Midterm Elections

With the Senate Democrats' razor-thin majority in the chamber up for grabs in next year's midterm elections, the race between the Democratic and GOP Senate reelection arms is already igniting.

With Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California gearing up for the political fight of his life and Golden State Republicans hungry for their first statewide victory in a decade and a half, California’s extremely likely gubernatorial recall election could become the most expensive and divisive electoral showdown in the nation this year.

PayPal co-founder and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel is contributing $10 million of his own money into a super PAC that would support a potential GOP Senate run in Ohio by fellow venture capitalist J.D. Vance, the author of the best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy.”

Facebook says it’s lifting a ban on political ads starting Thursday.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the powerful and influential conservative and libertarian political advocacy group backed by billionaire Charles Koch, says that the actions of members of Congress in the days leading up to and after last week’s storming of the Capitol will “weigh heavy” as AFP decides where it will donate its funds in the next election cycle.

Facebook said it will start blocking ads early Wednesday that are related to the Georgia runoff elections after lifting its ban on political ads in December because of the Georgia races.

The move from Alphabet's Google comes as the nation struggles to respond to the worst health crisis in more than a century, with millions of lost jobs, and a reckoning on racial injustice.

The Sun Belt state of Arizona has seen its political advertising spending records smashed over the course of the 2020 election cycle, 

Facebook, Inc. has removed 276 fake accounts linked to a conservative group. 

President Trump took to Twitter on Friday to slam former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s pledge earlier this week to spend $100 million in the crucial general election state of Florida to help elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and defeat the president in November’s election.

Continental Resources Executive Chairman Harold Hamm told "Mornings with Maria" on Friday that "energy independence has meant so much to America."

One group in particular -- Majority Forward -- spent $46 billion on ads.

Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Julián Castro are among the Democrats who’ve announced presidential exploratory committees for 2020.

Hyde-Smith faces Democrat challenger Mike Espy in a runoff election vote on Tuesday

The former Republican-controlled House of Representatives pushed through three tax packages before the chamber changed hands.

The Senate should consider a vote ahead of the new Congress, said Texas Rep. Michael Burgess.

The results are due at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

House Democrats could rock the future of Trump’s NAFTA deal.

From “Real America versus Senate America” by Paul Krugman, New York Times, Nov. 8, 2018:

Several studies have linked the expansion of Medicaid to higher voter turnout.