President Trump announced Monday that anyone reporting voter fraud, in past elections or in next week's midterms, will be paid one million dollars upon the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

NPR, PBS News and Marist released their final pre-election survey this morning. Here is the number everyone will quote, and then here is the number that actually matters.

The Polls say Republicans are cooked. Before anyone accepts that as settled, it is worth laying out the actual evidence that the polling is wrong, because it is stronger than most people realize and it comes from sources nobody can dismiss as partisan.

The Texas Senate race has now crossed half a billion dollars in advertising alone.

The national House map is objectively better for Republicans today than it was a year ago. That is not our assessment. That is Jacob Rubashkin of Inside Elections, who tracks these races for a living.

Early voting is now open across most of the country, and the first returns are in from enough states to see a pattern.