Newsom on DOJ’s election pressure campaign | CNN Politics
California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the DOJ’s attempts at intervening in the 2026 midterm elections. CNN’s Elex Michaelson reports.
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Trump makes final weekend campaign push ahead of midterm elections
The US president rallied in states that Republicans previously won - showcasing how tight Tuesday's elections could be in determining control of Congress.
CNN’s Manu Raju interviews candidates across the crountry | CNN Politics
Candidates in the country’s most pivotal midterm races sat down for revealing interviews with CNN’s Manu Raju in the months leading up to the November elections.
A record number of health professionals are running for office. Could they help heal US politics? | CNN
At least 125 doctors, nurses and public health experts are on the ballot for Tuesday’s midterm elections — an unprecedented number from fields that historically offered fewer paths to electe…
Watch: Americans weigh in on the power of their vote
The BBC asked voters from across the United States what voting means to them and whether they think it matters in the midterm elections.
If a blue wave is coming, here are the races where it will start | CNN Politics
Midterm elections are almost always bad for the president’s party. Sometimes they are very bad for the president’s party. And every so often they are historically bad.
Election officials brace for foreign threats — and an unpredictable Washington | CNN Politics
With the midterms just days away, the channels for federal officials to communicate foreign threats to election officials are at their weakest since the 2016 vote, numerous sources who work…
Watch: How US mail-in ballots are secured and counted for the midterm election
BBC Verify goes to an election centre to get a behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots for the US midterm elections are processed.
Who will win the midterms? How the US elections will be won and lost
An in-depth look at the key polling, races and issues ahead of an election that will define Trump’s final two years as president.
Talarico: You want a senator who serves you or serves billionaire mega donors | CNN Politics
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico accuses Republican rival Ken Paxton of serving “billionaire megadonors” like Elon Musk, who has poured nearly half a billion dollars into elections in t…
Americans voting from Mexico share a concern ahead of the midterms: the future of democracy | CNN
Americans living in Mexico say they are voting in the US midterm elections remotely to protect their country’s democracy amid political division back home.
CNN decision desk behind the scenes with Jennifer Agiesta | CNN Politics
CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta takes you behind the scenes of CNN’s Decision Desk ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Could Elon Musk alter the course of the midterms? | CNN Politics
Elon Musk has plowed nearly half a billion dollars into elections in the 2026 cycle, a spending spree that makes him the single, largest disclosed donor in modern American politics and one o…
US midterms: What's at stake for Trump?
Anthony Zurcher explains how the results of the midterm elections could reshape the rest of Trump's presidency.
Pope Leo XIV casts historic vote in US midterm election
The Chicago-born pontiff, who has a tense relationship with Trump, mailed in a ballot for the midterm elections that will decide control of the US Congress.