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Congressional Staff Open Letters Containing Suspicious Substances

Par : Chris Cameron
16 octobre 2026 à 22:00
The incidents, the first of which was reported on Thursday, came as election officials have reported a growing number of threats directed at them.

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Members of Congress Reported receiving letters containing suspicious substances on Friday.
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How the ‘Other Maine’ Has Helped Shape a Senate Race

Par : Esmé E. Deprez · Jenna Russell and Sophie Park
16 octobre 2026 à 05:03
Both Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, grew up in Aroostook County, a vast, isolated northern wilderness. Those roots have helped define them.

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  • Elon Musk Is Pouring Cash Into the Midterms
    This quarter’s campaign finance report shows that the world’s richest man is the top political donor of this midterm election. Our reporter Theodore Schleifer explains how Elon Musk came back from a brief rift with President Trump and Republicans to become a central player in the party’s campaign to hold Congress.
     
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Elon Musk Is Pouring Cash Into the Midterms

Par : Theodore Schleifer · Paul Abowd · Jon Miller · Nikolay Nikolov · Stephanie Swart · Jillian Vordick and Whitney Shefte
16 octobre 2026 à 18:13
This quarter’s campaign finance report shows that the world’s richest man is the top political donor of this midterm election. Our reporter Theodore Schleifer explains how Elon Musk came back from a brief rift with President Trump and Republicans to become a central player in the party’s campaign to hold Congress.
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Avalanche of G.O.P. Cash Keeps the Party Competitive Despite Its Problems

Par : Theodore Schleifer and Matt Zdun
16 octobre 2026 à 05:02
Republican Senate and House candidates are being out-raised by their Democratic rivals, but the party has received a huge boost from groups tied to Elon Musk and President Trump.

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President Trump’s super PAC and Elon Musk have both spent enormous amounts to support Republicans in the midterms.
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$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms

Par : Stuart A. Thompson
16 octobre 2026 à 05:02
Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.

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Fish, Oil and Corruption: 6 Takeaways From Alaska’s Senate Debate

Par : Kellen Browning
16 octobre 2026 à 03:28
The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.

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Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, right, and Mary Peltola, the Democratic challenger, during the debate in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday night.
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Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas

Par : Theodore Schleifer
16 octobre 2026 à 00:51
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.

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Elon Musk lives in Austin and has major business interests in Texas.
Reçu — 15 octobre 2026 ⏭
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In Michigan Senate Race, Ocasio-Cortez Joins El-Sayed on Trail in Trump Country

Par : Tim Balk
16 octobre 2026 à 12:19
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in Michigan, campaigned with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday, including in areas won by President Trump.
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5 Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Maine

Par : Emily Davies
16 octobre 2026 à 06:50
The race’s fourth and final debate centered on whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.

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Troy Jackson answering a question during a debate with Senator Susan Collins at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, on Thursday.
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Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says

Par : Lauren McGaughy
15 octobre 2026 à 19:41
Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
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Elon Musk and Other Donors Pile $94 Million Into House Republican Effort

Par : Theodore Schleifer
15 octobre 2026 à 08:52
The party’s top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.

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Elon Musk has donated $20 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Speaker Mike Johnson.
Reçu — 14 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Vance’s Talarico Attacks Show His Penchant for Personal Broadsides

Par : Katie Rogers
14 octobre 2026 à 22:09
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.

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For weeks, Vice President JD Vance has been road-testing unfounded, innuendo-based salvos against James Talarico.
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Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight

Par : Abbie VanSickle
14 octobre 2026 à 17:17
The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.

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The order was likely to be only a modest boost for the G.O.P., as the court had made its position clear in two previous rulings in recent months.
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Midterm Election Ad Spending Topped $10 Billion, and It’s Still Rising

Par : Theodore Schleifer
14 octobre 2026 à 15:08
The campaign is set to be more expensive than the 2024 presidential election cycle, and has already exceeded the ad total booked by the N.F.L. last season.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Rise and Fall as Trump’s Ambassador to Greece

Par : Elisabeth Bumiller
14 octobre 2026 à 10:17
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Rise and Fall as Trump’s Ambassador to Greece

Par : Elisabeth Bumiller
14 octobre 2026 à 10:17
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
Reçu — 13 octobre 2026 ⏭
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7 Takeaways From the Second Georgia Senate Debate

Par : Patricia Mazzei and Emily Davies
13 octobre 2026 à 23:58
Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.

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5 Takeaways From a Heated and Personal Maine Senate Debate

Par : Tim Balk
14 octobre 2026 à 09:51
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.

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Troy Jackson, left, and Senator Susan Collins of Maine faced off on Tuesday in a debate that at times turned personal and tense.
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‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Par : Elisabeth Bumiller
13 octobre 2026 à 19:44
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Par : Elisabeth Bumiller
13 octobre 2026 à 19:44
President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Guilfoyle decried what she called false accusations.
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Top G.O.P. Groups Pull Support From First House Incumbents

Par : Shane Goldmacher
13 octobre 2026 à 08:00
Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.

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He Would Be Florida’s First Black Governor. Can He Sway Black Voters?

Par : David Ovalle
13 octobre 2026 à 08:18
Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, is working to win over Black voters who usually support Democrats as his party girds for the possibility of low turnout.

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Byron Donalds, a Republican congressman since 2021, is hoping to become Florida’s first Black governor.
Reçu — 12 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Trump, Playing Defense in Ohio, Tries to Shore Up Republicans in Tough Races

Par : Emily Davies
13 octobre 2026 à 08:10
The president rallied in Youngstown for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are in competitive contests against Democratic opponents.

