Senate races

A former West Virginia news anchor has filed to run as an independent in the race for retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller's (D-W.Va.) seat.

Former Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) is considering another Senate run following Sen. Max Baucus's (D-Mont.) retirement announcement.

Organizing for Action, President Obama's issue advocacy arm, is out with its first ads on gun-control following the failure of last week's measure in the Senate, a series of web ads targeting nine Republican senators and one Democrat who voted against it.

A group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is launching television advertisements in a handful of red-leaning states giving conservative lawmakers cover on immigration reform.
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Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has endorsed Rep. Paul Broun's (R-Ga.) Georgia Senate campaign. Read more...

Kentucky environmental lawyer Tom FitzGerald is being encouraged to run for Senate, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal, and is considering taking on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign released a cinematic two-minute video on Thursday that positions McConnell as a leader within a long tradition of conservatism.

Ayotte, most Republican senators and four Democrats defeated the bill calling for increased background checks on gun purchases.

Potential Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes distanced herself from a controversial progressive group accused of taping Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's private conversation with staff, after McConnell's campaign and other Republicans attempted to tie her to the group's founder.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is pushing attacks blaming Senate Democrats for current airline delays.

The NRSC sent out emails against four Democrats blaming them for not acting to avoid the furloughs air traffic controllers are facing due to sequestration.

The targets: Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.), Mary Landrieu (La.) and Kay Hagan (N.C.), and Rep. Bruce Braley (Iowa), Democrats' anointed candidate for Iowa's open Senate seat.

Senate Democrats and Republicans offered competing bills to avoid the cuts to air traffic control, though neither could get enough support to pass. Pryor, Landrieu and Hagan voted for the original bipartisan compromise that created sequestration — as did two GOP Senate candidates, Reps. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

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