#2026-midterms

#2026-midterms

If we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison myself included. They're not gonna stop. They are getting more and more and more radical. And we have to counter that. And what do we have to counter it with? We have to count it with more action, more intense action, more urgency. We're burning daylight.

We broke down what the returns mean heading into the 2026 midterm elections, where Democrats currently hold an 8 percentage point advantage over Republicans in the latest NBC News poll, and what they say about President Donald Trump's second-term agenda.

With the election yesterday of Millennial Zohran Mamdani as New York City's mayor, generational change in Democratic Party politics has shifted more firmly away from Boomers. ( source) With the youngest Boomers in their mid-60s, it's time - not to mention other reasons like a lifetime of baggage impeding effective governance. This is an open thread with an emphasis on state and local elections.

David Crane/The Orange County Register via AP, File California voters approved Prop 50 on Tuesday night in a move that will allow the Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw the state's congressional districts, multiple news outlets projected immediately after polls closed. The state uses an independent redistricting commission to draw its maps, but Prop 50 allows lawmakers to bypass it to draw their own.

Many of them are people I have known to be cautious, sober, and not prone to hyperbole. Yet they used words like nightmare and warned that Americans need to be ready for 'really wild stuff.' They described a system under attack and reaching a breaking point. They enumerated a long list of concerns about next year's midterms, but they largely declined to make predictions about the 2028 presidential election.

Even though there's only one issue on your upcoming November 4 ballot, Trump's Justice Department is calling out the cavalry of so-called election monitors to spy on polling places, perhaps as a warm-up for the 2026 midterms.

For much of the past decade, Republican politics in the increasingly crucial swing state of Georgia has been dominated by two men whose relationship has been complex and fascinating: Donald Trump and Brian Kemp. Both the two-term president and the two-term governor are lame ducks who still dominate their domains like no one else. And their collision in 2020 over Trump's "stolen elections" claims, which Kemp refused to countenance, continues to have a major effect on the Georgia GOP

Some Republicans already fear inflation could cost them dearly in the 2026 midterms, warning Trump has only a few months to reset his trajectory on voters' most important issue. For a president whose credibility on the economy has always been his strongest asset, the prospect of the bottom falling out is uniquely dangerous. State of play: Trump's approval rating on inflation and cost of living currently sits at -24, nearing Biden's lows during the peak of the 2022-23 price surge.

President Donald Trump has pushed for the map to help the GOP maintain its slim majority in Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. It has five new districts that would favor Republicans. Abbott, a Republican, is expected to quickly sign it into law, though Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court. The effort by Trump and Texas' Republican-majority Legislature prompted state Democrats to hold a two-week walkout and kicked off a wave of redistricting efforts across the country.

Trump's strategies are centered on maintaining a Republican trifecta until the end of his term, focusing on both Congress and the implications for 2026 midterms.

Carville believes New Jersey and Virginia will be Democratic blowouts in the next elections and that Trump's policies will cost Republicans votes, leading to a massive defeat.

"Musk has suggested in X posts that he would unseat politicians who backed Trump's budget bill in the 2026 midterms."