Republicans hold a 53-to-47 Senate majority—and the vice president breaks ties in their favor.

That means Democrats must flip at least four seats, not three, to take control of the upper chamber.

Karl Rove has some advice for Republicans worried about the midterms: Stop calling every Democrat a communist.

Instead, he argues, Republicans should use Democrats’ own words against them.

The news media loves a simple story about the Democratic Party: the socialists are taking over.

The primary results so far tell a much more complicated story.

Money can buy a lot in a Democratic primary. But it can’t necessarily buy credibility with Democratic voters.

Minnesota’s Senate primary offered the latest example.

The Washington Post’s extraordinary scoop about President Trump secretly switching planes because of an Iranian assassination threat is remarkable.

But one detail stands out, even if it seems ordinary: Trump lied about what was happening.

A Political Wire reader asks about the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting — and, more importantly, who benefits from it.

The basic idea is straightforward: Instead of choosing one candidate, voters rank them in order of preference. If nobody wins a majority, the last-place candidate is eliminated and those ballots are redistributed to the voters’ next choices. The process continues until someone wins.

For months, the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan was framed as a looming civil war — a proxy fight over the party’s future that would leave deep scars.

Instead, it ended with something much less dramatic: Democrats acting like a political party.

One of the strangest primary results of the cycle came this week in Michigan.

Navy veteran Amir Hassan (R) had the backing of President Trump, Republican leaders and the advantages that usually come with establishment support.

It’s not often that a prominent Republican openly defies Donald Trump. It’s even rarer when it’s the same Republican doing it twice.

On the eve of Tennessee’s primary, Gov. Bill Lee (R) endorsed a conservative challenger to embattled Rep. Andy Ogles (R), directly undercutting Trump’s preferred candidate.

Money is still flooding into American politics. But it may not be buying what it used to.

Much of this year’s political analysis has focused on the Democratic Party’s ideological divisions. That’s a real story.

Thanks to everyone who responded to the member survey. 

The most reassuring result was how many of you said some version of “keep doing what you’re doing.” That message came through clearly: improve the fundamentals, but don’t clutter the site or turn it into something else.

Donald Trump has set plenty of records as president. Among them are the historically weak approval ratings he posted in both his first and second terms.

But his real innovation may be finding new ways to monetize the presidency itself.