Florida governor urges Republicans to be bolder and draw sharper contrasts with Democrats to keep Trump-aligned voters engaged in future elections.

"Those years are about to be over. What are we doing to deliver on the reason why we gave you all the majority," said strategist Michael Lofti.

Trump confidently carried Iowa Senate District 35 by about 21 points in 2024. In January, Democrat Mike Zimmer flipped the seat, winning by roughly 4 points over Republican Katie Whittington. The result was about a 25-point overperformance by Democrats compared with Trump’s margin a year earlier.

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House. Van Epps was backed by President Donald Trump.

A Virginia man on Friday made his first court appearance on charges that he planted a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of a mob’s attack on U.

Nasry Asfura, the conservative candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, clung to a razor-thin advantage in Honduras' presidential race on Friday as counting stretched into its sixth day in the tight contest drawing close attention from Washington.