Simone Pathe - Senior Washington Editor, CNN Politics
Simone Pathe
Senior Washington Editor, CNN Politics
Simone Pathe is the senior Washington editor for CNN Politics.
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The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
Apr 5, 2024
Senate primaries are only just beginning, but the matchups in key races that will determine the balance of power in the chamber look relatively settled seven months before the November election.
Republican at center of 2018 ballot fraud scandal wins House primary in North Carolina
Mar 26, 2024
North Carolina pastor Mark Harris has won the Republican nomination for North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, making him the likely next member of Congress from this red district some five years after his apparent victory in an earlier House election was thrown out over ballot fraud allegations.
Trump’s pick Bernie Moreno will win GOP primary in Ohio to take on Sen. Sherrod Brown
Mar 20, 2024
Bernie Moreno will win the Republican Senate primary in Ohio, a victory for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who had endorsed the Cleveland businessman in the three-way contest.
Ohio’s GOP primary is a test for Trump that could shape Senate control this fall
Mar 19, 2024
Ohio’s Republican Senate primary on Tuesday – this year’s first test of Donald Trump’s clout in a contested Senate race – will help determine a key question this fall: what is the fate of Sen. Sherrod Brown and the Democratic majority?
Trump visits Ohio ahead of competitive Senate primary with huge stakes for November
Mar 16, 2024
Donald Trump would normally have little reason to be at a rally in Ohio – a state the presumptive Republican nominee twice carried comfortably – eight months before the November election.
George Santos announces he’s running for Congress again
Mar 8, 2024
Former GOP Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from the House last year, announced Thursday night that he’s running for Congress again — this time to challenge a Republican congressman in New York.
Takeaways from Super Tuesday
Mar 6, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made their seemingly inevitable rematch all but official, with both notching huge Super Tuesday wins and Nikki Haley expected to drop out of the GOP presidential race.
Here are the key down-ballot primaries happening on Super Tuesday
Mar 4, 2024
The first down-ballot primaries of the year on Super Tuesday are likely to be even more consequential than the day’s presidential contests, which are unlikely to change the trajectory of the Democratic and Republican races.
Why the race for the House is the one to watch in 2024
Feb 10, 2024
It won’t suck up anywhere near the oxygen of the presidential election, but the race for the US House of Representatives may be the most exciting campaign to watch in 2024.
State Democrats break off-year fundraising record as they look to make inroads in red states in 2024
Jan 10, 2024
As President Joe Biden casts the race for the White House as a fight to save democracy, state-level Democrats say that battle is already well underway in what they’re calling “the year of the states.”
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
Jan 1, 2024
The high-stakes presidential election has taken on increased significance for Democrats’ precarious path to holding power in the Senate.
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
Oct 22, 2023
While events on the other side of the world – and the other end of the US Capitol – have dominated recent news, the race for control of the Senate is a crucial factor in what Washington could look like after next year’s elections.
Will Hurd drops out of 2024 Republican presidential race and backs Nikki Haley
Oct 10, 2023
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced Monday that he is ending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and is endorsing former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
These candidates in Virginia could shape how both parties talk about abortion in 2024
Sep 16, 2023
The new epicenter of America’s fight over abortion rights is Henrico County, Virginia, where candidates in bellwether state elections this fall are staking out positions that could test how both parties will try to appeal to moderate voters in 2024.
Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers announces Senate bid in Michigan
Sep 6, 2023
Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers is running for Senate in Michigan, he announced Wednesday, giving Republicans a prominent recruit in an open seat Democrats are trying to defend next year.
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
Jul 27, 2023
In a presidential contest cycle, Senate races don’t get the same kind of attention when there’s still a year to go until Election Day. But the start of the second fundraising quarter earlier this month brought a host of new candidate names – some declared and some still biding their time – that will help shape the race for control of the chamber in 2024 and the ultimate power dynamics for whoever is president in 2025.
About
Simone Pathe is the senior Washington editor for CNN Politics, which she joined in early 2020.
Pathe edits the daily news analysis pieces that capture the biggest stories of the day, as well as enterprise and campaign stories for CNN Politics. She writes CNN’s regular rankings of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip and contributes other campaign stories, mostly recently reporting from Georgia and Missouri.
Prior to joining CNN, Pathe was a senior political reporter at Roll Call, where she covered US Senate and House races around the country. Before that, she was a reporter/producer for the PBS NewsHour, where she edited the economics blog. She got her first taste of covering campaigns at The Hotline during the 2012 election.
Pathe graduated from Bates College with degrees in politics and French. She studied abroad in Paris at the Sorbonne and in Rwanda.
Originally from New Jersey, Pathe lives and works in Washington, DC.
