OMAHA, Neb. — President Donald Trump’s push to put his political movement at the center of the 2026 midterms is colliding with one of the Republican Party’s most delicate battlegrounds: Nebraska’s Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District, where Republicans are fighting to keep an open House seat in territory that rejected Trump at the presidential level just two years ago. The battle between Republican Omaha City Councilman Brinker Harding and Democratic activist Denise Powell

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley is escalating his law-and-order offensive against Democrat Roy Cooper, accusing the former North Carolina governor of never adequately explaining why thousands of prisoners were moved out of state correctional facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic — and pointing to subsequent arrests as evidence that the decision carried a heavy public-safety cost. During an August 21 appearance on Breitbart News Daily, Whatley delivered one

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola is facing fresh scrutiny over her record in public office after newly highlighted attendance figures showed that she missed hundreds of votes during her years in the Alaska House of Representatives — handing Republicans a potent line of attack as one of the nation’s most consequential Senate races moves toward November. Fox News Digital reported Saturday, citing legislative records, that Peltola missed 794 of 4,265 votes during he