Trump Midterms

The world's richest person put $77 million into America PAC, Federal Election Commission filings show, in an effort to elect Republicans in November midterm contests

A self-professed pollster admitted to fabricating its numbers on the US midterm elections, claiming it was an "experiment" to test whether media outlets and poll aggregators would report on the data. Wedgewood Polling admitted to fabricating poll data and accused poll aggregators, including the New York Times and FiftyPlusOne, of not vetting their firm before using their results a charge rejected by the two media houses. The pollster had been releasing surveys since June and had forced at least one candidate Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow to withdraw from the Democratic primary for the US Senate. "As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment": Donations dried up, volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do, and reporters hounded me with calls to drop out," McMorrow said in a post on X. The

Republicans hold narrow majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate while Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of each chamber

Some 31% of ​Americans approve of Trump's performance in office, down ​a percentage point from two weeks earlier and the lowest level in either of his presidential ​terms

Musk's largess, which was reported earlier by the New York Times, makes the world's richest person likely the single-biggest political donor in this year's races, according to campaign finance ‌record

The US National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems during the November midterms, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday. Military cybersecurity experts have routinely helped monitor systems and deter potential hackers since election equipment was designated " critical infrastructure " in 2017. But Hegseth's announcement comes after President Donald Trump gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure, a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That agency last week released an election infrastructure security plan that lays out potential threats to election systems and lists services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. Both announcements come just weeks before Election Day on November 3 and with early voting already underway. The short timeline "suggests this is just theater," said Dav

Several farm-state lawmakers have urged Trump to limit US diesel exports during the peak of the fall harvest season

President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year's midterms, saying justices who opposed him were "not the people I interviewed." His social media missive was just the latest in a long history of Trump assailing justices, particularly those he had nominated, who ruled against him on his administration's most prominent initiatives. The president has been publicly furious with the Supreme Court over its decisions against restricting birthright citizenship and his ability to issue tariffs unilaterally. On mail-in voting, the Trump administration had made a last-minute push to have the US Postal Service play a central role in deciding who would be able to receive a ballot. But state election officials argued there was not enough time to make the changes for the Nov. 3 midterm elections - and said their systems were already secure and accurate. The court ruled late Monday in an emergency order that the ...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting. The emergency appeal comes after an appeals court upheld a ruling blocking the president's order in nearly half the country ahead of November's midterm elections. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to allow the proposed changes to move ahead while lawsuits play out. Trump ordered the government in March to create a "state citizenship list" of eligible voters and deliver mail ballots only to people on that list. Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia sued, saying the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to set election rules, not the president. Their attorneys have said Trump's proposed changes are ripe for abuse and could cause chaos. A judge in Massachusetts blocked the order for the plaintiff states, and a 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld that .

A US appeals court refused to lift a lower court order blocking key parts of Donald Trump's executive order over mail voting in Democratic-led states

He also vowed to campaign tirelessly to help GOP candidates win