Alexander Bolton

Senate Republicans are feeling optimistic they’ll expand their majority to 53 seats next year as Sen. Bob Casey (D) is trailing Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania by more than 50,000 votes with 95 percent of the vote counted. They had a huge night on Tuesday, picking up Sen. Joe Manchin’s (I) seat in West Virginia...

Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz (D) declared Sunday that former President Trump is having a “thermonuclear meltdown” in the final days of the campaign, citing what he called “violent talk, paranoid fantasies and promises of retribution.” Schatz, who often posts his political observations on social media, suggested that the media is largely glossing over Trump’s behavior,...

Billionaires who have funneled tens of millions of dollars into the 2024 election or who have made key decisions affecting the race have a lot riding on the outcome. Two of the biggest names to get attention this fall are Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon...

Intensifying scrutiny over businessman and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy’s military record could shake up the Senate race in Montana, where Sheehy, the GOP candidate, is pulling away from Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in the polls. Sheehy, a decorated combat veteran, has been dogged for months by questions about a bullet wound he claimed he...

Strategists in both parties are bracing for an October or November surprise coming in the form of a deepfake video clip that they worry could have a significant impact on the final days of the presidential race, recognizing that AI counterfeits have become very advanced. Lawmakers in both parties have warned for months that sophisticated...

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican challenger Eric Hovde squared off on a debate stage Friday evening in Madison in a fiery exchange of attacks that showed how intense this race has become after largely flying under the radar for months. Hovde wasn’t as highly touted a Senate Republican candidate as some others trying to...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), chairman of the conservative Senate Steering Committee, says House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is already “surrendering” in the fight over an omnibus spending package that Democrats want to pass before President Biden leaves office. Emmer recently suggested that it would be in former President Trump’s interest if he’s elected in...

Democrats’ voter registration advantage has dropped in three key battleground states — Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Nevada — raising a red flag for Vice President Harris as experts cite a lack of enthusiasm for the Biden administration brand and the Democratic Party, generally, as problems. In Arizona, another key battleground state, Republicans have seen their...

Democrats increasingly suspect that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to interfere in U.S. domestic politics by ignoring calls by President Biden to negotiate a peace deal in Gaza and by confronting Hezbollah and Iran weeks before the U.S. election. The rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel, Hezbollah and Hezbollah’s ally, Iran, has undercut President...

Vice President Harris’s credentials to become the nation’s commander-in-chief are coming under scrutiny as the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran threatens to break out into a wider war in the Middle East. The prospect of the winner of November’s election becoming a war-time president is becoming more real after Iran sent more than...