Fifty-one House races remain unresolved, 18 of which are in battleground districts, including four in California: Aaron Navarro contributed to this report. VOTERS: All legal votes will be counted. CNN has reported Senate GOP leaders plan to hold leadership elections on Wednesday, with leaders arguing that the elections follow a similar timetable as 2020 when two Georgia Senate races headed to runoffs. GOP Sen. Rick Scott, the chair of theNational Republican Senatorial Committee, called for a delay of the elections earlier Sunday, saying, it "doesn't make any sense" to have them this week. State Rep. Todd Stephens (R., Montgomery) conceded his race in the 151st District to Democrat Melissa Cerrato on Thursday, more than a week after Election Day. 1251 et seq.) The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, . Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. Also on Meet the Press, White House senior advisor Anita Dunn reflected on Bidens pre-election strategy of bashing extremist Maga Republicans named for Trumps Make America Great Again movement: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}A lot of people thought it wouldnt work. I think itd be a mistake. We want to hear from you. The high-profile Arizona governor's race remains too early to call Sunday evening after Maricopa County released more unofficial results. We are so completely focused on our political time and not worrying about my future, but for the future for the American people. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. Gongwer Michigan is reporting Democrats have taken control of the state Senate for the first time since 1984. And in the states where Republicans victories could have led to potentially greater abortion restrictions, such as Michigan and Pennsylvania, Democrats won decisive victories. One example is her efforts to keep the federal district court vacancies in Nevada filled, said Carl Tobias, Williams professor of law at the University of Richmond and former lecturer in law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. There was an emphatic statement that, in America, the will of the people prevails," Biden said. Still, it will take these states some time to finish counting, so it could be later this week before we even know whether these seats will decide control of the Senate. Why would you do that? In the other faction, Florida senator Rick Scott, head of the Republican Senate leadership committee, is among the Trump loyalists attempting to scapegoat Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. Senate GOP reelects Sens. In the Senate, Democrats maintained control of the chamber, which has been split 50-50, and could even expand their majority if Senator Raphael Warnock, Democrat of Georgia, prevails in a. Which seats are up for election? Its a familiar gripe from Lake, who has pledged to be the medias worst fricking nightmare if she wins, and has refused to say if she would accept the result of the election if she lost. For the first time since 1934, the party who holds the WH didnt lose a *single* state leg chamber. We feel good about where we are, Biden said. And on both of those scores, there is a world of difference between me and Herschel Walker.". Republicans saw Sununu, a moderate who is popular with the states voters, as the ideal candidate to flip the seat. The shift is perhaps the starkest sign Michigan voters rejected the "red wave" predicted by Republicans . Several dozen of her supporters, some in military-style fatigues, lent a menacing air to the count by gathering outside the Maricopa county elections in Phoenix on Saturday and hurling abuse at sheriffs deputies. Three strikes and youre out. Although Arizona law dictates the process, and speed, by which the ballots are counted, Lake is also unhappy that Hobbs, as secretary of state, has involvement in the election, even though her opponents role is at arms length by certifying the count when its complete. "Here's my focus, is: We still got to win Georgia. Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox. The Republican Party, led by Kevin McCarthy, won control of the House, defeating Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party, . For both chambers, a handful of yet-to-be called races will decide control. Chavez-DeRemer ran as a businesswoman and former budget-balancing mayor of Happy Valley, appealing to voters discontent with rising prices, crime and the Biden administration. Working together, weve delivered historic progress for working families.Americans chose that progress. SECTION 1. After the state flipped from red to blue during the 2020 election, all eyes were on the Georgia Senate race this go around. Gov. Which primaries are the most competitive? Any losses or gains in seats may alter the narrow Democratic majority in the Senate. Lake, the Arizona Republican party, and Republican national committee (RNC), have all lobbed out unfounded allegations of misconduct and incompetence by election officials, as the count enters its sixth day. This was a pretty big deal considering the party that controls Congress tends to have the upper hand in creating and passing legislation, but even with majority rule, the 2022 midterms were anything but certain. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Democrats in the House have put forward an array of wide-reaching gun control bills that are set to come to the floor this week, but in the Senate, which can make or break the success of most bills, Republican Party negotiators are [] By Alexandra Hutzler November 7, 2022, 4:47 PM 4:01 Dawn at the Capitol, Nov. 7, 2022. Nearly all of Trump's picks in the most competitive House races were defeated, as were many of his preferred candidates for Senate and in key gubernatorial and secretary of state elections. Since 1932, the party in power has lost on average 28 seats in the House of Representatives and four seats in the Senate. The closer a Republican was to Trump, the worse they did on Tuesday. Who Will Control The House And Senate? Aguilar had never run for elected office, but cast himself as a defender of Nevadas democracy. Additionally, the redrawing of most U.S. House districts following the decennial census contributed to the possibility for change. Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are still alive in the race for control of the House of Representatives, but acknowledges the pathway to victory is narrow. (All Actions) . With Cortez Mastos win, the Democratic party will serve as the majority party in the Senate until the next midterm election. and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. It is not just the political perils that go with either individual, its also the simple matter of their age. Your vote will count equally whether it is reported first, last, or somewhere in between. Republicans are hoping to add to their success of 2020, and history indicates they will, Balance of the chamber could come down to four states where Democrats are up for reelection. 2022 Election (348) He went big on vaccinations. Weve also been watching the heated race for governor in Arizona between extremist Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs. They may be too new to reshape the 2024 presidential race, but they carry much promise for the years to come. Here are the most interesting Democratic primaries and Republican primaries to watch as Republicans and Democrats try to nominate their most electable candidates. Party control of both chambers was up for grabs. Of the races in which CBS News has projected a winner or a candidate has conceded, 15 seats have switched from Democrat to Republican, while seven have switched from Republican to Democrat. View more history-making candidates here: Correction:An earlier version of this post included the wrong political office for Katie Britt. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Whitmer herself was the victim of a kidnap plot that resulted in the conviction of several rightwing extremists, and called out a hammer attack by another on the husband of House speaker Nancy Pelosi: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}My opponent [election denier Tudor Dixon] was a conspiracy theorist, and she has regularly stoked politically violent rhetoric [and] undermined institutions. He said the county will continue to report about 85,000 votes per night until they are done. Theres a generational change happening of the kind you see every few decades, said Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist who has worked on state and congressional campaigns. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? In the end, Democrats were able to keep their 50 seats, with Nevada incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto sealing the deal by winning her states contentious election on Saturday, Nov. 12. As of Wednesday, Nov. 16 Republicans officially gained the control of the 2023 U.S. House as incumbent Republican Mike Garcia was declared victorious in Californias House District 27the 218th seat filled by the GOP in this falls election. The fates of Democratic Sens. Jamie Raskin, the Democratic Maryland congressman who serves on the January 6 committee, and led the House prosecution at Donald Trumps second impeachment trial, says the former president might destroy the Republican party. Raskin was speaking on CBS Face the Nation, five days after numerous Trump-endorsed candidates flopped in midterm election races. Democrats' performance cut against a persistent narrative that the party was vulnerable due to a range of factors, including Biden's unpopularity and historical trends that disfavor the party in the White House. For the second Election Day in a row, election night ends without a clear winner. Last updated Oct. 31, 2022 Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, there appeared to be a real chance that Democrats could keep control of the House. With voters giving Democrats low marks on the economy and immigration, two defining issues for Arizonans, whomever Republicans nominate from a deep field of hopefuls is sure to pose a strong challenge to Kelly. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) has more money on hand than her likely Republican opponent, former state attorney general Adam Laxalt, who benefits from Trumps endorsement. For example, Biden and the Democrats have already appointed 25 appellate judges and are on track to confirm at least five, and perhaps as many as 10 more, judges for those courts this year. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Needle suggests Republicans are likelier than not to win the House, but it is no certainty. Remember, right after Joe Biden was sworn in, all of the economists and the pundits in his ear who were saying, go slow, go small.. The GOP could pick up a sizable number of seats from the outstanding races, too. Leading up to Nov. 8, Shepard predicted Californias 27th District, Iowas 3rd District, and Texas 15th District were all favored to lean Republican, while the race for Ohios 1st District could fall Democrat. The most vulnerable Republican incumbent is Johnson, whose job approval ratings are lower than Bidens. What are we running on? View By Bill Version View By Category. Democrats express considerable confidence that they could unseat Johnson and charge that he has prioritized Trump over his own constituents. Walker has high name recognition but is untested as a candidate and faces allegations of domestic abuse. He added: "Theywant to rush through an election because they don't want to do any assessment of what we've done wrong. Insanity is doing the exact same thing and thinking you're gonna get different results. Speaking to reporters in Cambodia late on Saturday during the Asean summit, Biden congratulated Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer but appeared to acknowledge how a Republican-controlled House might affect his agenda going forward. Nov. 10, 202202:16. The battle for control of the House is now the biggest unanswered question of this years midterm elections afterDemocrats kepttheir narrow Senate majority. Democrats, however, need only 50 votes, since Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris casts tie-breaking votes in the event of a 50-50 split. Days later, however, Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema declared herself as as independent, changing the composition of the incoming class to 50 caucusing with Democrats (including Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine), 49 caucusing with Republicans and one independent (Sinema). Please enter valid email address to continue. 