NBC News reports: GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is headed back to Washington after he turned back a challenge from Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, NBC News projects. Cruz was expected to win a third term in the deep-red state, but the race tightened in recent weeks, drawing national attention and scrutiny as Allred, a prolific fundraiser, spent millions of …
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Associated Press Projects Harris To Win Colorado
The Associated Press reports: Kamala Harris won Colorado on Tuesday, picking up the state’s 10 electoral votes. Colorado was once a purple state, flipping between Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, but it has shifted blue in the past two decades. The last Republican presidential candidate to snag Colorado’s electoral votes was George W. Bush in 2004. Since then, it’s backed …
Read More »Dem Angela Alsobrooks Wins Maryland Senate Race
Politico reports: Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has won the Maryland Senate race, according to The Associated Press, fending off former two-term GOP Gov. Larry Hogan. The win comes as a relief for Democrats, who had not budgeted to defend Maryland this cycle. It’s generally considered a safe blue seat, particularly in a presidential year. But Hogan is highly popular among Maryland …
Read More »DE Elects Sarah McBride As Nation’s First Trans US Rep
NBC News reports: Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride won the state’s only House seat Tuesday, NBC News projects, making her the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. McBride, a Democrat, defeated Republican John Whalen III, taking 57.6% of the vote with 63% of the vote in. McBride’s key priorities for her congressional run were expanding access to affordable health …
Read More »Decision Desk: Kamala Harris Projected To Win Virginia
The Hill reports: Vice President Harris has won Virginia, maintaining Democrats’ control of the state at the presidential level despite some Republican inroads in recent years, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Polls in the run-up to Election Day showed Harris leading Trump by a comfortable margin. According to The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ average, Harris led Trump …
Read More »Cultist GOP Reps Matt Gaetz And MTG Win Reelection
The Pensacola News Journal reports: U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has won another term in Congress. Gaetz easily defeated Democratic challenger Gay Valimont on Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Gaetz at 7:14 p.m Central. As of 7:21 p.m., Gaetz had 195,418 votes, 65.64%, while Valimont had 102,283 votes, 34.36%, with only the early vote and mail-in votes counted. …
Read More »Florida Abortion Rights And Legal Weed Measures Fail
The Hill reports: Florida’s abortion-rights ballot initiative fell short of passing on Tuesday, leaving in place a six-week abortion ban that has helped restrict access across almost all of the Southern U.S. The measure’s defeat is a significant victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who engaged multiple levers of state-sponsored power to oppose it. The measure needed a 60 percent …
Read More »Dem Rep. Andy Kim Wins New Jersey Senate Race
The New York Times reports: Representative Andy Kim was elected on Tuesday to the U.S. Senate, according to The Associated Press, after a turbulent race that grew out of a corruption scandal that engulfed New Jersey’s former senator, Robert Menendez, a once-powerful Democrat. Mr. Kim’s campaign was defined by his ability to vanquish New Jersey’s first lady, Tammy Murphy, and …
Read More »Cultist GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Wins Reelection
Florida Politics reports: Republican U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has secured re-election to Florida’s 13th Congressional District, narrowly avoiding becoming a one-term Representative in a district that favors the GOP. With 58% precincts reporting, Luna secured 54% of the vote, edging out Democratic challenger Whitney Fox, who posted a performance no one would have expected just one year ago. A …
Read More »Dem Josh Stein Defeats Dooky Chute For NC Governor
Reuters reports: Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor’s race on Tuesday, Fox News projected, defeating Republican Mark Robinson, whose candidacy imploded following a CNN report that he had called himself a “Black Nazi” and made other offensive remarks on a pornographic website. Robinson, the Southern state’s lieutenant governor, has denied the allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit against …
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