Can you believe that it is almost 365 days until Election Day 2022?

The 2022 midterm election is well underway. Midterm elections — which come two years into a president's term — can have a big impact on the direction of the country. Members of the House are elected for two-year terms, so all 435 seats are decided during the midterm elections. Party campaign committees have released their targets, and candidates are already fundraising in full force.

Join CREFC and renowned political analyst Charlie Cook as he breaks down the 2022 election and provides inside knowledge on what’s trending in the year before the election. Cook will analyze both races in the House of Representatives and the Senate and how these races have the potential to impact the majority in both chambers. See more information about Charlie Cook’s impressive experience below.

One Year Out… What the 2022 Election Looks Like Today is hosted by CREFC PAC and is a successor to last year’s pre-election event Twas the Night Before Election Day.

Moderator

Lisa Pendergast, Executive Director, CRE Finance Council

Featured Speaker

Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher of the Cook Political Report, Political Analyst for the National Journal Group

Charlie Cook is the founding publisher of the Cook Political Report, an independent, non-partisan political newsletter analyzing U.S. elections and domestic political trends.

Cook started the Cook Political Report in 1984 and for over 36 years has written a twice-weekly column on politics, the last 23 years published in the National Journal. Now with a staff of five, the Cook Political Report is a publication that the New York Times once said was “a newsletter that both parties regard as authoritative” while CBS News’ Bob Schieffer called it “the bible of the political community.” Al Hunt in the Wall Street Journal has referred to Cook as “the Picasso of election analysis.”

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Charlie served as a consultant and analyst for CNN and CBS News, and for the last 23 years for NBC News, appearing well over a dozen times on NBC’s Meet the Press.
In 2010, Charlie was the co-recipient of the American Political Science Association’s prestigious Carey McWilliams award to honor “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics." In 2013, Charlie served as a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Charlie was co-author of the Almanac of American Politics edition in 2020 and will be again for the 2022 edition.

Questions? Please contact Christina Perez, Manager, Political and Government Affairs, at cperez@crefc.org or 202-816-9915.