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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do. Even the most carefully conducted polls are imprecise snapshots of public opinion, not precision instruments — and when they’re pressed into predictive tools, they don’t always get it right. But while surveys can’t provide an

By Gabe Cohen, Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Election officials have spent months preparing to run the 2026 vote — and bracing for what could disrupt it. They’re training workers, tightening security and readying legal challenges for threats that could stretch well beyond Election Day. “Lately we have to take into account really horrible, worst-case

By Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN Detroit (CNN) — As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race had seemed implausible. Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed the high cost

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — As Election Day comes to a close and results start to roll in, it can be difficult to understand what the numbers you’re seeing might be saying about who will ultimately win a key race. CNN Sightline, a new election tool designed to surface insights from CNN’s Decision Desk,

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to segregate ballots and delay certification of Alaska’s Senate race, the latest legal rebuke to a rash of Trump administration attempts to meddle in the 2026 midterms. US District Judge Sharon Gleason said

By Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has been hospitalized after experiencing a stroke and is expected to make a full recovery, his team announced Sunday. The 53-year-old experienced “numbness in his arm” on Saturday afternoon and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he suffered a stroke, according to

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Virginia Beach, Virginia (CNN) — No part of a rolling, decadelong existential crisis is ever easy, even when things seem on the cusp of going well — and especially when Democrats have had their hopes raised and dashed so many times. “It’s a little bit of deja vu,” said Elaine Luria,

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Holly Hendricks, who is battling an autoimmune disease that leaves her with open wounds down to the muscle, did everything she could to maintain her Affordable Care Act coverage after the enhanced premium subsidies lapsed at the start of this year. But after a few months, the 49-year-old couldn’t

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Millions of voters will cast their ballots Tuesday in an election that will decide the balance of power in Congress and set the tone for President Donald Trump’s remaining two years in the White House. Democrats and Republicans are battling in tight contests across the country, while the governor’s

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — With the midterms just days away, the channels for federal officials to communicate foreign threats to election officials are at their weakest since the 2016 vote, numerous sources who work in elections told CNN. US intelligence officials are tracking familiar efforts by Russia, China and Iran to influence American

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Eighteen months after President Donald Trump stepped in to remake the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his image, a top official worried about the Washington institution’s hemorrhaging finances urged for it to be shut down, according to court documents filed on behalf of the Ohio

By Sarah Owermohle, Isabelle Khurshudyan, CNN (CNN) — Just two years after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement helped propel President Donald Trump into the White House, the now-Secretary of Health and Human Services is highlighting a political vulnerability in a bellwether state. A measles outbreak in Pennsylvania has made

By Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Curt Devine, Isabelle Chapman, CNN (CNN) — As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats recruited a Senate candidate to confuse Alaska voters, a big-money effort propping up a different fringe name on the ballot could also hurt Republicans in that race – and in another pivotal contest in Ohio.

By Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After Election Day, all eyes in the political world could turn to Alaska. Alaska has already been at the center of a roiling political controversy this week over how the second Dan Sullivan ended up on the state’s Senate ballot, which has sparked lawsuits, criminal investigations and

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — In the closing days of the race, Rep. Max Miller is making the case to voters that divorce is messy and the controversies that surrounded him this summer are behind him. But the high-profile custody case that roiled his reelection bid this cycle is scheduled to go

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country. “Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect

By Austin Culpepper, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Friday was skeptical of the Trump administration’s urgency to rush construction of a controversial 250-foot triumphal arch that the president wants to begin next week. Judge Tanya Chutkan asked an administration attorney, “What’s the harm to the government to wait three or four

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed US approval of a potential $2.1 billion sale of 500 vital Patriot interceptor missiles on Friday, but warned that it may take “a few years” for them to arrive. “We are asking our American partners to find a solution for the time when there

By John Fritze, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge opened a formal investigation Friday into whether Justice Department attorneys and others within the Trump administration misrepresented the president’s plans to renovate a golf course in Washington, DC, ratcheting up a dramatic showdown between the White House and the courts. In a fiery hearing