Nominating Donald Trump was supposed to precipitate the end of the Republican Party. But with five months before Election Day, the wealthy businessman is within striking distance of Hillary Clinton and most of the vulnerable GOP senators have paths to victory.
As the Democratic presidential…
ALABAMA – Richard Shelby (R) elected 1986 (50%), 1992 (65%), 1998 (63%), 2004 (68%), 2010 (65%). Shelby turned back a serious primary challenger, 65-28 percent, in March and is the prohibitive favorite in the general election. Safe GOP.
ALASKA – Lisa Murkowski (R) appointed 2002, elected 2004…
KENTUCKY – Rand Paul (R) elected 2010 (56%). Paul dropped his run for president after the Iowa caucuses and is focused on running for re-election. He shouldn’t have a problem, considering Kentucky’s serious Republican lean in federal elections. But his presidential run gives Democrats an opening…
NEW YORK – Chuck Schumer (D) elected 1998 (55%), 2004 (71%), 2010 (66%). June 28 primary. Schumer ($26 million on March 31) will win a fourth term. The only question is whether he will be the majority or minority leader in the next Senate. Safe for Democrats.
NORTH CAROLINA – Richard Burr (R)…
More than a dozen Republican presidential candidates spent a year of the nominating contest waiting for someone else to attack and take down Donald Trump. But the GOP contenders had a common goal with a flawed strategy: Trump’s opponents should have attacked the celebrity’s supporters instead of…
Democrat Loretta Sanchez is giving up her House seat and the opportunity to continue to serve with her sister in Congress to run for the Senate in California, while the Mooney brothers are hoping to become Congress’s latest pair of siblings.
The Sanchezes (Loretta of the 46th District and Linda…
With the GOP national convention still almost two months away and Donald Trump already wooing skeptical Republicans, it’s too early to know how divided the Republican Party will be in November. But minimizing that divide is critical to Trump’s prospects.
The party’s last serious fracture occurred…
Even though the general election presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hasn’t officially started, it’s impossible to label the race as a toss-up.
The path is challenging for any GOP nominee. Based on how the majority of states are likely to fall, the GOP nominee needs to…
Democrats don’t have very many vulnerable House seats to defend, particularly with Donald Trump at the top of the GOP ticket, but Nebraska’s 2nd District is one of them.
National Democrats spent over $400,000 trying to help the weakest Republican candidate win the GOP primary in order to boost…
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