Senate races

National Democrats are charging Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), running for Senate in West Virginia, with hypocrisy for suggesting she cut back on spending in her own life while going on congressional trips to foreign nations.

Rep. Ed Markey, the Democratic Senate nominee in Massachusetts, on Tuesday distanced himself from President Obama’s proposed cuts to Social Security.

Former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker (R) will file paperwork to become a candidate for Iowa's open Senate seat this week, he said Monday.

The announcement makes Whitaker the first Republican to jump in the race after a number of high-profile members of the GOP said they wouldn't run. The seat has proven a recruitment headache for Republicans.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) is "intensifying efforts" to prepare for a potential Senate announcement now that his friend, Gov. Sean Parnell (R) has ruled it out, Treadwell tells the Juneau Empire.

The endorsement sets up a potential fight between the deep-pocketed group and the DSCC, which is backing Schatz.

The AFL-CIO, one of Massachusetts' largest union groups, is endorsing Rep. Edward Markey (D) in the Massachusetts special Senate election, after sitting the Democratic primary out.
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Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), though still undecided on his potential New Hampshire Senate run, knocked incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) during a Saturday appearance in the state.

Republican Gabriel Gomez is out with his first web ad of the general election campaign for Senate in Massachusetts, in which seeks to introduce him to voters as a Washington outsider.

Gabriel Gomez, the Republican Senate candidate from Massachusetts, on Saturday demanded Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) take down a web video that features the Republican candidate briefly sharing the screen with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

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Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) holds a single-digit lead over Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez.