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The available sources report that Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and carried the Electoral College with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226 (National Archives; BBC) . Multiple ...
Republicans hold a 53‑seat majority in the 119th Senate while Democrats (including two independents who caucus with them) make up the remaining 47 seats (45 Democrats + 2 Independents) — Senate.gov li...
Polls and forecasters currently show Democrats favored to make gains in 2026 but not an inevitable “takeover”: several models and polling snapshots project Democrats can win the House (some forecastin...
are in position to retake the House in 2026 according to polls and multiple independent forecasters, but control of the Senate is much less certain; a House majority is plausible and even likely in ma...
The prospect that the United States will simply have "no midterm elections" in 2026 is effectively vanishingly small: federal law provides no mechanism for a president to cancel or postpone congressio...
The is a patchwork: primaries begin as early as March and run through June with a second wave in August in some states, while stages its statewide primary on June 2 and ’s primary and potential runoff...
won the by a narrow margin — roughly 1.5 percentage points — receiving about 77.2–77.3 million votes (≈49.8%) to ’s roughly 75.0 million (≈48.3%), according to near-final tallies compiled by multiple ...
The 2026 U.S. Senate map will include the regularly scheduled Class 2 cycle — 33 seats — plus at least two special elections that some outlets count, producing either 33 or 35 contests depending on th...
The U.S. Senate has 100 seats in total; current party division for the 119th Congress is Republicans 53, Democrats 45, and Independents 2 (total 100) . Senate terms are staggered in three “classes,” s...
At least three sitting House Democrats died in 2025 (Sylvester Turner, Raúl Grijalva and Gerry Connolly), and multiple House members across parties resigned during the year — notable Republican resign...
Thirty‑five Senate seats are widely reported as up in 2026 when counting two special elections (Florida and Ohio); most trackers count 33 Class II regular seats plus those specials, with 22–23 held by...
The key claim—predicting the exact composition of the U.S. House and Senate after the 2026 elections—is not supported by definitive forecasts in the provided materials; current tools and ratings show ...
The current publicly cited polling landscape for the 2026 U.S. House elections shows a modest on the generic congressional ballot, with poll aggregates reporting Democrats ahead by roughly 2–3 points ...
The question of which party will control the U.S. House and Senate after the 2026 elections is unresolved and depends on a shifting set of structural factors, individual race dynamics, and national po...
Current reporting and polling-focused trackers identify a short list of Senate races likely to be competitive in 2026: vulnerable Democratic incumbents include Jon Ossoff (Georgia) and seats in Michig...
: a core of states reliably delivers large margins for Republican presidential candidates while a different set of states and consistently return large margins for Democrats; a smaller group of flips ...
The 2026 Senate cycle will contest roughly one‑third of the chamber — 33 regularly scheduled Class 2 seats plus two special elections (Florida and Ohio), for about 35 contests total — and incumbents i...
As of the latest compiled reporting, at least seven U.S. senators have publicly announced they will not seek re-election in 2026: Democrats Tina Smith (MN), Gary Peters (MI), Jeanne Shaheen (NH) and D...
The Senate entering the is a 53–47 Republican majority (including two independents who caucus with ), with 35 seats up for election in November 2026 and defending 22 of those seats while Democrats def...
As of January 2026, authoritative trackers report that held 16 — meaning control of the governor’s office and both legislative chambers in those states . Major trackers (, , ) converge on that count e...