Midterm Elections 2022
Coverage of the 2022 midterm elections: House, Senate, ballot initiatives, and more.


The most interesting House races include diverse GOP recruits, new progressives, and Republicans who bucked Trump.


The party’s closing argument is exploiting voters’ fears.


Republicans who have fully embraced Trump’s stolen election claims could win key offices in crucial states.


The Supreme Court’s abortion decision could help some Democrats in tight midterm contests. But will it be enough?


State attorneys general may decide the future of abortion rights and elections policies.


Here’s what each party would do with power — and what divided government would mean for policy.


In Luria’s Virginia district, you’d expect threats to democracy to resonate.


Environmental justice programs are one target for GOP attacks.


Democrats’ best chance at flipping a state legislature lies in Michigan.


Why the crypto industry wants bitcoin holders to vote.


Election-denying poll watchers are casting a shadow on the 2022 midterms.


Republicans are gaining the upper hand in 2 states key to Democrats’ future.


The blue state may elect its first GOP governor since 1982.


The bombshell allegations plaguing Walker’s campaign, briefly explained.


All of society benefits when workplaces include people with a range of disabilities.


Abortion rights might not be enough to convince them.


“These aren’t normal circumstances.”


Is going straight to voters the way to fix America’s medical debt crisis?


Author Jeff Pearlman on how Herschel Walker’s football career shaped his political one.


Democrats haven’t been faring well in Ohio. Despite running close to J.D. Vance, Tim Ryan probably won’t buck that trend.


If not “defund the police,” what should Democrats’ messaging on public safety be?


Can she break Democrats’ losing streak in North Carolina?


Despite his antics, Walker outperformed low expectations.


If the Nevada senator loses — it’s extremely close — it would likely signal a disaster for Democrats.


The state of the Oz-Fetterman Senate race, explained by three Pennsylvania pollsters.

Parsing the old, white, educated, libertarian, anti-tax, pro-choice politics of New Hampshire.


Campaigns have to motivate men, too.


The Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter on why news consumers are asking too much of polling.

Republicans are laying a path to gut abortion rights after Election Day.


Texas voters will get to render a verdict before the courts do.


While most Latinos rank the economy as a top midterms priority, their opinions on abortion and LGBTQ Americans are much more varied.

Mitch McConnell has now come out in favor of a few election law fixes that could protect democracy in 2024.

Polling has looked surprisingly good for Democrats. Are they being set up for disappointment again?


The Florida governor’s scheme to send migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is a transparent midterms ploy.


Republican Joe O’Dea says he’ll buck his party and Trump.

Inside the Arizona’s representative’s restless, highly online, and seriously combative plan to transform the Democratic Party.

Latino voters’ growing power, what the parties get right and wrong about them, and a brash Congress member on what Democrats need to do better.


Los demócratas culparon a la desinformación por sus pérdidas con latinos en el 2020. Pero el problema también tiene que ver con otros errores del partido.

Democrats blamed misinformation for some of their losses with Latino voters in 2020. But the problem is getting more entwined with the party’s failures with Latinos.

Why Latino voters have such a misunderstood stance on abortion.