Half of voters said inflation factored significantly, with groceries, gasoline, housing, food and other costs that have shot up in the past year. The GOP was still hoping to knock off Democrat Tina Kotek in Oregon’s three-way governor’s race.ĪP VoteCast, a broad survey of the national electorate, showed that high inflation and concerns about the fragility of democracy were heavily influencing voters. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to run for president in 2024 and could be a major GOP primary challenger to Trump. So did Republican incumbents including Brian Kemp of Georgia, Texas Gov. In top governor’s races, Democrats Tony Evers in Wisconsin, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Laura Kelly of Kansas and Kathy Hochul of New York all won. Maggie Hassen beat Don Bolduc, a retired Army general who had initially promoted Trump’s lies about the 2020 election but tried to shift away those views closer to Election Day. Mandela Barnes, while in New Hampshire, Democratic Sen. Ron Johnson prevailed over Democratic Lt. Both Warnock and Walker were already fundraising off the race stretching into a second round.īoth Republicans and Democratic incumbents maintained key Senate seats. Jon Ossoff - which gave Democrats control of the Senate. In 2021, Warnock used a runoff to win his seat as did Democratic Sen. Georgia, meanwhile, was set for yet another runoff on Dec. In the governor’s race Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro beat Republican Doug Mastriano, an election denier who some feared would not certify a Democratic presidential win in the state in 2024. John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke five months ago, flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat, topping Trump-endorsed Republican Dr. In Pennsylvania, Democrats won the governorship and Senate in the key battleground state. The party in power almost always suffers losses in the president’s first midterm elections, but Democrats bet that anger from the Supreme Court’s decision to gut abortion rights might energize their voters to buck historical trends. “If we fall a little short, we’re going to know that we gave it our all and we beat the spread.”ĭemocrats had faced historic headwinds. “As we sit here I can’t, with 100% certainty, tell you who holds the House majority,” said Maloney whose defeat marks the first time since 1980 the head of the Democratic House campaign arm has been defeated. That raised questions about how big the Republicans could hope their possible majority might be. Though neither party had yet secured a majority in either congressional chamber, the midterms - on track to be the most expensive ever - didn’t feature a strong GOP surge, uplifting for Democrats who had braced for sweeping losses.
But Republicans held on to governors’ mansions in Florida, Texas and Georgia, another battleground state Biden narrowly won two years ago. The party won governors’ races, winning in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - battlegrounds critical to Biden’s 2020 win over Donald Trump.
though, saw candidates who prioritized protecting abortion rights after this summer’s Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. In a particularly symbolic victory, the GOP toppled House Democratic campaign chief Sean Patrick Maloney of New York.ĭemocrats. But Republicans notched several important victories in their bid to get to the 218 seats needed to reclaim the House majority.
In the House, Democrats kept seats in districts from Virginia to Kansas to Rhode Island, while many in states like New York and California had not been called. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker failing to earn enough votes to win outright. But there was a strong possibility that, for the second time in two years, the Senate majority could come down to a runoff in Georgia next month, with Democratic Sen.
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WASHINGTON - Republicans were closing in Wednesday on a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinged on a series of tight races in a midterm election that defied expectations of sweeping conservative victories driven by frustration over inflation and President Joe Biden’s leadership.Įither party could secure a Senate majority with wins in both Nevada and Arizona - where the races were too early to call. By SARA BURNETT, JILL COLVIN and WILL WEISSERT
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