Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says America is ready to elect a woman

The following is the transcript of the interview with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Oct. 25, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to the Texas governor's race and Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa. She joins us from Austin. Good to have you here. MARGARET BRENNAN: So, if you win, you would be the first Democratic governor and the first female governor in over 30 years. You're running in a state, though, that has more Republicans than Democrats. So, what is your message to get Republicans to cross over and vote for you?

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

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…