Republican Alan Wilson Wins South Carolina Governor’s Race
Republican South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson defeated Democrat state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the contest to succeed Henry McMaster to become the state’s next governor.
Republican South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson defeated Democrat state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the contest to succeed Henry McMaster to become the state’s next governor.
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Holding South Carolina is essential if Republicans have any hope of keeping their Senate majority. About 6 in 10 Senate voters in South Carolina say Darline Graham does not have the right experience to serve as a senator, though most...
In this episode of Political Perspectives, Hugo Gurdon and Byron York break down the aftermath of the "blue tsunami" that led to unthinkable GOP losses in stronghold states like Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina. The...
The Democratic Party swept formerly deep-red Senate seats in South Carolina, Kansas and Texas. What we've just witnessed is a collapse of the Republican Party.
Sen.-elect Annie Andrews says voters rejected “dirty politics” and responded to her focus on everyday costs and South Carolina’s struggling health care system.
Annie Andrews has been elected to the U.S. Senate in South Carolina. Andrews became the first Democrat to do so in decades by defeating U.S. Sen. Darline Graham on Tuesday. (Ap video shot and produced Eric Verduzzo)...
Citizen McCain One of the GOP’s most famous nepo babies blasted another political heir for cashing in on her family name as Republicans reeled from an election-night bloodbath. Meghan McCain, the daughter of longtime senator and 2008...
WASHINGTON, United States — "It is a funeral," a conservative voter from South Carolina said, gesturing toward the crowd inside the Butterworth, a restaurant in the heart of Washington that has long been favored by members and...
I thought I'd pass along this smart and readable analysis from Bill Otis (Ringside at the Reckoning); as I've mentioned…
If a red-state firewall is going to save the Republican Senate majority, the polls aren’t showing it yet, just four days out from Tuesday’s midterm elections. The RealClearPolitics polling averages showed Democrats leading in six of...
Senate Republicans see Iowa moving their way and Ohio slipping, with pessimism growing over Alaska and Kansas. Why it matters: Even when they squint, top Republicans struggle to see a majority beyond 51 seats, according to half a dozen...
Republicans are burning tens of millions of last-minute ad dollars to try to rescue three red-state senators who they say ignored months of warnings that their campaigns were in danger. Why it matters: Senate races in Kansas, South...
Republicans are spending tens of millions of dollars in the final days of the campaign to rescue three red-state senators who party insiders say ignored months of warnings, according to Axios . Senate races in...
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Fox News star Sean Hannity has backstabbed President Donald Trump live on air as Democratic wins piled up on Tuesday. Asked by his co-host Bret Baier if he believed Tuesday’s midterms would be different if...
Politico’s John Harris argues President Donald Trump lost his “aura of mysticism” in Tuesday’s midterm results, and that his political style leaves him poorly suited to adapt. The wave swept Republicans out of former...
Republicans began picking through their party’s post-midterms wreckage Wednesday to ask about — and argue over — how things went so, so wrong in President Donald Trump’s second term. Tuesday’s blue tsunami not only washed out...
The polls and pundits were wrong—just not in the way that Democrats feared. A party faithful that was moderately confident of winning back the House of Representatives, while praying that the Senate was also in play, instead witnessed a...
The 29-year-old Ethiopian immigrant was one of several candidates to win with backing from the Democratic Socialists of America or its local chapters. The 29-year-old democratic socialist from Colorado made history as the first woman...
Melat Kiros becomes the first Generation Z woman elected to Congress, embodying a new era of political representation.
"I would do it all over again." Melat Kiros, a DSA member just elected to Congress, discusses how she lost her job at a law firm after writing an open letter defending the rights of students to protest the Israeli...
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Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral, is expected to flip a GOP-held South Carolina district after being fired by Pete Hegseth.
Young men no longer favor Republicans, new Times/Siena data shows. Covered by 3 outlets: 2 lean left, 1 lean right.
