Transcript: Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 25, 2026

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joined "This Week" Sunday for an interview about the midterm elections.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pushed back Sunday on comments made by former first lady Michelle Obama last year that U.S. voters aren’t ready to elect a female president.

Call it the "avoidance" election , with many on each side more motivated by trying to prevent or stop things than by what they'll gain . Against a backdrop of continued concern about inflation and the economy , Democrats maintain their lead in a bid for a House majority . They're currently on pace for 229 seats in our CBS News House model estimate, which translates voters' congressional preferences into seats. The potential range of outcomes could reach into the 230s in our model, but Republicans do still have a very narrow path to hold the majority, too.

Democratic and independent candidates stump the US midwest and prairie states, hoping to win over Republican strongholds In this final stretch of the US midterm elections, Democrats and independents could win back communities and towns across America’s rural heartlands through a combination of resurgent “prairie populism”, local despair over the impact of Donald Trump ’s agenda and an old-fashioned tenet of shoe-leather politics: showing up everywhere. When Dan Osborn rolled into one of the most rural counties in Nebraska earlier this month, he started…