Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is casting a long shadow over the race to succeed him — but not in the way the state’s longest-serving senator may have once envisioned.After enjoying decades ...

Behind-the-scenes jostling was already underway before Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin announced that he would not seek a ...

Keeping up with the current news cycle is exhausting and borderline impossible. At the White House, trade and tariff policies ...

Indiana’s nine-member House delegation has seen serious turnover during the past few election cycles. All but one member has ...

Wednesday’s retirement announcement from 80-year-old Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin was hardly unexpected. Many in the Land ...

Expect a torrent of new polls coming out over the next week in advance of President Trump’s 100th day in office next ...

Amy, Jessica and Matthew get together to discuss where 2026 races stand as we enter spring. They go over which candidate announcements they are waiting on (they're looking at you Sen. Durbin in ...

… efforts that paid off in 2020 but were less successful in 2022 and 2024. Of the 21 competitive House seats held by … ...

Our subscribers have first access to individual race pages for each House, Senate and Governors race, which will include race ratings (each race is rated on a seven-point scale) and a narrative ...

… who ran unsuccessfully for the Senate nomination in 2022 and lost to Vance in the primary, is seen as a top … ...

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