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Gerrymandering:
[A word which is noted in one or more articles below including how it can affect the 2018 midterms] Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

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February 15: A Very Early Look At The Battle For The House In 2018 ...

Donald Trump is unpopular enough that Republicans could lose the House, but there’s a lot of uncertainty.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-very-early-look-at-the-battle-for-the-house-in-2018/

April 2: Will This Midterm Be Different From All Other Midterms?

Will the race portend a sea change for 2018? The most up-for-grabs seats in an election year that could be epic.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/what-democrats-need-to-do-to-take-congress-in-2018.html

May 22: Why The 2018 Senate Elections Are Looking Bad For Both Parties
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-2018-senate-elections-are-looking-bad-for-both-parties/

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July 14: Republican Corey Stewart announced Thursday a “vicious, ruthless” bid to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine in the 2018 midterms. Stewart, who serves as the Prince William County Board of Supervisors chair, narrowly lost the Republican nomination for governor to former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie by one percentage point last month.
http://smcmarketingtips.com/blog/category/news/page/39/

July 30: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said questions about her future in leadership are “unimportant."

"... What is important is that we have the lively debate on a better deal,” Pelosi said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/344552-pelosi-unimportant-to-win-midterm-elections

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August 7: The Congressional Map Has A Record-Setting Bias Against Democrats ... And it’s not just 2018.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-congressional-map-is-historically-biased-toward-the-gop/

October 3: In a case from Wisconsin that could reshape the way American elections are conducted, the Supreme Court heard from challengers that it was the “only institution in the United States” that could prevent a coming wave of extreme partisan gerrymandering that would distort the basic structure of democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-wisconsin-as-first-test-in-partisan-gerrymandering-claims/2017/10/03/4349b5de-a82a-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?utm_term=.fbf6a31d1147

November 3: States Watch As Supreme Court Weighs Wisconsin Gerrymandering Case
http://wamc.org/post/states-watch-supreme-court-weighs-wisconsin-gerrymandering-case

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November 17: Wisconsin awaits Supreme Court's ruling in gerrymandering case
http://www.htrnews.com/story/opinion/2017/11/17/wisconsin-eagerly-awaits-us-supreme-courts-ruling-gerrymandering-w-michael-slattery-manitowoc/874083001/

December 8: Ten Elections to Watch in 2018
https://www.cfr.org/blog/ten-elections-watch-2018

December 20: Democrats' already wide advantage over Republicans in a hypothetical Congressional matchup has grown, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. At the same time, enthusiasm about voting next year has increased among Democrats nationwide following an unexpected win in Alabama's Senate special election and a strong showing in Virginia's state government elections last month.

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Among registered voters, 56% say they favor a Democrat in their congressional district, while 38% prefer a Republican. That 18-point edge is the widest Democrats have held in CNN polling on the 2018 contests, and the largest at this point in midterm election cycles dating back two decades. The finding follows several other public polls showing large double-digit leads for Democrats on similar questions.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/cnn-poll-democrats-advantage-grows-2018/index.html

December 28: In every midterm election since the Civil War, the president's party has lost, on average, 32 seats in the House and two in the Senate.

In next year's battles, Democrats need only 24 seats to flip the House and two to take the Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/everything-you-need-know-about-2018-midterm-elections-n832226

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Undated: A total of 468 seats in the U.S. Congress (33 Senate seats and all 435 House seats) are up for election on November 6, 2018.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2018

January 2: 5 ways the 2018 midterms could change American politics ... What’s really at stake in this year’s elections.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/2/16795804/elections-2018-midterms-consequences

January 2: The one question likely to decide 2018 elections ... Will Americans vote to constrain President Donald Trump by electing a Democrat-led Congress that will challenge and resist him, or to empower the Republicans who are increasingly working in harness with him?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/congress-trump-2018-midterm-election-republican-democrat/index.html

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January 4: Republicans kept control of Virginia’s House of Delegates on Thursday after their candidate [David Yancey] won a lottery-style drawing to resolve a tied race, but the losing Democrat [Shelly Simonds] said she might challenge the results.

Simonds told reporters she was weighing her options, raising the prospect of a second recount in a race that has seen several twists since the November vote.

... Republicans [have] a slim 51-49 advantage in seats when the legislature’s session starts on Wednesday ...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-election/republicans-keep-control-of-virginia-state-house-after-tie-breaker-idUSKBN1ET152

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January 4: Redistricting Cases Could Redefine State and U.S. Politics in 2018 ... More than a dozen cases on partisan and racial gerrymandering are winding their way through the court system. Two cases, in particular, could become two of the most important this decade.
http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-partisan-gerrymandering-redistricting-2018.html

January 7: The gerrymandering cases to watch in 2018
https://www.axios.com/the-racially-charged-gerrymandering-cases-to-watch-in-2018-1515329836-bce0beaf-f75e-4ad6-a91f-55a643b0d1fd.html

January 10: Federal court voids North Carolina’s GOP-drawn congressional map for partisan gerrymandering
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/10/federal-court-voids-north-carolinas-gop-drawn-congressional-map-for-partisan-gerrymandering/?utm_term=.1bf70a563dbd

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January 11:
States Push Back After Net Neutrality Repeal ...
Net neutrality will be a major issue in the 2018 campaigns, and we are going to let everyone know where we stand and where they stand,” Mr. Schumer said at a news conference, warning Republicans to vote in favor of the Democratic-led resolution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/technology/net-neutrality-states.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=1E80A62E7129CE0C1459B309FE2ECB8F&gwt=pay

January 12:
Supreme Court to hear Texas case on racial gerrymandering
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/supreme-court-texas-racial-gerrymandering-338733

January 12: The way state legislatures draw election districts for political gain is coming to dominate the Supreme Court's docket. 

