Thursday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, RCP senior elections analyst Sean Trende joined Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew Walworth to digest the results of Tuesday's elections. They also discussed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing her retirement,

In his first Truth Social post commenting on the election results, Trump suggested that the reasons why Democrats won is because he was not on the ballot and because of the government shutdown. Trump has repeatedly blamed Democrats for the shutdown despite Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House.

A former California Republican Party official sent his party an ominous message Thursday, sounding the alarm about the findings of a new poll that showed a massive share of voters who plan to vote in favor ofCalifornia's bid to add five Democratic U.

The 2025 election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026 if they don’t get serious about the economy.

The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.