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Byline: Ingrid Jacques, USA TODAY If you need an example of why Democrats just faced a resounding election defeat, look at what happened recently to Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton. He's [...]

Byline: Riley Beggin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Republicans have won both the House and the Senate, giving the GOP total control over Congress for at least the next two years [...]

Byline: Cameron Smith, USA TODAY NETWORK Democrats and the independents who caucus with them enjoy a 51-49 seat advantage in the U.S. Senate. In November, Republicans have 11held seats up [...]

Byline: Ken Tran, USA TODAY Democrats defied expectations in the 2022 midterm elections, beating back President Joe Biden's low approval ratings and record inflation. By the end of the cycle, [...]

Byline: Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY The social and racial justice movements sparked in 2020 began an unprecedented voting awareness and education campaign from the NFL, its stars and clubs. Heading [...]

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Democrat Melanie Stansbury has won election to Congress for New Mexico with a campaign closely tied to initiatives of the Biden administration. Stanbury prevailed [...]

Byline: Ledyard King and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Democrats recaptured control of the U.S. Senate by winning both Georgia seats up for election Tuesday, giving the party complete [...]

Byline: Analis Bailey USA TODAY Members of the Atlanta Dream have continued their push for voting in Georgia's Senate runoff in More Than A Vote's latest social media campaign. Narrated [...]

Byline: Ledyard King and Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Georgia voters head to the polls Tuesday for a pair of runoff elections that will determine control of the [...]

Byline: Christal Hayes, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Democrats were forecast to win big on Election Day. But in congressional races across the country, they saw loss after loss even as [...]

Byline: Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged Democrats to win more House seats if a scenario unfolds in which the House of Representatives would [...]

Byline: Jason Lalljee and Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday that he ended his run for the 2020 presidential nomination and is giving 'serious thought' [...]

Byline: Jim Reineking, USA TODAY A number of former athletes ran for office in the general election Tuesday. Here is how they fared: Anthony Gonzalez, NFL wide receiver: The 34-year-old [...]

Byline: David Jackson and John Fritze USA TODAY WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump suggested House Republicans lost seats in the midterm elections because they didn't embrace his presidency, singling some [...]

Byline: Susan Page, Columnist, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Divided we stand. Red states got redder. Blue districts got bluer. And the gulf between Republicans and Democrats got deeper. The hotly [...]

Byline: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY DODGE CITY, Kansas - A fresh 'I voted' sticker gleaming on his leather jacket, Pedro Hernandez smiled shyly as his friends and neighbors steadily filed [...]

Byline: Martin Rogers, USA TODAY Bradley Beal has a lot on his mind right now, no surprise with the Wizards having experienced a tumultuous and disappointing start to the season. [...]

Byline: Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - As the organist softly played 'I Surrender All' one recent Sunday morning, Billy Michael Horn, pastor of Pulse Church in Atlanta, had [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison, Nashville Tennessean, USA TODAY NETWORK Through 11 days of early voting that passed Monday, 1,062,596 had voted early in Tennessee, crushing turnout from the midterm election in [...]

Byline: Tom Krattenmaker I usually roll my eyes when political candidates bluster that a given election is the most important in our lifetime. I generally scoff at hyperbolic claims that [...]

Byline: Dick Meyer At a time when politics is conducted as burlesque, it is easy to think that the audience is as wretched as the performers. Not so. This is [...]

Byline: Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Hispanics underperform on Election Day In the 2014 midterm, Hispanic voter turnout was 27 percent, far below whites (45.8percent) and blacks (40.6percent), and on par [...]

Byline: Jennifer Anne Moses Like George W. Bush before him, Barack Obama all but disappeared from public view when he left the White House. That is until Friday, when he [...]

Byline: David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Claiming credit for this week's election results, President Donald Trump served notice that he will be actively involved in this fall's congressional races [...]

Byline: Robby Mook The revelation that foreign agents (likely Russian) were running a Facebook campaign to influence the midterm elections cemented what we already suspected: Foreign influence operations are now [...]

Byline: Eliza Collins, USA TODAY CANONSBURG, Pa. - If Democratic contender Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District on Tuesday, it will send shock waves across the political landscape. President [...]

