Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s former attorney general, captured the Republican nomination for Senate on Tuesday, setting up a high-profile match with Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto that will be pivotal in determining control of the chamber.
A police officer injured by rioters at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 and a documentary filmmaker who captured events that day, will be witnesses in Thursday night’s opening televised hearing by a House committee investigating the attack.
Next week’s three-way race for the Republican Senate nomination in Alabama has drawn more than $20 million in super PAC spending, as candidates vie for a nomination that will almost certainly lead to a Senate seat.
The Supreme Court ruling striking down a 20-year-old limit on campaign loan repayments could help two leading Pennsylvania Senate contenders recoup some of their massive investments in the race.
Biden administration officials are seizing the political opportunity in Democrats’ doomsday scenario, the end of nationwide abortion rights, to try to salvage a midterm election thought to be all but lost for the president’s party.