President Donald Trump stressed on Tuesday that he plans to use the "power of veto" to block Democrat-backed legislation, as the party is expected to take control of the House and Senate.
"It's one of the stronger powers that a president has," he told Fox News' Bret Baier. "And they'll send over things that are insane and I'll veto them. And after a couple of months of vetoes, they'll go out and they'll say, how do we get this stuff done? And we'll work together."
"You know, I have a lot of friends that are Democrats, believe it or not, I've already spoken to some of them. I've had four calls from meaningful Democrats and, people, in two senators and three congressmen, actually. So it's a total of five, and they have three waiting to call me. So I don't know, they obviously want to talk, but I have the power of veto. And the power of veto is, you know, it's impervious," he added.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has defeated former Democratic Sen. Doug Jones to win election as Alabama's next governor.
Tuberville, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, will now succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Kay Ivey in the solidly red southeastern state.
The ballot box showdown was a rematch of the 2020 U.S. Senate election, where Tuberville defeated the incumbent Jones.
Jones was aiming to become the first Democrat in Alabama to win an election for governor in nearly three decades.
As he ran for governor, Tuberville highlighted his support for Alabama’s CHOOSE Act and school choice. He argued that competition would encourage public schools to improve.
But Jones said if elected he would work to phase out the state's CHOOSE Act and keep more money in private education, arguing the program has pushed taxpayer money into private schools.
On the hot topic of data centers, Tuberville said that local leaders should have a role in deciding whether projects come to their communities.
Jones called for a temporary moratorium until Alabama develops electricity, water, noise, and transparency protections. And he pledged to eliminate existing tax incentives for data centers.
Before entering politics, Tuberville was a longtime college football coach who spent a decade as head coach of Alabama's Auburn University.
Jones is a former federal prosecutor who won a 2017 Senate special election to succeed longtime GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions, who stepped down to serve as Trump's first attorney general.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic nominee for governor, has defeated her Republican rival Rep. John James.
With her victory, Benson will succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in steering the Great Lakes battleground state.
Benson also broke recent Michigan political tradition - Since gubernatorial term limits were implemented nearly 35 years ago, voters every eight years have elected a governor from the opposite party.
A law school dean and civil rights advocate, Benson has served the past eight years as Michigan's secretary of state.
James, a West Point graduate and Army combat veteran who flew helicopters in the Iraq war, is a two-term congressman. Before being elected to the U.S. House, he won the 2018 and 2020 GOP Senate nominations before falling short each time in the general election.
During the gubernatorial campaign, Democrats repeatedly tied James to President Donald Trump, whose approval ratings are well underwater in Michigan.
Republicans, meanwhile, regularly linked Benson to far-left Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
{{#rendered}}Republican Brandon Herrera, a firearms manufacturer and YouTube personality known as “The AK Guy,” is projected to lose Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, depriving Republicans of a seat they were favored to win.
Democrat Katy Padilla Stout saw an opportunity to flip the traditionally Republican seat given Herrera’s history of controversial remarks and associations. As a YouTuber, Herrera occasionally made off-color remarks about sexuality and suicide.
Stout argued these jokes reflected poorly on Herrera’s character while the YouTuber defended his comments as comedic in nature.
Independent candidate Ben Mendoza was also on the ballot.
Also complicating things for Republicans was the fact that Herrera secured the GOP nomination in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District after Rep. Tony Gonzales resigned amid a sex scandal.
On the offensive, Herrera attacked Stout for allegedly wasting donor money, taking too permissive of a stance on illegal immigration and supporting drag shows for children.
Hosts of the "Ruthless Podcast" shared their takeaways from Tuesday night, arguing that the Democratic Party gains Tuesday night are more firmly linked to a referendum on Donald Trump rather than support for the party's policies.
"This is an absolute backlash from the voters. They aren't concerned with what policy these Democrats have. They aren't concerned with any vision from the future that Democrats are offering," said Shashank Tripathi, who goes by the pseudonym Comfortably Smug. "They are angry."
"The argument the Republicans made was, 'Democrats are going to make this worse. The reason you know why is because they had power before and they made all of this bad. They did the inflation under Joe Biden,'" co-host Michael Duncan added. "Ultimately, at the end of the day, the present condition of the voters is what they vote on, not the scary thing you project into the future."
Meanwhile, John Ashbrook questioned where Republicans go from here.
"If Republicans want to win again, they need to get back to the basics," he said, adding that the GOP needs to "figure out" how to begin strategizing immediately for 2028.
Democrat J.D. Ford is projected to defeat Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., in a key victory for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and his quest to win the House majority.
Ford, a member of the Indiana State Senate, flipped a Republican-leaning state legislature district to win his current seat in 2018. He’s on track to do the same thing on the federal level tonight.
Fox News Power Rankings predicted Indiana’s 5th Congressional District would be a “likely Republican” victory, but the prediction ultimately mattered little in an election cycle that was long expected to be brutal for the GOP.
Spartz's 2026 campaign came after she had threatened to retire repeatedly during the current congressional term, often complaining about the dysfunction on Capitol Hill and the lack of urgency to address the national debt.
She's also frequently allied herself with outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and the pair were often spotted walking together in the U.S. Capitol. Unlike Massie, however, Spartz has run closely behind President Donald Trump.
{{#rendered}}Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, issued a statement on Tuesday urging Democrats to make artificial intelligence (AI) a top priority next year.
Casar said that the "House Democratic majority must make it a top priority to protect Americans’ jobs, freedom, and lives from AI billionaires." His comments come as Democrats are expected to gain control of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.
"AI company CEOs should be called to testify under oath," Casar stated. "Congress should investigate how these companies are putting the jobs, freedom, and lives of Americans at risk. And we should pass bills to protect people."
"The revolt against data centers was one of the top issues of the 2026 election, and in a few years we will look back on it as just the early tremor of a much bigger AI earthquake upending American politics," he continued. "Voters rejected Republicans in part because they were bought and paid for by AI billionaires. Democrats must hold them accountable instead of cashing their checks.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., reacted to Democrats' widespread election victories Tuesday night, including their projected takeover of the U.S. Senate, pledging to push back against what he described as a "far-left" agenda.
"Over the last two years, Senate Republicans have put up a strong record of accomplishment that's created safer streets, more money in Americans' pockets, and new opportunities for families and businesses to get ahead," Thune wrote on X.
"After fighting Democrat obstruction at every turn, we prevented the largest tax hike in American history, secured our border in an unprecedented way, confirmed the president's Cabinet at the fastest pace in two decades, and put strong conservative judges on benches across the country faster than we have since the Reagan administration."
Thune's comments came after Democrats scored major Senate victories in states including Texas, Maine, Iowa and South Carolina.
"I'm proud of our team and everything we've done for the American people, and I'm looking forward to the important work we have in front of us over the next few months," he continued.
"As we head into 2027, Senate Republicans will not stand idly by as the far-left, socialist wing of the Democrat Party attempts to unwind everything we've done," Thune wrote. "Thankfully, we still have President Trump in the White House, and we'll work with him to stop the worst impulses of Democrat extremism."
He added, "We cannot let their fringe positions become the mainstream."
It’s 1 a.m. in New York, and polls are now closed across the country.
The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call the Senate race between Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan and former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola.
That race also features Dan J. Sullivan, an “undeclared” candidate.
It’s also too early to call the gubernatorial race, where Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has three Republican opponents.
{{#rendered}}James Kingston, an insurance businessman and the Republican candidate in Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, won his race against Democratic challenger Amanda Hollowell on Tuesday evening.
Hollowell’s defeat marks one of the few disappointing moments for progressive Democrats in what was largely a momentous midterm cycle for the Democratic Party’s far left, especially in Georgia.
Even so, Hollowell came closer than Democratic candidates have in years past to flipping the seat, putting herself within three points of Kingston by the time the race was called in his favor.
The race was significantly tighter than the 24% margin of victory enjoyed by Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., in 2024.
During her race, Hollowell promised to prioritize expanding healthcare, increasing federal investment in local construction, and supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
Notably, her platform drew endorsement from prominent Democrats like Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Carter, the seat’s current incumbent, gave up his seat to run for U.S. Senate, but lost in the primary.
Democrat Mitchell Berman is projected to defeat Republican Rep. Bryan Steil in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District, flipping a southeastern Wisconsin seat Republicans have held for more than three decades.
Berman’s victory ended the GOP’s long-running hold on a district once represented for 20 years by former House Speaker Paul Ryan. Steil, a former Ryan aide, had represented the district since 2019.
Berman, an emergency room nurse and former Department of Veterans Affairs nurse, campaigned heavily on affordability, healthcare and cracking down on corruption in Washington.
He called for repealing President Donald Trump’s tariffs, restoring Affordable Care Act subsidies and fully funding Medicaid.
Steil, a Janesville native who worked as an attorney and in the manufacturing industry before entering Congress, campaigned on lowering taxes, expanding American energy production, securing the border and protecting Social Security and Medicare.
Berman’s victory came in a district Steil won with 54% of the vote. President Donald Trump also carried the district by roughly 4.5% in the 2024 presidential election.
South Florida lawmaker Ian Valencillo told Fox News Digital that the Republican Party must take Tuesday night’s outcomes as a “warning call.”
His remarks come after Republicans lost the majority in both the House and the Senate, including historic upsets in places such as Texas, Maine, Iowa and South Carolina.
In Florida, the lawmakers' home state, Republicans came within less than 2 points in multiple races, including governor, senate, and the state’s attorney general.
I'll admit, I’m very surprised by how close tonight’s elections turned out to be. I was expecting Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody to win comfortably, by margins of around 10 points. Instead, these races came down to the wire,” Vallecillo said.
“This should serve as a major wake-up call for the Republican Party of Florida. We cannot afford to become complacent or take Florida’s Republican majority for granted. Tonight was a reminder that no election is a guaranteed victory, and we have some serious work to do moving forward,” he added.
The historic loss for the Republican Party comes after the approval rating of President Donald Trump has reached historic lows that has stemmed from the war in Iran, high gas prices and scandals and immigration raids.
{{#rendered}}MINNETONKA, Minn. — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya conceded to her Democratic opponent, Minnesota Lt. Gov. Penny Flanagan, marking another loss for the GOP in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Tafoya said she congratulated Flanagan on a “spirited” and “hard-fought” race, after telling her supporters they were “so beautiful.”
She described the “best part” of her campaign experience as meeting Minnesotans across the state, and specifically thanked Minnesota law enforcement entities who endorsed her campaign.
“Look, one thing that we did do in this race folks, is we made it very clear that there should be consequences when you deceive the people of the state, when you rob the people of the state [and[ when you do not serve the people of the state,” she said.
A disappointed Tafoya added that though those consequences weren’t borne out through an election victory, that she would continue to send that message and hold people accountable.
“It’s been a really tough night,” she said, before thanking those who supported and worked on her campaign.
“This is tough, but here’s what’s not gonna be difficult for me,” she said, “and it shouldn’t be difficult for any of you. Hold your head high. Hold your head high. We fought like hell. We did the best we could do under these circumstances, and as has been seen all over the country tonight, the circumstances were tough.”
