TAMPA, Fla. — With less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms, Democrats across the nation have plenty of reasons to feel optimistic.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating is the lowest of any president in 80 years. Pollsters, pundits and prediction markets say Democrats are likely to regain control of the U.S. House of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democrats are banking on scoring at least some modest gains in the New York City metro area in the looming midterm congressional elections for the House of Representatives amid President Donald Trump’s deep unpopularity.

But what if the expected blue wave turns into an even bigger anti-Trump political tsunami?

As early in-...Read more

DENVER — As U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans stood inside a heated tent in Lochbuie earlier this month, he spoke about the need to protect “the economic engine” in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District as he marked the opening of Scotts Miracle-Gro’s brand new $50 million, 66,000-square-foot production facility.

Gray, leaden clouds dominated the ...Read more

DENVER — Manny Rutinel‘s campaign for a northern Colorado congressional seat can be distilled into two sentences: Gabe Evans is Donald Trump. And Rutinel is not Gabe Evans.

In the Democratic former state lawmaker’s recent hourlong debate with Evans, the Republican congressman he is seeking to unseat, Rutinel mentioned Evans and President ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a deep-blue congressional district where the Democratic nominee faces accusations of heavy-handed political maneuvering, Lyons Mayor Chris Getty has pitched himself as a middle-ground alternative.

Not a Republican. Not a Democrat, this time. Getty says he jumped into Illinois’ 4th Congressional District race to forge ...Read more

The U.S. has ordered the departure of diplomatic personnel and adjusted staffing at embassies across the Middle East as a result of Iranian efforts to target Americans, as well as threats from Houthi militants in Yemen, according to an American official.

The State Department had previously said the U.S. was ordering some diplomatic staff to ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Written on the back of Kathy Fallon’s shirt was a vision of the future. Of a future, anyway.

Trump 2024, Trump 2028, Trump 2032.

For now, it’s still 2026, with a midterm election in just over a week. And on Friday, Fallon drove from Amelia Island for a rally with President Donald Trump on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear has asked federal officials to reconsider a denied request of financial aid for victims of a deadly weather outbreak in Kentucky last June.

In September, President Donald Trump approved $9.1 million in public assistance to Kentucky through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help the state recover ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Tourist dollars are drying up in this small town at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. Foot traffic is down. Visitors have less to spend on souvenirs.

And beachgoers now bring packed lunches instead of stopping at Captain Bob's Chowder Sisters, said Melissa Huddleston, waiting for customers at her sister-in-law's shop on ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump took to social media Thursday night with an Illinois-focused post that was notable for what it didn’t include: invective-laced attacks on Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Instead, the post was a get-out-the-vote message encouraging Republican turnout. It even urged supporters to...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — With less than two weeks until Election Day, political groups have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars highlighting that the top vote-getting Democrat on the ballot in Alaska’s U.S. House race is serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York.

Two political action committees have spent more than $380,000 since the August ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar’s largest campaign donor this election cycle is Lenir Pérez, an industrial titan in Central America charged with environmental crimes in Honduras.

He has been accused of overseeing a mine and an ore processing plant that, under his leadership, illegally exploited mineral and forest ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The candidates for Central Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District held their only debate of the campaign Thursday night, and the surprise of the evening was Republican Ralph Alvarado putting some daylight between himself and Republican President Donald Trump.

Facing what’s expected to be a close contest Nov. 3 with ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Republicans are enlisting the help of GOP former Gov. Rick Snyder in their bid to defend the caucus' most vulnerable seats in the final week of a campaign that will determine whether or not Republicans retain the majority in the lower chamber.

The More for Michigan Tour will start Monday in Oakland County and ...Read more

EDINBURG, Texas — Clad in pressed jeans and cowboy hats, dozens of riders on horseback and drivers in pickups kicked up dust along a dirt road in Edinburg, near the southern tip of Texas. They were there for a cabalgata, a traditional horse procession, with a political message: Send Tejano singer Bobby Pulido to Congress.

Some were lifelong ...Read more

Wall Street strategists who recommended loading up on Brazil assets after Flávio Bolsonaro emerged as the frontrunner for president are about to see if they led clients astray or to profits ahead of Sunday’s too-close-to-call runoff.

Bolsonaro’s first-round lead over incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spurred firms from UBS Global Wealth...Read more

On a Monday night in September 1964, television viewers watched a little girl counting petals on a flower. Her voice gave way to a man counting down, and then a nuclear blast filled the screen.

The ad ran as a paid spot only once, in support of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s reelection campaign. It never mentioned his opponent, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Patty García’s path to Congress was paved long before Election Day. The challenge now for the first-time candidate: Shaping how the voters she wants to represent see her.

Her pitch was clear as she spoke to campaign volunteers in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood in September.

She was raised by an immigrant father, a ...Read more

From the opening statements, Gov. Ned Lamont and Republican challenger Ryan Fazio came out swinging in their first debate Thursday night as they clashed on everything from taxes and electric rates to President Donald Trump’s policies.

They disagreed on solutions to difficult problems as Lamont, a two-term Democrat, is seeking his third term ...Read more