Talking Points MemoPolitics
Mississippi prosecutor Scott Colom has officially defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a contest that shocked outsiders…
Talking Points MemoPolitics
Voters last week emphatically passed the “Montana Plan,” a ballot item that would ban corporations from spending money on local, state and federal elections.
Talking Points MemoPolitics
Put a fork in ‘er. Cindy Hyde-Smith is done and Scott Colom is the next senator from Mississippi, according to CNN. I’ve been watching the results all day and I…
Chicago Sun-TimesPolitics
Now that Emanuel "Chris" Welch is leaving the post under pressure, critics say the only surprise is that it took this long for the Hillside Democrat's past to catch up with him.
BBCPolitics
The Democratic candidate won in a southern state that had not seated a black senator since 1874.
BBCPolitics
In a state Trump won two years ago by 22 points, Colom's victory extends a string of Democratic wins in the Senate.
Washington Free BeaconPolitics
The Washington Free Beacon was denied press credentials to a political summit in Denver featuring some of the Democratic Party's rumored 2028 presidential candidates, including former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, Georgia senator Raphael Warnock, and California congressman Ro Khanna. The two-day event, dubbed What's Next and hosted by the super PAC Majority Democrats, bills itself […]
Washington Free BeaconPolitics
Abdul El-Sayed arrived on Capitol Hill this week with high hopes. His victory in the Michigan Senate race was generating buzz about a run for president in 2028. No less an authority than David Plouffe, the former Obama adviser and architect of Kamala Harris's joyful White House effort, floated El-Sayed as a dark horse contender for the nomination.Then the photographers arrived.
Washington Free BeaconPolitics
The New York Times’s favorite “conservative” intellectual, Oren Cass, is back in that newspaper with a new article advising Republicans to dump not only President Reagan’s economic policies but his national security strategy, too.
CNNPolitics
Across the South, Black women voters helped usher in a slew of new Democratic officeholders this year in addition to Mississippi Sen.-elect Scott Colom. They powered Keisha Lance Bottoms to a history-making win as Georgia’s first Black governor alongside a slate of Black women who will hold key state offices. They also backed successful Democratic candidates in GOP strongholds, including South Carolina and Texas, by lopsided margins.
NBC NewsPolitics
Those close to Acton say Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad using her estranged mother didn’t decide the race. But the response underscored the principles that guided a groundbreaking campaign.
NBC NewsPolitics
Live updates and the latest news as Republicans in Congress avoid blaming Trump’s policies after election losses and Scott Colom wins the Mississippi Senate race.