The justices agreed Friday to hear two cases challenging congressional and state legislative districts in Texas, adding them to ones already pending from Wisconsin and Maryland. Other cases are brewing in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. 

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The Texas lawsuits involve more traditional challenges to the use of race in drawing district lines, something the high court deals with perennially from states with a history of violating the 1968 Voting Rights Act. By contrast, the Wisconsin and Maryland cases allege excessive political gerrymandering -- designing districts to benefit one party over the other.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/12/supreme-court-adds-texas-election-districts-challenge-others-wisconsin-maryland/1028063001/

January 12: Republican lawmakers are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the ruling this week that struck down North Carolina’s congressional districts – at least temporarily – and they want an answer by Jan. 22.

Phil Strach, the Raleigh-based attorney representing Republican lawmakers in the partisan gerrymandering case, stated in his 22-page request for an emergency stay on the order issued Tuesday that a three-judge panel “has used an entirely novel legal theory to hopelessly disrupt North Carolina’s upcoming congressional elections.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article194451309.html

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January 16: The U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Texas' Partisan Gerrymandering Case

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it won’t be hearing a challenge to the state’s political maps from the Texas Democratic Party. In a lawsuit, Democrats claimed state lawmakers drew political boundaries in 2011 in favor of Republicans.

The Supreme Court dismissed the Democrats' appeal on the grounds their arguments weren't presented properly. Part of what justices were asked to consider is whether a lower court made a mistake by dismissing Democrats' partisan gerrymandering claims “without discovery and an evidentiary record," but the high court declined to weigh in.

“Today, the Supreme Court ruled that it does not presently have jurisdiction to hear a partisan gerrymander claim under the unique posture of this complex case," Hinojosa said. "Nonetheless, we anticipate an upcoming opportunity to continue our pursuit of justice for Texas voters."
http://kut.org/post/us-supreme-court-wont-hear-texas-partisan-gerrymandering-case

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January 18: The Supreme Court has blocked a lower court's order requiring North Carolina's legislature to redraw the state's congressional district boundaries for this year's elections.

The justices appear to have split, 7-2, in deciding to put on hold the ruling that tossed out the state's map as "an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander" in favor of Republicans. The map will likely remain in effect for the 2018 midterm elections.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/18/supreme-court-blocks-redrawing-north-carolina-congress-347950

January 22: Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered House map was just struck down — with huge implications for 2018 ... It was one of the most pro-Republican gerrymanders in the country.
https://www.vox.com/2018/1/22/16920636/pennsylvania-gerrymander-ruling-house

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January 22: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has ruled on Monday that the heavily gerrymandered districts in their state violated the commonwealth's constitution.

One noteworthy detail regarding the gerrymandering case is that, because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found it to be in violation of the state constitution rather than the United States Constitution, the Pennsylvania Republican Party will have no recourse to the United States Supreme Court. They will be legally compelled to redraw the state's 18 congressional districts so they will have fairer boundaries.
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/22/pennsylvanias-supreme-court-just-struck-down-the-gops-gerrymandering/

January 26:
The Gerrymandering Fight Heats Up
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-26/democrats-target-donald-duck-election-map-in-bid-for-congress

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January 27: Candidates of color get off the sidelines in the age of Trump: 'The soul of America is at stake right now'

Run For Something, a national group started after the election to recruit and train Democratic candidates, has recruited more than 15,000 potential candidates, according to co-founder Amanda Litman, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. Two-thirds of those candidates are women, and one-third identify as persons of color. 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html

January 30:
They’ll Clap, But Will They Campaign With Trump?

House Republicans, nervous about keeping their majority, are running away from the president back in their home districts.

Don’t mistake all the standing ovations on Tuesday night for House Republicans wanting to be anywhere near President Donald Trump between now and November.

A new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll found that just 27 percent of registered voters believe that Trump’s support will have a positive impact on Republicans running for Congress this year, and 40 percent believe he’ll have a negative impact.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/30/house-republicans-trump-battleground-steve-stivers-216550

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February 3: Democrats challenging California Rep. Devin Nunes for his House seat have seen some benefit to the House Intelligence Committee memo alleging the FBI misused its surveillance authority.

The leading Democratic candidate hoping to unseat the Republican chairman of the committee has raised more than $100,000 in campaign donations.

Since Nunes' classified memo was released on Friday, the campaign for California prosecutor Andrew Janz has raised $130,379 and is just shy of 4,000 individual contributions.
http://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/national/472538833.html

February 5: Supreme Court declines request from Pennsylvania GOP to stop redistricting

The ruling will have massive ramifications for the 2018 midterm elections, where Republicans' control of the US House is on the line and Democrats are targeting a handful of GOP-held seats in Pennsylvania.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-redistricting/index.html

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February 7: Democrats won a Missouri special election on Tuesday for a state house seat in a district that President Donald Trump won in a landslide victory during the presidential election.

