While the GOP had a strong showing in Florida, Democrats were holding their own late Tuesday in tough races in Virginia and the Northeast.
Not long after midnight, a number of news outlets called the Senate race in Pennsylvania for Democrat John Fetterman, who was running against celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz.
Despite nationwide anxiety, there were no reports of political violence or widespread problems at the polls in the first major test of the country’s democracy since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Localized problems with voting machines were reported in the Phoenix area and some other jurisdictions. Seeking to pad their margin in the House, Republican campaign committees in the closing weeks of the election season poured money into races in blue states such as California and New York, putting Democrats on defense in territory Biden won solidly two years ago.
Many observers were focused on three House races in Virginia to project the scope of Republicans’ victories. GOP candidate Jennifer Kiggans successfully ousted Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria in a district that Biden had won by 2 percentage points. But Rep. Abigail Spanberger, another vulnerable Democrat, fended off a challenge, and Rep. Jennifer Wexton appeared on track to do the same, giving Democrats some hope for a better-than-expected outcome nationwide.
In Pennsylvania, Oz trailed Fetterman through the summer but the race had grown tighter in recent weeks. A Republican, Oz is a well-known former TV personality who won Trump’s backing. But once the ballots began being counted, Fetterman grabbed the lead and remained in front through most of the evening. In a tweet at 12:57 a.m. Fetterman said, “It’s official. I will be the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. We bet on the people of Pennsylvania and you didn’t let us down. Thank you.
More than 340 candidates who espouse Trump’s false election conspiracies are on the ballot for federal, state and local offices, according to a tally by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. That includes contenders for governor and secretary of state in Arizona and Michigan, who could upend how elections are run in those pivotal battleground states for the 2024 presidential race.
Democrats tried to address the nation’s pocketbook anxiety, dubbing their signature legislative achievement of the year the Inflation Reduction Act. But the branding does not appear to have helped, in part because the various provisions —which included clean energy investments to combat climate change and efforts to reduce prescription drug costs for Medicare patients — did not make an immediate dent in rising prices.
Republican control of the House would probably elevate McCarthy, but his hold on a potential speakership could be weak because his party is internally divided. Democrats may use the lame-duck session between now and January, when a new Congress is sworn in, to head off some of the fights.
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