Candidates
64 profiles
Adam Schiff
US Senate
Trump's most persistent congressional antagonist graduated from the House Intelligence Committee to California's Senate seat — bringing his prosecutorial instincts to a bigger stage.
Chad Bianco
Governor
Riverside County's sheriff is running for governor of California — a MAGA-aligned law enforcement figure whose polling in a deep-blue open-seat race says something about the state's anti-incumbent mood.
Gavin Newsom
Governor
California's governor navigating national ambitions and a state at the center of America's biggest fights.
Alex Vindman
US Senate (Special)
The impeachment witness who became a household name is now a Senate candidate in Florida — running a biography against a structural deficit.
Ashley Moody
US Senate (Special)
DeSantis's pick to fill Marco Rubio's seat — a former attorney general who now has to win an election she was appointed to avoid.
Florida Senate Special Election
US Senate (Special)
Marco Rubio's resignation to become Secretary of State triggered one of the most watched special elections of the cycle — Florida's Senate seat is suddenly in play.
Marco Rubio
US Secretary of State
Florida's former senator now runs American foreign policy — a long way from the 2016 debate stage and the water bottle heard round the world.
Buddy Carter
US Senate
The MAGA warrior from coastal Georgia is running his pharmacist-to-congressman story as the argument that Jon Ossoff's seat belongs to Republicans.
Jon Ossoff
US Senate
Georgia's junior senator won one of the most watched runoffs in American history — now he has to win a general election in a state that keeps getting redder.
Conrad Cable
US House
A fifth-generation Louisiana farmer is running against the Speaker of the House in a seat that's R+23 — because someone has to, and a farmer from Farmerville might have the most honest argument.
Mike Johnson
US House
The Speaker of the House almost nobody had heard of until October 2023 — a constitutional lawyer from Louisiana who went from backbencher to second in line for the presidency in three weeks.
Graham Platner
US Senate
A combat veteran who farms oysters on the Maine coast is leading the Democratic primary — and polling ahead of Susan Collins in a race that's rewritten what an outsider candidacy looks like.
Maine 2 — Open Seat
US House — Maine 2nd District
Jared Golden was one of the last conservative Democrats — his retirement leaves Maine's 2nd district without its only reason to vote blue, in a district Trump won by 9 points.
Paul LePage
US House — Maine 2nd District
Maine's most colorful ex-governor is attempting a political comeback in the district Jared Golden just vacated — and he might actually win it.
Susan Collins
US Senate
Maine's senior senator has survived five elections by being almost everything the modern Republican Party is not — and made a career out of that tension.
Elizabeth Warren
US Senate
The Harvard professor who built a federal agency, ran for president, and became the Senate's most consistent voice on financial regulation and corporate accountability.
John Deaton
US Senate
The crypto attorney who ran against Elizabeth Warren in 2024 is back for another Massachusetts Senate race — this time against Ed Markey in a seat that's even more safely Democratic.
Haley Stevens
US Senate
A Detroit-area congresswoman who built her profile on manufacturing and the auto industry is running to fill Gary Peters's seat in a race Michigan Democrats cannot afford to lose.
Kristen McDonald Rivet
US House — Michigan 8th District
Michigan's 8th is the definition of a swing district — a freshman Democrat holding a seat in a Trump+2 district who'll face a full-court Republican press in 2026.
Michigan Senate — Open Seat
US Senate
Michigan's open Senate seat is the most vulnerable Democratic pickup opportunity on the 2026 map — an open seat in a state Trump nearly flipped in 2024.
Paul Junge
US House — Michigan 8th District
The Republican who came closest to flipping Michigan's 8th in 2024 is back — a former federal prosecutor with Bay City roots and a second shot at a freshman Democrat.
Minnesota Senate — Open Seat
US Senate
Minnesota's open seat is a cautionary tale for Democrats — a reliably blue state that keeps getting closer, and now has no incumbent to defend it.