“We’re all gonna be okay,” she said.
Tafoya described her ten months campaigning as “life changing,” and said she didn’t regret running for office at all.
Democrat Bob Harvie has defeated Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District, flipping a closely watched suburban Philadelphia House seat, Fox News projects.
Harvie's victory unseats one of the Republican Party's most electorally resilient incumbents, delivering Democrats a pickup in their battle for control of the House.
Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent first elected in 2016, built a reputation as a moderate Republican willing to break with his party on select issues.
He repeatedly survived Democratic challenges in Bucks County, a politically competitive Philadelphia suburb that has become a perennial congressional battleground.
Harvie, a Bucks County commissioner and former teacher, campaigned to return the district to Democratic control.
The Cook Political Report rated the race a Toss Up, underscoring the district’s competitiveness despite Fitzpatrick’s history of outperforming his party.
Harvie's victory ends Fitzpatrick's decade-long tenure and marks a partisan shift in one of Pennsylvania's most closely watched congressional districts that has already grown more hostile to GOP figures like President Donald Trump.
Democratic Tejano music star Bobby Pulido defeated Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' 15th Congressional District, flipping a GOP-held seat in a major victory for Democrats seeking to regain ground among South Texas Latino voters.
The Latin Grammy-winning musician, making his first run for public office, overcame a Republican incumbent who helped usher in a political realignment in the historically Democratic Rio Grande Valley.
De La Cruz first won the seat in 2022, becoming the first Republican elected to represent the district. She secured reelection in 2024 as President Donald Trump carried the area by approximately 18 percentage points.
Pulido's victory marks a reversal for Republicans in a region where the party has made significant inroads among Hispanic voters in recent election cycles.
The Democrat campaigned as a moderate, drawing on his decades-long music career and deep cultural ties to South Texas to appeal to voters across party lines.
The contest unfolded under a congressional map redrawn by Texas Republicans in 2025, which preserved the district's Republican presidential voting advantage while bringing new communities into its boundaries.
Democrats invested heavily in the race, viewing Pulido's name recognition and crossover appeal as an opportunity to challenge the GOP's recent gains in the region.
The result gives Democrats a Republican-held seat in their push to secure control of the House and raises questions about the durability of the GOP's coalition among South Texas Latino voters.
{{#rendered}}After losing to her Democratic rival Troy Jackson, incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said serving the state's constituents in the U.S. Senate has been the "honor of [her] life."
"It has been the honor of my life to serve the people of Maine in the United States Senate. I'm proud of all I have been able to accomplish for our state and for our country in the past 30 years," Collins said in a statement.
"I called Troy Jackson tonight to congratulate him and to assure him that my staff and I will work to ensure a smooth transition," she continued.
Jackson's win gives Democrats a major pickup in one of the most closely watched races of the midterm elections. The Maine contest was viewed as a critical test of whether Democrats could defeat a Republican incumbent in a state that has shifted increasingly toward the party in recent presidential elections.
"Maine, I owe you everything," Jackson wrote on X. "I’m ready to get to work for Mainers in the U.S. Senate, and I promise you this: I’ll never forget where I came from or who I’m fighting for."
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, won reelection in Texas' 28th Congressional District on Tuesday, holding onto his South Texas seat despite efforts to redraw the district.
Cuellar defeated Republican Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, a former Democrat who switched parties in 2024, received President Donald Trump's endorsement and won his primary with nearly three-quarters of the vote. Cuellar's victory came despite GOP redistricting efforts that changed the boundaries of the 28th District to include more Republican-friendly territory.
Cuellar has represented the district since 2005. He was pardoned alongside his wife by Trump after indictments on bribery, money laundering and unlawful foreign influence charges. The pair had denied any wrongdoing.
Trump later endorsed Tijerina and criticized Cuellar for remaining a Democrat following the pardon.
"I thought there would be a good chance that Cuellar, who was persecuted by Democrats because they didn’t like him, would have routinely gone over to the Republican Party — the people that saved him from years in prison,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post at the time.
IF CUELLAR OUSTED: Dem ousted in South Texas House seat after angering Trump for not switching parties
Tano Tijerina, a former Democrat turned Republican, ousted Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, in Texas' 28th Congressional District race on Tuesday, flipping the South Texas seat to the GOP.
Tijerina has served as Webb County judge since 2015 and was originally elected to the position as a Democrat. He switched to the Republican Party in December 2024 and went on to win the 2026 Republican congressional primary with nearly three-quarters of the vote.
The former Webb County judge received President Donald Trump's endorsement ahead of the election Tuesday.
Cuellar's seat was among those redrawn during Texas' mid-decade redistricting push, with the new boundaries adding more Republican-friendly territory to the 28th District.
Cuellar's loss comes less than a year after Trump pardoned the congressman and his wife, Imelda, in a federal bribery case. Trump later criticized Cuellar for remaining a Democrat following the pardon and endorsed Tijerina.
Cuellar has represented the district since 2005.
Democrat Matt Little won Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District race, defeating Republican Eric Pratt and keeping a key House seat in Democratic hands as both parties battle for control of Congress.
The victory comes after Democratic Rep. Angie Craig vacated the seat to pursue a U.S. Senate bid, creating an open contest in a district that has historically seen competitive elections.
Little, a former Minnesota state senator and mayor of Lakeville, emerged from a competitive Democratic primary in August, defeating state Sen. Matt Klein and state Rep. Kaela Berg. He campaigned on lowering costs for working families, expanding access to health care and challenging President Donald Trump's policies.
Pratt, a Republican state senator who has served in the Minnesota Legislature since 2013, sought to return the district to Republican control.
Craig first flipped the seat in 2018, ending two decades of Republican representation in the district. She subsequently won three reelection campaigns, establishing a blue foothold in the suburban and rural district south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Little's victory preserves a Democratic-held seat as the parties compete for the House majority.
{{#rendered}}Democratic pollster Doug Schoen identified Democrats as the biggest winners and President Donald Trump as the biggest loser of the 2026 midterm elections Tuesday.
In a Fox News opinion piece, Schoen described Democrats’ victories in the House and Senate as a “blowout” and said the results represented a collapse of the Republican Party more than an affirmative vote for Democrats.
However, he questioned whether Democrats would be able to govern cohesively with a number of far-left progressive lawmakers, warning that internal Democratic Party divisions could lead to congressional paralysis and investigations instead of policymaking.
Schoen attributed the eventual outcome Tuesday to opposition to the war in Iran, high gas prices and voters’ perception that government operates under “two sets of rules” — one for the wealthy and another for ordinary Americans.
"The message to both parties is clear: Govern constructively, and if you don’t, it’s at your peril," Schoen wrote. "The same swing against the Republicans we’ve just witnessed can happen in two short years to Democrats if they do not heed this judgment."
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote Tuesday night in an X post that Democrats “have crushed the Republican gerrymander all across the land.”
Jeffries’ comments come as the Democratic Party is projected to gain control of both chambers of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, potentially paving the way for Jeffries to be the next Speaker of the House.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., praised Jeffries’ leadership in a Tuesday statement, claiming he “will be a magnificent Speaker.”
“With tremendous personal pride, I congratulate our next Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries,” Pelosi said. “Exactly twenty years after I became the first woman to hold the gavel, he will make history as the first Black Speaker of the House. I know the strength, judgment and resolve that [the] office demands. Hakeem has those qualities in abundance.”
“He has led Democrats to this extraordinary victory, and he will be a magnificent Speaker,” she continued.
Phil Scott, the Republican incumbent governor of Vermont, is projected to win re-election against Democratic challenger Amanda Janoo, an economist who previously worked with the United Nations, keeping the state’s executive office in the hands of the GOP.
Scott’s victory, which sets him up for a sixth term, continues to be a bright spot for Republicans in what has otherwise been a blue-leaning state — the home of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., among other progressives.
In 2024, the Green Mountain State voted for Vice President Kamala Harris by more than 30 percentage points. Even so, Scott also won that year in a crushing 73.4% to 21.8% victory over progressive Esther Charlestin.
Scott’s support has largely grown since he was first elected in 2016 as he has maintained a moderate tone and an emphasis on fiscal restraint.
Janoo, with Sanders's backing, sought to undo the trend and capitalize on the Democratic base by leaning into a pro-growth message. During her campaign, she focused on supporting government assistance for housing, a data center ban and universal primary and preventive healthcare care.
Because Vermont has two-year gubernatorial terms, Scott will be up for re-election again in 2028.
{{#rendered}}Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek cruised to reelection in the one of the most progressive U.S. states on Tuesday.
She squared-off against Republican state Sen. Christine Drazan — a rematch from 2022 where there were no surprises at the ballot box.
Drazan ran on an economically-minded platform, promising to lower the state's cost of living, reduce barriers to homeownership, "reignite" the economy and audit state spending.
Before elected governor in 2022, Kotek served for 15 years in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Kotek cannot run for gubernatorial reelection in 2030 because Oregon requires governors can only serve eight years — or two terms— within the span of a rolling 12-year period. That means she can run again in 2034 after giving another person a shot at the role.
Former Democratic state Sen. Troy Jackson defeated Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine on Tuesday night, flipping a longtime Republican-held Senate seat and dealing a major blow to the GOP’s hopes of maintaining control of the chamber, the Fox News Decision Desk projects.
Jackson's defeat of Collins ends her nearly three-decade career in the Senate.
Jackson’s victory gives Democrats a major pickup in one of the most closely watched races of the 2026 midterm elections. The Maine contest was viewed as a critical test of whether Democrats could defeat a Republican incumbent in a state that has shifted increasingly toward the party in recent presidential elections.
Jackson, a fifth-generation logger from northern Maine, previously served as president of the Maine Senate and represented parts of Aroostook County in the state Legislature. He entered the race after disgraced former Democratic candidate Graham Platner dropped out amid allegations of sexual assault.
Collins, who was first elected to the Senate in 1996, was seeking a sixth term. She is Maine’s longest-serving member of Congress and chaired the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, a position that gave her significant influence over federal spending and funding for Maine projects.
Following Tuesday's midterm elections a moderate Republican group told Fox News Digital that the party must move beyond President Donald Trump to reclaim its congressional majority and retain the White House in 2028.
Our Republican Legacy, a moderate Republican group founded by conservative senator and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jack Danforth, R-Mo., chaired by former Defense Secretary William Cohen, made their remarks to Fox News Digital after Tuesday night's "devastating defeat."
The group's remarks, whose membership includes that of senior advisor to former President George W. Bush, Republican National Committee chair and Montana Gov. Marc Racicot and conservative state lawmakers in Democrat run states, came after Republicans lost several key House races, handing control of the lower chamber to Democrats.
"The Republican Party has suffered a devastating defeat. The American people have rendered their verdict on MAGA, America First, and the policies of the current administration and Republican Congress," Our Republican Legacy said in a statement.
