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The Washington Post reports: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) won a third term on Tuesday by fending off a challenge from Hung Cao, a MAGA Republican backed by former president Donald Trump, the Associated Press projected. Cao’s vivid language drew fleeting national attention to the race at their lone debate, when he declared that the military does not need diversity in …

Politico reports: Democrat John Mannion flipped a central New York House seat Tuesday, clinching a must-win district for his party to recapture control of the chamber. A state senator who represents the Syracuse area, Mannion unseated Republican Rep. Brandon Williams, a freshman lawmaker who Democrats had pegged early in the election cycle as a vulnerable incumbent. Williams replaced moderate Republican …

Mother Jones reports: In a victory for abortion rights advocates, New Yorkers just voted to enshrine extensive anti-discrimination protections into their state constitution—permanently insulating the rights of pregnant people, abortion seekers, and the LGBTQ community, among others, from changing political winds. Proposal 1 is one of 10 ballot initiatives to protect abortion rights that went before voters on Tuesday. Going …

The Los Angeles Times reports: Democratic Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, who rose to national prominence as a key antagonist of former President Trump, easily beat Republican and former Dodgers All-Star Steve Garvey on Tuesday night to win California’s open seat in the U.S. Senate. The Associated Press declared Schiff, 64, the winner shortly after polls closed, an indication …

The Associated Press reports: Kamala Harris won California on Tuesday, giving her the largest prize in the presidential election – 54 electoral votes. The outcome in the heavily Democratic state where Harris previously served as a U.S. senator and attorney general was expected. Harris won Washington’s 12 electoral votes on Tuesday, besting former President Donald Trump in a state where …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

NBC News reports: Kamala Harris has won the Vermont contest, NBC News projects, and secured the state’s three Electoral College votes. In 2020, Biden won Vermont with 66% of the vote to Trump’s 31%. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Vermont with 61% to Trump’s 33%. Since 1992, Vermont has been a reliably blue state in presidential elections. There are three …

Axios reports: Election officials in Michigan and several other states are predicting turnout to surpass records set in 2020, when about 158 million Americans — 66% of eligible voters — cast ballots, Axios’ Dave Lawler reports. If turnout is unexpectedly high, the election results could diverge dramatically from the razor-thin margins reflected in the polls. That’s because pollsters have to …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a get-out-the-vote concert rally Monday night at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the presidential campaigns continue to focus on the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. The rally and concert will take place on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, below the Art Museum steps, on Monday night — …

PBS News reports: On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 4-point lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. Harris has the support of 51 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 47 percent – a lead just outside the poll’s 3.5-point margin of error. …

Axios reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) are at each other’s throats over which party can truly be trusted to certify the 2024 election, Axios has learned. Johnson enraged Democrats in September by saying that, if he is speaker on Jan. 6, the House would “follow the Constitution” on certifying a win for Vice …

The Des Moines Register reports: Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in Iowa — a startling reversal for Democrats and Republicans who have all but written off the state’s presidential contest as a certain Trump victory. A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before …

The New York Times reports: The vice president gazed into the mirror, reached out her hand and told her comedic reflection that she had this election thing in the bag. “I’m just here to remind you — you got this,” the actual vice president said to Maya Rudolph, the comedian who has portrayed Kamala Harris for years on “Saturday Night …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris’s campaign will hold a national livestream show that features events from the seven battleground states on Monday night, a senior campaign official announced on Saturday. To mark the night before Election Day, the campaign will host simultaneous “get out the vote” organizing events in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Those …

Mediaite reports: The Marist poll found Harris up 3 points on Trump in Michigan and leading by 2 points in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The pollster’s final results for other swing states showed Georgia and Nevada as tied, while Trump led by 1 point in Arizona and 2 points in North Carolina. If Marist’s polls were to be the outcome …

The Hill reports: Vice President Harris on Friday blasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s possible role as a public health authority in a second Donald Trump administration, calling him the “last person” who should be considered for such a position. “He [Trump] has indicated that the person who would be in charge of health care for the American people is someone …