However, Republicans easily won three other state house seats in Missouri on Tuesday and still have a super majority, the ability to override a governor’s veto - in the chamber.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-missouri-election/democrat-wins-special-election-in-trump-heartland-missouri-idUSKBN1FR0YP

February 12: Cruz warns Texas GOP: 'The left is going to show up'

"Let me tell you right now: The left is going to show up," Cruz said during his keynote address at the party's Lincoln Reagan Dinner.

"They will crawl over broken glass in November to vote."
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/373393-cruz-warns-texas-gop-the-left-is-going-to-show-up

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February 13: The nation’s top spies said Russia is continuing to target the U.S. political system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-face-questions-on-security-clearances-and-agents-independence/2018/02/13/f3e4c706-105f-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.ca0d7fe7f4f3

February 14: Republicans just got some good news for the 2018 midterm elections: A new poll shows them leading in the race for Congress
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/14/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-take-lead-on-a-generic-ballot.html

February 14: Democrats Push Hail Mary Plan to Secure the Midterm Elections ...

In recent weeks, intelligence officials have said clearly that Russia will likely meddle again in the 2018 midterm election season—which begins in Texas in less than three weeks. United States election systems, though, have not yet adequately improved defenses since the 2016 presidential election. On Wednesday, House Democrats outlined a last-ditch effort to step up security while there's still some time.
https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-plan-to-secure-midterm-elections/

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February 21: Kentucky Democrat wins state House seat in Trump stronghold

Linda Belcher, a Democrat, won the special election for Kentucky's House District 49 on Tuesday with 3,386 votes. Rebecca Johnson, a Republican, received 1,561 votes, according to official results from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/politics/kentucky-linda-belcher-trump/index.html

February 21: Artificial intelligence could supercharge hacking and election meddling, study warns ... AI programs can make it easier for trolls with minimal technical skills to make fake videos, audio, researchers warn
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/artificial-intelligence-could-supercharge-hacking-election-meddling-study-warns-n849601

March 10: Polls in Pennsylvania's 18th District show a tight race. A loss by Saccone to Democratic Marine veteran and former prosecutor Conor Lamb would be seen as a major warning sign for the GOP ahead of November's midterm elections.

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Trump and the Republican Party have gone all in to prevent an embarrassing defeat. Trump endorsed Saccone in January, and outside Republican groups have spent more than $10 million on the race in support of Saccone, who's weak fundraising numbers have seen him outraised by Lamb by nearly five-to-one in the first seven weeks of the year.

Trump referred to the Democrat as "Lamb the sham" and said he'd vote with his party in Washington if he's elected. Republicans have tried to tie Lamb to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, but Lamb has said he does not support Pelosi.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/10/politics/trump-pennsylvania-speech-rick-saccone/index.html


March 12: Win or lose, Pennsylvania 18 likely forecasts bad news for the GOP in November
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/politics/pennsylvania-18-bad-news-for-gop/index.html

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March 13: [Regarding Pennsylvania special election] ...

Look, let's be 100% real here. The reason Conor Lamb had any shot here is because of Trump. Trump is not that popular, even here. Many Republicans are likely staying home.

A source close to the White House says both the White House and top Republican leaders are “very” worried Republican candidate Rick Saccone will lose tonight.

The fear for weeks, this source said, has been that Saccone has not been pulling his own weight in fundraising. The White House and GOP leaders see Conor Lamb as “out of central casting,” meaning he is pretty tailor-made as a conservative Democrat to win this R-leaning district.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/pennsylvania-election-latest/index.html

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March 13: PA GOP Candidate Rick Saccone: My Opponents Hate God, Trump, and U.S.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pa-gop-candidate-rick-saccone-my-opponents-hate-god-trump-and-us

March 14: It’s official: Democrat Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania special election in major upset

Trump won this district by 20 points in 2016. For him, this was personal.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17109448/pennsylvania-special-election-conor-lamb-defeats-rick-saccone

March 14: Trump broke his silence on the election at a private fundraiser for Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley Wednesday night, telling a crowd of donors that Lamb had run “a pretty smart race, actually,” according to an audio recording of the remarks obtained by The Atlantic.

“The young man last night that ran, he said, ‘Oh, I’m like Trump. Second Amendment, everything. I love the tax cuts, everything.’ He ran on that basis,” Trump said. “He ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me. I said, ‘Is he a Republican? He sounds like a Republican to me.’”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/trump-on-the-lamb/555668/

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March 14: Republicans keep telling us that we shouldn’t focus on the noise, but rather the substantive accomplishments of this administration and this Congress. 

But taking a look at the special election in Pennsylvania today, one gets a pretty strong sense that they’re just blowing smoke. 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/13/gop-buries-good-news-in-pennsylvania-race.html

March 17: Pa. GOP wants probe of 'irregularities' in special election

Attorney Joel Frank, in a letter dated Friday, outlined five areas of concern, ranging from calls about machine errors to confusion about polling places and a dispute over whether a Republican attorney could watch part of the elections process.

“In the interest of transparency and nonpartisanship, we ask that you consider assigning this task to a Commonwealth elections official capable of conducting an impartial investigation in light of the positions you’ve taken on ongoing redistricting litigation,” Frank wrote.

