Morning Digest: At long last, Michigan is holding a pivotal election for control of its Senate
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Primary season finally gets back underway today—and the next two months will be extremely busy! In May and June, fully 26 states will hold their primaries, while another half dozen will also host runoffs. It’s a major marathon, so to make sure you can stay on top of it all, we encourage you to bookmark our 2026 election calendar , which includes dates for every candidate filing deadline, primary, and runoff. The Downballot's 2026 election calendar Feb 4 Read full story We also keep it constantly updated, because the calendar can always change. In fact, it already has several times this year, and it will again. As we just wrote the other day, Louisiana’s Republican governor just canceled the state’s House primaries so that the GOP can have more time to dismantle the state’s two majority-Black congressional districts. As Louisiana shows—and as with much of the data we publish—it’s not just “set ...