Elections

President Donald Trump speaks during a media conference, flanked by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel)

FILE - King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff stands in court on Oct. 10, 2016, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks to reporters in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, July 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FILE - Absentee ballots during a count at the Wisconsin Center, Nov. 8, 2022, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

FILE - Andrea Lucas, nominee to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on June 18, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

FILE - New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill talks to reporters during a news conference in Trenton, N.J., Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks to attendees at the South Carolina Democratic Party's Blue Palmetto Dinner on May 29, 2026, in Columbia S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, File)

U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson takes part in a debate at the WCSH-6 television studio, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed addresses the crowd during a campaign rally, Saturday, July 18, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., questions Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's pick to head the nation's intelligence agencies, as he appears for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, July 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)