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LAST UPDATE | 9 Nov 2022
THERE ARE OVER 500 Senate, House and Governor races in the US midterms, so we won’t be collating them all but here are some of the high profile winners so far.
You can follow updates on the various counts here in our liveblog.
JD Vance (Republican, Senate, Ohio)
Republican JD Vance, the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy author backed by former president Donald Trump, won a contentious race for Ohio’s Senate seat.
Kathy Hochul (Democrat, Governor, New York)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the Democratic incumbent and the first woman to serve in the post, fended off a stiff challenge from Republican congressman Lee Zeldin to win election.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican, Governor, Arkansas)
Trump’s former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been elected as Governor of Arkansas, a position formerly held by Bill Clinton and her own father Mike Huckabee.
John Fetterman (Democrat, Senate, Pennsylvania)
Democrat John Fetterman defeated celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania giving the Democrats a huge boost in their hopes of keeping the Senate in their column.
Ron DeSantis (Republican, Governor, Florida)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has been tipped as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, has been handsomely re-elected in the Sunshine State.
Perhaps sensing a potential rival, Donald Trump has taken to insulting DeSantis.
Maura Healey (Democrat, Governor, Massachusetts)
Maura Healey was elected as as America’s first openly lesbian governor. She’s also the first female governor of Massachusetts.
She told cheering supporters at her election night party in Boston that she was “proud” of her historic victory.
“To every little girl and every LGBTQ person out there, you can be anything you want to be,” Healey said.
Maggie Hassan (Democrat, Senate, New Hampshire)
There had been some speculation that Maggie Hassan, the incumbent, may lose out to Republican challenger Don Bolduc, who has made claims in the past that Joe Biden’s 2020 win was not legitimate.
Hassan’s victory six years ago had been close, but the result this time around is likely to be much clearer, according to projections.
- With reporting by Daragh Brophy
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Half of America loves its maga Republicans.
@Paul Furey: So says the man who has never travelled more than 50 miles from his home.
@Don Hogan: Hi there! Lived in the US for 6 years, visit regularly, am I allowed to share my observations?
The US is a disaster. One party has realised they cannot win fairly (see popular vote counts) . So they gerrymander Districts to get supermajorities (see North Carolina) object to Federal Laws making it easier for people to vote (Voting Rights Bill blocked in the Senate) . Override elections that re-enfranchise people after they’ve completed their sentences (see Florida), bring cases that will allow them to do anything they want to restrict voting and gerrymander. (Moore v. Harper), preventing Obama’s Supreme Court pick from a hearing for a year, then rushing through Amy Coney Barret DURING an election. And let’s not forget The Big Lie.
Only one party is trying to destroy Democracy and they’re succeeding. (Moore v. Harper will be a disaster).
So yeah, its not 50%, but they’ve worked to tip the scales so far that it might as well be.
And I’ve met enough of them to know they’re far from scarce
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