"Donald Trump will never again lead the Republican Party in a general election. It is time to begin the debate about the future of a principled Republican Party in the post-Trump era,” the group, which
"Our Republican Legacy is dedicated to nominating and electing a Legacy Republican President. As candidates come forward and begin their presidential campaigns, we will be looking to support one or more leaders who support our party's traditional core principles," the group continued.
The group's executive director, Chris Vance, a conservative former Washington state lawmaker, told Fox News Digital that "2028 begins now and there will be a wide open battle for control of the Republican Party."
"Our objective is to help nominate and elect a legacy Reaganite Republican president in 2028," Vance added.
{{#rendered}}Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, is projected to lose her bid for a fourth term in the House of Representatives.
Miller-Meeks lost to Democrat state lawmaker Christina Bohannan, who finally triumphed over the Republican incumbent after running and losing against her in 2022 and 2024.
And while the loss is a blow to the House GOP’s chances of keeping the majority, it was not altogether unexpected.
Her district was considered the most vulnerable of Iowa’s four Republican-held seats, three of which have been eyed by Democrats this cycle.
While House GOP leaders campaigned for her until the very last minute, Republican-linked political money groups like the Speaker Mike Johnson-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) and President Donald Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. opted to pull their resources from her race and invest elsewhere.
The Fox News Decision desk projects that Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has defeated Republican state House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the blue-leaning state's gubernatorial election.
With her victory, Klobuchar will succeed embattled Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
The race unfolded against the backdrop of the state's welfare assistance fraud scandal, which has attracted national attention for nearly a year and prompted Walz, a two-term Democrat, to abandon his 2026 re-election bid. The fraud schemes, involving pandemic-era social services, siphoned hundreds of millions, and potentially billions, of taxpayer dollars from federal and state programs in Minnesota.
Klobuchar launched her gubernatorial campaign in January, three weeks after Walz, who served as the Democrats' 2024 vice presidential nominee, dropped his re-election bid.
Klobuchar, who was first elected to the Senate in 2006, won all four of her Senate elections by healthy margins, including a nearly 16-point re-election in 2024. Before serving in the Senate, Klobuchar was elected twice as county attorney in Hennepin County, Minnesota's most populous. She also ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Demuth, who was first elected to the Minnesota House in 2018, has served as GOP leader in the chamber since the start of 2023 and as speaker for the past year and a half.
Demuth was aiming to become the first Republican in twenty years to win a gubernatorial election in the upper Midwestern state.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that two-term Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has defeated former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya in the state's U.S. Senate race, securing a key victory for Democrats.
Tafoya, the Trump-endorsed Republican Senate candidate, lost Tuesday night's election after campaigning on promises to combat fraud and corruption in Minnesota, an issue that drew increased scrutiny from the Trump administration earlier this year.
Flanagan entered the Senate race to succeed outgoing Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who announced her campaign for governor in January.
The Democrat, who has served alongside Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz since January 2019, announced her Senate campaign in March 2025.
Flanagan, who beat the former ESPN and NBC Sports broadcaster on Tuesday night, campaigned on lowering costs for Minnesota families, refusing corporate PAC contributions and supporting Medicare for all.
Flannagan has also called for dismantling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arguing that the federal agency "is out of control."
{{#rendered}}Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., won her election Tuesday night by less than 1% after being at odds with President Donald Trump earlier this year.
Salazar, who almost faced a recount for the first time since being elected to congress in 2024, was at odds with the president over her legislation to provide a pathway to permanent residency for some working class immigrants.
Trump endorsed the congresswoman Tuesday morning, saying that she has his total support.
The congresswoman’s victory is important for the House Republican caucus, who is trying to fill as many congressional seats as possible in the 120th congress.
Republicans are projected to be in the minority starting in January.
A four-way contest for one of Idaho’s Senate seats ended swiftly Tuesday night, with a longtime Republican lawmaker projected to again claim victory against a field of independent and Libertarian candidates.
Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, toppled three other Senate hopefuls on the way to his fourth term in the upper chamber, according to the Fox News Decision Desk. He secured yet another victory in a state that neither national Republicans nor Democrats considered competitive heading into Election Night.
His race in the Gem State was part of a broader trend out West, where independent candidates seeking to capture Democratic and Republican voters in traditionally red states ran in states like South Dakota, Montana and Idaho.
Though it was a crowded race, Risch’s main opponent was Army Veteran and former state lawmaker Todd Achilles, who had earned the endorsements of prominent Democrats in the state during this midterm cycle, including former Rep. Larry LaRocco.
Progressive Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar won reelection in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, securing a fifth term in the House.
Her victory was widely expected in the deep-blue district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding communities. The race was not considered competitive heading into Election Day.
Omar’s reelection comes after she faced renewed, wide-spread scrutiny in the final weeks of the campaign.
Federal agents raided her Washington home on Oct. 12 as part of an ongoing immigration fraud investigation, sources told Fox News Digital. Omar’s office said she had done nothing wrong and called the search an abuse of power. She accused the Trump administration of trying to intimidate her, saying she would not be silenced.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said her office is investigating Omar’s financial disclosures, a separate probe from the one tied to the search of her home.
Elected to Congress in 2018 as the first of two Muslim women to serve in the House, Omar has become one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Party’s progressive wing and a high-profile member of the group of liberal House lawmakers known as the “Squad.”
Omar easily survived a crowded Democratic primary in August, winning more than 80% of the vote and securing her party’s nomination for another term. Her victory keeps the Minneapolis-area seat firmly in Democratic hands as both parties battle for control of the House.
{{#rendered}}Democratic state Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott is projected to defeat Republican Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, flipping the closely watched House seat to Democrats.
The race was one of the Hawkeye State’s key battles for control of the House, with Trone Garriott seeking to reclaim a Des Moines-area district Republicans flipped from Democrats four years earlier.
Trone Garriott, a state senator and Lutheran minister, campaigned on affordability, lowering healthcare costs and protecting Medicaid while criticizing tariffs she argued were raising costs for Iowa families and hurting farmers. Nunn, an Air Force Reserve colonel and former Iowa state lawmaker, campaigned on lowering costs, cutting taxes, securing the southern border and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses.
Nunn first flipped the district in 2022, defeating Democratic incumbent Cindy Axne with 50.3% of the vote, before winning reelection in 2024 with 51.8%.
President Donald Trump also carried the district over Kamala Harris 51.6% to 47.1% in 2024.
Democrat Denise Powell is projected to defeat Republican Brinker Harding in Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, succeeding retiring Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb.
Powell’s projected victory marks a significant victory for Democrats by flipping one of the country’s most competitive districts as they attempt to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Powell built her campaign on promises to push back against tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, restore federally guaranteed access to abortion and create a Medicare-like public option for health insurance.
Former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria won Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, defeating Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans in a closely watched rematch and flipping a key House seat, Fox News projects.
Luria's victory returns her to Congress four years after Kiggans unseated her in 2022, delivering Democrats a pickup in their battle for control of the House.
Both candidates are Navy veterans with deep ties to the Hampton Roads region, home to one of the nation's largest concentrations of military personnel.
Luria, a former Navy commander, first entered Congress in 2019 after defeating Republican Rep. Scott Taylor. She served two terms before losing to Kiggans during the 2022 midterms.
The Cook Political Report rated the race Lean Democrat heading into Election Day, despite the district's even Partisan Voting Index, making the Virginia Beach-area seat a closely watched congressional battleground.
Luria's comeback reverses the outcome of their first matchup and shifts the seat back into Democratic hands.
{{#rendered}}There were no surprises in Tuesday night's election results out in deep red Oklahoma's gubernatorial race.
Fox News projects Republican former state lawmaker and state secretary of budget Mike Mazzei will move to the governor's mansion in Oklahoma City, where he will govern as the Sooner State's top elected official.
Mazzei replaces outgoing Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who served in that role since early 2019 and was barred from running for reelection due to term limits in the state.
Mazzei defeated Democrat state Rep. Cyndi Munson in overwhelming fashion in one of the country's reddest states.
Notably, a key campaign promise from Mazzei was eliminating state property taxes.
The Fox News Decision Desk predicts that Hawaii Democratic Gov. Josh Green will win reelection, defeating Republican businessman Gary Cordery.
Cordery, a general contractor who has never held elected office, was a political outsider. He made a foray into politics by co-founding the Aloha Freedom Coalition in 2020 to challenge the COVID-19 era restrictions imposed by Hawaii’s Democratic government.
On the campaign trail, Cordery proposed eliminating the state’s general excise tax on food and medicine, freezing property taxes on retirees’ primary homes, creating a government transparency office and increasing the stock of affordable housing. Green, meanwhile, emphasized middle-class tax relief, affordable housing construction and investments in reducing homelessness.
The governor refused to participate in a televised debate against Cordery.
Cordery was fighting an uphill battle from the start. Hawaii has not elected a Republican governor since Linda Lingle won a second term 20 years ago. Cordery himself had previously lost a Republican gubernatorial primary in the state in 2022.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi celebrated Democrats' victory in the House Tuesday night, declaring that voters had broken Republicans' grip on Washington and delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump.
"Tonight, the American people have changed the course of our country," Pelosi said in a statement following the blue wave.
"By electing a Democratic House Majority, they have broken Washington’s Republican monopoly on power and restored a constitutional check on a President who has governed as though none should exist," she continued.
Pelosi also congratulated House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is poised to become the first Black speaker of the House, two decades after Pelosi became the first woman to hold the gavel.
"With tremendous personal pride, I congratulate our next Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries," Pelosi said.
The California Democrat urged her party to use its newfound majority to pursue its legislative priorities and hold the Trump administration to account.
"The American people have rendered their verdict. The People’s House will carry it out," Pelosi declared.
{{#rendered}}Fox News projects the battle to succeed Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will be won by fellow Democrat Hannah Pingree, who previously served as speaker of the state House and later served in the Mills administration.
Pingree defeated two other opponents: Republican candidate Bobby Charles, an attorney who worked in three presidential administrations, and independent candidate Rick Bennett, a former chairman of the Maine GOP and former state senator. Bennett left the Republican Party to launch his gubernatorial campaign, and his candidacy was considered a potential spoiler for Charles.
While Maine uses ranked-choice voting for congressional races, the state’s gubernatorial race is decided by whichever candidate receives the most votes, making concerns about a potential spoiler more pronounced.
Pingree focused her campaign on affordability, making promises to invest $100 million into building affordable housing and to create a public health care option.
Her victory comes as the state faces a roughly $1 billion deficit for the 2027-2029 budget.
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrat David Crowley will win the Wisconsin gubernatorial race, defeating Republican businessman Tom Tiffany.
With his victory, Crowley will succeed retiring two-term Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and makes history as Wisconsin's first Black politician elected governor.
Throughout his campaign for governor and during their single debate two weeks ago, Crowley frequently linked Tiffany to President Donald Trump and his policies, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, tariffs, and the war in Iran.
Tiffany, a three-term congressman from a large agriculture-dominant district in northern Wisconsin, is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and a Trump ally on Capitol Hill.
