President Donald Trump and Republicans could be careening toward a midterm disaster in 2026 unless MAGA and Vice President JD Vance can right the ship. The GOP could lose the House and possibly even ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Midterm elections in the United States are almost designed to punish ...

ANALYSIS — The special election result in Tennessee’s 7th District is just the latest piece of evidence that, in spite of President Donald Trump’s reputation as a political savant, 2026 is beginning ...

Longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove issued a stark warning to the Republican Party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Rove said on Fox News’ “Journal Editorial Report” on Sunday that Republicans will ...

Hopefully most American families managed to avoid politics during their Thanksgiving gathering. But for investors, political fallout is not so easy to eschew. And going into 2026, markets face the ...

The national redistricting battle triggered by President Donald Trump has cast a long shadow over the race for control of Congress next year — not only fundamentally shifting the House battlefield, ...

Paul Whiteley has received funding from the British Academy and the ESRC. The resounding victories in recent elections by Democrats Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie ...

Midterm years since 1950 typically bring large pullbacks for the S&P 500 (SP500), with an average of -17.5%. But analyzing the large corrections seen from 1950 through 2022, the average return one ...

President Trump’s management of the US economy is setting his party up for failure in the 2026 midterms. James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political advisor, famously said that when it came to elections, ...

The starting gun for the 2026 midterm elections found the GOP stumbling out of the gate, suffering losses across the country Tuesday in off-year contests that could signal discontent with President ...

Despite historical headwinds against the party in power, House Republicans believe they have “clear momentum” one year out from the 2026 midterm elections, thanks to Democrats’ pronounced weaknesses, ...