2022 senate races

Damaged goods? Photo: Jeff Roberson/AP/Shutterstock Republicans plotting to reconquer the U.S. Senate in 2022 don’t have much of a margin for error. They have at least five open seats to defend, and three of them (plus Ron Johnson’s seat in Wisconsin, which may or may not become open) are rated as competitive by the Cook Political Report. Only two Democratic-held seats are considered competitive by Cook. So the last thing the GOP needs is to blow a Senate race in a solidly red state. They did exactly that in 2012, a year when they fully expected to flip the Senate in their direction. Instead they lost races in Indiana and Missouri , thanks to Senate nominees who made stupid and extremist remarks about abortion policy. The bright-red flashing sign of possible self-destruction ahead is coming from one of those states, Missouri, where two-term incumbent Republican Roy Blunt is retiring next year. At this point it’s not so much culture-war radicalism that’s the problem (thought … [Read more...] about Greitens Tries the Maximum MAGA Strategy in Comeback Bid for Senate Seat

Conventional wisdom in Washington is that the party in control of the White House usually loses any number of congressional seats in the midterms. In 1994, President Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones calls on Breyer to retire Modern biomedical breakthroughs require a federal ethics commission Biden must compel China and Russia to act on climate MORE saw his House majority collapse with the Democrats losing 54 seats and the speaker’s gavel, something that had held true since the Truman Administration. After wresting control back from the GOP in 2006 during the final two years of the George W. Bush Administration, Democrats faced a similar blood bath during the 2010 midterms losing 63 seats in what President Barack Obama aptly described as a “shellacking.” With one of the slimmest majorities for any new president in modern history, President Joe Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump … [Read more...] about Polls suggest House Democrats will buck midterm curse and add to their ranks

The road to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination appears to have a new stop along the way: an influential group of House conservatives. Sen. Tom Cotton Tom Bryant Cotton Hillicon Valley: Biden administration sanctions Russia for SolarWinds hack, election interference The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Tax March - CDC in limbo on J&J vax verdict; Rep. Brady retiring Republican lawmakers reintroduce bill to ban TikTok on federal devices MORE (R-Ark.) has addressed the Republican Study Committee  (RSC) about the surge of migrants at the border. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Chris Christie Energy secretary: 'We don't want to use past definitions of infrastructure' Christie: Biden lying about Georgia voting bill Experts take pro-vaccine message to right-wing skeptics MORE (R) told the conservative group last week they need to get tougher on President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump … [Read more...] about Parade of 2024 GOP hopefuls court House conservatives

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over the past year, opponents of California Gov. Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom NPR journalist discusses home affordability in California California Democrats weigh their recall options California opens vaccine eligibility to everyone 16 and up MORE (D) harnessed growing anger against his coronavirus restrictions to force a recall election that will roil the state’s politics for the rest of 2021. But as he prepares for the greatest challenge of his political life, Newsom will now have the opportunity to spend months handing out big checks in all corners of the state thanks to President Biden Joe Biden Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal Obama, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley team up to urge communities of color to get coronavirus vaccine Biden to hold second meeting with bipartisan lawmakers on infrastructure MORE and congressional Democrats, who rode to the rescue … [Read more...] about Federal stimulus boosts Newsom ahead of recall

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell Trump looms over Senate's anti-Asian hate crimes battle Appointing a credible, non-partisan Jan. 6 commission should not be difficult Why President Biden is all-in in infrastructure MORE (R-Ky.) should put away his worry beads about big business. Corporate leaders haven’t gone soft on liberalism. Instead, Republicans have gone “wobbly” on democracy and that’s not good for business. Some Republican leaders have followed Donald Trump Donald Trump Graham: 'I could not disagree more' with Trump support of Afghanistan troop withdrawal GOP believes Democrats handing them winning 2022 campaign Former GOP operative installed as NSA top lawyer resigns MORE down the rabbit hole of conspiracy delusion. They’ve spent the first quarter of 2021 trying to hot-wire the engine of democracy to churn for them in the next elections by denying Americans free and fair access to the … [Read more...] about It’s not ‘woketivism,’ it’s good business