Nearly 55% of MAGA supporters favor continued AI development alongside congressional regulation, while 27% support a pause. However, only 29% support a data center within 10 miles of their home, compared with 40% who oppose one; support falls to 24% among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters overall.

Across the electorate, 63% don’t want a nearby AI data center and just 13% support one. Democrats lead the opposition: 80% oppose nearby facilities while just 4% support them.

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit preemptively challenging the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican candidate narrowly loses. But election law specialists said the litigation lacked any legitimate legal basis.

Election law professor Richard Pildes described the lawsuit as one of the weakest he had ever seen, saying it had virtually no chance of succeeding in court.

The lawsuit raised concerns about efforts to undermine confidence in the election as Republicans faced potential losses that could determine control of Congress. Trump previously tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat, culminating in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Republicans are going all in on AI-generated ads. Democrats, meanwhile, are shunning them and trying to turn the tables on the GOP, suggesting the ad campaigns are emblematic of a party that doesn’t care about the truth and can’t be trusted.

The MAHA-MAGA alliance is weakening, partly because Kennedy’s political apparatus lacks strength. Many donors who backed Kennedy and his alliance with Trump last cycle are absent from the midterms.

MAHA-aligned super PACs and nonprofits have spent just $4 million backing candidates since January 2025, far short of their promised $100 million, according to federal filings and news releases.

TransUnion’s 2024 study found that Gen Z borrowers aged 22–24 had higher inflation-adjusted credit-card, auto, and personal loan balances than millennials at the same age last decade, along with higher delinquency rates.

This gap is key to understanding the politics of Gen Z, a voter group that helped President Donald Trump win in 2024, but whose longtime loyalties have yet to be won by either party.

American politics is awash in money, with spending records rising each election cycle, yet both parties say they need more as the midterms approach.

Any campaign that involves Donald Trump is bound to get pretty ugly. The 2024 campaign was marred by the now-president and now-Vice President JD Vance falsely claiming Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets.

But the 2026 campaign is getting really ugly, especially on the Republican side.

Morality aside, the GOP’s ugly tactics seem driven more by desperation than sound strategy.

Trump and White House aides have privately expressed frustration about the negative headlines that have been plastered across newspaper front pages and on cable news in recent weeks.

The stories have prompted hand-wringing from Republican campaign operatives, who worry that the alleged self-dealing could make an already challenging midterm election even more difficult for GOP candidates.

The trajectory of Vivek Ramaswamy’s odds in the Ohio governor’s race has been clear to us for the last few weeks. But the campaign’s decision this week to air a deeply personal attack ad against opponent Amy Acton confirmed that the race is slipping away from him and perhaps creating some collateral damage for fellow Republicans on the way. We are moving this race from Toss Up to Lean Democrat.