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A spokeswoman said earlier in the week that there were relatively few problems reported with the election, most of which elections workers said they quickly resolved.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/conor-lamb-rick-saccone-pennsylvania-special-election-irregularities-20180317.html

March 21: Holocaust denier is officially the GOP nominee in Chicago-area House race
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/politics/holocaust-denier-gop-illinois-third-district/index.html

March 21: A Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state has apologized after suggesting he'd like to use US Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.

A Republican candidate for Kentucky secretary of state has apologized after suggesting he'd like to use US Rep. John Yarmuth as target practice.

"I'm so proud of my @NRA rating, I'll wear it on my chest," Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, posted on Twitter Monday, along with a picture of him wearing a "F" pin showing his rating from the National Rifle Association.

Carl Nett, whose campaign website says he's a former US Secret Service agent and CIA contractor, replied that Yarmuth should move the pin "over just a bit."

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"I was trained center mass," he added, referring to the law enforcement tactic to hit a suspect's vital organs. Nett has since deleted the tweet.

After receiving backlash from Democrats and Republicans in his state, Nett later apologized on Twitter
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/kentucky-gop-tweet-suggests-shooting-democrat/index.html


March 21: Democrats get high turnout again, this time in Illinois

The primaries in Illinois on Tuesday night were, for the most part melodramatic -- some big names got scares but there were no major upsets.

There was, however, some good news for Democrats: In the second of two statewide primaries this year (Texas being the other), turnout was significantly higher for Democrats than in either 2010 or 2014.

There were just under 1.3 million votes cast in the Illinois Democratic primary Tuesday to just over 700,000 in the Republican primary. Put another way, 64% of the votes cast were on the Democratic line, compared with only 36% on the Republican line. Now, Illinois is a blue state, but even taking that into account, it was an impressive performance for Democrats.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/democrat-high-turnout-illinois/index.html


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March 21: New York's Nixon-Cuomo primary is shaping up to be a blockbuster

"Only in New York, kids, only in New York."

Tabloid gossip queen Cindy Adams' signature signoff is the best on-ramp to these frenzied early days of the New York Democratic gubernatorial primary.

The actress and activist Cynthia Nixon's decision to enter the race, challenging two-term Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has touched off the kind of pitched political battle that many in the state, as recently as a couple of weeks ago, seemed confident belonged exclusively to Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the perpetually warring liberal leaders.

But the stakes are different and perhaps higher in certain quarters with Cuomo's potential presidential ambitions, along with his current job, on the line. Unlike de Blasio, Nixon has nothing to lose by torching the governor with every breath, especially in the five boroughs, where the troubled subway system -- which is controlled by the state -- is in a rolling crisis.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/cuomo-nixon-new-york-governor-first-days/index.html

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April 4: Walker warns GOP 'at risk of a #BlueWave' after Democratic win in Wisconsin court race

The Democratic-backed candidate won a seat Tuesday on Wisconsin's Supreme Court, another warning signal for the GOP that led Republican Gov. Scott Walker to tweet that the party is "at risk of a #BlueWave" in November.

Liberal Rebecca Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock in the race for a 10-year term on the state's high court. Screnock conceded the race, and results continued to trickle in late Tuesday showing Dallet with a double-digit lead.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-democrats-win/index.html

April 11: US House Speaker Paul Ryan to retire in blow to Republicans
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43729218

April 11: House Key Race alerts: Paul Ryan's and six other seats move toward Democrats
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/house-race-ratings-ryan-retirement-update/index.html

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May 4: Democrats target union workers who regret Trump vote

... with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war — many union workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/democrats-target-union-workers-who-regret-trump-vote/article_a0c5444b-2f5f-55c3-86a3-9a43b2d5507f.html

May 7:
McCarthy: 'Very Confident' That Voters Will Reject Pelosi's Obstruction, Keep GOP in Majority

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he's "very confident" that Republicans will keep control of the chamber in November.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/07/kevin-mccarthy-very-confident-voters-will-reject-nancy-pelosi-agenda

May 8: North Carolina's Rep. Robert Pittenger became the first House incumbent to lose his seat in a primary in the 2018 midterm election cycle, conceding the race Tuesday to conservative pastor Mark Harris.

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Pittenger, a 69-year-old Republican who was first elected in 2012, trailed Harris by 2 percentage points with just one precinct left to report.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/first-house-republican-loses/

May 16: Democrats' anti-Trump resistance scores a big primary win in Nebraska

A nonprofit executive who campaigned on offering "Medicare for all," stunned the Democratic establishment and secured one of the activist left's biggest wins yet Tuesday in a House primary in Nebraska.

Kara Eastman defeated the better-known former Rep. Brad Ashford, a "Blue Dog" who argued for compromise, by nearly 3 percentage points

As a result of Eastman's primary win, CNN is moving the race from "toss-up" to "Lean Republican."

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The victory also came on a night that moderates fell in several other important races. In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, well-known district attorney John Morganelli lost a House primary to Susan Wild, an EMILY's List-backed candidate well to his left. In a Philadelphia-area House primary, a self-funding progressive millionaire, Scott Wallace, defeated 33-year-old Navy veteran Rachel Reddick, who until 2016 was a Republican. The Democratic Socialists of America won several state legislative contests in Pennsylvania.

And John Fetterman, the tattooed, bearded and Sanders-backed mayor of Braddock just outside of Pittsburgh, unseated Pennsylvania's sitting Democratic lieutenant governor, Mike Stack.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/kara-eastman-nebraska-democrats-trump-resistance/

May 21: Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he will run for re-election on an agenda that would prioritize working families.

