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Now that the dreaded Republican tsunami has turned out to be the size of a mud puddle, Democrats need to face up to their own problems. They—along with many members of the media—need to look in the mirror and admit, “I suffer from political PTSD.”

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has been re-elected—and thanks to Democratic victories in the state legislature, he’ll have some power against Republicans’ agenda.

Despite Republican candidates and voters spending the past two years constructing elaborate myths and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen, Tuesday’s midterm elections appear to have mostly gone off without a hitch. Despite Democrats outperforming expectations, most Republican candidates so far have opted not to deny their own losses. Far, far too many election deniers won office—at least 166 so far—but among the marquee races for governor and secretary of state most of them lost. Читать дальше...

Four states voted to ban slavery on Election Day, closing a loophole in the 13th Amendment that allows for draconian prison labor practices.

Hours before the midterm election polls were set to close, former President Donald Trump said that if Republicans do well, he should “get all the credit”—but if they lose, he “should not be blamed at all.”

Senator Ron Johnson has been re-elected, besting Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes, NBC News projects.

Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black senator, and ultra-conservative opponent Herschel Walker will head to a runoff vote on December 6 to determine who will be elected senator, the secretary of state announced Wednesday.

Donald Trump is not having a good morning.

Out of 37 candidates in competitive races that the former president endorsed ahead of Election Day, only 10 have won so far. Nine lost, and 20 of those races are still undecided. And the full list of Trump-endorsed candidates that lost is much, much longer.

Trump has tried to play it down, posting on Truth Social that Tuesday night was a “GREAT EVENING” with an “amazing job by some really fantastic candidates,” but multiple reports indicate... Читать дальше...

Latino voters did not abandon the Democrats on Election Day, but the demographic’s unquestioned support is starting to wane.

Few states were as important in the 2022 midterms as Pennsylvania. We should be used to this by now: Donald Trump won the state by fewer than 50,000 votes in 2016; Joe Biden carried it by 80,000 four years later, in a victory that made the Keystone State one of the big targets of Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election—an exertion that led to the now infamous bit of political dark comedy that was Rudy Giuliani’s press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Maryland and Missouri have voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

First of all, let’s stipulate that expectation of a red wave this election was entirely warranted. I was prepared for the worst myself. Recent history and Joe Biden’s bad approval numbers suggested a big Republican night.

Five states voted to increase abortion access on Election Day, in a massive victory for women and gender minorities.

As if awaiting the midterm results weren’t enough to put Democrats on edge, Politico’s Eli Stokols and Alex Thompson reported Tuesday afternoon that White House chief of staff Ron Klain may soon depart the White House.

I understand that most folks don’t live and breathe the gory details of health care policy. It’s mind-numbingly complex and frankly kind of boring. But when it goes wrong, bad things happen. Really bad things.

As Republican voters prepared to head to the polls in this year’s midterm elections, there was one consistent message that GOP candidates had drilled into their heads over the course of weeks of wind-up: The election is being rigged.

It is a grim sign for tribal sovereignty that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in Haaland v. Brackeen. The justices will consider whether the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, which has governed adoption proceedings for Native children for the last 44 years, is a constitutional use of Congress’s plenary powers over tribal affairs. Congress passed the law in 1978 to end a series of practices that collectively amounted to cultural genocide: the adoption of Native children by... Читать дальше...

The good news about the GOP potentially re-taking the House of Representatives, as they seemed poised to do by the time the clock struck midnight on Election Day (albeit by a smaller-than-expected margin), is that Republicans want to hold hearings that put corporate America under a microscope.

Democrat John Fetterman has defeated television doctor Mehmet Oz and won the Pennsylvania Senate race, according to a projection from NBC.

There was a brief, mad moment back in August when it looked like maybe, just maybe, Democrats might buck one of the oldest and most durable trends in American politics: The party that holds the White House loses seats in Congress during the first midterm election. In fact, an average of 28 seats since 1934.

In a major loss, Trump-backed Republican Bo Hines has lost to Democrat Wiley Nickel in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district. FiveThirtyEight had predicted Hines to have a 77 percent chance of winning.

Brian Kemp was reelected as governor of Georgia Tuesday, defeating Democrat Stacey Abrams, according to a projection from CNN.

MAGA Republican J.D. Vance was elected Ohio senator Tuesday in a tight race against Democratic Representative Tim Ryan, according to a projection from NBC.

In Virginia’s 7th congressional district, Democrat Abigail Spanberger was projected the winner in a tough and very closely watched race.

There was a strange back and forth about voting in Arizona’s Maricopa County on Tuesday, which  resulted in a judge denying a request to extend voting in the county beyond normal hours.