As his hometown paper put it, "Johnson has proven by his past actions that he isn’t fit to be a senator. This latest episode only makes that more clear."

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

It’s not surprising that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott commented on a deadly human smuggling case. What was surprising was what the Republican had to say.

Two Republican lawyers appear to have been the key architects behind Trump's post-election plot. They've now both been visited by federal law enforcement.

Things already weren’t going especially well for Donald Trump’s media venture, and yesterday, matters took a turn for the worse.

A decade after Todd Akin's campaign was derailed by rhetoric about pregnancies resulting from rape, Virginia's Yesli Vega made a similar mistake.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears to have misrepresented relevant details — and Sonia Sotomayor brought photographs to prove it.

Today’s edition of quick hits.

A source told NBC News that these developments are “unplanned,” adding, “You can deduce from that that there will be a lot of significance to the hearing.”

Voters in Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah will be deciding races up and down the ballot tomorrow.

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.