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Nathan Howard / REUTERS Donald Trump was forced to confront the scale of the GOP’s midterm wipeout in real time after discovering during an interview that one of his hand-picked candidates had lost. “I’m just looking...
Colin McPherson / Corbis via Getty Images If Democrats are competitive in deep-red South Carolina, polling guru Nate Silver says Republicans have a much bigger problem on their hands next week. Silver laid out how South Carolina could...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your...
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The results of the midterm tallies have set up a two-year power struggle between Trump's White House and the incoming Democratic Congress. A new Democratic majority in Congress could pressure the president to end the war in Iran....
President Trump blamed the Democrats' blue wave election wins for Thursday’s unprecedented stock market sell-off that saw firms lose trillions of dollars in value in a single day.
Sizing up the blue wave: From the Politics Desk NBC News The Evening: The Blue Wave Swells The New York Times Midterms 2026: How Democrats built a blue wave and won control of Congress Yahoo What happens after the...
The districts are very different, but they all explain how the Democrats won so big.
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In the battle between Democrats and Republicans for Senate control, the reliably red state of Kansas has moved from the edges to the center of the map. Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska...
JPMorgan shares fell after reports of a possible Senate inquiry into its Epstein ties, including scrutiny of executive decisions involving Mary Erdoes.
Live updates: Democrats will win more than 250 House seats, CNN projects | CNN Politics CNN Midterms 2026 election results and latest updates: Mississippi votes still being counted in Senate nail-biter after...
CNN projects that Democrats will win at least 245 House seats. In the Senate, two contests have not yet been called: CNN Sightline rates the Mississippi race as neutral and Alaska as favoring the Democrat. President...
At a packed Columbus diner the morning after Democrats take Ohio’s Senate and governor races, voters call the result a rebuke of fear‑mongering and a warning to Republicans not to bank on a “red state”. Many hope...
Two Senate races that a year ago were thought to be battlegrounds turned out to be slam-dunks for the Democrats. Nine battleground states hold the key to control of Congress as Republicans defend majorities and Democrats eye Senate...
Democrats have taken control of the House and the Senate, winning every battleground state and flipping seats they haven't won in decades. Lakshya Jain of The Argument, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and 60 Minutes...
Voter outrage over Minnesota’s yearslong fraud scandal failed to prevent Democrats from sweeping statewide this week, allowing them to win every major office up for grabs, including the governorship, an open Senate...
Across the country, voters reacted with joy and disbelief as Democrats pulled off stunning midterm upsets, claiming victories in traditional Republican strongholds including Iowa, South Carolina, Texas and Kansas.
Democrats have secured victories in Republican strongholds, and they are also ahead in other key battlegrounds. The ABC's Chief Election Analyst, Casey Briggs, outlines the results so far for the 2026 US midterm...
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The Republican president will now visit Iowa and Kansas for back-to-back campaign rallies on Sunday. Covered by 33 outlets: 16 lean left, 10 are centre, 7 lean right.
Nigel Farage seems to have distanced himself from Donald Trump by accusing the US president of breaking a key promise to American voters. The Reform UK leader, seen as a close supporter and ally to Trump, predicted...
Wins in Iowa and Kansas revived the left’s rural populism
Democrats won major races in traditionally Republican states including Texas, Kansas, Iowa and Ohio.
President Donald Trump’s insistence that Republicans would have won with him on the ballot exposed a bigger problem for MAGA, New Republic columnist Greg Sargent argued. “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would...
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," with two days to go before the midterm elections, Sen. On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sen. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 lean left, 1 are centre, 1 lean right.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday he believes Democrats’ alleged conduct in the recent controversy in the Alaska Senate race was “dumb” but “not illegal.” While speaking with Margaret Brennan on Face the...
Transcript: David Becker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 1, 2026 CBS News Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 1, 2026 CBS News Open: This is "Face the...