42. As a result, Democrats just need to hold on to two of their three most endangered seats Arizona, Georgia and Nevada which significantly improves their odds of reaching 50 seats. While all the votes still need to be tabulated, it appears that Democrats will keep control of the Senate and have an outside chance of maintaining their narrow majority in the House of Representatives. And all of this was squarely front and center for a lot of Michigan voters, and I suspect thats probably true for voters across the country. Mr. Kelly seemingly has a healthy lead in the early vote 19 points but there is no hard evidence that a Masters victory is impossible. This time, it comes in the form of a Democrat-controlled Senate and a Republican-controlled House. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock appealed to Georgians Sunday afternoon to vote in the upcoming runoff election, making an appearance during rapper Lil Baby's Fall Festival and Charity Drive in Atlanta. As of February 27, 2023, there are 22 Republican trifectas, 17 Democratic trifectas, and 11 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control. Author and political analyst Michael Cohen has penned an opinion piece for the Observer, and finds America almost perfectly divided between Democrats and Republicans: Midterm elections in the United States are where the hopes and dreams of governing parties go to die. I'm not going to take anything off the table.". But one race where we do have a projection from ABC News is of critical importance to the Senate math: Pennsylvania. Bill History. A total of 218 seats. Design editing by Madison Walls. But not this year. The days of an evenly split Senate may be no more after the midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans each striving to pick up just one more seat to break the tie. You might be flashing back to 2020, when it took over two weeks to call congressional races in some battleground states like Georgia. The Republican Ron Johnson led by just over one percentage point at 7 a.m. Eastern, with 94 percent of the vote counted. Theyre nowhere close to being called the winner in many of these races in many of these states, late mail ballots have the potential to help Democrats. Warnock never truly stopped campaigning after surprisingly winning in a runoff election in January 2021, fundraising aggressively to build a staggering $25.6 million cash on hand by the end of March. Mastriano has been one of the most well-known and extreme GOP election deniers. She added: There are all kinds of ways to exert influence. Photo editing by Thomas Simonetti. It may seem daunting, but it may not be quite as challenging as it looks: There might be about twice as many outstanding mail ballots, as a share of all voters, as there were at this time in 2020. Copy editing by Thomas Heleba. The Democrats retention of the Senate majority will enable Biden and that majority to continue nominating and confirming highly qualified judges who are diverse in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ideology and experience, like Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Nevada district judges Cristina Silva and Anne Traum. As Dec. 13, incumbent Republican Lauren Boebert was declared victorious over Democrat Adam Frisch in Colorados 3rd Congressional District, giving Republicans 222 wins in this falls election, compare to 213 for Democrats. However, roughly 99,000 votes remain to be counted in Clark County, the state's largest and a Democratic stronghold. The leadership of the Republican Senate says no, you cannot have a plan. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy previously said he would back a national 15-week ban, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has repeatedly shot down the idea, saying the issue . She attacked McLeod-Skinner, a liberal attorney, as a California expat -- she previously served on the Santa Clara City Council -- with far-left views on environmental and police policy. The current split control in the Legislature with Democrats running the House and the governor's office with Republicans holding the Senate meant gridlock this year, when the parties. Biden and Democrats have sought to frame the election not as a referendum but as a choice between their policies and those of far-right "MAGA Republicans," including on restricting abortion. Democrats now control both the House and Senate. It belongs to Joe Biden, and the Democrats who got out there and fought for working people. That includes a campaign against his candidacyby former President Donald Trump. It was too early to call critical Senate seats in. He said he cautioned the Republican party during the impeachment last year to jettison Trump, but instead the Senate voted to acquit him: .css-cumn2r{height:1em;width:1.5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;}When I was over in the Senate with the impeachment team, I told the Republicans there that this was our opportunity to deal with the problem of Donald Trump, who had committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the people of the United States. The Senate is a 50-50 tie, with Vice President Kamala Harris giving Democrats control by virtue of her tie-breaking vote. In 2018, two years after taking the White House and both Houses of Congress, Republicans lost 40 House seats and control of the chamber. The turnout in the state appears fairly low, suggesting that a large number of ballots might remain. . In Alaska, the states at-large House seat and one of its Senate seats will hinge on ranked-choice results. Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis. The GOP still appears on track to take control of the House and the party has won 207 seats so far, while Democrats hold 189 seats with several key races yet to be called. They want us to focus on the issues that matter to them and on making their lives better," Biden said. Meanwhile, take a read of Oliver Laughlands report on where things stand: Younger candidates suggest a generational change is under way in the US political landscape. Redistricting is the process of drawing congressional and state legislative maps to ensure everyones vote counts equally. CBS News characterizes the overall Senate battle as a toss-up. As noted below, two other independent senatorsBernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Mainecurrently caucus with the Democrats. If we have a sitting president, she or he will be the leader of our party, but we should be a party of ideas and principles. 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