Byline: Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The midterm congressional elections are months away, but well-financed outside groups already are dominating the airwaves in what will be a multimillion-dollar brawl [...]

Byline: Bill Glauber,, Todd Spangler, and Ali Schmitz THERESA, Wis. - Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., should feel safe heading into this year's elections: He's a two-term incumbent in a rural-suburban [...]

Alabama Montgomery: Not all voters were split between Doug Jones and Roy Moore in Alabama's hotly-contested U.S. Senate race last month. Election officials say 22,000 votes went to write-ins. Alaska [...]

Byline: Melissa Brown, Montgomery Advertiser, USA TODAY Network MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama's next senator will be Democrat Doug Jones. Thursday, the Alabama State Canvassing Board certified the results of the [...]

There is opportunity in crisis, as the saying goes. And for Republicans, Roy Moore's stunning loss in Alabama's special Senate election is a chance to focus on a nagging question: [...]

Byline: Tom Perez There is a blue wave sweeping the country. Tuesday night's victory is proof that when Democrats lead with our values, when we recruit great candidates like Doug [...]

Byline: Ellis Cose The great Charles Barkley said it best. 'We've got to stop looking like idiots,' he told Alabamians while campaigning for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones. After Jones [...]

Byline: Jason Sattler Donald Trump may be the most scandal-engulfed and least popular new president in history, but that's not enough to stop Republicans from voting like Republicans. At least, [...]

Byline: Fredreka Schouten, @fschouten, USA TODAY Political parties and independent groups have unleashed more than $20 million in federal races this year in a preview of the massive spending that [...]

Byline: Heidi M. Przybyla, USA TODAY A special election this week in Georgia that turned into a referendum on President Trump made one thing clear: The U.S. House is in [...]

Byline: Heidi M. Przybyla, USA TODAY A closely watched special election in Georgia's 6th congressional district could be the most significant electoral duel between the Democratic and Republican parties since [...]

GOP eyes 2018 Senate race in Wis. against Baldwin Emboldened by last month's triumphs in Wisconsin, Republicans are sizing up their next big target, taking on Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy [...]

Byline: Tom Vanden Brook, @tvandenbrook, USA TODAY As results from the polls rolled in from the East Coast and Midwest, Republicans appeared likely to maintain their majority in the House [...]

Byline: Michael Collins, USA TODAY When the votes are counted and the results are announced, congressional delegations in many states will emerge from Tuesday's elections looking almost exactly like they [...]

Alex Rogers, Time: 'With the fall of three-term Sen. Mary Landrieu Saturday, Louisiana will not have a Democratic statewide elected official for the first time since 1876. à The Republican [...]

Byline: Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY Sen. Mary Landrieu won a reputation as a tireless advocate for Louisiana during three terms in the Senate, largely by fighting to send federal [...]

Republicans spent Wednesday celebrating their recapture of the Senate majority they lost in 2006, and deservedly so. They won by fielding a solid and disciplined roster of candidates who were [...]

Alabama District 1( 93%) Burton LeFlore (D)42,755 (36%) Bradley Byrne* (R)77,183 (64%) District 2( 93%) Erick Wright (D)48,768 (34%) Martha Roby* (R)94,869 (66%) District 3( 91%) Jesse Smith (D)45,041 (34%) [...]

How to read results X - Winner declared by AP * - Incumbent D - Democrat R - Republican I - Independent % - Precincts reporting Alabama( 0%) X Jeff [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Republicans frustrated by President Obama's six years in office flexed their political muscles Tuesday and emerged with complete control of Congress. In a midterm election [...]

Byline: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Republicans frustrated by President Obama's six years in office flexed their political muscles Tuesday and emerged with complete control of Congress. In a midterm election [...]

Byline: Susan Davis, USA TODAY Republicans took control of the U.S. Senate in a series of stinging defeats for Democrats and President Obama, who will face a unified GOP-controlled Congress [...]

Byline: Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY Voters, uncertain about the economy and worried about Ebola at home and terrorism abroad, handed Republicans a cluster of Democratic seats Tuesday and could grant [...]

Byline: Susan Page, @susanpage, USA TODAY Dissatisfied with President Obama's leadership and dismayed by the failure of both parties to work together on big problems, Americans voted Tuesday to shake [...]