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Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Michigan’s 7th District has flipped between the parties in each of the last three elections and Cook Political Report lists it among 14 Republican-held seats rated a toss-up nationally. … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Arizona’s 6th District is a genuine swing seat in a chamber Republicans control by a thin margin, and Cook Political Report rates it a true toss-up. Trump carried the … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Gov. Laura Kelly is term-limited after winning twice in a state that leans heavily Republican, and this is the first Kansas governor’s race with only two candidates on the … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited after two terms, removing an incumbent who won her last race by more than 10 points and opening one of the most closely watched … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Wisconsin has not had an open race for governor since 2010, when Scott Walker won the seat Gov. Tony Evers is now vacating. Evers, 73, announced in July 2025 … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Arizona is one of five states where a Democratic governor is on the ballot in a state Donald Trump carried in 2024, and Gov. Katie Hobbs won her first … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. Georgia is the only state where a Democratic incumbent senator is defending a seat that Donald Trump carried in 2024, which is why both parties treat this contest as … Read more
Why This Race Matters This overview reflects information available as of September 4, 2026. Candidates, polling, and endorsements may change before Election Day on November 3. North Carolina’s open Senate seat is one of the two or three contests most likely to decide which party controls the chamber next year. Republicans hold a narrow 53-47 … Read more
President Trump announced Monday that nine more pharmaceutical companies have agreed to his “Most Favored Nation” drug pricing framework, bringing the total to 26 manufacturers the White House says now cover 89% of the branded drug market. The new agreements involve mid-sized companies, including Astellas, BeOne Medicines, CSL, BridgeBio, Sun Pharmaceutical, Teva and UCB, which … Read more
What Happened Wyoming’s Republican governor said Justice Department attorneys sent to observe the state’s Aug. 18 primary behaved in a way local officials found troubling, and that neither his office nor local election administrators were told the observers were coming. Gov. Mark Gordon told a state canvassing board meeting this week that the conduct of … Read more
An ICE officer charged in Minnesota with shooting a man and lying about it was released from a Texas jail Thursday after Gov. Greg Abbott declined to sign an extradition warrant, and a federal judge ruled he could not force the issue. Christian Castro, 52, had been held in Cameron County since late May, when … Read more
This briefing reflects reporting and polling available as of Aug. 29, 2026. Candidates, endorsements and polling can change before Election Day on Nov. 3, 2026. Why This Race Matters Iowa’s 1st District will see the same two candidates face off for a third consecutive election, in a seat that has been decided by a few … Read more
