Annie Andrews wins in South Carolina, where no Democrat has won Senate wlwctoin
Roy Cooper has won the US Senate election in North Carolina, the Associated Press reports, a significant victory for Democrats in their quest to regain control of Congress’s upper chamber.
North Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the US Senate since 2008, and the success of Cooper, a former governor, brings his party one seat closer to retaking control of a chamber they lost two years ago, when Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Continue reading...As polls close and election results roll in, Americans across the country wait in anticipation and celebrate announced outcomes
Continue reading...Democratic candidate defeated Republican Gregg Hull, businessman and longtime mayor of Rio Rancho
Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary under Joe Biden, has been elected governor of New Mexico and will become the first Native American woman to govern a US state.
Haaland, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent Gregg Hull, 60, a businessman and the longtime mayor of the city of Rio Rancho.
Continue reading...Annie Andrews and Roy Cooper flip Senate seats in South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively; Amy Acton wins Ohio governor’s race
Senate full report: Democrats aim to retake chamber
House full report: Democrats poised to flip chamber
As we bring you the latest from around the country, Donald Trump is certainly paying attention. From the White House, the president said that he was tuning into coverage on Fox News.
“I can’t stand Jessica Tarlov’s voice,” Trump said of the Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor in a post on Truth Social. The president called Tarlov “DUMB AS A ROCK”.
Continue reading...Democratic doctor wins over Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur endorsed by Donald Trump
Amy Acton was elected governor of Ohio on Tuesday – a rare victory for the Democratic party in a state that Donald Trump carried three times.
Acton, 60, led Ohio’s health department through the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic. She will become the first woman to serve as Ohio’s governor. Her defeat of Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur endorsed by Trump, also ends 16 years of Republican control of the governor’s office. She is the first Democrat to win the post since Ted Strickland in 2006.
Continue reading...Endorsing his opponent while the US risks plummeting into fascism, she reveals the one issue that triggers her to take destructive action
“Did you talk to anyone? Did you have a long night of the soul? Were you up all night? ... Did you have a dream?”
Interviewing the Michigan US representative Haley Stevens on CNN on Sunday, Anderson Cooper was casting about for explanations. What caused the Democrat’s radical change of heart between a Saturday night promise to her House colleague Debbie Dingell that she would stand with the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and a public endorsement on Sunday morning of his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers?
Continue reading...Andrews ran a campaign on healthcare affordability and beat Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham to win
Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who campaigned on healthcare affordability, has won the race for US Senate in South Carolina, making her the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate for over a quarter century.
Andrews had faced an uphill battle in what has been seen as a reliably Republican state against Darline Graham, the sister of the late Republican powerbroker Lindsey Graham.
Continue reading...Victory for party comes despite unusual and aggressive efforts by Republicans to redraw congressional districts
Democrats are winning competitive House races and are expected to flip the US House of Representatives after two tumultuous years of Donald Trump’s second presidency. A change in House control would give Democrats a perch to conduct robust oversight of the administration for its final two years.
Republicans currently hold 218 seats in the House and Democrats have 214. (There is one vacancy in a Republican seat and one vacancy in a Democratic seat, and one Republican member switched his party affiliation to independent.) Democrats need to flip just three seats to gain control of the House.
Continue reading...Annie Andrews adds to Democrats’ strong evening by defeating Darline Graham, who was tapped to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham
Senate full report: Democrats aim to retake chamber
House full report: Democrats poised to flip chamber
As we bring you the latest from around the country, Donald Trump is certainly paying attention. From the White House, the president said that he was tuning into coverage on Fox News.
“I can’t stand Jessica Tarlov’s voice,” Trump said of the Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor in a post on Truth Social. The president called Tarlov “DUMB AS A ROCK”.
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Pappas focused campaign against Republican John Sununu on serving as a bulwark against Trump administration
Chris Pappas, the four-term Democratic congressman, has won New Hampshire’s US Senate race, protecting the open seat from a Republican flip in a closely fought contest against John Sununu, the former senator.
Pappas, 46, is a centrist voice in the US House who has at times broken with his party on major legislation. He focused his Senate campaign on serving as a bulwark against the Trump administration, which is unpopular in the Granite State. Pappas will be the first out gay man to serve in the US Senate.
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