Election news and updates from the 2022 midterm campaign trail

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu weighed into the primary, backing one of the front-runners in the showdown, endorsing New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse over retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who has supported Trump's claims about the 2020 election.

"We Republicans here in New Hampshire, we have a very big decision to make, and we have to get it right. We will be nominating New Hampshire’s next United States Senator. And for the sake of this great state, we have to defeat Maggie Hassan in November and the best candidate to do that is Chuck Morse," Sununu said as he stood next to Morse at a news conference at the governor’s mansion in New Hampshire’s capital city.

It came as no surprise that Sununu endorsed Morse — who in the state Senate represents Salem, the town were Sununu was raised as a young child — over Bolduc. Last month, Sununu criticized Bolduc.

"He’s not a serious candidate, he’s really not, and if he were the GOP nominee, I have no doubt we would have a much harder time," Sununu said of Bolduc during a recent interview on a statewide morning radio talk program. "He’s kind of a conspiracy theorist-type candidate."

Morse has not gotten Trump's endorsement — though the former president said he's looking closely at the race — but is ahead of Morse in the multi-candidate GOP primary field by double digits, according to the two most recent public opinion polls. 

Read more from Fox News' Paul Steinhauser: Trump still neutral, but Gov. Sununu endorses in New Hampshire GOP Senate primary

New Politics founder Emily Cherniack (courtesy New Politics)

A nonpartisan campaign group called New Politics is seeking to bring a new perspective to the political landscape of Washington, D.C., and local governments by electing military, AmeriCorps and Peace Corps veterans to be "service-oriented" leaders.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, founder Emily Cherniack stressed the importance of New Politics' mission to elect leaders intent on upholding values of service, and she explained that she was motivated by what she saw as a broken system of government.

"New Politics was really my response to a broken politics," Cherniack said when asked to describe the group and its mission. "We are a bipartisan organization that recruits, develops and elects servant leaders — individuals who have answered the call to serve this country through the military, or programs like AmeriCorps or the Peace Corps, and that have proven that they will lead with courage, integrity and empathy."

Cherniack explained that New Politics recruits, supports and develops candidates who have no foothold in politics and lack the knowledge or depth of political connections to know where to start a run for public office. She added that the group really believes they can make a change to the political landscape "by bringing these fresh, service-oriented perspectives of politics from Congress all the way down to statehouses around the country."

Read more: Nonpartisan campaign group seeks to bring a new perspective to politics with 'service-oriented' leaders

Biden said 'MAGA Republicans' posed a threat to democracy in a Philadelphia speech (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

With less than nine weeks to go until November’s midterm elections, when the Democrats razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate are on the line, President Biden is set to make a short trip Thursday evening from the White House to nearby National Harbor in Maryland, where he’ll speak at a Democratic National Committee reception.

The president’s participation in the DNC gathering comes amid heightened rhetoric from Biden targeting "MAGA Republicans" whom he argues have embraced "semi-fascism" due to their continued loyalty to former President Donald Trump.

The president’s more aggressive political language of late appears to be a move to alter the midterms narrative from a referendum on Biden and congressional Democrats and their record steering the country — amid record inflation, soaring crime, and border security — to a choice election between Biden and Trump and a battle to save democracy. The president’s new push has made national headlines, and has received plenty of pushback from Republicans.

"What we're seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy," Biden told Democratic donors at a gathering in Maryland two weeks ago. "It's not just Trump," he went on, "it's the entire philosophy that underpins the — I'm going to say something: It's like semi-fascism."

Biden is scheduled to speak around 7 p.m. Eastern.

Read more: Biden to address DNC reception following backlash over 'MAGA Republican' rhetoric about midterm elections

Americans For Prosperity has launched a $1.1 million ad campaign, targeting key House and Senate races with a straight-to-camera spot blaming Democrats for America's economic woes.

"$5500 — That’s how much more we’re paying per year just to have the same quality of life," a woman says in the ad, which will be tailored to target the specific politician in the state where the ad runs.

"$3,000,000,000 — That’s how much more Congress and Joe Manchin spent in the last two years," the ad in West Virginia says, where Sen. Manchin is not up for re-election this year.

"To do what? Rescue the economy and reduce inflation? Something doesn’t add up. We’re still feeling the pain at the pump and the grocery store. And their only solution is to spend more money," the ad says, concluding with a call to tell the politician "we're done paying more and getting less."

The ad directs voters to visit a website encouraging them to "hold their lawmakers accountable for passing the Inflation Reduction Act."

The ad "puts the massive influx of spending into perspective and underscores how Americans are still paying more and getting less," AFP said in a press release.

The ads will target 11 House Democrats and five Democratic senators:

Rep. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Rep. Frank Mrvan (D-IN), Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI), Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV), Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-ME)

Obama is returning to the campaign trail (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former President Obama will headline a fundraiser in New York City Thursday for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is the Senate Democrats' re-election arm.

Next week, Obama heads to the West Coast to serve as the main attraction at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is the House Democrats' re-election arm.

However, the former president will be doing more than fundraising.

Obama will also publicly appear with Democratic congressional and gubernatorial candidates, as well as his party’s nominees in some secretary of state races in key general election battlegrounds, a source with knowledge of the former president’s political plans confirmed to Fox News.

Read more: Former President Obama to hit midterms campaign trail on behalf of fellow Democrats

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams (L) and incumbent Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg, Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp argued Wednesday that a New York Times story published earlier in the day concerning Democrats' fretting over the alleged struggles of Stacey Abrams' campaign was a sign that the Democratic gubernatorial nominee is losing support from her party's base.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Kemp suggested the unnamed Democrats in The Times story chose to remain anonymous because they were scared of being "canceled," and that Abrams' status as a leader of her party was starting to "fracture." 

"I think it's because she's been spending so much time out of the state over the last, really, three years. I mean, she's built all these bridges that she's got from high-wealth people out in California, and up in New York, and in Washington, D.C., and she's raising literally millions, if not tens of millions, of dollars from those folks," Kemp said when asked about those Democrats expressing alarm over the state of the Georgia governor race.

"It's easy pickings for her, but they don't have our values. They don't share the values that Georgians share, and I think she's kind of lost touch with that, and I think her base is realizing that," he added.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is announcing a new seven-figure ad buy Thursday aimed at attacking Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams over her past and current policies related to the coronavirus pandemic and crime.

The ad, titled "My Plan," will run state-wide, is paid for by the Georgians First Leadership Committee, and endorsed by Kemp's campaign.

It opens with Stacey Abrams saying, "My plan, my vision is different."

"Georgia would be different with Abrams," a voice in the ad follows. "She pushed more COVID lockdowns, wanted businesses closed, and kids locked out of schools."

"Abrams' crime plan? Eliminate cash bail, the same failed liberal scheme causing crime to surge in other states. She wants big new spending too," the ad says.

"Abrams even backs Washington's massive new tax hikes. More taxes and spending. Let criminals out of jail. That's Stacey Abrams' extreme plan for Georgia," it adds.

Fox News' Power Rankings has rated the race between Kemp and Abrams a "tossup."