Peggy Flanagan
US Senate
Minnesota's lieutenant governor would become the first Native American woman elected to the Senate — and she's running in an open seat that Democrats cannot afford to lose.
Kurt Alme
US Senate
The Daines-endorsed, Trump-backed US attorney is the consensus Republican pick for Montana's open Senate seat — a Harvard-trained prosecutor with deep Montana roots.
Montana Senate — Open Seat
US Senate
Steve Daines steps aside in one of the reddest states defending Senate seats in 2026 — but Montana has produced Democratic surprises before.
John Cavanaugh
US House — Nebraska 2nd District
An Omaha state senator is the leading Democratic candidate for Nebraska's 2nd — the district that awards an electoral vote separately and has been the Omaha metro's political identity for a decade.
Nebraska 2 — Open Seat
US House — Nebraska 2nd District
Nebraska's 2nd is the one congressional district that awards electoral votes separately — it went for Biden in 2020, Harris in 2024, and now has no incumbent, making it one of Democrats' best pickup opportunities.
Marty O'Donnell
US House — Nevada 3rd District
The video game composer who created the Halo theme is funding his own Republican congressional campaign in Nevada's 3rd — and he's already put a million dollars in.
Susie Lee
US House — Nevada 3rd District
Susie Lee has survived multiple cycles in one of Nevada's most competitive districts — 2026 will be another nail-biter in a district Trump nearly flipped in 2024.
Chris Pappas
US Senate
New Hampshire's most prominent Democrat is running for the seat Shaheen just vacated — a restaurant owner turned congressman who could become the first openly gay man elected to the Senate.
New Hampshire Senate — Open Seat
US Senate
Jeanne Shaheen's retirement creates New Hampshire's most competitive Senate race in years — an open seat in a purple state with a track record of surprises.
Scott Brown
US Senate
The former Massachusetts senator who once won Ted Kennedy's seat and then lost in New Hampshire is back for a third Senate attempt — this time in a race he could actually win.
Alex Zdan
US Senate
A former TV reporter turned Republican Senate candidate — the GOP couldn't find a top-tier recruit to challenge Booker, so they got someone who knows how to be on camera.
Cory Booker
US Senate
Cory Booker runs in one of the bluest states on the map — but New Jersey has a history of electoral surprises, and 2026 will test whether national headwinds matter here.
Eddy Aragon
US House — New Mexico 2nd District
A radio host and failed Albuquerque mayoral candidate is the Republican primary frontrunner for New Mexico's 2nd — a seat that has produced some of the closest congressional races of the past decade.
Gabe Vasquez
US House — New Mexico 2nd District
Gabe Vasquez flipped New Mexico's 2nd district in 2022 and held it in 2024 in a district Trump won — making him one of the most targeted Democrats heading into the midterms.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
US House
The Bronx bartender turned congresswoman who rewired what a political candidate could look like — and what they could say out loud.
Bruce Blakeman
Governor
Nassau County's executive won a Trump endorsement and the Republican nomination for New York governor — trailing Hochul by 20 points but representing a party that knows New York can surprise.
Hakeem Jeffries
US House
House Minority Leader and the most likely future Speaker — methodical, disciplined, and deliberately not Nancy Pelosi.
Kathy Hochul
Governor
New York's first female governor took office during a scandal, won a surprisingly close election, and is now running in an environment where New York Democrats can no longer take anything for granted.
Mike Lawler
US House — New York 17th District
Mike Lawler is everything House Republicans want in a swing district — moderate, media-savvy, and hard to demonize — but he's defending a Harris+0.6 district in a potential blue wave year.
Tom Suozzi
US House — New York 3rd District
Tom Suozzi won a nationally watched special election in 2024 in a Trump district — his 2026 race will test whether that was a fluke or the start of something durable on Long Island.
