Republican Representative Matt Van Epps handily won Tuesday's special election to fill a ruby-red mostly rural Tennessee district, but his 9-point margin after Donald Trump's 22-point romp there in 2024 has Democrats calling it a preview of a 2026 blue wave. This week's 13-point overperformance matches the pattern across nearly 60 special elections this year, raising expectations that Republicans will lose the House in next November's midterms. Those seemingly most sure of a Democratic sweep? The record 23 (and counting) Republican members of Congress who have already announced they won't be running again.

Mike Johnson ⬇

His speakership is on the brink of being one that only Thomas Hobbes could love: nasty, brutish and short. Remember when he emerged as the fourth nominee, literally

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