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Voters in North Carolina are deciding between Democratic Gov. State’s ex-governor bests Michael Whatley, ex-chair of Republican National Committee, by focusing on lower costs US midterm elections – live updates Track live results from...
All of these seats were in districts redrawn in 2023 to favor Republican candidates.
Roy Cooper won North Carolina’s Senate seat before the polls even opened on Election Day. The number of early votes cast for the Democratic nominee totalled more than 1,728,000, besting the total number of votes cast...
Tuesday night was a disaster for Republicans, and we should stop pretending it was only about the issues. Democrats took back the House and the Senate. They flipped seats in Texas and North Carolina. Here in Georgia,...
When Matthew McDaniel showed up to President Donald Trump’s October 21 rally in Pendleton, South Carolina, wearing a blue Foxtrot Delta Tango T-shirt— military code for “Fuck Donald Trump” —he knew there was a chance things might turn...
We all vividly recall past election nights staying up until dawn, watching county-by-county margins, waiting on Florida’s results. For years, the state was a political heart-rate spike. Many voters still vividly remember the agonizing...
Tuesday's dramatic midterm results have transformed the electoral map, ensuring the path to future power for Democrats and Republicans must run through the South and its diverse voting population.
French faced backlash after posting an image of an event at a Texas university showing a gathering of predominantly South Asian people, including Indians.
State representative Rosenthal’s win comes after national backlash to French’s social media remarks targeting south Asian Americans Jon Rosenthal has won a seat on the Texas railroad commission, a powerful state regulatory agency,...
Republican Bo French attracted attention when he posted a photo of students of South Asian descent cheering at a football game with a caption saying the University of Texas has a "problem" that is "far worse than...
Democrat Jon Rosenthal has defeated GOP nominee Bo French, NBC News projects. French faced criticism from fellow Republicans for his inflammatory remarks.
On Tuesday, South Dakotans will decide whether to approve a Republican state legislature–led ballot measure that would automatically repeal Medicaid expansion in the event that Congress lowers federal matching payments, which currently...
CBS News projects that incumbent Florida Democrats Jared Moskowitz and Kathy Castor will hold on to their House seats, and Democrat Pia Dandiya will win her House race. Two Democrats in Florida beat a Republican map drawn to favor the...
Trump's party dealt a setback as Republican bid to tilt Florida's House map falters on a strong night for Democrats.
CBS News projects that incumbent Florida Democrats Jared Moskowitz and Kathy Castor will hold on to their House seats, and Democrat Pia Dandiya will win her House race.
Two Democrats in Florida beat a Republican map drawn to favor the GOP, dealing Republicans an embarrassing election night blow. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Democrat Pia Dandiya won their House races Tuesday, NBC...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) defeated former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer, marking a loss for Republicans after they redrew the seat in an effort to pick up another GOP seat to protect their ultra-slim majority....
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The New York Post used a Hokusai work to depict Donald Trump being swept away by Democrats’ midterm election win. Covered by 18 outlets: 9 lean left, 5 are centre, 4 lean right.
Stock markets in New York, London, and Asia have all fallen in the wake of the Democrats' blue tsunami this week
Jane Fonda was giddy Thursday night at the Women in Film Honors gala in Beverly Hills. “I’m so excited,” she told me while practically skipping down the red carpet. The longtime political activist is riding the...
Tokyo will have to shift gears to deal effectively with the Democrats' rising power.
Trump blamed the soon to be in power Democrat Party after the market took a $2.5 trillion hit just one day after the Democrats' blue tsunami drowned Republicans in the midterm elections.
Australia's former ambassador to the United States Joe Hockey issued a warning that he believes potential investigations into alleged corruption in Washington DC will turn ugly. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Note: In most cases, our...
A massive power outage at the Woodlands checkpoint in Singapore caused a heavy traffic jam on most major roads leading to the Malaysian checkpoint in Johor Bahru on Wednesday. Although all counters were operating at...