"When Congressman Tom Tiffany says he’s focusing on affordability, let’s be very clear: He voted for the big, ugly bill that [helped] some of the highest earners here in the state of Wisconsin," Crowley said during the debate, as he pointed to to the GOP's signature 2025 tax cut and spending bill that reduced funding for healthcare and food assistance programs in many states.
"We don’t need what is happening in Washington, D.C., coming into the state of Wisconsin. It is very clear that he is working for Donald Trump and the billionaires who are funding his campaign," Crowley charged.
Tiffany responded by that while Crowley was "consistently focused on being against Donald Trump, I’m for Wisconsin — and rather than creating a bunch more programs that are going to end up taxing the people of Wisconsin more, I want to put more money in the taxpayers’ pockets."
Crowley pulled off a major upset in the August Democratic gubernatorial primary, coming from behind to narrowly edge out state Rep. Francesca Hong, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Tiffany, during his general election campaign, repeatedly claimed Crowley was sounding "like a socialist."
"I think it’s really important to know that he said there’s very little difference between me and Francesca Hong," Tiffany argued during the debate. "That sounds like a socialist to me."
Tiffany made national headlines in September when he survived an emergency water landing after the single-engine plane he was riding in lost power and crashed into a lake.
Wisconsin is a key midwestern battleground state. Trump narrowly carried the state in his 2016 and 2024 presidential victories, while former President Joe Biden took the state by a razor-thin margin as he won the White House in 2020.
Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, pledged to become an independent voice in Congress shortly after beating out Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., on Tuesday evening.
“I'll be an independent voice who will work with anyone, Republican or Democrat, to do what's right for South Carolina. I will be a brick wall between Washington, D.C., and South Carolina — even when it means standing up to my own party,” Andrews said.
Her comments come as Democrats look poised to recapture a majority in the U.S. Senate.
Among other considerations, Andrews will help decide whether the party will elect Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as majority leader. Andrews has not telegraphed her position on whether she would support his continued leadership atop the party in the chamber.
She noted that she launched her campaign independent of pressures from the chamber’s current leadership.
“Nobody handed me a seat in the United States Senate. Nnobody wrote me a script. I owe no one in Washington anything. I owe South Carolina everything,” Andrews said.
{{#rendered}}Republican South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is projected to win the state's gubernatorial election Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson to succeed term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster.
Wilson's victory over Johnson, who represents District 52 in Kershaw and Richland counties, keeps the governor's mansion in Republican hands following McMaster's tenure. McMaster, South Carolina's longest-serving governor, could not seek another term after winning two consecutive elections in 2018 and 2022. He initially took office in 2017 after then-Gov. Nikki Haley resigned to become President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.
Wilson, the son of Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., has served as South Carolina's attorney general since 2011 and is completing his fourth term as the state's top prosecutor.
Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a bruising Republican primary runoff earlier this year to secure the GOP nomination.
Wilson will be joined by state Sen. Mike Reichenbach, R-District 31, whom he selected to be his lieutenant governor.
Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek is projected to defeat Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson in Iowa’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, flipping the open seat from Republican control.
Turek and Hinson were battling to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst in one of the most closely watched Senate contests of the 2026 midterm elections.
Turek’s victory gave Democrats an Iowa Senate seat for the first time since the party last won a Senate election in the state in 2008.
Turek, a Democratic state representative from Council Bluffs and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, campaigned as a self-described “prairie populist,” focusing heavily on affordability and government corruption.
He called for middle-class tax cuts, lower healthcare and prescription drug costs, stronger Social Security, a ban on congressional stock trading and measures targeting corporate consolidation and price gouging.
Hinson, who has represented Iowa in the House since 2021 and was endorsed by President Donald Trump , campaigned on lowering gas and grocery prices, cutting healthcare and prescription drug costs, making housing and childcare more affordable and strengthening border security.
In the final stretch of the campaign, Hinson also emphasized her willingness to break with Trump on issues she believed were harmful to Iowa.Turek’s victory came in a state Trump carried by roughly 13% in the 2024 presidential election, adding to the national significance of the open-seat contest.
Republican Chuck Gray is projected to win Wyoming's sole House seat, replacing GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman, who gave up her seat to run for the Senate. Gray, Wyoming’s Republican secretary of state, bested Democrat Lisa Kinney, a librarian, attorney and financial advisor who spent about a decade in Wyoming’s Senate.
Running in a deep red district, Kinney worked to present herself as a bipartisan moderate, emphasizing public-land protection, rural health care, affordability and congressional accountability. She attacked Gray for refusing to attend a televised debate and questioned if he would be able to buck President Donald Trump if Wyomingites needed him to.
Gray, on the other hand, dismissed Kinney's demand for a televised debate and campaigned on a traditional Republican platform of energy development, border security, affordability and reducing federal regulation. He also presented as a strong supporter of public lands, an issue of great importance to Wyoming residents.
Candidates for the Libertarian and Constitution parties also appeared on ballots alongside Gray and Kinney.
{{#rendered}}Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., released a tense message Tuesday as Democrats were expected to reclaim control of the House, potentially paving the way for him to become chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Garcia appeared to direct his two-word message at the Trump administration after previously vowing to take on President Donald Trump, the Department of Homeland Security and the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“Lawyer up,” Garcia said in a post on X.
Garcia currently serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to President George W. Bush, and a Fox News contributor described President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation agenda as a "serious overreach" Tuesday night as poll numbers came in, adding it subsequently "had a serious impact" on Republican support from Hispanics in Texas.
Rove's comments coincide with a struggling performance by Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Texas, Ken Paxton, who is currently behind his Democratic challenger James Talarico. If Talarico pulls out a victory he would become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since 1988.
"If [Trump] had gone to the Valley a year ago, and celebrated the success that he had in closing down the border he would have been surrounded by Democratic county executives, Democratic mayors, Democratic council members applauding him, because it was their communities that were having to deal with this flood of illegals. He would've been surrounded by a lot of Democrats, mostly Tejanos, saying 'Thank you Mr. President,'" Rove said. "But he never went. And so now, what the presence is, is ICE coming in, and everyone knows someone in their community that has been touched by an ICE enforcement action."
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy described Tuesday's midterm elections as a "tough and challenging" night for Republicans across the country after losing Ohio's gubernatorial race to Democrat Amy Acton.
Ramaswamy addressed supporters at an election night watch party in Columbus shortly after Acton was declared the winner.
"Thank you for all of you for being here tonight," he said. "As you've probably seen it is a tough and challenging night for Republicans across the country and a tough night for us here in Ohio."
Ramaswamy also acknowledged that the campaign "was bitter in both directions at times."
The final days of the campaign were marked by bipartisan backlash over an ad produced by Ramaswamy's campaign featuring an interview with Acton's biological mother, who accused the Democratic candidate of lying. The ad omitted the context that Acton's stepfather had been charged with sexually abusing her.
Fox News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrats will gain control of the U.S. Senate.
They will win at least 51 seats, thanks to victories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, and now Iowa, where Democrat Josh Turek will defeat Republican Ashley Hinson.
Democrats had to play in deep red territory to pull off a Senate majority.
Several battleground states are still outstanding.
Retaking the Senate is a major victory for the Democrats, who at the beginning of this midterm election cycle faced a steep uphill climb to win back the majority.
Republicans currently control the chamber 53-47, which means Democrats needed a net gain of four seats to reach 51 seats and grab the majority. A 50-50 Senate would have left Republicans with the tie-breaking vote of Vice President JD Vance.
Starting in January, a Democratic Senate majority will have substantial implications for President Donald Trump and his administration.
Going forward, Democrats may block Trump's judicial nominees and cabinet appointments, launch investigations and issue subpoenas, and block much of the president's legislative agenda.
With control of the chamber, longtime Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer is expected to succeed Republican Sen. John Thune, the current Senate majority leader.
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic state auditor Rob Sand will become the next Governor of Iowa, flipping the state for the first time since 2010. He defeats Republican businessman Zach Lahn.
The race in Iowa was the state's first open gubernatorial contest in 20 years. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, who served for nearly a decade, announced last year that she wouldn't seek re-election.
Sand, the only Democrat currently holding statewide office in Iowa, quickly became his party's frontrunner and faced no opposition in this year's primary.
Meanwhile, Lahn, a self-described entrepreneur and farmer, had to navigate a crowded and contentious primary. He won a five-candidate Republican nomination race that included Rep. Randy Feenstra, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump.
Once considered a swing state, Iowa has shifted to the right over the past decade. The final Fox News Power Rankings ahead of Election Day rated the race between Lahn and Sand as Lean Democrat.
The Fox News Decision Desk predicts that Republican Rep. Barry Moore will win Alabama's Senate race against former judge and prosecutor Everett Wess, replacing GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who gave up his seat to run for governor.
Moore emphasized border enforcement, tax cuts, gun rights, opposition to abortion and support for President Donald Trump while on the campaign trail, touting his backing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as something he did that helped Alabamians.
Wess attempted to turn that line around on Moore, arguing that the Medicaid changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act threatened to worsen rural healthcare in the state. The Democrat also highlighted cost of living increases on the Trump administration.
Moore, meanwhile, attempted to paint the Democratic Party as having been “hijacked” by radicals, citing liberal support for transgender participation in women’s sports and other issues.
{{#rendered}}Republican Sen. John Cornyn on Tuesday congratulated Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico for pulling off a historic upset, flipping a Senate seat in the Republican stronghold of Texas by defeating Trump-backed Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“The voters have spoken, and I want to extend my congratulations to James Talarico on his election to the U.S. Senate,” Cornyn said in a post on X.
“I look forward to meeting him and offering my assistance with his transition as he prepares to serve Texans in the U.S. Senate.
Talarico's projected victory over Paxton will end Republicans' decades-long hold on the Senate seat, making him the first Democrat elected to the seat since 1988.
Republicans’ nightmare scenario became a reality in Kansas, where an insurgent Democratic newcomer toppled a Republican incumbent for the first time in nearly a century.
Adam Hamilton defeated first-term Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., in one of the more unexpectedly close and brutal races during this midterm election cycle, according to Fox News’ Decision Desk.
Hamilton’s win in the Sunflower State marks the first time Kansans have sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932, and it serves as a bruising blow to Senate Republicans who are trying to cling on to their slim majority in the upper chamber.
Though for months, their race was on neither national Democrats’ nor Republicans’ radar, in the waning weeks Marshall acknowledged that he was running for his political life as headwinds battered Republicans incumbents across the country.
"I think that, you know, I'm not a political expert, I'm a physician, but if we lose Kansas, I don't see how we keep control of the Senate," Marshall told Fox News Digital in an interview before the election.
"And that's why a vote for Adam Hamilton is a vote for Chuck Schumer and Democrat control of the Senate,” he continued. “It’s that simple."
Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden is projected to win South Dakota's gubernatorial election, defeating Democrat Dan Ahlers and securing a full term in office, Fox News projects.
Rhoden, the state's former lieutenant governor, assumed the governorship in 2025 after Kristi Noem resigned to become President Donald Trump's secretary of homeland security.
His victory extends Republican control of the governor's mansion in a state that has not elected a Democratic governor since 1974.