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The campaign said Sanders would kick off his re-election bid with a series of rallies across Vermont next month.

Sanders ... is among the list of possible contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 ....

"Our struggle to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent — a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice — must continue," Sanders wrote in a statement released by the campaign.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article211577659.html


May 22: Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman governor.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html

May 29: Trump accuses Mueller's team of meddling in midterm elections
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-push-expand-access-public-lands-leads/story?id=55392471

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May 31: President Donald Trump is deepening his investment in the midterm elections, stepping up his travel across the country to raise money and rally Republicans in hopes of overcoming the tide of history by retaining control of Congress in the fall.

Nearly every president in modern history has lost congressional seats during their first midterm election, a fact that Trump has told advisers he doesn't believe necessarily applies to him.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/politics/midterm-trump-campaign/index.html

June 1: Nathan Larson, a man who advocates pedophilia, white supremacy and rape, and who served 16 months in prison for threatening to kill the president, is running for Congress. 

The 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Va., is running as an independent in Virginia's 10th congressional district. Larson identifies himself as a "quasi-neoreactionary libertarian." His platform includes drug legalization, the elimination of all regulations regarding firearms and "putting an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars arising from our country's alliance with Israel." 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/06/01/pedophile-white-supremacist-congressional-candidate/663215002/

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June 6: 6 takeaways from the biggest primary night of 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/california-primary-takeaways/index.html

June 6: A "printing error" omitted over a hundred thousand names from voting rosters in one of California's largest counties on Tuesday, potentially slowing the count in the state's closely watched governor's race.

Officials in Los Angeles County said the error affected 118,000 voters and about a third of the county's 4,357 polling locations.

In addition to the governor's race, Californians were voting in primaries for both senators and a number of U.S. House races.

Residents left off the lists were given provisional ballots and assured that their votes would be counted at a later time, the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's Office said.

Provisional ballots will be counted when their registration is confirmed, Registrar-Recorder Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement.
http://abc7news.com/printing-error-omits-118000-names-from-voting-rosters-in-los-angeles-county-/3567269/

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June 6: President Donald Trump singled out Republican John Cox in a congratulatory tweet Wednesday morning, following Cox's second-place finish for governor in the California primary Tuesday night.

"Great night for Republicans! Congratulations to John Cox on a really big number in California. He can win. Even Fake News CNN said the Trump impact was really big, much bigger than they ever thought possible," Trump wrote. "So much for the big Blue Wave, it may be a big Red Wave. Working hard!"
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article212649799.html

June 6: "Our values are under assault... We're engaged in an epic battle," Newsom told supporters Tuesday, calling Cox a "footsoldier in (Donald Trump's) war on California."

"I've never backed down from a fight," Newsom said, signaling the Democrat-on-Republican matchup this November.

Newsom led Cox as returns continued to roll in, 34 percent to 26 percent.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article212369614.html

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June 6: Republican businessman John Cox, who will face Democratic Lt. Govenor Gavin Newsom in the California governor's race, had the backing of President Donald Trump.

Cox appeared on FOX 5 San Diego Wednesday and told Raoul Martinez he welcomes Trump's support, despite not voting for him in the 2016 presidential election.

Cox blames state Democrats and his opponent Newsom for causing the high cost of living in California.

Newsom responded to Trump's tweet about Cox stating, "Please come campaign for him as much as possible."
http://fox5sandiego.com/2018/06/06/john-cox-proud-of-trumps-support-despite-not-voting-for-him-in-presidential-election/

June 20: Michael Bloomberg to spend $80 million in 2018 to help Democrats win the House
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/bloomberg-midterms-spending/index.html

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June 27: House Democrats in shock as they break down what Joe Crowley's loss means for leadership ... the No. 4 Democratic leader in the House, Rep. Joe Crowley, lost his primary in New York to Democratic socialist challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/democrats-reaction-joe-crowley-leadership/

July 24: Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was hit with another politically damaging report Tuesday when her local newspaper revealed businesses tied to her husband have gotten more than $131 million in federal subsidies since she took office. 

Husband Joseph Shepard doesn't personally pocket that money. But he has benefited from profits from the housing projects he's invested in that received those subsidies.

According to the investigation by The Kansas City Star, Shepard's personal income from the investments grew considerably since McCaskill took office in 2007. He reportedly made between $1,608 and $16,731 in 2006. But in 2017, Shepard reportedly earned between $365,374 and $1.1 million "from investments in housing projects that received federal subsidies." 

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There is no evidence that McCaskill was involved in directing any funds into her husband’s affiliated businesses, and she does not sit on any committees that award such funding. McCaskill has also voted both for and against government spending bills that benefit affordable housing programs.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/24/mccaskill-campaign-hit-with-report-on-husbands-federal-subsidy-windfall.html

July 24: Meet the women candidates taking #MeToo to the ballot box

Four women candidates with personal experiences with sexual misconduct and assault say Trump helped galvanize a political movement.

At all levels of government, in both parties, and among both incumbents and insurgents, women in politics are speaking about their personal experiences like never before.

“The silver lining of Trump’s presidency is the movement that he inspired,”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/meet-women-candidates-taking-metoo-ballot-box-n894106

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July 24: GOP lawmaker in Georgia drops pants, uses racial slur in Sacha Baron Cohen TV series

Rep. Jason Spencer's on-camera conduct horrified fellow Republicans, some of whom called for his immediate resignation.

