Aurelia Butler

Mayor Karen Bass and her onetime ally, Nithya Raman, made their case to voters with just five weeks left until the election. More

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times. More

President Trump’s trip comes after a two-day Republican rally in Dallas, where he tried to energize voters amid fears that the party could face losses in the midterms. More

What is democracy, and is it in crisis? More

Shane Goldmacher, one of our national political correspondents, looks at the Republican candidates who spoke this week at their party’s unusual midterm convention, called a “Trumpapalooza.” Some other vulnerable candidates avoided it because of President Trump’s unpopularity. More

The legal wrangling over a congressional map redrawn by Republicans has election officials, candidates and voters scrambling before November. More

Stark warnings from A.I. researchers have reverberated across the country. More

The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme. More