Start with the scale, then the result, because the gap between them is the story. Going into this election, roughly one third of the country’s congressional districts were redrawn, the product of a mid decade redistricting fight President Trump started by...
Early voting opened Monday in seven more states, and the records started falling before the first day ended. Harris County, Texas, home to Houston and nearly five million people, counted 104,660 in person voters, shattering its previous midterm first day record of...
The lawsuit landed in federal court last Thursday, and its central request is simple to state. The Justice Department wants a judge to make California set aside the mail ballots of roughly 20,000 people the government calls likely noncitizens, leaving those votes...
The man who built the modern Republican machine says he is voting for a Democrat. Karl Rove, the strategist behind George W. Bush’s presidency, announced he will back Democrat Jon Rosenthal for Texas railroad commissioner over Republican Bo French, after French...
The number is 3.7 percent. That is how much consumer prices rose over the year through September, up from 3.4 percent in August, hotter than the 3.6 economists expected, with a 0.6 percent jump in the month alone, the fastest of the year. CNN’s label for the...
The private line and the public line split wide open this week. Politico reports that five senior Republican lawmakers, granted anonymity to speak plainly, have concluded the House has all but slipped away, and that the party’s focus is now limiting the size of...
