Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers received a boost in the hotly contested Michigan Senate race, narrowing the gap in a race where multiple polls had shown him trailing, according to a new survey from a firm RealClearPolitics calls the "most accurate pollster."

Things aren’t looking good for notorious Republican Party hardliner-in-a-hardline-state Ted Cruz’s re-election hopes.The Cook Political Report has just updated its assessment of the Texas Senate race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican” amid what appear to be significant signs of momentum behind Democrat Colin Allred’s campaign.

A nonpartisan election handicapper updated the rating for the Texas Senate race on Thursday, shifting the state toward Democrats after the Senate Democratic campaign arm announced a multi-million dollar investment in the state last week.