A longtime South Dakota rancher and former state lawmaker, Rhoden served as Noem's lieutenant governor beginning in 2019 before succeeding her midway through her second term.
Ahlers, a former Democratic state legislator, sought to challenge the GOP's longstanding dominance in the state.
The contest was rated Solid Republican by political analysts, reflecting South Dakota's reliably conservative electorate.
Rhoden's victory gives him a full four-year mandate after initially assuming office through succession rather than election and preserves a key part of the Great Plains as a time-tested Republican stronghold.
{{#rendered}}Incumbent Rep. Tim Kennedy, D-N.Y., won his reelection bid to represent New York’s 26th district.
The representative, who was first elected in a special election in 2024 to replace former Rep. Brian Higgins D-N.Y., will return to Congress in January after winning more than 60% of the vote.
His opponent, Republican Dennis Hanson, trailed behind at roughly 30% of the vote.
The candidate won after running on a platform that focused on bringing down the price of healthcare.
The congressman’s win comes as a key victory for House Democrats who look to regain control of the majority in the lower chamber.
Former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to the Senate and jumpstart his political career that spanned five decades succeeded Tuesday night as he defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio, the Fox News Decision Desk projects.
Brown reclaims the Senate seat he held for nearly two decades before losing his 2024 reelection bid.
Brown’s victory marked a remarkable political comeback for the longtime Ohio Democrat, who served in the Senate from 2007 until 2025. He previously represented Ohio in the U.S. House and served as the state’s secretary of state and a member of the Ohio House.
He will return to the Senate after defeating Husted in a special election to serve the remainder of the term originally won by Vice President JD Vance. Husted was appointed to the seat by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in January 2025 after Vance resigned from the Senate to become vice president.
The timing of Brown’s return to Washington will depend on when Ohio certifies the election and when he is formally sworn in. Brown could be sworn in during the lame-duck session, potentially changing the Senate’s voting math before the new Congress convenes.
Democrat Donavan McKinney won Michigan’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating Republican T.P. Nykoriak to succeed Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., in the heavily Democratic seat.
McKinney, a state representative, defeated Thanedar in the Democratic primary before securing the seat Tuesday. His victory follows two terms in the House by Thanedar whose tenure was marked by a series of headline-grabbing moves, including a brief effort to impeach President Donald Trump. In 2025, he filed seven articles of impeachment against Trump, but backed down from forcing a House vote after Democratic leaders called the effort a “distraction.”
Thanedar also introduced legislation to create a federal commission to study and distribute land reparations to descendants of American slaves, called ICE agents “thugs” during a congressional hearing and pushed to abolish the agency, saying it was “beyond reform.” The controversies added to the unusual political profile of a millionaire businessman who spent millions of dollars on his campaigns before being defeated by McKinney in the Democratic primary.
Thanedar also arrived in Congress after a failed, self-funded 2018 bid for Michigan governor, pouring millions of his own money into that campaign as well before losing to Gretchen Whitmer.
The district has been represented by Democrats since 1949 and includes large portions of Detroit and surrounding Wayne County communities. McKinney received support from prominent progressive figures during his campaign, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
{{#rendered}}South Dakota is is projected to remain a deep-red stronghold in the Senate, re-electing Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., over a familiar independent challenger, the Fox News Decision Desk reports.
Rounds defeated independent Brian Bengs Tuesday night, scoring a third term in the upper chamber and further solidifying South Dakota, the home of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., as a GOP bastion.
It’s not the first time voters in the Mount Rushmore State have gotten a chance to weigh in on Bengs. He previously ran against Thune as a Democrat in 2024 and was soundly defeated.
Voters in South Dakota haven’t elected a Democrat — and never an independent candidate — since the early 2000s.
But there was a Democratic candidate early on. Rounds’ and Bengs’ race was shaken up when the Democratic nominee, Julian Beaudion, dropped out after a "devastating house fire,” and levied allegations that an “opponent and those associated with the opponent” intimidated and threatened his family, he said in a lengthy statement on X.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona has defeated Rep. Andy Biggs, her Republican challenger.
With her victory, Hobbs will now serve a second four year term running the southwestern battleground state.
Hobbs, a former Arizona secretary of state, narrowly defeated then-GOP nominee Kari Lake four years ago, to become governor. She was unopposed in this year's Democratic primary as she ran for re-election.
Biggs, a former chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, won the GOP primary in a landslide thanks to the support of President Donald Trump . Biggs was also backed by the political wing of the conservative powerhouse Turning Point USA.
Hobbs was considered the most vulnerable Democratic governor seeking re-election, and Trump traveled to Arizona last month to rally with Biggs. A record-breaking $2.3 billion was spent by the campaigns and outside groups to run ads in the gubernatorial showdown.
Biggs is a former longtime state lawmaker who was first elected to the Arizona House and later the state Senate, and served as state Senate president before winning election to Congress in 2016.
As he ran for governor, Biggs pushed to eliminate the state income tax and reduce the property tax, lower fuel prices by reducing the state's reliance on California, and "Ending medical mandates and ensuring vaccine freedom."
Hobbs, as she ran for a second term, said she was "focused on cutting taxes and supporting small businesses so Arizona can keep thriving."
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte will defeat Democratic challenger Cinde Warmington in New Hampshire's gubernatorial election.
Defying a rough political climate facing the GOP as well as Democratic Party enthusiasm, Ayotte won re-election to a second two-year term as the Northern New England swing state's governor.
Ayotte, who also served two decades ago as state attorney general, was first elected governor in 2024, succeeding fellow Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont are the only states in the nation that elect their governors every two years.
Ayotte started the cycle as the favorite thanks in part to political history: Only twice in the past century - and not since 2004 - have first-term New Hampshire governors been ousted.
The governor spotlighted affordable housing as her state's most pressing economic challenge, and she pointed to new laws on accessory dwelling units and permitting to help ease the crisis.
Warmington, a healthcare attorney and former member of New Hampshire's five-member elected executive council, which approves state contracts and the governor's judicial and executive branch nominations, highlighted the cost of living as she ran for governor. She called for a suspension of the state's gas tax.
The Democratic nominee's past work as a lobbyist for drugmaker Purdue Pharma was a major line of attack by Ayotte, with the governor and her campaign labeling Warmington an "opioid lobbyist."
{{#rendered}}In the Texas gubernatorial race, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrat Gina Hinojosa will defeat Governor Greg Abbott, ending his twelve-year run.
Democrats haven’t won a statewide race in Texas in 32 years.
Hinojosa also made history as the first Latina governor of the nation's second most populous state
Abbott, a conservative governor and major ally of President Donald Trump, meanwhile, fell short in his history-making bid to become the first person to win four elections as Texas governor.
Hinojosa, a former president of the Austin public school system and a civil rights lawyer, focused her campaign on public education funding, teacher pay, opposing school vouchers, data center moratoriums, and pocketbook relief.
She framed her bid as a fight "against the billionaires and the corporations," who she accused of driving up prices, closing neighborhood schools and "cheating Texans out of basic healthcare."
Rep. John Mannion, D-N.Y., is projected to win his reelection bid for a second term representing New York's 22nd Congressional District.
In his speech declaring victory, Mannion thanked his family.
"It is a lovely day, everybody. I want to thank my family. Listen, you've seen what you've seen on TV and words coming out of people and it's easy to take a shot at me, and that's fine, but these four, they don't just support; they sacrifice and it's not easy," Mannion said.
"When it comes to losing friendships. When it comes to answering questions from people who don't know what I'm doing or not. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be somebody's kid. But I thank them all; I love them all," he added.
In Maine, when it comes to the qualities that matter most in their vote for Senate – voters are looking for a change candidate and one who fights for people like them.
{{#rendered}}Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., has won re-election to the U.S. House in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District race.
Ramirez, who has served as the U.S. representative for Illinois' 3rd Congressional District since 2023, defeated Republican opponent Angel Oakley. She is notably recognized as the first Midwestern Latina elected to the U.S. Congress.
Ramirez also introduced the Reimagining Safety Act on Oct. 13, which is legislation seeking to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and eradicate Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The Illinois Democrat wrote in an Oct. 31 X post that “there are millions of reasons we must end detention, abolish ICE, and dismantle DHS.”
“Our neighbors are living their worst nightmares in detention, and they are asking us to take action today,” she added in the social media post.
Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman will win Wyoming's open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, defeating Democrat James Byrd and making the jump from the House to the Senate.
Hageman defeat of Byrd keeps the seat in Republican hands following Sen. Cynthia Lummis' decision not to seek a second term.
Hageman rose to national prominence in 2022 when she defeated former at-large Rep. Liz Cheney in the Republican primary after the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney became one of President Donald Trump's most prominent GOP critics.
Trump backed Hageman in that race and endorsed her Senate campaign, which was not considered competitive in the most red U.S. state.
Hageman, a two-term congresswoman, won a five-way Republican Senate primary in August. Byrd, a former Wyoming state representative, captured the Democratic nomination.
Former Biden Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra won the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom, defeating Republican challenger Steve Hilton.
Becerra has spent decades in public office, beginning with his election to the California State Assembly in 1990. He later served more than two decades in Congress. He left the House in 2017 after then-Gov. Jerry Brown appointed him California attorney general, won a full term in the post the following year and later served as President Joe Biden's HHS secretary from 2021 to 2025.
Becerra's victory extends Democrats' long-running dominance of the governorship and statewide politics in California, where registered Democrats substantially outnumber Republicans. A Republican has not won a California gubernatorial election since Arnold Schwarzenegger's reelection in 2006, and has not occupied the governor's mansion since he left office in January 2011.
Newsom was barred from seeking a third consecutive term after winning the governorship in 2018 and reelection in 2022. His departure comes amid continued speculation about a potential 2028 presidential bid.
{{#rendered}}Democrat and union leader Bob Brooks flipped Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating first-term Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who flipped the seat in 2024.
Democrat Paige Cognetti also flipped Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, defeating Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, who won the seat in 2024.
Democrat Janelle Stelson also flipped Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, defeating four-term Republican Rep. Scott Perry.
Stelson had lost to Perry in 2024 by 1 percentage point.
Democrats just made history in Texas.
President Donald Trump’s gamble on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a strong ally of the president’s, backfired on him after Texas state Rep. James Talarico pulled off an upset to score Democrats their first Senate seat from the Lone Star State in nearly four decades, according to Fox News’ Decision Desk.
It comes after Trump opted to back Paxton over longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, earlier this year, who Republicans in Washington, D.C., believed would be a better candidate during a midterm cycle in which political headwinds, spurred by economic stress and war, pushed back against the party in power.
Trump made near-weekly visits and his deep-pocketed war chest, MAGA Inc., along with national Republicans, dumped hundreds of millions of dollars to support Paxton’s struggling campaign.
But it was not enough to overcome the insurgent Talarico, who styled himself a moderate dedicated to representing Texans and not Democratic interests, like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., in Washington.
Incumbent Republican Rep. William Timmons won reelection in South Carolina's 4th Congressional District, The Associated Press projects.
