Bloomberg • 12th November 2025

The Irony of the RNC’s Latest Election Lawsuit

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case brought by the Republican National Committee against Mississippi, challenging its law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted after Election Day. The RNC argues that accepting mail-in ballots that were postmarked on or before Election Day, but that arrived in election offices after that date, “undermines trust in elections.” It’s a specious argument.

Bloomberg • 11th November 2025

Republicans Just Got a Wake-Up Call on Their Midterm Maps

Republicans' strategy to create new Republican-leaning districts may have backfired, as last week's election results show the party losing support from the voter groups President Donald Trump won over in 2024.

Bloomberg.com • 6th November 2025

This Georgia Upset Is the Real Preview of 2026

Pocketbook issues took center stage in Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey and New York Tuesday night, as well as in a usually obscure election in Georgia. Both New Jersey and Virginia lean blue, but the Georgia election may be the real bellwether for 2026. With voters unhappy about higher electric bills and prices, and dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump rising, are Georgia voters telling us something?

Bloomberg.com • 3rd November 2025

The Strange Quest to Unseat MAGA Stalwart Thomas Massie

President Donald Trump’s months-long effort to find a primary challenger to Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, a fellow Republican and MAGA devotee, is the latest proof that Republicans in Washington were never truly intent on achieving the agenda they sold to voters last year. If they were, they would be endorsing Massie as exactly the kind of anti-establishment conservative they’d want to see more of in Congress.

Bloomberg.com • 26th October 2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Pivot From Trump, Explained

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Georgia Republican, has been breaking ranks with President Donald Trump and the GOP leadership in Congress on an increasingly long list of issues. She's not only reflecting the concerns of her district, her move is pragmatic. “Prior to these decoupling movements, she couldn’t run statewide,” a state legislator who represents part of her district told me.

Bloomberg.com • 20th October 2025

North Carolina’s New Electoral Map Resurrects Jim Crow

North Carolina Republicans will officially enter the redistricting arms race this week when lawmakers try to heed President Donald Trump’s call to create additional Republican seats. But carving out another safe GOP seat will only further unravel the state’s already frayed democratic institutions and leave the state’s rural “Black Belt” region without meaningful representation in Washington. That’s not the representative democracy these lawmakers swore an oath to uphold.

Bloomberg.com • 12th October 2025

Georgia Is Testing Whether Voters Still Cross Party Lines

It’s no secret that US politics has gotten more polarized. That means fewer voters split their tickets, voting for both a Democrat and a Republican. Between 2008 and 2022, the percentage of voters who crossed party lines fell from 12% to 5%, according to Daniel Moskowitz at the University of Chicago. But in Georgia, almost every candidate seems to be trying to win voters from the other party. That’s what our politics could look like if politicians had to do more than turn out their bases.

Bloomberg.com • 29th September 2025

This Florida Democrat Is a Test for the Party's Appeal

After Zohran Mamdani clinched the Democratic Party nomination for New York mayor in June, Democratic elected officials were slow to embrace him, worried about being tarred as socialists. A notable exception? The Democratic candidate for governor in the red state of Florida: David Jolly, a former congressman — and former Republican. He's not interested in pursuing more culture wars and his big tent idea of the Democratic Party is to focus on economic issues.

Bloomberg.com • 19th August 2025

Abolishing Voting by Mail Will Hurt Republicans More Than Help

If President Donald Trump were to issue an executive order to abolish mail-in voting, as he announced he would on social media on Monday, it would almost certainly be unconstitutional. It would also be baffling — because eliminating vote-by-mail would probably hurt Republicans more than it would help them in next year’s midterm elections.

Bloomberg.com • 14th August 2025

To Beat Paxton, Cornyn Is Relying on a MAGA Makeover

The Senate primary in Texas has turned another well-respected establishment Republican into a MAGA culture warrior who has traded civility for theater: Senator John Cornyn.

Bloomberg.com • 9th August 2025

Texas Is Betting Latinos Will Swing Republican. That’s a Risk.