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President Trump won Ohio by 11 percentage points two years ago, but this year the state’s races for Senate and governor are seen as closely contested.
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James Talarico Was Targeted by False Rumor He Was in Ohio

Par : Bayliss Wagner
12 octobre 2026 à 20:41
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.

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James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, is trying to defeat Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general, in one of this year’s top races.
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An Ad Targeting Susan Collins’s Opponent, Troy Jackson, Airs in the Wrong Portland

Par : John Yoon
12 octobre 2026 à 20:00
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.

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Troy Jackson is trying to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a fifth-term Republican, in Maine.
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Democrats Tie Corruption to High Costs in Final Midterms Push

Par : Carl Hulse
12 octobre 2026 à 05:02
Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.

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“Corruption is why things don’t work for the American people.” Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running for re-election in Georgia, said in a recent campaign video.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

Par : Theodore Schleifer
12 octobre 2026 à 05:02
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

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Elon Musk has shown less public interest in elections in recent months, but he has patched up his relationship with President Trump and quietly spent enormous amounts to help Republicans in the midterms.
Reçu — 11 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Republicans Held Onto the Great Plains for Years. Now They’re Nervous.

Par : Mitch Smith
11 octobre 2026 à 05:01
Republicans have dominated the center of the country for a quarter-century. Now they face several tough races for Senate and governor.

© Nick Oxford for The New York Times

Close races have turned the region’s defining challenges, like soaring diesel costs and the struggling cattle industry, into top-tier national issues.
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In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him

Par : Michael Gold · Catie Edmondson and Andrea Fuller
11 octobre 2026 à 05:00
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.

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Reçu — 10 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Roger Marshall, a Kansas Senator Facing Re-Election, Settles a Bakery Bill 6 Years Later

Par : Tim Balk
11 octobre 2026 à 10:17
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.

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Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kansas, at the U.S. Capitol last year.
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Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia

Par : Tim Balk and Evan Gorelick
10 octobre 2026 à 18:33
High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.

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Former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, left, and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska took issue with President Trump’s announcement.
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Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels With Three Weeks to Go

Par : Patricia Mazzei and Shane Goldmacher
10 octobre 2026 à 05:01
Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Fuel prices have soared throughout the country since President Trump started a war against Iran.
Reçu — 9 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Kansas Senate Race Is a Surprising New Midterm Fight

Par : Jess Bidgood
9 octobre 2026 à 12:21
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.

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Adam Hamilton, a Democrat and a megachurch pastor, is running for Senate in Kansas against Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican.
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Why This Election Could Be More Complicated for Democrats Than Polls Suggest

Par : Reid J. Epstein
9 octobre 2026 à 05:02
The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.

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President Trump at a rally in Nebraska on Monday. The Republican Party is defending seats even in states that Mr. Trump won by double digits in 2024.
Reçu — 8 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Key Moments From the Georgia Senate Debate Beween Ossoff and Collins

Par : Emily Davies and Patricia Mazzei
8 octobre 2026 à 21:56
Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, called his Republican opponent, Representative Mike Collins, a bigot. Mr. Collins called the incumbent a radical “trust-fund kid.”
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Here are 5 things to know about Mike Rogers.

Par : John Yoon
8 octobre 2026 à 18:46
The former congressman is vying to be the first Republican from Michigan to win a Senate seat in three decades.

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Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, at the second day of a Republican convention in Dallas last month.
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Supreme Court, for Now, Sides With Trump Administration in TV Ad Fight

Par : Abbie VanSickle
8 octobre 2026 à 16:18
The court paused a lower-court ruling while it considered the latest move in a monthslong fight over who is entitled to low rates for political ads.

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Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in Washington last year.
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In Maine Senate Race, Spiking Heating Oil Costs Put Susan Collins on Defensive

Par : Tim Balk
8 octobre 2026 à 10:53
Half of homes in Maine rely on heating oil. Rising costs driven up by President Trump’s war with Iran have become central to the state’s Senate race.

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Residents entering the town hall of Windham, Maine, on Wednesday. Windham is the type of politically divided town that could be critical to determining the Senate race.
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How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms

Par : Sabrina Tavernise and Jamie Kelter Davis
8 octobre 2026 à 05:01
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.

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5 Takeaways From the First Iowa Senate Debate

Par : Bayliss Wagner
7 octobre 2026 à 23:56
In a top Senate battleground, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, sparred with Josh Turek, her Democratic rival, on policy issues ranging from Medicaid to term limits.

© Pool photo by Cody Scanlan

Polls show Representative Ashley Hinson and Josh Turek, a state representative, in a tight Senate race in Iowa.
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At Texas Rally, Trump and Paxton Make for an Awkward Pair

Par : Shawn McCreesh
8 octobre 2026 à 15:36
The president offered support for the Republican Senate candidate, after earlier grumbles, but focused much of his speech on a defense of his own record.

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Reçu — 7 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Why Ken Paxton’s Estranged Wife Is Making the Case for His Senate Campaign

Par : Beth Reinhard and Lisa Lerer
7 octobre 2026 à 10:57
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton’s Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.

© Desiree Rios for The New York Times

Angela Paxton, in a new campaign ad, has encouraged Republicans to vote for her husband, without actually using his name. “In a general election, it’s not as much about the individual players on the team,” she says. “It’s about getting the whole team across the finish line.”
Reçu — 6 octobre 2026 ⏭
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Takeaways From the First Maine Senate Debate Between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson

Par : Lisa Lerer · Tim Balk and Emily Davies
7 octobre 2026 à 06:46
Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.

© Ryan David Brown for The New York Times

Susan Collins, Troy Jackson
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