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“SWANTON, Ohio — As Republicans rally ahead of a midterm election that will determine whether the GOP maintains control of both chambers of Congress, Vice President JD Vance is taking to the campaign trail once again to speak with voters in New York and Ohio…”

“The shift between 2022 and 2026 midterms In the 2022 midterms, pre-election predictions pointed toward a powerful “red wave” favouring Republicans due to surging inflation and low approval ratings for Mr.”

“These midterms will have heavy reverberations for the presidential election.”

“President Donald Trump, fresh off his own defiant reelection, joins Bush as the only two Republican presidents to lose both houses of Congress in a single midterm election since 1954.”

“…stood by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, saying he was doing "a very good job" even as current and former administration figures continued to question how long the Pentagon chief could remain in his post after Republicans’ bruising midterm…”

“Other early attendees—staff, mostly—adhered rigidly to that GOP quarter-zip aesthetic.”

“You want your probabilistic forecasts to be well-calibrated over a sufficiently large sample of true out-of-sample predictions.”

“While presidents campaigning in their party's traditional strongholds is not unprecedented at midterm elections, analysts argue Mr Trump's itinerary offers clues as to the GOP's concerns.”

“House Republicans’ senior leadership is crisscrossing the country raising money and support for their members to win Tuesday’s midterm elections.”

“Heading into the midterms, the economy should have been President Trump’s and the GOP’s strong point, but it’s not thanks to the self-inflected injury of tariffs and the inflation it continues to stoke.”

“ET for a livestream on all things midterms—we’ll give you the state of play, our best predictions, and take your questions!”

“Kalshi has given Democrats a 69 percent chance of winning control of the Senate and a 92 percent chance of taking the House, according to predictions on the betting platform ahead of Election Day.”

“With the 2026 midterm elections just days away, the pivotal question for Republicans seems to be whether Nov. 3 will go poorly or disastrously for them.”

“Political experts like Panagopoulos largely attribute the GOP’s success in the 2002 midterms to Bush’s high approval rating—63% heading into the midterms, according to Gallup data—in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

“Log in Ronna McDaniel, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, criticized the GOP’s midterm election strategy and predicted that Democrats would take control of the House come November.”

“The president was in Texas to drum up support for GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton and others ahead of next week’s midterms.”

“While Silver acknowledged that Trump will 'still be President for two more years,' those results would leave him 'a super lame duck' akin to George W Bush after the 2006 midterms.”

“Talk to Republicans around Washington and battleground states about the midterms and their talking points are all but in chorus: the polls are wrong and undercounting GOP voters.”

“In a conversation on board Air Force One, bound for Sioux City, Iowa, and another midterm rally for Republican candidates, I asked President Donald Trump whether, despite the excitement he sees at his rallies, he thinks the GOP is going to lose the House.”

“James Carville’s Midterm Predictions | Bulwark on Sunday A recording from The Bulwark’s live video A legendary Democratic strategist and a legendary Republican strategist, once on opposite sides of the political battlefield, now fighting for the same cause.”

“The findings, which come less than four weeks before Election Day, reflect a midterm landscape shaped by concerns about mail-in voting and doubts about the reliability of the U.S.”

“IN GOP MIDTERM CALCULATION, AVOIDING THE UNTHINKABLE.”

“Thom Tillis talks to Major Garrett about his regret voting to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, his midterm predictions, the Iran war and more.”

“Amid the predictions of a blue wave – despite the fact that the GOP has a much bigger war chest – veteran political analyst Charlie Cook says this about independent voters: "They tend to be very fickle.”

“The best-case scenario for the GOP would be keeping its losses to 25 House seats or less, Cook said, which is right around the average for midterm elections going back well over half a century.”

“… who would get subpoena power next year should they win the midterms, told Politico the ideal investigative targets would be 'the president’s sons and the president and the family.' President Donald Trump told TIME in an interview that he would offer pardons…”

“All of this might have been well and good for the president, but it yielded few results that the president could offer to Americans with fewer than 40 days until the midterm elections when Republicans are bracing for a bloodbath.”

“Democrats are heading into the final stretch of the 2026 midterms with their largest lead yet in the race for Congress and President Donald Trump’s approval rating at a significant low, according to NBC News’ newly released polling averages.”

“…ews This fall’s battle for House control is exposing a divide between two types of Democratic candidates — prominent battleground hopefuls with well-stocked campaign coffers, and lesser-known challengers whose fundraising is struggling to keep up with the…”

“…re caveat by Fox News comes amid signs that Trump’s frantic midterm strategy—which has involved a whole lot of lying, efforts to feign indifference, and impossible Iran war predictions—isn’t agreeing with Republicans, as more appear to distance themselves…”

“…begin to make their case to fall voters at their first ever GOP midterm convention, we will hear from the fourth-ranking Republican in the House, Michigan Congresswoman Lisa McClain, and the co- chair of the GOP midterm convention, businessman and Sunoco…”

“Your friendly political columnist makes no predictions.”

“After Texas led the way last summer, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin called a ruling by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court to greenlight the redistricting a victory for a "rigged map" meant to protect the GOP from midterm accountability.”

“In the last two midterm elections, according to the Pew Research Center, more than 90% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters supported GOP candidates for the House.”