Republicans are making a risky assumption as they attempt to rewrite the Texas Congressional map with a mid-decade power grab designed to net five additional seats: They’re betting that Latino voters who voted for President Donald Trump in record numbers last year will elect Republican congressional candidates in the midterms.But Texas’ Latino voters have soured on the president.

Bloomberg.com • 5th August 2025

The DOJ’s Push to Collect Your Data Is a Fishing Expedition

With his approval rating sinking lower and lower, and facing the prospect of losing control of the House to Democrats, President Donald Trump is engaged in an unprecedented attempt to manipulate the midterm elections. Not only has he demanded that Texas redraw its congressional districts, he’s now got Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice embarking on another insidious strategy: Building a dossier of private information on every voter that Trump can use for political advantage.

Bloomberg.com • 31st July 2025

Roy Cooper’s Senate Bid Could Do More Than Flip a Seat

Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s entry into the US Senate race this week was a rare bit of good news for Democrats in the run-up to the 2026 midterms. Cooper is a well-liked and well-known moderate — a former attorney general and state legislator with a record of competence.

Bloomberg.com • 23rd July 2025

The Texas Redistricting Fight Is a Four-Alarm Fire

President Donald Trump is attempting a massive power grab in Texas and most Americans aren’t aware of it. That’s a very bad sign.If, by the end of August, most Americans don’t know that the president is trying to use Texas to manipulate the results of the 2026 midterm elections by changing three to five congressional seats in his favor, it’s a loud signal that the decline of democracy isn’t capturing public attention — and that Democrats are failing, again. President Donald Trump is attempting...

Bloomberg.com • 20th July 2025

Georgia Republicans Have Gone Full ‘Knives Out’

The MAGA-world blow-up over the Trump administration’s about-face in handling the Jeffrey Epstein files isn’t the only conspiracy-fueled dispute splintering Republicans. Another feud is playing out in the state of Georgia, where a group of ultraconservative Republicans that rose to power with the backing of a wealthy financier is at war with the GOP leadership over control of the party.

Bloomberg.com • 10th July 2025

The GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Have a Very Convenient Timeline

Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election. Voters in swing states are unlikely to punish lawmakers for slashing health-care benefits next year. Why? The pain is postponed until after the election.

Bloomberg.com • 1st July 2025

Thom Tillis Knew What the GOP Refused to Hear

Earlier today, Republican Senator Thom Tillis became one of only three GOP senators to cast a vote against President Donald Trump’s budget bill. Ultimately, his vote was mostly symbolic — the measure passed on a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaker.But the vote has already had consequences for the two-term lawmaker from North Carolina. On Sunday, he made the announcement that he would not be running for re-election in 2026. His decision came a day after he took to the...

Bloomberg.com • 20th June 2025

The White House Plans for Texas Could Backfire

President Donald Trump’s push for Texas lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts in hopes of preserving the slim Republican majority in the US House is yet another example of the president putting his own fortune above his party’s.In an ideal world, it’s also a good idea — because it could lead to more competitive elections and a more representative democracy. Of course, that’s the opposite of Trump’s intention: He wants to make it more difficult for voters to punish him for his u...

Bloomberg.com • 8th June 2025

US Democracy Is Sicker Than Many Realize. Look at These States.

Political scientists are issuing stark warnings about the way they see President Donald Trump’s second term pushing the US into authoritarianism, with its sweeping executive orders, defiance of court rulings, threats and coercion to enforce ideology, and steamrolling of a Congress that appears only too willing to give up its power.But to focus only on the White House ignores the broader picture: the gradual rise of illiberal instincts in US politics, and especially on the right. It began with th...

Bloomberg.com • 8th May 2025

Normie Republicans Like Brian Kemp Have It Rough

Even before Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced he would not be challenging Democrat Jon Ossoff in that high-stakes US Senate race in the state next year, he had already emerged as one of the most interesting Republicans on the national stage. Kemp knows what a liability Trump can be for Republicans and has learned how to choose his battles carefully. For the last four years, the two-term governor endured Trump’s threats and bullying because he refused to illegally overturn the 2020 election r...