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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 ...
Donald J. Trump won the 2024 national popular vote with roughly 77.3 million votes (about 49.8–49.9%), while Kamala Harris received roughly 75.0 million votes (about 48.3–48.4%), a margin of roughly 1...
Donald Trump won the 2024 national popular vote by a narrow plurality — roughly 77.3 million votes (about 49.8%) to Kamala Harris’s roughly 75 million (about 48.3%) — a margin of about 1.5 percentage ...
As of the available reporting, Republicans hold a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, with sources reporting 219 Republican seats and 213 Democratic seats and several vacancies noted...
Donald Trump received approximately 77.3 million votes, representing roughly 49.8–49.9% of the national popular vote in 2024, a slim lead over Kamala Harris that amounted to about a 1.48–1.5 percentag...
Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will resign from the U.S. House effective January 5, 2026, which will trigger a special election to fill Georgia’s 14th District seat . Available sources say the d...
The 2026 Senate map is contested and sources disagree on the exact number of seats and which are most competitive, but consensus places among the top battlegrounds and identifies a narrow path for Dem...
Contemporary reporting and post‑election tallies show Kamala Harris received roughly 74.4–75.0 million popular votes in the 2024 U.S. presidential contest, amounting to about 48.3–48.4% of the nationa...
As of the sources provided, multiple U.S. House seats were vacant in 2025 and several more were scheduled for special elections — notable confirmed vacancies include Florida’s 1st (Matt Gaetz resigned...
As of November 2025, reporting shows a handful of special U.S. House elections already held in 2025 and several scheduled across late 2025 and into 2026; key dates include Tennessee’s 7th on December ...
Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226, flipping multiple states that had voted Democratic in 2020 and carrying the seven widely watched battle...
Kamala Harris received roughly 48.4% of the national popular vote in the 2024 presidential election, equal to about 75.0 million votes according to a running, compiled result used by the Financial Tim...
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 shorthand “red states vs blue states” denotes U.S. states that reliably vote Republican (red) or Democratic (blue) in presidential and many statewide contests, a convention that crystallized after...
Republicans enter 2026 controlling the Senate 53–47 (two independents caucus with Democrats); Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats to win a 51‑49 majority (or three if vice‑presidential math...
The 2024 congressional cycle produced a large number of razor‑thin contests: multiple post‑election reviews report , with Democrats prevailing in a majority of those tight contests . The very narrowes...
Multiple sources show a busy special-election calendar stretching across 2025 and into 2026: several House special elections occurred in 2025 (Florida CDs, Arizona, Virginia, Texas) with dates from Ap...
Cook Political Report’s January 1, 2026 update is the only analysis in the provided materials that lists a concrete set of toss-up House seats, reporting and naming districts such as as examples . Oth...
Republicans are targeting a handful of Democratic senators in 2026 who sit in states Donald Trump won in 2024 or where the map is otherwise favorable, while Democrats counter with targeted recruitment...
Major forecasters currently list a small group of 2026 Senate contests as true “Toss‑ups.” Cook Political Report says two races — Georgia (Ossoff) and Michigan (open after Sen. Gary Peters’ retirement...