Bloomberg.com • 5th November 2026

Can We Please End These Gerrymandering Wars Now?

Tuesday’s political earthquake upended the balance of power not only in Washington, but also in state capitols. Democrats now control both the governor’s offices and the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Minnesota. They flipped the governor’s office in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. And they broke Republican supermajorities in eight states.After a two-year gerrymandering arms race that saw Republicans try to build a “red wall” out of redrawn districts,...

Bloomberg.com • 1st November 2026

How the GOP Engineered a Multimillion-Dollar Gerrymandering Blunder

President Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting war is shaping up to be a strategic blunder. At the president’s urging, Republicans gerrymandered new maps based on Trump’s 2024 performance, wrongly assuming the midterm electorate would match his presidential coalition. Now, once-durable Republican strongholds that were redrawn for partisan gain have become fragile, forcing Republicans to direct resources to districts they thought would be solidly red.Six of the GOP’s gerrymandered districts —...

Bloomberg.com • 24th October 2026

Send the Election Deniers Packing, Once and for All

President Donald Trump did not win the 2020 presidential election, but there are 193 candidates in 41 states on the November ballot who won’t reject his “Big Lie” that he did. Half of all Republicans still believe his falsehoods, and few candidates are willing to publicly counter them.Trump paid no real penalty for his election lies; voters elected him to a second term anyway. And he hasn't given up on his desire to control the outcome of elections. On Friday, his Justice Department sued to blo...

Bloomberg.com • 20th October 2026

Election Fraud Is Hard. Convincing Voters It Exists Is Easy

You’ve likely heard the ominous what-if scenarios about election disruptions in November: immigration agents or federal troops roaming polling places, federal officials seizing ballots and voting machines, and President Donald Trump issuing an executive order postponing or cancelling the election. Courts and legal experts have given solid reasons that each one of those potential election disruptions is unlikely. But the threats have served their purpose: People are harboring doubts.

Bloomberg.com • 17th October 2026

The Big Surprise in the Federal School Voucher Program

Whether on purpose or by accident, the Trump administration’s new voucher program could do something it never promised to do: help public schools. It’s a bit of a surprise from the White House that promised to abolish the Department of Education and then dismantled large parts of it. But under rules released this month by the US Treasury Department, the program authorizing the first Federal Scholarship Tax Credit allows kids to receive a voucher even if they stay in their public school.

Bloomberg.com • 12th October 2026

Florida’s GOP Governor Candidate Exposes His Party’s Emptiness

Leave aside the irony of a former banker boasting about his facility with a balance sheet while filing incorrect financial forms. Donalds’ performance at FAMU, Florida’s only public historically Black university and a school he attended for three years, exposed a much large much larger problem.

Bloomberg.com • 7th October 2026

Latino Voters Are the New Swing Voters

Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: Latinos are America’s new swing voters.

Bloomberg.com • 1st October 2026

Florida’s Attorney General Is Too Busy Fighting Culture Wars

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, wants to be known as a politician who is all fight, all the time. The ambitious 38-year-old Georgetown law graduate considers himself the standard-bearer for the next generation of Republican culture warriors, and he’s using his office to make sure you notice.

Bloomberg.com • 26th September 2026

The Supreme Court Is Inviting More Election Chaos

The US Supreme Court did it again. In an unsigned ruling from its emergency docket, the Court gave the Trump administration another tool it can use to raise doubts about the integrity of the November elections.On Friday, the conservative majority greenlit the use of a flawed federal database to verify voters’ citizenship; noncitizen voting, although a miniscule problem, is one of President Donald Trump’s obsessions.

Bloomberg.com • 24th September 2026

Republicans Are Ghosting Trump. It’s Too Late

When Miami Representative Maria Elvira Salazar stood in front of the White House and recorded her first campaign ad, she told President Donald Trump he had gone “too far on immigration enforcement” and warned that Hispanics who had elected him to office had been betrayed. The loyal Republican’s straight-to-camera critique of Trump immediately became national news. But Salazar wasn’t sending a message to the president. He knew where she stood. She was signaling to fellow Republicans.

Bloomberg.com • 22nd September 2026

AI Can’t Hold City Hall Accountable

If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.Americans don’t fully appreciate what that means. We’re overdue for a serious conversation — and a tech reckoning.

Bloomberg.com • 17th September 2026

Ossoff’s Viral Clips Are Only Half the Story

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff’s viral videos have so mastered the attention economy that the East Coast media is swooning with speculation that he could be a presidential contender in 2028. But voters this year are demanding more than well-scripted speeches and viral videos. They want results.

Bloomberg.com • 14th September 2026

Vance’s Childcare Plan Pits Parents Against Each Other

Should the federal government give subsidies to parents who stay home to care for their young kids? Absolutely. Should it also subsidize childcare for working parents? For sure. This shouldn’t be an either-or question, but the Trump administration’s new childcare subsidy plan makes it one.

Bloomberg.com • 8th September 2026

Trump’s Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos

Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting method used by one-third of all Americans. But in many ways, the president has already won the battle by seeding doubt and chaos into the process.

Bloomberg.com • 4th September 2026

The Fight Over Food Prices Won’t End Soon

Food prices play an outsized role in how Americans view affordability. When you’re bombarded with bigger price tags and shrinking product sizes on every trip to the grocery store, it’s an in-your-face reminder that we’re losing purchasing power. And 2028 could shape up the same way: According to forecasts, eating is going to get more expensive for at least another year.

Bloomberg.com • 1st September 2026

Welcome to the ‘You Can’t Trust Your Own Eyes’ Election

Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous, inexpensive and convincing. But when the public believes that vast amounts of political speech may be AI-generated, people start to distrust everything they see and voters could disengage from the democratic system. We need more safeguards.

Bloomberg.com • 31st August 2026

Florida Is the Epicenter of the GOP’s Vaccine Problem

Republicans have painted themselves into a corner by undermining vaccines. Nowhere is this clearer than Florida, where the outgoing Republican governor and his potential successor have tried to use vaccine mandates to align themselves with President Donald Trump’s politically risky position.

Bloomberg.com • 26th August 2026

Trump-Backed Candidates Are Costing the GOP Its Future

Darline Graham, sister to former South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, romped to victory Tuesday over Republican Congressman Ralph Norman, a MAGA conservative, on the strength of her family name and the president’s aggressive push. Graham’s victory demonstrated that President Donald Trump is more fixated on amassing his personal power than listening to voters.

Bloomberg.com • 23rd August 2026

A Voter Enthusiasm Gap Is Steering the Midterms

We’re near the end of the 2026 primary election season and the state of American democracy is looking — sigh of relief — better than expected.As the Trump administration has trampled on the rule of law, tried to undermine elections and pursued a self-enriching agenda, Americans are pushing back and demanding change — from both parties.

Bloomberg.com • 19th August 2026

Florida Democrats Aren’t in Disarray. They’re in Disagreement

Florida demonstrated on Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s identity crisis is alive and well. It’s the latest signal that while the midterm election will be a referendum on the president’s performance, it’s also a major test of the Democratic Party’s ability to bridge its growing divide.