The speedy decision by the GOP's campaign arm and its top-spending super PAC to stick with Walker comes as they see Georgia's race as make-or-break to their shot at Senate control.

The Georgia Republican vehemently denied a report by The Daily Beast saying he conceived a child with a woman he was dating and paid for her to get an abortion.

“It’s what’s keeping me up at night,” said Melissa Morales, president of Somos PAC, which backs Cortez Masto. The state’s ultra-competitive contest could be key to Senate control.

The 90-minute showdown between Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak and Republican challenger Joe Lombardo was most likely their only faceoff before Election Day.

Nowhere is the dynamic clearer than in Pennsylvania, though there are signs voters favor both a Republican and a Democrat in swing states from Georgia to New Hampshire to Ohio.

The hour-long debate was the only scheduled showdown between the two candidates before the Nov. 8 election.

The result of the Nov. 8 midterms could shape the lame-duck session, in which Congress has a packed agenda full of must-pass bills and other priorities for both parties.

The election worker in Kent County is accused of inserting a USB drive into a computer containing confidential voter registration data in the Aug. 2 primary, local officials say.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Democratic allies are clobbering Tudor Dixon and the Republicans in ad spending, and no one seems ready to come to Dixon's rescue.

Adam Laxalt, the state's former attorney general, criticized Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto for what he called a lack of support for police.

Facebook parent company Meta said fake accounts posing as Americans attacked politicians from both parties and posted divisive material about issues such as abortion and gun rights.