2020 House Races - Page 15

November 5, 2020

DCCC's Cheri Bustos wins re-election in Illinois after scrappy fight

Illinois Democratic incumbent Rep. Cheri Bustos has won re-election in the state's 17th congressional district.

November 5, 2020

Nancy Mace flips SC House seat: Republican women 'breaking barriers'

South Carolina Congresswoman-elect Nancy Mace made history as the first Republican woman elected to the House from her state, telling "Fox & Friends" Thursday they had a red wave.

November 4, 2020

Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones become first two openly gay Black men elected to Congress

Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones made history this week by becoming the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congress. 

November 4, 2020

Record number of GOP women ran for Congress and at least 10 won seats in House

Although Democrats managed to hold on to control of the House-- albeit by a smaller margin-- Republicans are touting a win of their own, adding at least 10 women to the upper chamber of Congress. 

November 4, 2020

House of cards? Pelosi to have a hard time becoming speaker, GOP officials say

Republican leaders, gloating at flipping several House seats, took jabs at Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday for her shrinking majority and cast doubt on her ability to win enough votes to become House speaker again.

November 4, 2020

NC election board says 117,000 mail-in ballots still outstanding, will not 'prognosticate' a winner

The North Carolina State Board of Elections will not "prognosticate" on general election race results as roughly 117,000 mail-in ballots are still outstanding, elections board Chair Damon Circosta said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

November 4, 2020

Kevin McCarthy says Tuesday's election was 'night of Republican women'

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that GOP's Election Day victories in the U.S. House of Representatives were largely due to the successes of women candidates.  

November 4, 2020

Pennsylvania Dems using official positions to 'stack the deck' against Trump: state GOP chair

President Trump will win Pennsylvania despite Democratic state officials' best efforts to "stack the deck," the battleground state's GOP chairman and election law attorney Lawrence Tabas tells Fox News.

November 4, 2020

Democrats retain control of House, battle remains for Senate majority

Democrats are projected to keep control of the House after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans appeared to have fended off a blue wave in the Senate and can still retain a majority in the upper chamber.

November 4, 2020

Democrats appear to lose key House seats they won in 2018, fail to flip GOP targets

Democrats went into election night confident they would increase their majority in the House of Representatives -- but they appear to have lost a number of key seats that were won in 2018 while failing to flip seats held by vulnerable Republicans.