Midterm Election - Page 9

Republican Derrick Van Orden, a retired Navy SEAL backed by former President Donald Trump, won the congressional race against Democrat Brad Pfaff for Wisconsin’s open Third Congressional District.

Dannenfelser contends the stifled red wave is proof that Republicans must go on “offense” to expose Democrats “as the true extremists.”

In a significant upset to the House Democrats, New York Republican Mike Lawler defeated their party’s top campaign chief, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, in the Empire State’s Seventeenth Congressional District.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Fox News Contributor and columnist for The Hill Joe Concha stated that the 2024 election wasn’t “even a red little ripple” and the big stories are the wins Republicans

Republican Kris Kobach has completed his political comeback after being declared the winner of the 2022 Kansas attorney general race over Democrat opponent Chris Mann.

Eli Crane, backed by former President Donald Trump, defeated Democrat Rep. Tom O’Halleran in the race to represent Arizona’s second congressional district, according to an ABC News projection. 

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) offered only a brief and generic congratulatory text to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) after Romney refused to endorse Lee. 

Republican Rep. Jim Banks (IN) announced Wednesday morning after the midterm elections that he is “running to be the majority whip” in the U.S. House of Representatives, starting the post-election leadership race.

Election Day could be seen as a nationwide “verdict on Biden’s policies,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said during a “Don’t Tread on Florida” stop in Sarasota County on Sunday.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday ripped radical Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) for refusing to admit defeat.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) lays out the top tier priorities for the (presumably) new Republican-led House of Representatives.

Senate Republicans will hold its leadership vote on November 16.

Republican Tudor Dixon conceded the Michigan gubernatorial race to incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday morning after Whitmer secured a victory late Tuesday night.

Incumbent Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly has secured a second term in an extremely close election against Derek Schmidt.

Pennsylvania voters reelected a Democratic state representative who died last month, the latest anomaly in a state that has been under the national political spotlight since voting to put Donald Trump in the White House in the 2016 race.

Tesla CEO and new Twitter owner Elon Musk responded to some Twitter users about the midterm election results on Tuesday. In one tweet, Musk confirmed Silicon Valley’s leftist bias, quipping that it is “borderline illegal” to express support for Republicans in San Francisco.

A measure to enshrine abortion as a right in the state constitution of Michigan has been projected to become law following Tuesday’s vote.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defeated Democrat challenger Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) by over 1.5 million votes, representing a drastic shift from his victory in 2018, when he won the governorship by less than half a percentage point, or 32, 463 votes.

The first transgender lawmaker was elected to the Minnesota House on Tuesday night after Leigh Finke (D) won the District 66A seat.

Iowa voters passed Public Measure 1 on Tuesday, enshrining the right to keep and bear arms in the state’s constitution and making the passage of new gun control restrictions very difficult. 

California voters overwhelmingly voted for a state constitutional amendment that will enshrine the right to abortion until birth, though voters turned down many other ballot measures, including two that would expand sports gambling in the Golden State.

Nigel Farage predicted that a “titanic clash” is brewing between Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the midterms.

Democrat Gov. Tony Evers (D) has defeated Republican challenger Tim Michels in Wisconsin’s tight gubernatorial race. 

Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin beat Republican Tom Barrett to win reelection to Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, according to an Associated Press report early Wednesday morning.

House Freedom Caucus (HFC) chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) has been projected to win re-election in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, according to the Associated Press.

Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is the projected winner in Michigan’s highly anticipated gubernatorial election, defeating Republican challenger Tudor Dixon.

Republican Tom Kean was projected to defeat incumbent Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski in New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District by CNN and NBC News on Tuesday night.

Neither Republican Herschel Walker nor incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) was winning the U.S. Senate race in Georgia with a majority as of early Wednesday morning, and the two candidates are now headed for a runoff election on December 6, according to the secretary of state’s office.

Rep. Chris Pappas won reelection against Republican candidate Karoline Leavitt in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District race in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Billionaire Rick Caruso has an early lead against Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race that remains too close to call. 

Even though the general election was not as competitive as the Republican primary was, GOP nominee Katie Britt won the election to fill Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, soon to be vacated by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL).

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was projected to defeat radical Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) on Thursday with 93 percent of the vote counted.

Wisconsin’s Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes wasted over $96 million in donor money on his failed campaign against Sen. Ron Johnson, according to Open Secrets. 

Republican Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt was poised for victory late Tuesday night as votes were being tabulated across the state.

Republican Andy Ogles has won his Congressional race in Tennessee’s 5th district, beating his Democrat opponent Heidi Campbell. 

Incumbent Democrat Rep. Annie McLane Kuster has won her bid for reelection in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District against Republican challenger Robert Burns.