Spencer repeatedly shouts a racial slur for black people after Cohen tells him the tactic is useful for drawing bystanders' attention to an unfolding attack.

He also drops his pants, then his underwear, before backing his exposed rear end toward Cohen while shouting "USA!" and "America!"

Regardless, there won't be any reckoning for Spencer at the ballot box this year. A Republican challenger already defeated the lawmaker in Georgia's May 22 primary.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-lawmaker-georgia-drops-pants-uses-racial-slur-sacha-baron-n893736


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July 26: Trump Facebook Ads Blast Democrats Over Second Amendment: ‘The Truth Is Finally Out’

More than 100 ads contend Dems want to curtail gun rights

“It is unequivocally not the Democratic caucus’ position to repeal the Second Amendment,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told The New York Times.
https://www.thewrap.com/trump-facebook-ads-democrats-second-amendment/

July 27: Is a Blue Wave on Its Way?

None of this summer’s electoral trends is etched in stone. But there is turbulence even among the president’s voters.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/midterms-democrats-republicans-trump/566165/


July 29: President Donald Trump threatened to push the government into shutdown ahead of the coming appropriations deadline in September if Congress does not fund his border wall and change the nation's immigration laws.

"I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!" Trump tweeted Sunday.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/29/politics/donald-trump-shutdown-wall/index.html

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August 30: President Donald Trump attacked his own Justice Department and FBI leadership and implied Hillary Clinton could face criminal charges during a campaign rally Thursday night in Indiana.

"Our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their jobs and doing it right and doing it now, because people are angry. People are angry," Trump said at a rally in Evansville, where he was campaigning for Republican Senate nominee Mike Braun.

Trump also suggested he could take a heavier role in the Justice Department -- comments that came hours after he told Bloomberg that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would remain in his job until after November's midterm elections.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-evansville-rally/index.html


August 31: President Donald Trump will head overseas after November's midterm elections, the White House said on Friday, making stops in Europe and South America even as he forgoes yearly summits in Asia usually attended by the US leader.

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The trips could provide an escape for Trump should Democrats post wins in the congressional contests. Past presidents have used foreign travel to shift the spotlight after bruising midterm losses, including President Barack Obama, who traveled to Asia immediately after disastrous losses for Democrats in 2010, and George W. Bush, who made a round-the-world journey in 2006 after Republicans lost control of the House and Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/donald-trump-travel-plans/index.html

September 7: Obama's campaign season debut launches his midterm effort to rally Democrats to the polls and end Republicans' grip on power in Congress. The former president warned Friday that the stakes are high and the consequences of staying on the sidelines “dire.” 

Delivering some of his toughest broadsides against the GOP since leaving office – and referring to Trump by name, something he used to avoid – Obama said there are certain "powerful and priveleged" people who want to "keep us angry."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/07/obama-rails-against-trump-republicans-in-fiery-return-to-campaign-trail.html

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September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.

At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.

He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.

The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521

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September 8: Obama campaigns in California, says 2018 brings a chance to restore 'sanity' in politics

"We have the chance to flip the House of Representatives and make sure that there are real checks and balances in Washington," Obama said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-stumps-california-says-2018-brings-chance-restore-sanity-politics-n907801

September 8: Ex-intelligence officials run for Congress as Democrats.

Fed up with what they see as Trump's disdain and distrust of the intelligence community — and his refusal to embrace fully the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election — an unusually large number of former intelligence officers and operatives are campaigning for office as Democrats in this fall's midterm elections, according to experts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/their-new-mission-foil-trump-ex-intelligence-officials-run-congress-n907291

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September 9: Mick Mulvaney, a top Trump administration official, warned behind closed doors on Saturday that Republican candidates such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz could be at risk of losing and were not "likable" enough, The New York Times reported.

Mulvaney made his comments, according to the Times, at a meeting with party donors alongside Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. The Times said a person at the private event provided the paper with an audio recording of Mulvaney's remarks.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/08/politics/mick-mulvaney-ted-cruz/index.html

September 10: President Donald Trump has steadfastly refused to release his tax returns. But if Democrats take the majority in the House or Senate following the mid-term elections in November, the choice may no longer be his to make.

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... thanks to a 1924 provision in the Internal Revenue Code, the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee are authorized to request the president's -- or indeed anyone's -- tax returns from the IRS to conduct an investigation.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-tax-returns/

September 10: ‘Anger is a great motivator.’ A guide to the GOP’s biggest 2018 fears
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article218001420.html

September 13: Cuomo, after election win, dismisses socialist wave as 'not even a ripple'

"A progressive Democrat, a Democrat in New York state, these are not ivory tower academics, these are not pontificators, these are not people who live in the abstract or theoretical," he said according to the Daily News.

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"New York Democrats, these are hard-working men and women, they’re middle class, they’re working families, they have real problems, and they need real help in life, and they don’t need theoretical or abstract solutions, they need real solutions in their lives."

"I am not a socialist. I am not 25 years old. I am not a newcomer," Cuomo said. "But I am a progressive, and I deliver progressive results."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/15/cuomo-after-election-win-dismisses-socialist-wave-as-not-even-ripple.html

September 15: As an anti-war activist in the early 2000s, Arizona Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema led a group that distributed flyers depicting an American soldier as a skeleton inflicting "U.S. terror" in Iraq and the Middle East.

