CNN

The conditions are ripe for Republicans to win the US House of Representatives next month. So while Senate control is still up for grabs, the discussion on the House side has shifted to just how large a possible new GOP majority could be.

President Joe Biden’s visit Thursday to Syracuse in deep-blue New York might seem like an unusual one for him to make less than two weeks before the midterm elections.

More than 13.8 million pre-election ballots have been cast in 44 states as of Thursday, according to data from election officials, Edison Research and Catalist.

Late twists are rocking the tight Senate races that will decide the destiny of a chamber now narrowly run by Democrats — as well as the future direction of America itself — on Election Day in just 12 days.

Tell me who wins the Pennsylvania Senate race, and I’ll probably be able to tell you who controls the Senate next year.

A month after Hurricane Ian swept across Florida, Ciry Sosa and her family are still living in the Fort Myers Beach apartment where the dirty salt water rose up to 4 feet, destroying most of their belongings and leaving behind mold on the walls. They are sleeping on air mattresses and relying on donations of food, clothes and other essentials from neighbors and community groups.

Elections are, at the simplest level, won by putting together a coalition bigger than any other party. But the coalitions in America are changing with the times. Some of those changes are by choice, but other changes are driven by demographic changes.

The leading candidates in the pivotal US Senate race in Pennsylvania, Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, participated Tuesday in the only debate of the race.

Former President Donald Trump took Blake Masters to task after the Arizona Republican Senate nominee said in a debate this month that he hadn’t seen evidence of election fraud in Arizona.