With 97% of the vote reported, Timmons had received 145,428 votes, defeating Democratic challenger Courtney McClain, who had received 128,913 votes.
While McClain was unable to flip the Republican-held seat, Democrats scored victories in several other races across the country Tuesday evening.
In another major race across the state, Democrat Annie Andrews won South Carolina's closely watched U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican Sen. Darline Graham.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrats will control the House of Representatives in the next Congress.
Four key groups shifted away from the GOP, according to the Fox News Voter Poll. Young, independent, rural and Hispanic voters turned against Republicans in large numbers, blaming the Iran war and tariffs.
That has allowed Democrats to win not just competitive seats, but some traditionally red districts as well.
The size of the Democratic majority is yet to be determined, but they’re expected to win dozens of seats.
With Republican holding on to a razor-thin majority, Democrats needed a net gain of just three seats to reach 218 and to take control of the 435-member House for the first time in four years.
A Democratic takeover of the House come January will dramatically change the balance of power in Washington, even if Republicans retain their Senate majority in the midterm elections.
A Democratic House majority could substantially increase congressional scrutiny of President Donald Trump and his administration through committee investigations, hearings and subpoenas. It could also block House passage of Republican legislative priorities and force negotiations over federal spending.
The Democrats retaking of the House also sets up current Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York as the next House speaker, succeeding Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
California Democratic gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra appeared to hesitate on endorsing his self-described longtime friend, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, as she fights for re-election against socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
Spencer Pratt, an actor and political independent who lost to Bass and Raman in the June primary, mocked the spectacle that unfolded on a KNBC news camera on Tuesday.
"This is hilariously awkward," Pratt wrote on X. "Xavier Basura is standing next to Karen Basura and refuses to endorse her even after being pressed multiple times."
"He can't even look at anyone. LMAO That's your sister from another mister, Xavier."
"Basura" is the Spanish word for "rubbish" and Pratt has used it throughout the summer to refer to his former rival.
When pressed by a reporter at the scene, Becerra responded:
"[P]olitics is one thing, friendships are another thing. And, I hope that folks recognize that you can have friendships that far exceed whatever goes on in politics."
Becerra faces Republican Steve Hilton, a former top strategist for then-United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron and a former Fox News Channel host.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon has defeated Republican challenger David Brock Smith.
With his victory, Merkley has captured a fourth six-year term representing the blue-leaning northwestern state in the U.S. Senate.
Before winning election to the Senate in 2008, Merkley spent a decade in the Oregon legislature, including two years as House speaker.
Smith has served in the state Senate for three years, following six years in the state House. He previously was a Port Orford city councilor and school board member and served on the Curry County Commission.
Libertarian Gary Lyndon Dye progressive Chris Henry were also on the ballot.
Merkley, a progressive, was the only senator in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders. This year, as he ran for re-election, Merkley was also endorsed by the Working Families Party.
Merkley made a pledge to make housing, healthcare and child care more affordable for families while fighting for the rights of workers unions centerpieces of his re-election bid.
Smith ran on an "Oregon first” agenda, saying that Oregon deserved a leader that pushed for for solutions rather than seeking soundbites. And he made affordability the top issue of his campaign as he described himself as the candidate who would provide commonsense solutions to problems.
Smith was running to become the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate election in Oregon in nearly a quarter century.
{{#rendered}}Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez is projected to win reelection in Texas' 34th Congressional District, holding off Republican Eric Flores.
The race was one of the Lone Star State's closely watched battles for control of the House after Texas adopted a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms, pushing Gonzalez into substantially more Republican territory.
Under the new boundaries, Trump would have carried the district by roughly 10 points in 2024, compared with about 4 points under the previous map.
Gonzalez campaigned on affordability, health care, protecting Social Security and Medicare and delivering federal investments to South Texas. Flores, an Army veteran, attorney and former federal prosecutor endorsed by President Donald Trump, campaigned on lowering the cost of living, securing the southern border, supporting law enforcement and expanding jobs and investment in the region.
Gonzalez narrowly won the district in 2024, defeating Republican Mayra Flores with 51.29% of the vote to her 48.71%.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democrat Amy Acton will defeat Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in the race for Ohio’s governor’s mansion, delivering a stunning rebuke to conservatives in a state often held up as ground zero for President Donald Trump’s transformation of the GOP.
Acton successfully ran a campaign appealing to voters across the aisle by presenting herself as the candidate who could address issues of affordability and public education. On the campaign trail, she painted Ramaswamy as out-of-touch, wealthy and pushing policies that benefited people like himself.
The final days of the campaign were dominated by bipartisan backlash over an ad produced by the Ramaswamy campaign that included an interview with Acton’s biological mother calling the Democratic hopeful a liar — though omitting the context that her step husband had been charged with sexually abusing Acton.
While Ramaswamy’s controversies took center stage in the national press, Acton’s record was not unblemished.
Ramaswamy and his Republican allies honed in on Acton's record as director of the Ohio Department of Health, where she led the state’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2020. Conservatives pinned the state’s school and business closures, as well as a controversial decision to delay primary voting by closing polling stations, on Acton.
Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman is projected to win reelection in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, holding off Republican Eric Conroy.
The race was one of the Buckeye State's closely watched battles for control of the House after Ohio adopted a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms, pushing Landsman into substantially more Republican territory.
Conroy, a former CIA officer and Air Force veteran endorsed by President Donald Trump, campaigned on affordability, border security and public safety, while calling for lower taxes, reduced federal spending and increased domestic energy production.
Landsman campaigned heavily on affordability, health care and lowering energy costs, while touting federal investments he helped secure for Southwest Ohio.
Under the previous district boundaries, Landsman defeated Republican Orlando Sonza with 54.6% of the vote to Sonza's 45.4% in 2024.
The newly drawn district stretches from Cincinnati through Warren and Clinton counties, shifting the seat toward Republicans. Under the new boundaries, Trump would have carried the district by roughly 3 points in 2024, compared with Harris carrying the old district by about 6 points.
{{#rendered}}House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is projected to defeat four challengers to secure a fifth term in the House of Representatives.
Johnson, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is projected to win more than 50% of the vote against his four opponents.
The Louisiana Republican will return to Congress in January as the battle for control of the House remains undecided. Johnson's victory marks a key win for House Republicans and Trump as they fight to retain their majority in the lower chamber.
Johnson was first elected House speaker in October 2023 following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, in a drawn out battle that lasted through multiple rounds of votes.
He was re-elected to the leadership position in January 2025 in just one round. Johnson has emerged as one of Trump's closest congressional allies, helping advance legislation backed by the president, including the SAVE America Act.
Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti is projected to defeat Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. in Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, flipping the northeastern Pennsylvania seat back to Democrats.
The race was one of the Keystone State's closely watched battles for control of the House, with Cognetti attempting to reclaim a seat Republicans flipped just two years earlier.
Cognetti, the first woman elected mayor of Scranton, campaigned on affordability, lowering health care and utility costs, protecting Medicaid and cracking down on corruption in Washington, while making a ban on congressional stock trading a central part of her campaign.
Bresnahan, a businessman endorsed by President Donald Trump, campaigned on cutting taxes, securing the southern border and supporting northeastern Pennsylvania's working-class and union workforce.
Bresnahan first flipped the district in 2024, defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright with roughly 51% of the vote.
Cognetti's victory came in a district that backed Trump over Kamala Harris with approximately 54% of the vote in 2024 and Trump over Joe Biden with approximately 51% in 2020.
Democratic former TV news anchor Janelle Stelson is projected to defeat Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., in one of the most closely watched races in the country on Tuesday night.
Perry has been in Congress since 2013 and is a former brigadier general for the U.S. Army.
And despite his conservative bonafides, his south-central Pennsylvania district was considered a battleground that Fox News Power Rankings predicted would lean in favor of Democrats this year.
Stelson also likely got a boost from the popularity of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a fellow Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender running for re-election this year.
Perry is a close ally of President Donald Trump's and was among those whose cell phone was seized as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's Arctic Frost probe into Trump's 2020 election fraud claims.
It's a significant victory for House Democrats in their quest to win back the congressional majority for the final two years of Trump's term.
{{#rendered}}Voters delivered major decisions on abortion rights and election laws Tuesday night, approving four ballot measures across Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio, according to race calls from The Associated Press.
Virginia voters approved Question 1, enshrining a constitutional right to abortion, while also passing Question 3, which restores voting rights to people released from prison.
Question 1 referred to abortion as "fundamental right to reproductive freedom."
Meanwhile, voters in West Virginia approved Amendment 1, requiring U.S. citizenship to vote.
Ohio voters also backed a constitutional voter identification requirement, passing Issue 3.
The results mark significant changes to state constitutions on some of the country's most contentious issues.
Democratic challenger Bob Brooks defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, handing Democrats a key pickup in their fight to reclaim control of the House of Representatives.
Brooks unseated Mackenzie in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, a competitive Lehigh Valley seat that had been viewed as one of the most closely watched House races in the country and a potential bellwether for control of Congress.
Brooks, a former Bethlehem firefighter and president of the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association, won the Democratic nomination in a four-way primary. He campaigned as a working-class candidate, focusing on affordability, health care and labor issues. Mackenzie emphasized lowering taxes, improving public safety and supporting President Donald Trump's economic policies.
The Lehigh Valley district has long been considered one of Pennsylvania's premier battlegrounds, with both parties pouring resources into the race as they sought to appeal to suburban and working-class voters.
Democrats viewed the district as one of their top pickup opportunities as they sought to win back working-class voters in a battleground state.
The race was among several competitive House contests expected to help determine whether Republicans retain their majority or Democrats regain control of the chamber.
AUSTIN — Beverly, who has lived in Texas since the 1980s, said she was “here to celebrate” as early returns showed state Rep. James Talarico performing well Tuesday night. She told Fox News Digital the energy felt different from the last time Democrat Beto O’Rourke came close to winning statewide.
“People have finally gotten fed up with all of the lies and all the hypocrisy, all the craziness and all the hate,” Beverly said. “And I think people, particularly young people, are just saying, ‘We got to do something.’”
For her, the night’s stakes stretched beyond Texas . Beverly described the election as a turning point for the country, saying voters had a choice about whether to continue on the current path or try to change course.
“This just feels like a now-or-never moment in the entire United States,” she said. “We either turn things around or we just kiss it all goodbye.”
Beverly said she came to the watch party hoping to see that desire for change reflected in the results.
Fox News Digital's Alex Miller reporting from Austin, Texas.
{{#rendered}}Republican Byron Donalds of Florida celebrated his projected victory in the state's gubernatorial race Tuesday, thanking his supporters and vowing to lead Florida to even greater heights.
“THANK YOU FLORIDA! I am humbled and grateful beyond measure. As your Governor, I will give you everything I have,” he said in a post on X.
“We are going to make life in Florida more affordable. We are going to keep our streets safe. We are going to invest in our young people so that they can attain the Florida Dream that all of us love so dearly.”
The Trump-backed candidate also vowed to make Florida a national model under his leadership.
“Florida is the envy of the nation. I will fight day and night to keep it that way and to lift our state to even greater heights.”
