👤 David Weigel

2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

Democrats take Senate seats as Republicans underperform in midterms

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2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

Republicans underperform as first midterm votes are counted

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2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

Republicans underperform as first midterm votes are counted

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2026-09-11 · Semafor · Politics

Republicans' midterm promise is more populism, and more cash

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2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

Trump’s politics meet reality

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2026-08-24 · Semafor · Politics

Norman could add to Trump’s primary losing streak

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2026-08-24 · Semafor

🔮 South Carolina Republicans could nominate Rep. Ralph Norman on Tuesday for Senate, denying Sen. Darline Graham six more years in the seat held by her late brother. assertive

2026-08-25 · Semafor

🔮 Notable - New polling for the IMEU Policy Project, conducted by YouGov, suggests that cutting off military aid to Israel is a popular position in the six states that will vote first in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 Jeffries then took to the cameras to explain how this agenda would play out next year, if he becomes speaker. assertive

2026-09-11 · Semafor

🔮 “Five thousand dollars for every adult,” President Trump said on Thursday, suggesting that a “Trump dividend” would go out if the GOP kept control of Congress. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 These voters were interested in economic populism, but a candidate’s background couldn’t overwhelm cultural concerns: On those, said Jared Abbott, the center’s director, “it’s better for you to say something that actually connects with those voters and that you agree with than to say nothing.” assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 An old-fashioned news desk might cover a clip once, ask the candidate about it, and then consider the story over. assertive

2026-09-16 · Semafor

🔮 QuitGPT, the coalition that wrote the pledge, began circulating it in May. assertive

2026-09-30 · Semafor

🔮 Equality Ohio, the state’s flagship LGBT rights group, announced that Acton had lost her “A” rating and it would have to revisit its candidate report card. assertive

2026-10-02 · Semafor

🔮 And when he says Florida’s Democratic nominee for Senate doesn’t “belong in America” clip accounts will be on it. assertive

2026-10-07 · Semafor

🔮 There’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, assessing that when (not if) Abdul El-Sayed wins his Senate race in Michigan, the left will “break open the entire political calculus in America” — i.e., that progressives like them can win the Midwest. assertive

2026-10-19 · Semafor

🔮 In a matter of weeks, when the midterm results are tallied and the next campaign begins, Democrats with presidential dreams know the question will be coming. assertive

2026-10-20 · Semafor

🔮 He bet that Republicans’ winning streak couldn’t survive a second Trump midterm, with Vivek Ramaswamy leading their Ohio ticket. assertive

2026-10-23 · Semafor

🔮 The new ad will get a six-figure buy, according to details shared first with Semafor. assertive

2026-10-28 · Semafor

🔮 Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. was an exception, questioning how a man on suicide watch could hang himself. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 The new Doyle’s lawn signs called him “the right Mike” without explicitly identifying him as a Republican — a moniker that would be a non-starter in the safely Democratic seat. assertive

2026-11-04 · Semafor

🔮 Joe Biden tapped him to run the Democratic National Committee, for what both men hoped would be the presidency that ended the MAGA era. assertive