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US midterms 2018

The latest news, opinion and analysis on the 2018 US midterm elections

November 2022

  • Donald Trump and his wife Melania in Palm Beach on polling day.

    ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’: angry Trump lashes out at Republican rival

    Former president, who is still expected to announce candidacy, posts diatribe against possible White House contender and others

September 2022

  • Mitt Romney leaves the Senate chamber.

    ‘You have to run’: Romney urged Biden to take down Trump, book says

    Gabriel Debenedetti, author of book on Biden’s relationship with Obama, reports call on night of 2018 midterms

November 2019

  • Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams participates in a debate with Stacey Evans as a stage manager holds up a time card Sunday, May 20, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)

    The fight to vote
    Republicans v Democrats war over votes in Georgia intensifies with lawsuit

    Stacey Abrams’s 2018 campaign manager says lawsuit filed by Republican-led ethics commission is an act of retribution

August 2019

  • Georgians wait in line to cast their votes in U.S. midterm election in Georgia<br>Georgians wait in line to cast their votes in the 2018 U.S. midterm election at a Gwinnett County polling place in Annistown Elementary School in Snellville, Georgia, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

    'The selling of an election': how private firms compromised midterms security

    Georgia’s voting machines and online registration were almost entirely managed by private companies, prompting security concerns

April 2019

  • President Trump Addresses Joint Session of Congress for the First Time<br>epa06254118 YEARENDER 2017 FEBRUARY US Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R) applaud as US President Donald J. Trump (C) delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, 28 February 2017. Traditionally the first address to a joint session of Congress by a newly-elected president is not referred to as a State of the Union. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO / POOL

    The Hill to Die On review: Trump, Ryan and a Republican dumpster fire

    Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer deliver a deeply sourced tale of ineptitude, cowardice and other common political traits

February 2019

  • Mark Harris, Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 9th congressional race, makes a statement before the state board of elections calling for a new election during the fourth day of a public evidentiary hearing on the 9th congressional district voting irregularities investigation Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, at the North Carolina State Bar in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, Pool)

    North Carolina board orders new election in disputed congressional race

    Move came after reviewing evidence that the contest was tainted by absentee ballot fraud

January 2019

  • Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey appear at his midterm election night party in Orlando, Florida.

    Will Florida's new Republican governor keep his vow of bipartisanship?

    So far, Ron DeSantis has nominated prominent Democrats to lead and pledged his support to the environment and clean water

December 2018

  • Mark Harris<br>FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2018, file photo, Mark Harris speaks to the media during a news conference in Matthews, N.C. Legislation quickly passed by North Carolina’s lawmakers would require new primaries in a still-undecided U.S. House race marred with ballot fraud allegations, potentially replacing the Republican nominee at the center of the disputed race. If the state elections board decides ballot irregularities or other problems cast the true outcome into doubt and force a redo, the legislation would require new primary elections in the 9th Congressional District race. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

    Democrats won't seat North Carolina Republican amid election fraud claims

  • 2016 Election New York Voting, New York, USA - 08 Nov 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (7426447c) Voters fill in their ballots at a polling station in Brooklyn, New York 2016 Election New York Voting, New York, USA - 08 Nov 2016

    It's the demographics, stupid: party loyalties are shifting as 2020 looms

  • Within days of the 2018 midterm elections, North Carolina announced it would not certify the results in the ninth congressional district as a result of “ballot harvesters”, people hired to illegally pick up absentee ballots.

    Absentee-ballot fraud scandal speaks to wider issue of racism in North Carolina

  • Dan McCready<br>FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Democratic congressional candidate Dan McCready leans against wallboard as he pauses during a Habitat For Humanity building event in Charlotte, N.C. The nation's last unresolved fall congressional race with McCready against Republican Mark Harris is awash in doubt as North Carolina election investigators concentrate on a rural county where absentee-ballot fraud allegations are so flagrant they've put the Election Day result into question. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

    North Carolina: Democrat withdraws concession in congressional race

  • Michigan Republicans vote to strip power from incoming Democrat

  • North Carolina election still undecided amid absentee ballot fraud inquiry

  • Republican Brad Raffensperger wins runoff for Georgia secretary of state

  • double quotation markAcross Trump’s America, the grassroots are growing radical

    DD Guttenplan

  • Wisconsin Republicans seek to hobble Democrats in lame-duck session

November 2018

  • Gary Younge

    double quotation markThe new wave of Democrats owes a huge debt to people power

    Gary Younge
  • Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won in a special election for Mississippi’s senate seat.

    Cindy Hyde-Smith wins Mississippi Senate seat in special election

  • Police were called to the Walter Reed medical center on Tuesday.

    US navy confirms no active shooter at Walter Reed, 'was ad hoc drill' – as it happened

  • Appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., right, and Democrat Mike Espy shake hands following their televised Mississippi U.S. Senate debate in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, Pool)

    Mississippi Senate runoff collapses into referendum on 'old south' racism

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