Georgia voters elected the nation's first Black woman governor on Tuesday while neighbors to the south in Florida became the first to elect a Black Republican governor.

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia's top office in more than two decades. In Florida, Republican U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds ...Read more

White House staffers reportedly thought that Donald Trump, his loyal Cabinet officials and MAGA allies would have reason to celebrate Tuesday night, as they prepared what’s been described as a pretty elaborate party in the East Room to watch news about results of the midterm elections.

For this viewing party, staffers thought it would be ...Read more

House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he won’t run for Republican minority leader after the GOP’s blowout loss in the midterms.

The Louisiana conservative told staffers at a closed-door meeting that he won’t lead the Republican caucus in the next Congress, when Democrats will hold a large majority.

Johnson, 54, who ...Read more

In local elections across the country, Americans voted overwhelmingly to restrict the buildout of data centers in their communities.

Late Tuesday evening, 33 ballot measures to restrict data centers were passed by voters or were leading in ongoing vote counts, according to the tracking website Data Centers on the Ballot. Roughly a dozen similar...Read more

Democrats have won the majority of governor's offices for the first time in 16 years after the GOP racked up major losses across the country.

Democrats flipped governorships in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas and defended competitive races in Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to unofficial results from The Associated Press and ...Read more

Following a wave of GOP losses in the midterm elections on Tuesday, Elon Musk reportedly removed an X post that urged voters to cast their ballots in favor of Republicans the day before.

Musk posted, “Vote red today!” on Tuesday but by Wednesday morning, it was gone, Business Insider reported.

On Tuesday night after the polls had closed, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Republican Rep. Mike Lawler was unseated Tuesday by Democratic challenger Cait Conley in New York's closely watched 17th District race after counting delays caused by malfunctioning voting machines in Westchester County.

Lawler conceded defeat after Conley build a lead of about 9% at 11 p.m. Tuesday night.

Election officials were ...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher maintained a small lead over U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in the 4th Congressional District on Wednesday morning as several Republican incumbents faced tight races.

Laubacher had 49.2% of the vote and Boebert had 47.7% as of 11:45 a.m. — a difference of fewer than 5,000 votes as the margin narrowed slightly, ...Read more

Randy Villegas has captured the seat representing Congressional District 22 in California’s Central Valley, giving Democrats a much-sought-after pickup, according to The Associated Press.

Villegas was appointed to the Visalia Unified School District board in 2021 and won election in 2022 and 2024. He teaches political science at College of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Voters have chosen Angela Gonzales-Torres, a 31-year-old from Highland Park who was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, over incumbent Rep. Jimmy Gomez, an Eagle Rock Democrat, in the race for Congressional District 34, according to The Associated Press.

The district spans significant sections of Los Angeles, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats heralded a new era in American politics Wednesday after voters broke Republicans’ control of government and delivered a pivotal rebuke of President Donald Trump.

Victories that handed Democrats control of the House and Senate on Tuesday night came in historic form, with margins outstripping expectations, posting ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It looks like the 1st District race between Republican incumbent Brad Finstad and Democratic challenger Jake Johnson will go to a recount.

With 99% of the vote counted at 5:30 a.m., Johnson led the race by 321 votes, 163,059 to 162,738.

The last time Democrats held the seat was when Gov. Tim Walz represented the district.

The ...Read more

Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling artificial intelligence campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Under Gina Hinojosa, elected on Tuesday as the first Democratic governor of the Lone Star State in more than three decades, they’re facing their...Read more

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson will not seek to serve as House minority leader in the next Congress.

A source familiar with the speaker’s decision confirmed that the Louisiana Republican would not seek the post after Tuesday’s midterm elections saw Republicans lose their narrow majority in a Democratic tsunami.

Other candidates were ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the scale of the Republican Party’s losses came into focus late Tuesday, President Donald Trump watched from the White House and went looking for someone to blame.

First it was Fox News. Just before midnight, with Democrats projected to seize control of the House, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the network “bears ...Read more

The morning after voters delivered a blistering midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, with Democrats flipping both chambers of Congress and racking up victories even in deep-red bastions, Vice President JD Vance said there was one main reason for his party’s widespread losses.

“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Progressive Democrat Matt Little held Rep. Angie Craig’s congressional seat by defeating Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt on Tuesday, as incumbents mostly held on in Minnesota’s House delegation.

In southern Minnesota, Rep. Brad Finstad was fighting a tough challenge by Democrat Jake Johnson. The race was still too close to...Read more

President Donald Trump is a loser.

That’s not a slur but the only cogent analysis of what happened in Tuesday’s midterm election. As Republicans were blown out of the water, America witnessed a clear repudiation of Trumpism, as manifest in egotism, extremism, retribution, and both personal and familial corruption.

Tuesday night had the ...Read more

DETROIT -- The bold-faced headline over this election is: “TRUMP LOST!”

Voters turned out in huge numbers in Michigan and across the country to cast ballots against a president they’ve grown weary of.

In doing so, they turned against many first-rate Republicans and handed key offices to far-left Democrats and Democratic socialists whose...Read more