Michael Whatley
US Senate
The former RNC chair who helped deliver the 2024 election for Trump is now running for Senate in North Carolina — a first-time candidate with a party establishment and presidential endorsement backing him.
North Carolina Senate — Open Seat
US Senate
Thom Tillis's retirement opens the door for Democrats in a state Trump won by a single digit — the most flippable Republican seat on the map.
Roy Cooper
US Senate
Roy Cooper won six statewide elections in a Republican-leaning state — now he's running for Senate as the Democrat most likely to make the math work in North Carolina.
Eric Conroy
US House — Ohio 1st District
A Cincinnati veteran and former CIA official is running to flip Ohio-1 back to Republicans — in a district being redrawn to be more Republican before the race even starts.
Greg Landsman
US House — Ohio 1st District
Greg Landsman won Cincinnati's district by 9 points in 2024 despite Trump winning the seat — but redrawn maps and a motivated GOP could change the math dramatically in 2026.
Jon Husted
US Senate (Special)
Ohio's appointed senator is a career institutionalist defending JD Vance's old seat against a comeback attempt by the man he replaced in Washington.
Ohio Senate Special Election
US Senate (Special)
JD Vance's ascent to the Vice Presidency left Ohio's Senate seat vacant — Republicans have the edge, but Ohio Democrats have shown they can compete.
Sherrod Brown
US Senate (Special)
The three-term Ohio senator who won an R+6 state four times over 18 years just lost — and he's back to try again in the seat JD Vance vacated.
Bob Harvie
US House — Pennsylvania 1st District
Bucks County's commissioner chair is the Democrat most likely to actually give Brian Fitzpatrick a competitive race — a genuine local figure challenging an incumbent on his own turf.
Brian Fitzpatrick
US House — Pennsylvania 1st District
Brian Fitzpatrick is the most bipartisan Republican in Congress — he wins by massive margins in a district Harris won, but Democrats are running a serious challenger in 2026.
Annie Andrews
US Senate
A pediatrician who ran against Nancy Mace in 2022 and lost by 14 points is now taking on Lindsey Graham — a longer shot with a more interesting argument.
Lindsey Graham
US Senate
South Carolina's senior senator has been every type of Republican in the last decade — McCain ally, Trump critic, Trump defender — and won every time.
Gina Hinojosa
Governor
A five-term Austin state representative is the Democratic nominee for Texas governor — running against Abbott's $106 million war chest with a grassroots campaign and a genuine Austin-to-Texas story.
Greg Abbott
Governor
Texas's longest-serving governor in modern history has turned the state into a laboratory for conservative governance — and a staging ground for federal battles.
James Talarico
US Senate
An eighth-generation Texan who is simultaneously a state legislator, a Presbyterian seminarian, and a Democratic Senate candidate — the most unusual profile in the 2026 cycle.
John Cornyn
US Senate
Texas's senior senator and Senate Majority Whip — the Republican caucus's vote counter, dealmaker, and one of the most powerful people you've never heard of.
Ted Cruz
US Senate
Texas's senior senator — a Harvard-trained debater who has made confrontation into a career and controversy into a brand.
Bernie Sanders
US Senate
The democratic socialist who made political revolution a mainstream phrase — and watched his party spend a decade debating what to do with him.
Kim Farington
US Senate
A Northern Virginia cybersecurity executive is running against Mark Warner — a credentialed challenger in a race where the incumbent is favored but the state keeps getting closer.
Mark Warner
US Senate
Mark Warner has been Virginia's political anchor for two decades — but with Harris winning the state by shrinking margins, even Warner's seat is getting a second look.
John Braun
US House — Washington 3rd District
Washington's state Senate Republican leader is a Navy veteran and business owner who might finally be the candidate who flips WA-3 — if he can beat Joe Kent in the primary first.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
US House — Washington 3rd District
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is the rare rural Democrat who talks about trucks and trades — she won a Trump+3 district twice, but 2026 will be her hardest test yet.