EMILY’s List, a group launched to elect female candidates to office, is spending six figures to promote a potential female presidential candidate in 2016. 

The GOP establishment is hoping former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will be another Scott Brown. 

Rep. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) made it official on Wednesday, announcing he'll run for Michigan's open Senate seat.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) clashed Wednesday over a new RNC ad that the DNC says cruelly exploits the Newtown shootings.

The ad, called The First 100 Days, hits Obama on the failure of his legislative agenda, including gun control, in Congress. It features a voiceover saying that Obama’s agenda has “already suffered a string of defeats,” and a black and white photo of the president reaching to embrace Nicole Hockley, the distraught mother of a victim of the Newtown massacre.

The Iowa state Senate Ethics Panel voted to ask for a formal investigation of Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) former Iowa presidential campaign chairman, a move that could continue a rash of unfavorable headlines for the congresswoman and potentially damage her chances at reelection.

The panel voted on Wednesday to request a formal investigation of Iowa state Sen. Ken Sorenson (R), who was one of Bachmann's top surrogates in the state until he switched late in the campaign to back then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

Sorenson has been accused of stealing a private email list of homeschooling parents for campaign purposes, and for illegally receiving a salary from Bachmann's campaign while serving in the state senate.

While another former Bachmann staffer says she knew about the payments, that former staffer insisted that the campaign was told by Sorenson that he was allowed to receive them and blamed Sorenson for misleading them.

The back-and-forth between Sorenson and other former Bachmann staffers has been an unwanted distraction for her as she seeks to move past her failed presidential bid and renew ties with her Republican-leaning district.

Bachmann barely survived a tough challenge in 2012, winning by fewer than 5,000 votes, and is facing the same opponent this election. The ethics investigation has continued to create unhelpful local headlines — and now that it's progressing those are likely to continue.

The GOP is scrambling to close its voter data gap with the Democrats in time for the 2014 midterm elections. 

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has endorsed Mark Sanford (R) for his old House seat in a statement focused on the former South Carolina governor's fiscal conservatism.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is hammering Democratic nominee for Senate in Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey for his long tenure in Congress, its first attack after Markey won the party's nomination.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is highlighting his bipartisan outreach on behalf of the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the first television commercial of his reelection effort.