Midterm Elections 2018
Coverage of the 2018 midterm elections: the House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.


Kris Kobach is challenging incumbent Jeff Colyer in the GOP primary for governor.


Nominees will be chosen in Missouri’s US Senate race and a key House race. Voters will also decide a statewide ballot initiative.


There’s a key special election in Ohio and other races that are central to Democrats’ efforts to spur a “blue wave.”


Corey Stewart’s Confederate leanings and “Unite the Right” support, explained.


Danny O’Connor, Gretchen Whitmer, and the rest of Tuesday’s primary election results.


This Michigan progressive is expected to secure the Democratic nomination and win her race this fall.


Sharice Davids narrowly beat Bernie Sanders-backed candidate Brent Welder for the nomination in Kansas’s Third Congressional District.


Kris Kobach leads by just 191 votes.


It’s the first time voters have overturned right-to-work laws through a ballot referendum in recent years.


He’s just barely leading Democrat Danny O’Connor in this red district.


These could come in handy for Danny O’Connor and Troy Balderson in the Ohio 12th special election.


Hawley and McCaskill are essentially tied in the polls.


Ohio’s special election was another test of the Republicans’ tax bill messaging.

Democrats’ efforts to spur a “blue wave” will be put to the test, again.


But Danny O’Connor, the Democrat in the Ohio 12th special election, doesn’t support any of the left’s newly popular ideas.


Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’s seat in rural eastern Washington is looking competitive in 2018.

These progressives want to beat Trump. But first, they want to fix the Democratic Party.


He tweeted about the Ohio race after stumping there this past weekend.


Kansas Republicans spent years enacting a conservative vision. Now Democrats want to fight back.


A four-way Republican toss-up race for governor that’s testing the state’s appetite for Trumpism.


No lockouts are expected in the state’s most competitive races.


Kobach is running for governor of Kansas.


Netroots Nation was Warrenmania.

Primary elections for Michigan’s governor, Senate, and House will be held on Tuesday.


Democrat Beto O’Rourke is closing in on Cruz in Texas — but people still don’t know who he is.


Business executive Bill Lee won the Republican nomination.


Republicans say they want to elect more women. Their messaging works against that.


Candidates for major House and governor races are on the ballot.


An unexpectedly heated Republican primary for governor and a long-shot Democratic bid for Senate.


Gender issues have historically had negative ties to “identity politics.”


Danny O’Connor is running right behind Republican Troy Balderson in the Ohio 12th.


They weren’t what you would expect.


Patriotic Millionaires plans to endorse candidates running against Republicans who voted for the tax bill.


Facebook isn’t sure if it’s Russia, but it looks a lot like what Russia did in 2016.


“These are good people, they’re smart, they’re intelligent, and they want Bigfoot to be with them.”


The stuff waves are made of.


The good news for Democrats — and the important caveats — in the latest 2018 election polls.


Claire McCaskill, one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats, appears to have been a Russian target, the Daily Beast reports.


If Democrats take the House, they will have women voters — and their commitment to protections for preexisting conditions — to thank.


They kept up the winning streak this week.