2026 candidates: what AI tells voters about each one
All 33 candidates on the ballot in the 9 races we track. Each page shows what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok say when a voter asks, next to prediction markets and recent polls, and quotes the chatbots word for word.
Alaska U.S. House At-Large Race 2026
- Nick Begich III (Republican, incumbent)
- Bill Hill (Independent)
- James C. McDermott (Libertarian)
- Eric Hafner (Democrat)
Alaska Governor Race 2026
- Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (Democrat)
- Treg Taylor (Republican)
- Bernadette Wilson (Republican)
- Dave Bronson (Republican)
Alaska U.S. Senate Race 2026
- Dan Sullivan (Republican, incumbent)
- Mary Peltola (Democrat)
- Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. (No party listed)
- Gerald L. Heikes (Republican)
Alaska State Senate District O Race 2026
- George Rauscher (Republican, incumbent)
- Ryan Sheldon (Republican)
- Peter Bauer (Democrat)
Iowa U.S. Senate Race 2026
- Ashley Hinson (Republican)
- Josh Turek (Democrat)
- Thomas Laehn (Libertarian)
Maine U.S. Senate Race 2026
- Susan Collins (Republican, incumbent)
- Troy Jackson (Democrat)
Michigan U.S. Senate Race 2026
- Abdul El-Sayed (Democrat)
- Mike Rogers (Republican)
- Lydia Christensen (Libertarian)
- Douglas P. Marsh (Green)
- Tim Long (U.S. Taxpayers)
- Walter P. Kristy (Natural Law)
Ohio U.S. Senate Special Election 2026
- Jon Husted (Republican, incumbent)
- Sherrod Brown (Democrat)
- Bill Redpath (Libertarian)
- Greg Levy (Independent)
Texas U.S. Senate Race 2026
- Ken Paxton (Republican)
- James Talarico (Democrat)
- Ted Brown (Libertarian)
No longer on the ballot
Candidates we measured earlier in the cycle who withdrew or did not advance. Their pages keep the record of what the chatbots said while they were running.
- Adam Crum (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Bill Walker (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Click Bishop (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- David B. Leslie (Alaska U.S. Senate Race 2026)
- Edna DeVries (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- John Brendan Williams (Alaska U.S. House At-Large Race 2026)
- Lesil McGuire (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Marshall Blankenship (Alaska State Senate District O Race 2026)
- Matt Claman (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Matthew Damian Schultz (Alaska U.S. House At-Large Race 2026)
- Nancy Dahlstrom (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Shelley Hughes (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- Thomas Scott Begich (Alaska Governor Race 2026)
- William Lee Hunt (Alaska U.S. Senate Race 2026)