The flyers could become an issue for Sinema, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican Martha McSally in one of the most competitive US Senate races this year.

Sinema's past political positions are a contrast from the more moderate profile she has developed since her 2012 election to Congress.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/politics/kfile-sinema-flyers/index.html

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September 15: 'This is our moment': Veronica Escobar, slated to become Texas' first Latina congresswoman

Saturday marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month and the former El Paso county judge reflects on what it means to be a Latina who’s about to make history.

Latinos represent almost 40 percent of the population in Texas, but the Lone Star State has never before elected a Latina congresswoman.

Now, two Latinas are poised to change that: former El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar, who is running to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, and state Sen. Sylvia Garcia, who is the Democratic nominee for the 29th Congressional District. Both candidates easily won their Democratic primaries and are expected to be victorious in November’s general election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/our-moment-veronica-escobar-slated-become-texas-first-latina-congresswoman-ncna909806

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September 22: Attack ads are nothing new in the world of politics, but one campaign video targeting an Arizona congressman just hit a new level of “whoa.”

David Brill, an Arizona Democrat going after Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s seat in Congress, released a series of campaign ads on Thursday attacking Gosar’s character, morals and politics while urging Arizona residents to vote him out. 

The videos star six of Gosar’s siblings ― David, Gaston, Grace, Jennifer, Joan and Tim ― who are all endorsing their brother’s opponent.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-gosar-siblings-attack-ad_us_5ba57e7fe4b0375f8f9cfaed

September 26: Battleground Florida begins 'tipping in the Democrats' favor'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/battleground-florida-begins-tipping-democrats-favor-n913226

September 26: Trump accuses China of 2018 election meddling; Beijing rejects charge
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-un/trump-accuses-china-of-2018-election-meddling-beijing-rejects-charge-idUSKCN1M623Y

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October 1: What the House of Representatives means in US politics - and how it could change at the midterms https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/house-representatives-means-us-politics-could-change-midterms/

October 15: President Donald Trump has not publicly released his tax returns and has no plans on ever doing so. But whether he wants to might not matter at all if Democrats take back the majority in the House of Representatives.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-democrats-trump-tax-returns-public-if-retake-house-2018-10


October 22: Trump and Republicans settle on fear — and falsehoods — as a midterm strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-republicans-settle-on-fear--and-falsehoods--as-a-midterm-strategy/2018/10/22/1ebbf222-d614-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e16403d34903

October 22: Trump and G.O.P. Candidates Escalate Race and Fear as Election Ploys

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President Trump on Monday sharply intensified a Republican campaign to frame the midterm elections as a battle over immigration and race, issuing a dark and factually baseless warning that “unknown Middle Easterners” were marching toward the American border with Mexico.

The unsubstantiated charge marked an escalation of Mr. Trump’s efforts to stoke fears about foreigners and crime ahead of the Nov. 6 vote, as he did to great effect in the presidential race. Mr. Trump and other Republicans are insistently seeking to tie Democrats to unfettered immigration and violent crime, and in some instances this summer and fall they have attacked minority candidates in nakedly racial terms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/us/politics/republicans-race-divisions-elections-caravan.html


October 23:
Trump has whipped up a frenzy on the migrant caravan. Here are the facts.

President Donald Trump’s remarks in recent days about a caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the United States have stirred up a political frenzy — in the process distorting reality and ignoring basic facts.

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Such caravans are nothing new — a smaller one formed last spring, and similar caravans have been organized regularly for the past two decades. There's no evidence that the caravan includes Middle Easterners, much less terrorists, as the president has suggested, and annual border crossings remain low by the standards of recent history.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/23/migrant-caravan-facts-trump-border-881006

October 26: Trump Seen As Important Factor In Americans' Vote, As Democrats Open Up Lead

"This is definitively a national election — with a referendum on Trump," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the survey.

What's more, 47 percent of voters said their opinion of Trump makes them more likely to vote for a Democrat for Congress, while 34 percent said their opinion of Trump makes them more likely to vote for a Republican.
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/26/660670687/poll-trump-seen-as-important-factor-in-americans-vote-as-democrats-open-up-lead

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November 3: A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

The prerecorded phone message features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey, who was in Georgia on Thursday stumping for Abrams, and contains racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The robocall went out to Georgia voters, but it is unclear how many received it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/racist-robocall-targets-stacey-abrams-oprah-in-georgia-governors-race/ar-BBPighm

November 3:
The total price of President Trump’s military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures.

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The deployment of as many as 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — potentially equal in size to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan — occurs as the budgetary largesse the military has enjoyed since Trump took office looks set to come to an end.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump%E2%80%99s-border-deployments-could-cost-dollar200-million-by-year-end/ar-BBPhYCP

November 3: President Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from former President Barack Obama about how to handle hecklers.

Trump has infamously encouraged supporters to “knock the crap” out of people who protest him at rallies. Obama showed how it should be done Friday, however, when he was heckled while stumping for Democratic candidates Bill Nelson and Andrew Gillum in Miami, Florida, ahead of Tuesday’s midterms.

“Sir, sir, don’t curse in front of kids, come on. Don’t do that in front of them, come on,” Obama calmly told one heckler.