Donalds, an outgoing congressman, defeated Democratic rival and former Rep. David Jolly, becoming the first Black Republican elected governor in the United States.
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - 11/3/2026 10:02:30 PM
With an est. 66% reporting in Washtenaw (MI), Abdul El-Sayed (D) leads Mike Rogers (R) 71.16 to 27.48, a +5.11 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Eric Barlow will win the Wyoming governor's race, defeating Democrat Kenneth Casner.
Barlow has served as a Republican member of the Wyoming Senate since 2023.
Barlow is a state senator and former Wyoming House speaker who won the Republican nomination despite President Donald Trump's endorsement of another candidate.
He will succeed Republican Gov. Mark Gordon, who is term-limited. Casner was making his third bid for governor.
The Associated Press called the race at 7:01 p.m
{{#rendered}}Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan is projected to win re-election in Indiana's 1st Congressional District, fending off a largely self-funded Republican challenger.
Barb Regnitz, a Republican Porter County commissioner and financial planner, ran on a platform of stronger border enforcement, affordability, reduced federal debt and election integrity. She attacked Mrvan on the campaign trail, arguing that Democrats had failed the economically struggling region and portraying the three-term incumbent as part of Washington's political establishment.
Mrvan, meanwhile, leaned into his labor ties and emphasized his support for abortion while attempting to tie Regnitz to Trump and his unpopular policy agenda.
Republicans viewed Mrvan's seat as a possible pickup opportunity early in the cycle as they sought to expand their House majority. But hopes of ousting him faded as 2026 wore on, with election forecasters increasingly favoring the Democratic incumbent.
Democrat Zach Dembo flipped Kentucky's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, capturing the open House seat long held by Republicans.
The seat was left open by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., who decided not to seek reelection and instead to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Dembo defeated Republican Ralph Alvarado in the central Kentucky district, which includes Lexington.
Dembo's victory hands Democrats a seat Republicans had controlled for more than a decade as both parties battle for control of the House.
Dembo began his career as an eighth-grade English teacher before attending law school and serving in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, according to his website. In 2017, he served as a federal prosecutor before being tapped by Gov. Beshear to become a policy advisor and legislative director.
His campaign priorities listed on his website included fighting to end Trump's tariff battle , calling for an end to the fighting with Iran, "commonsense" regulations for artificial intelligence, supporting women's access to abortions, and expanding federal healthcare subsidies. He also described Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "out or control."
"Washington is broken, and professional politicians are the ones who broke it," Dembo said while campaigning. "As a veteran, former teacher, and prosecutor, I’ve spent my entire career serving my community and holding folks in power accountable."
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democrat Deb Haaland will win the New Mexico governor’s race, making history as the first Native American woman elected governor of a U.S. state.
Haaland is projected to defeat Republican Gregg Hull, the former mayor of Rio Rancho, in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
The victory marks another historic first for Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo.
Haaland was one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress in 2018. She later became the first Native American to serve as a presidential Cabinet secretary when she led the Department of the Interior under former President Joe Biden.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}Democrat Frederick Douglas Haynes III has won the open race for Texas' 30th Congressional District.
Haynes, who currently serves as the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, defeated Republican Everett Jackson in the race for the Lone Star State's 30th Congressional District.
The House seat opened up after outgoing Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, decided to not seek re-election to Texas' 30th Congressional District after pursuing an unsuccessful Senate primary bid.
Haynes has previously campaigned alongside Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has defeated farmer Hallie Shoffner, his Democratic challenger.
With his victory, Cotton will now serve a third six-year term representing the solidly red southeastern state in the U.S. Senate.
Cotton is an Army veteran who served in combat in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before becoming a rising star in Republican Party politics.
He won a U.S. House seat in 2012 before defeating incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in 2014.
Cotton, who mulled a run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination before deciding against making a bid, was considered to be on President Donald Trump's short list for running mate two years ago.
Shoffner, who grew up on a family rice and soybean farm and later managed her family's operations before founding an agricultural food hub, made farming a focal point of her campaign.
While Cotton won re-election in 2020 by 33 points and Trump carried Arkansas two years ago by 31 points, polls considered this year's Senate showdown more competitive, and Shoffner decisively outraised Cotton the past three months.
Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján has won re-election to the U.S. Senate in New Mexico, defeating Republican challenger Larry Marker, according to a projection from the Fox News Decision Desk.
Luján, who was first elected to the Senate in 2020, secured a second six-year term as Republicans and Democrats battle for control of the chamber in the 2026 midterm elections.
Before joining the Senate, Luján represented New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from 2009 to 2021.
During his time in the House, Luján chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and later served as assistant speaker, a position in House Democratic leadership.
His victory keeps the New Mexico Senate seat in Democratic hands as Election Night results continue to come in across the country.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrat Annie Andrews will win South Carolina’s Senate race, defeating Republican Senator Darline Graham.
Democrats didn’t invest heavily in this race, but poor turnout for Graham in conservative areas has allowed Andrews to flip a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator for nearly 30 years.
Andrews is a pediatrician and former congressional candidate.With her major upset, Andrews, a pediatrician who ran as an outsider, will become the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win a Senate election in South Carolina.
Having a very familiar name in South Carolina and receiving two 11th-hour campaign trail stops by President Donald Trump weren't enough to help push Graham over the finish line in the ruby-red southeastern state.
The race became increasingly competitive in the final weeks of the campaign. And outside groups aligned with Republicans and Democrats poured cash and resources into the ballot box showdown at the 11th hour.
With some of the top nonpartisan political handicappers shifting the contest in the direction of the Democrats, Trump traveled to South Carolina with less than two weeks until Election Day to rally with Graham.
"She’s smart and incredible. She’ll never let you down," Trump said as he praised Graham at an Oct. 21 stop in Upstate South Carolina.
Left-wing Democrat Summer Lee has won reelection to Pennsylvania 's 12 Congressional District, per the AP.
The Democrat, who has won her third term, defeats Republican challenger James Hayes, who ran unopposed in his party's primary earlier this year.
Lee was first elected to represent the District encompassing Pittsburgh and surrounding counties in 2023 and previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The progressive firebrand serves on the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform as well as the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Lee has previously worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Office of the Attorney General for Washington, D.C. after graduating from Howard University Law School.
There’s lots of concern about gas prices across the country and especially in Iowa, where almost nine-in-ten are concerned.
{{#rendered}}Polls closed in multiple U.S. states at 10 p.m. ET on Tuesday, including Montana, Nevada and Utah.
In Montana, it was too early to call a winner in the Senate race between Republican Kurt Alme, independent Seth Bodnar and Democrat Alani Bankhead, according to the Fox News Decision Desk, though Alme appeared to have an early edge over his opponents.
In Nevada, it was also too early to call the governor's race between Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo and Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford, according to the Fox News Decision Desk.
Polls had already closed in several major states at 9 p.m. ET, including New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
Polls also closed across Texas, North Dakota, Michigan, South Dakota and Kansas at 9 p.m. ET.
The latest round of poll closures brings the country closer to determining which party will control Congress for the next two years.
A Trump administration official told Fox News’ Peter Doocy that the mood at the White House was defiant Tuesday, saying the election results would not weaken President Donald Trump’s resolve to stop the “Radical Left.”
The official argued that Trump was not on the ballot, even as the president repeatedly urged voters in several states to treat the midterms as if he were. Trump’s supporters, the official added, are more likely to turn out when he is on the ballot.
The official also pointed to candidate quality, saying Trump did a better job promoting many Republicans than the candidates did themselves.
The official predicted that voters who backed Democrats could soon regret their choice, arguing gas prices would fall quickly once the conflict with Iran is resolved. The official did not give a timeline.
“Regardless of how today plays out,” the official said, Trump’s resolve would only grow stronger. “Buckle up.”
Florida's newly elected attorney general celebrated key Republican victories across the Sunshine State following Tuesday's midterm elections, declaring that voters once again rejected the Democratic agenda.
James Uthmeier, who was appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to replace Ashley Moody after she joined the U.S. Senate, told Fox News Digital that Florida voters delivered another victory for conservative leadership.
"Tonight, Florida voted to keep our state safe, strong, and free. Grateful for your trust. We'll keep locking up child predators, backing law enforcement, and defending your God-given rights," Uthmeier said. "The Free State of Florida stays free. Thank you. The work continues!"
Uthmeier, who secured more than 49% of the vote, will continue serving as attorney general when Gov.-elect Byron Donalds takes office in January.
Donalds, a congressman, won Florida's gubernatorial race Tuesday night after receiving more than 50% of the vote.
Moody, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2025 to fill the vacancy left by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, won election to the seat after securing more than 50% of the vote.
{{#rendered}}In the Tennessee Senate race, Fox News projects that Republican Senator Bill Hagerty will win a second term, defeating Democrat Marquita Bradshaw
The race was a rematch from 2020, when Hagerty defeated Bradshaw in his first bid for a seat in the upper chamber. Bradshaw also ran for U.S. Senate in the state in 2024.
Hagerty co-owned a private equity firm before his foray into the political world.
Before he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he served United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 during President Donald Trump's first term in office.
A key New Jersey swing district is falling out of Republicans' grasp on Tuesday night in a critical projected victory for House Democrats.
New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, which is where President Donald Trump's Bedminster golf course is located, is projected to be represented next year by former Navy helicopter pilot Rebecca Bennett after she is projected to defeat Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J.
Kean, the son of former Garden State Gov. Tom Kean Sr., was seeking a third term representing the affluent area encompassing suburbs and exurbs of New York City.
Multiple election forecasts, including Fox News Power Rankings, projected that he would lose to Bennett in what was expected to be an overall difficult year for Republicans trying to keep their congressional majorities.Kean is known to keep a low profile on Capitol Hill.
But he was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year over a four-month absence from Congress that he later revealed was due to his getting treatment for depression.
Democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier is headed to Congress in January after her projected victory in New York's 13th Congressional District.
Chevalier, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), won her race after campaigning on Medicare for all, restricting immigration enforcement and ending U.S. military aid to Israel.
"WE WON! THANK YOU UPTOWN AND THE BRONX. I can't wait to bring you to the halls of power with me," the congresswoman-elect wrote on social media Tuesday night.
Ahead of Tuesday's election, Chevalier criticized President Donald Trump's announcement that he would end military aid to Israel, arguing that the move did not go far enough to secure the Palestinian right of return.
Her victory adds to a series of Democratic wins across the country Tuesday night as the party fights to reclaim the House majority from Republicans.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk can also project that Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders will serve a second term as Governor of Arkansas. She defeats Democratic state senator Fred Love.
Sanders was first elected governor in 2022, winning 63% of the vote and becoming the first woman to serve as Arkansas governor.
Although the 2026 midterm elections were widely viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump, Arkansas remains firmly Republican. Trump won the state with 64.2% of the vote in 2024.
