d like to open the floor to ask: When (and how) did you first become a reader of The Downballot (or its predecessors, Daily Kos ...

Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar launched a new ad on Thursday distancing herself from Donald Trump, who easily carried her heavily Latino constituency in the southern Miami area two years ago.

A well-connected Republican group has begun spending millions to stop Dan Osborn, the independent candidate seeking to unseat GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts in Nebraska’s closely watched Senate race.

Donald Trump just tried to interfere with the midterms in a very baroque way—and swiftly got smacked down by the courts. But what exactly was he trying to do, and how was he trying to do it? On this ...

Indiana Republicans are taking aim at former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, an ex-Republican running for secretary of state as a third-party candidate—an offensive that suggests Ballard’s former ...

The GOP’s biggest game of chicken just ended with both sides chickening out. AdImpact reports that an affiliate of the Senate Leadership Fund is spending more than $50 million on its opening ad ...

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Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Harvie is using his first ad of the general election to attack Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick over data centers, a topic Fitzpatrick has never had to address during any of ...

A new group called No Going Back PAC, which just booked at least $49 million in ad time to boost Republicans across six Senate races and help GOP Rep. Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th District, is ...