We’re OK, we’re OK, we’re OK,” Obama continued, after the unidentified person was reportedly removed by security and the crowd stopped chanting the ex-POTUS’ name.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-hecklers-florida-trump_us_5bdd9c0de4b01ffb1d029a29


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November 5: In the words of the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker, Trump has “taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level—demagoguing the Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments.” According to a report by Politico, Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House, called Trump on Sunday and asked him to end the campaign on a more positive note, but it was already too late. On Friday, in West Virginia, Trump described predatory immigrants as “the worst scum in the world.” In Ohio on Monday afternoon, he said that the Democrats would “take a wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country,” and described their agenda as “a socialist nightmare.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/hopeful-signs-for-democrats-to-score-a-midterms-victory-against-trump

November 6: These are the historic firsts for women, minority and LGBTQ candidates in 2018

Several candidates made history with their November 6 election victories, recording significant "firsts" for minorities and women in American politics.

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Among the historic accomplishments: The first gay man to win a governor's race and the youngest woman to be elected to Congress. Several states also elected minority candidates to the U.S. House and Senate for the first time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/06/election-results-2018-women-minority-candidates-history-firsts/1912048002/

November 7: Voters give House Democrats a check on Trump
http://www.wtvm.com/2018/11/07/battle-house-tests-trump-gop-hold-congress/

November 12: Trump on Florida: 'Many ballots are missing or forged.' Gillum: 'You sound nervous'

There has been no evidence yet of fraud in the voting for governor or Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-says-florida-elections-massively-infected-many-ballots-are-missing-n935096


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November 13: ... the closeness of the 2018 election in Florida comes as no surprise to Michael McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida. He calls Florida, which has experienced a series of close elections, "the purplest of purple states." McDonald says an influx of Democratic-leaning voters from places like Puerto Rico has been offset by recent arrivals of seniors, who tend to lean Republican.

McDonald also says the rhetoric being tossed out by GOP Senate candidate Gov. Rick Scott and President Trump, including charges of fraud and missing or forged ballots, "does not match the facts on the ground." No irregularities have been reported by either law enforcement or election observers from both parties who are watching the recount.

A judge on Monday urged those alleging fraud without evidence to "ramp down the rhetoric."
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666942846/chart-election-recounts-are-rare-reversals-almost-unheard-of


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November 19: US mid-terms: How election results just got worse for Trump

On the morning after polling, Mr Trump said the results showed almost a "complete victory".

Even at the time that was difficult to square with the reality that his party had lost control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.

There was the prospect that the Republicans were going to make historic gains in the Senate, however. The president boasted of the possibility of a four-seat pick-up - which would build the largest majority for his party in more than a century.

Such a historic win was not to be.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46267519


November 21: The election that won't end: 2 House seats in New York, 1 in California remain in question
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/21/election-2018-house-races-question/2084065002/

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November 22: Democrats won House midterms by largest margin since Watergate scandal

... Democrats led Republicans in House races by a whopping 8.6 million votes in this year's midterms. NBC News reports that number is the largest margin that Democrats have defeated Republicans in a midterm House election since 1974. 

This year's midterms flipped nearly 40 seats, allowing Democrats to take control of the House and setting the stage for two years of confrontations with President Donald Trump when they take power in January. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/21/democrats-won-house-midterms-largest-margin-since-watergate/2084052002/


November 28: Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is the projected winner of the Senate runoff in Mississippi, according to the Associated Press, overcoming a series of missteps that brought the state's dark history of racism and violence to the forefront.

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Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate earlier this year after GOP Sen. Thad Cochran stepped down due to health reasons, defeated former congressman and Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Neither candidate had won the requisite 50 percent in the first round of the special election on Election Day. She's the first woman elected to the Senate from Mississippi.

Hyde-Smith was the favorite in the solidly red state, and the final Senate election of 2018 was long seen as an afterthought. But when video surfaced earlier this month of the senator telling a supporter, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row," the state's racial wounds were re-opened.
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/671358332/republican-cindy-hyde-smith-wins-miss-senate-runoff-after-racially-charged-campa?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181127&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews

December 6: Kobach ‘very concerned’ voter fraud may have happened in North Carolina

The Republican candidate in the race, Mark Harris, has a 905-vote lead over Democrat Dan McCready, but that result has not been certified. The state board of elections cited "irregularities," and is set to meet on Dec. 21 on how to proceed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/420192-kobach-very-concerned-voter-fraud-may-have-happened-in-north-carolina


December 6: Dan McCready, the Democratic candidate in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, withdrew his concession on Thursday as new details emerged about allegations of election fraud that may have favored his Republican challenger.

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McCready’s decision, first announced in an interview with Charlotte television station WSOC, comes as North Carolina is dealing with an unfolding scandal over absentee ballots. Election officials are trying to determine why many were never mailed in in certain counties that likely would have favored the Democrats in the election, and three people have told BuzzFeed News and WSOC that they were hired to collect such absentee votes, which would be a violation of state law.

Republican Mark Harris is currently leading in the election by 905 votes. McCready conceded last month about 24 hours after polls closed in the midterm elections.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-dan-mccready-withdraws-concession_us_5c09a755e4b0b6cdaf5d7267


December 19: Poll: Americans don't believe Trump has received the message from the midterms
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-americans-don-t-believe-trump-has-received-message-midterms-n948721?cid=referral_taboolafeed


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