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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 26, 2026.
The former president campaigned with Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown as the fight over a Republican ad featuring Acton's estranged mother becomes a national flashpoint.
WatchA CBS News/YouGov survey finds Democrats' lead steady but not growing, with late-deciding voters leaning Republican and turnout the biggest unknown.
Her campaign says Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries when another driver hit their vehicle, forcing her to reschedule events in a race already tangled in a Justice Department fight.
Milwaukee's Jeffrey Grob says the bishops were told the meeting would be private, and a second bishop says the White House exploited it for partisan ends two weeks before the midterms.
WatchBacked by a late endorsement from President Trump, Attorney General Ken Paxton became the first Texas Republican ever denied his party's Senate nomination, setting up a competitive November fight with Democrat James Talarico.
Voters in Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama, Idaho, Oregon and Pennsylvania go to the polls Tuesday in the biggest primary day of 2026, with $1.2 billion in outside spending already deployed.
MAGA Inc. spent roughly $9 million to oust Republican incumbents who killed Trump's mid-decade congressional map last December, sending an unmissable warning to GOP legislators in other states still weighing the president's redistricting demands.
WatchPresident Trump endorsed challengers to seven Indiana state senators who blocked his redistricting demand, while Vivek Ramaswamy faces Amy Acton in Ohio's open governor's race — the first hard data on his sway over the GOP base.
The “lobster district” map would shift the state’s congressional delegation from 6-5 Democratic to 10-1 if approved, reshaping midterm math.
WatchLed by California, a coalition of Democratic attorneys general filed suit in federal court to block the order that would restrict USPS mail ballot distribution ahead of the 2026 midterms.