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Holly Bailey is a national correspondent for Yahoo News based in New York covering news, politics and culture. She previously worked for Newsweek, where she was a White House correspondent covering the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Her book, "The Mercy of the Sky," about severe weather in her home state of Oklahoma, was published in 2015 by Viking and was the recipient of the Oklahoma Book Award and the American Meteorological Society's 2017 Lewis J. Battan Award for distinguished reporting. She also won the 2017 Deadline Club award for feature photography for her project "Donald Trump's America," which documented the future president and his supporters during the 2016 campaign.
Yahoo NewsSome Texas Democrats want Beto O'Rourke to run in 2020, but for Senate, not president
Beto O'Rourke may run for president. But Chuck Schumer is encouraging the former Texas congressman to run for the Senate against John Cornyn, who is up for reelection in 2020.
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Beto’s counter-rally hints at how he might run against Trump
Privately, those close to O’Rourke offer nothing further than that. Among his fans was President Barack Obama, who praised O’Rourke for his authenticity. Those close to O’Rourke say they believe he would prefer to run the same kind of campaign for the White House.
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Exploring Elizabeth Warren's 'Okie' roots
The controversy over Elizabeth Warren’s Native American ancestry has largely overshadowed the senator’s compelling personal story as a child of Depression-era parents who rose from humble Oklahoma beginnings to become a celebrated Harvard academic, senator and now presidential candidate.
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What is Beto cooking up, besides dinner?
After a galvanizing Senate race that fell just short, the Texas Democrat is spending time with his family and weighing his options — including another Senate run, or the presidential campaign his fans are urging.
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Republican Hyde-Smith holds seat in Mississippi Senate race
JACKSON, Miss .— In the last major race of the midterm campaign, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith claimed victory in Mississippi’s closely watched Senate runoff election, defeating Democrat Mike Espy after a tense campaign rocked by unsettling reminders of the state’s dark legacy of racism. Hyde-Smith, a former state senator and state Agriculture secretary, was appointed by Gov. Phil Bryant last spring to fill the seat vacated by ailing Sen. Thad Cochran.
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The past isn’t past in Mississippi as voting begins in Senate contest dominated by race
Mississippi’s runoff election for U.S. Senate wound its way to a finish Tuesday after dueling election-eve rallies urged voter turnout in a race that went from safely Republican to too close to call.
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State’s past shadows closer-than-expected Mississippi Senate runoff
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s reelection campaign against Democrat Mike Espy is shadowed by the state’s history of racism and her own past. As Donald Trump prepares to fly out to campaign for her, the race is closer than expected.
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Oklahoma City: If a Democrat can make it there, she can make it anywhere
Democrat Kendra Horn pulled off an upset win in a heavily Republican congressional district in the deep-red state of Oklahoma. Here's how she did it.
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Where does Beto go from here? Hint: He’s not running in 2020.
Beto O’Rourke marked the end of his bid to unseat Ted Cruz in Texas’s Senate race just as he began it — by clicking on his Facebook Live stream and walking through the crowd of thousands of adoring supporters.
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Cruz edges O’Rourke to hold on to Texas Senate seat
Beto O’Rourke’s candidacy dramatically shifted a race where Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had been an easy bet for re-election, but his unorthodox campaign was not enough to unseat the tea party incumbent.
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Firebrand Marsha Blackburn retains Tennessee Senate seat for GOP
In Tennessee, conservative Marsha Blackburn defeated a popular Democrat, former Gov. Phil Bredesen, to replace moderate Republican Bob Corker in the U.S. Senate.
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Beto's unlikely quest to unseat Cruz comes down to Austin, Dallas, Lubbock, Midland ... and everyplace else
Here are the places to watch as election results come in from Texas.
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Cruz makes closing pitch in Dallas suburbs
Ted Cruz tries out different messages as his hard-to-predict, tighter-than-expected Senate race against Beto O’Rourke comes down to the wire.
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Scenes from the Texas Senate race
When Beto O’Rourke announced his longshot bid to unseat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz well over a year ago, no one would have predicted the race would emerge as one of the most closely watched elections in the country. In theory, the race is still Cruz’s to lose. Texas is a deeply red state that has moved further and further to the right since George W. Bush defeated Ann Richards, the sitting Democratic governor in a stunning upset that put Republicans firmly in control of the Lone Star state 24 years ago.
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In Texas Senate race, both parties are at the door — all 7.4 million of them
Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has mounted one of the most ambitious voter-outreach efforts in the state’s history, sending volunteers to knock on doors in every single county. Ted Cruz has outsourced his ground game to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Tuesday will show who had the better strategy.
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In Texas, Beto and Cruz take the fight to the border
Beto O’Rourke, campaigning along the Texas border as President Trump warned of a migrant invasion, said:?“This desire to stir paranoia and fear … is a political ploy five days away from the deciding election of our lifetimes.”
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Texas, beware! The caravan of criminals is coming — in ad backing Ted Cruz
A super-PAC funded by Sen. Ted Cruz's supporters has released a new attack ad against his opponent, Beto O’Rourke, charging that he is “cheering on” the caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the U.S.
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Immigrant caravan still far from border, but fear reaches Tennessee, stoked by Senate race
A week before Election Day, immigration appears to be emerging as a flashpoint in Tennessee’s closely watched Senate race.
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Beto O'Rourke within striking distance of Ted Cruz, new poll finds
A Quinnipiac Poll?found Cruz ahead by just 5 points, with 3 percent of likely voters undecided and 2 percent saying they could still change their minds.
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Heitkamp sails against the wind in North Dakota
Seeking reelection as a Democrat in a firmly red state, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota has sought to rise above the nation’s hardened political partisanship, campaigning as a “true common-sense independent,” but she faces an uphill battle.