Midterm Elections 2018
Reporting, news analysis, commentary, polling, results from key races, and more
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Alex Brandon / AP Republicans Didn’t Learn Anything From the Midterms
The results in the House represented one of the most emphatic repudiations of a president in modern history. But the GOP isn’t any closer to ditching Donald Trump.
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Alex Wong / Getty Nancy Pelosi Wouldn't Cut a Deal That Would Have Ensured Her Speakership
Ahead of House Democrats’ leadership elections, the Californian was approached about giving her tenure an expiration date. She wouldn’t budge.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters House Democrats Don't Know What to Make of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Staffers and aides to party leadership say they love her enthusiasm. But they’re worried her approach will threaten caucus unity.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Opposition to Nancy Pelosi Stumbles
A group of 16 Democrats has signed a letter pledging to vote for new House leadership, but it has no viable alternative to the California representative.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP ‘If We Pass Medicare for All, I’m Going to Be Silent as a Lamb’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrives in Congress with a bigger megaphone than any other House freshman. How's she going to use it?
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Jonathan Ernst / Leah Millis / Alex Wong … The New Politics of Climate Change
The dust is settling on the 2018 midterms—and no plan to fight global warming has emerged unscathed.
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Marta Lavandier / AP Absolutely No One Enjoys Election Recounts
The process is an important one in the American electoral system—but it’s also utterly painful.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Midterms Sent an Unmistakable Message to Republicans
So long as the GOP stays loyal to President Trump, its prospects on the electoral map will be sharply restricted.
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Susan Walsh / AP House Progressives Celebrate a ‘New Kind of Centrism’
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus see the midterms as a victory for progressive thinking, not a call to moderation.
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These Counties Kicked Out Republican Incumbents
They fueled the victories of Democratic challengers such as Colin Allred in Texas and Lucy McBath in Georgia.
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Reuters The Midterms Swept in a New Class of Black Politicians
Most of the winners are under 40. And most seem likely to run for even higher offices down the line.
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Reuters Arnold Schwarzenegger’s War on Gerrymandering Is Just Beginning
The former California governor helped support multiple ballot measures this year that will change how legislative districts are drawn. He already has his eye on more reforms in 2020.
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Alex Gallardo / AP Trump's Space Force Faces an Uncertain Fate
Congressional lawmakers, including Republicans, were skeptical of the idea long before the midterms.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters The Central Challenge of the Fight Against Trumpism
The midterms showed that the president has a real political constituency—one that gerrymandering and voter suppression make it hard to defeat.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Bet Conservatives Wouldn't Denounce His Racist Ad. He Won.
The president knows he can get away with bigotry.
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J. David Ake / AP The Republican Space Fans Exiting the House
The next Congress will be missing a few longtime advocates of exploration.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Did Obamacare Repeal Hurt the Republicans?
How the GOP repeal effort did—and did not—come back to bite those who championed it
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters How Both Parties Lost the Texas Senate Race
In the race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke, Republicans failed to recognize the ways in which the state is changing, while Democrats didn’t take seriously just how far it still has to go.
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Joe Skipper / Adria Malcolm / Reuters / … The Democrats’ Deep-South Strategy Was a Winner After All
Losses in marquee races might lead the party to believe it can’t win elections with candidates like Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, and Beto O’Rourke. But there’s more to the story.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters For Conservatives Like Me, Tuesday Couldn’t Have Gone Better
The midterm results were frustrating for revolutionaries and reactionaries, great for muddlers-along.