While she received Trump’s endorsement, Sanders campaigned primarily on her own record. She highlighted four income tax cuts, the elimination of Arkansas’ grocery tax and her goal of eventually eliminating the state income tax altogether. She also defended the Arkansas LEARNS education overhaul, including school choice and higher teacher pay, and emphasized public safety and prison expansion.
Sanders previously served as Trump’s White House press secretary and was a senior adviser on his 2016 presidential campaign. She also worked on the political campaigns of her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., is projected to win re-election to the U.S. House for Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, defeating Republican Beaver County Sheriff Tony Guy and securing a third term representing the Pittsburgh-area seat.
Deluzio, a Navy veteran who served in Iraq, first won election to Congress in 2022, succeeding retiring Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb.
His district encompasses Beaver County and portions of Allegheny County, including suburban Pittsburgh communities and areas with deep industrial roots.
Guy, a former Pennsylvania State Police Trooper who has served as sheriff since 2016, secured the Republican nomination after defeating businessman Jesse Vodvarka in May's primary.
The candidates sparred over affordability, energy policy and the Trump administration during the campaign, with Deluzio accusing Guy of being too closely aligned with the president and Guy criticizing the incumbent's ties to the Democratic Party's progressive wing.
Deluzio's victory keeps the western Pennsylvania district in Democratic hands as both parties compete for control of the House of Representatives.
Fox News can project that Republican congressman Kevin Hern will win Oklahoma’s Senate race. This seat was recently held by Markwayne Mullin, who is now Secretary of Homeland Security.
Hern will succeed Republican appointee Sen. Alan Armstrong, who was named to the seat in March after GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin resigned to become secretary of homeland security in President Donald Trump's administration.
A businessman who owned 18 McDonalds franchises in Oklahoma before being elected to Congress in 2018, Hern served as chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee.
Thomas, a nurse and a political newcomer, was hoping to become the first Democrat in Oklahoma to win a Senate election in 36 years.
Libertarian Sevier White and independents Ron Meinhardt and Curtis Stinnett were also on the ballot.
Hern can take office once the election results are certified, and not have to wait until early January when the next Congress is sworn in, thanks to a ruling by the state attorney general that the election winner is considered elected to both the remainder of the current term and the new term.
Hern, who was backed by Trump, emphasized he would promote policies that support veterans, protect religious liberty and secure the border.
Thomas, a self-described socialist and a Chickasaw citizen, said she would fight to preserve tribal sovereignty, address the nation's nursing shortage, and support Oklahoma's farmers and ranchers.
{{#rendered}}The Associated Press projects that Democrat Claire Valdez will defeat Republican Melvin Rivera, a community activist, in New York’s 7th Congressional District, succeeding retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.
The district’s strong Democratic lean made Valdez the favorite, and her victory marks another noteworthy win for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in the 2026 midterms. Valdez’s win also comes on the heels of a bruising primary that left Democrats divided.
Although Valdez received the backing of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, others split with the endorsement — including Velázquez.
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t endorse in the race, but described the divisions in the race, noting the DSA’s break with many other New York Democratic figures, including Letitia James, the state’s attorney general.
“Nydia Velázquez and a coalition of very progressive Democrats, including Tish James… along with the Working Families Party and many of the unions… are on one side of that race, with DSA on the other,” Jeffries told reporters in June.
MINNETONKA, Minn. — U.S. Senate candidate Michele Tafoya greeted supporters at her Election Day watch party with a brief speech, welcoming them to the event.
“The reason that you are here is because you were indispensable to this campaign,” Tafoya said, before joking that some of the supporters actually just got lucky.
Tafoya addressed the crowd just after 8:00 p.m. local times, minutes after polls closed in Minnesota.
“Family and friends and volunteers and staffers, you have been just a boon to me. People who I can count on, people that were helpful in the smallest and biggest of ways,” she continued.
She urged patience among the crowd as votes are counted, noting that election returns will take time.
“So, we’re gonna watch them with great interest and great optimism and great hope and great faith, and that’s what we’re gonna do tonight,” she said. “And we’re gonna celebrate at the end of the night.”
Tafoya is dueling with Democratic Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan.
OAKLAND COUNTY, MI - 11/3/2026 9:26:16 PM
With an est. 63% reporting in Oakland (MI), Abdul El-Sayed (D) leads Mike Rogers (R) 54.99 to 43.49, a +1.01 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
{{#rendered}}Democrats at an election night party in Detroit dismissed Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers on Tuesday, predicting it would likely help his Democrat opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.
"I am deeply, deeply disappointed in her recent moves. I believe that any difference it makes will only help Abdul El-Sayed," one voter told Fox News Digital.
"It was a disappointment, but it is not going to make a difference. It was a lot of noise to distract people," another voter said.
Fox News' Robert Shmad contributed to this report.
In South Carolina, voters think that Republicans are better able to handle transgender policies.
Democrat Pia Dandiya, a former school principal, won Florida's open 22nd Congressional District seat, The Associated Press projects.
With 99% of the vote reported, Dandiya received 151,926 votes, defeating Republican Casey Askar, a Marine veteran and business owner, who received 140,933 votes.
The seat was left open after Democratic incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel decided to run in a different district.
{{#rendered}}It’s still early on election night, but multiple House Republicans are already telling Fox News Digital they’re bracing for significant losses.
“This is f------ ugly,” a senior House GOP aide said. “It’s a bloodbath.”
When asked about what their colleagues were saying, one House Republican told Fox News Digital that members’ group chats “are silent.”
“[North Carolina] is a serious problem,” they said. At the time of the message, Republicans trailed in all of the state’s House districts with over 60% of the votes counted in each one.
“I don’t see how we keep the majority,” another House Republican said.
A third described the general vibe as “nervous.”
And a fourth GOP lawmaker simply described the situation: “Bad night.”
At the time of posting, Democrats were projected to win more than double the seats the GOP has won so far on Tuesday night. But with more than 300 races left to be called, both sides are in for a long night.
COLLIN COUNTY, TX - 11/3/2026 8:43:04 PM
With an est. 78% reporting in Collin (TX), James Talarico (D) leads Ken Paxton (R) 55.9 to 42.62, a +12.77 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia's gubernatorial election, defeating wealthy Republican businessman Rick Jackson and flipping the governor's mansion blue for the first time in more than two decades, Fox News Decision Desk projects.
The former Atlanta mayor will become the Peach State's first female governor and the first Black woman elected governor in American history.
Lance Bottoms, who served as Atlanta's mayor from 2018 to 2022 and later worked in former President Joe Biden's administration, faced Jackson after emerging from the Democratic primary.
Jackson spent nearly $100 million of his personal fortune to defeat Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the Republican primary runoff, setting up a general election against Lance Bottoms.
The open-seat contest followed Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's two terms in the State Capitol, during which Georgia remained a closely contested presidential battleground.
Lance Bottoms' victory ends Republican control of the governorship dating back to Sonny Perdue's election in 2002.
{{#rendered}}TARRANT COUNTY, TX - 11/3/2026 8:18:32 PM
With an est. 75% reporting in Tarrant (TX), James Talarico (D) leads Ken Paxton (R) 59.79 to 38.79, a +13.29 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont has won a third term as Connecticut governor, defeating Republican state Sen. Ryan Fazio after surviving a progressive challenge in his own party, Fox News projects.
Lamont entered the general election after defeating Democratic state Rep. Josh Elliott, whose primary campaign highlighted divisions between the party's establishment and progressive wings.
The wealthy businessman first won the governorship in 2018 and secured re-election in 2022 in a state that has consistently backed Democrats in presidential elections.
Fazio, a Republican state senator from Greenwich, sought to break Democrats' hold on the governor's mansion by challenging Lamont's record on affordability, taxes and state spending.
The Cook Political Report rated the contest Solid Democratic, reflecting Connecticut's longstanding Democratic lean, which goes back to the early 2000s when its last Republican governor, Gov. Jodi Rell, held office in Hartford
Lamont's victory extends Democratic control of the governorship after an intraparty challenge that highlighted competing priorities within the state party.
AUSTIN — Live music and food trucks helped turn Texas state Rep. James Talarico’s election night watch party into a celebration, with the band’s set punctuated by cheers as election returns trickled in.
Some supporters wore “Talafreako” shirts, embracing a nickname President Donald Trump, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republicans have used to mock Talarico.
One attendee, James, a former Republican, told Fox News Digital that the Republican party had “lost its way.” He said he believed the moment was ripe for Democrats and Talarico to make history in the Lone Star State.
The watch party capped Talarico’s 15-day “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts” tour, which made 21 stops across Texas.
Democrats see a rare opening in the state, and Talarico may have their best chance in years to turn it blue. An upset could finally topple the red wall Democrats have spent decades trying to break.
Fox News Digital's Alex Miller reporting from Austin, Texas.
{{#rendered}}New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley said after U.S. Sen.-elect Chris Pappas’ projected victory Tuesday night over Republican former Sen. John Sununu that the state made history by electing the first openly gay man to serve in the U.S. Senate.
"New Hampshire made history tonight as we proudly elected Chris Pappas to be our next U.S. Senator and the first out gay man to serve in the United States Senate," Buckley said in a statement.
"Granite Staters know that Senator-elect Pappas will lead the fight for a freer, fairer future, and he will continue to deliver for our state," he added.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Republican Rep. Bryon Donalds, a three-term congressman from southwest Florida, defeated Democratic rival former Rep. David Jolly to win the Sunshine State's gubernatorial election.
With his victory, Donalds makes history as the first Black politician to win a gubernatorial election in Florida , and as the first Black Republican in the nation's history elected governor.
Donalds, a top House ally of President Donald Trump and MAGA champion with a growing national profile, will succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis in steering the nation's third most populous state.
Continuing and building upon DeSantis' conservative agenda was a key part of Donalds' campaign for governor."
The people of Florida love the trajectory set by Governor DeSantis. We're going to maintain that trajectory, and we're going to build it and take Florida to a whole new level," Donalds told Fox News Digital earlier this year.
Donalds was endorsed by Trump in February of last year, before he even formally launched his campaign for governor. Donalds declared his candidacy for governor during an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity."
A New York City native, Donalds moved to Florida to attend college. He worked in the finance, insurance, and banking fields before entering politics. A one-time Democrat, he became a Republican in 2010 amid the Tea Party movement.
Donalds was elected to the Florida House in 2016, serving two terms before winning a seat in Congress.
Jolly, a Florida native who served as a top advisor to then-Rep. Bill Young, also worked as a lawyer and a lobbyist before winning a special congressional election in March of 2014. He won a full two-year term to the House later that year before losing re-election in 2016.
After leaving office he became a vocal Trump critic and a cable news political commentator. Jolly left the GOP in 2018 and became a Democrat last year before launching his gubernatorial campaign.
Florida was once the largest of the general election battlegrounds, but the state has shifted to the right over the past decade. DeSantis won his 2022 re-election by nearly 20 points and Trump carried the state by 13 points in his 2024 White House re-election victory.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., won reelection Tuesday in New York's heavily Democratic 14th Congressional District, securing her fifth term in the House.
Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most prominent progressive lawmakers in Congress, has represented the Bronx and Queens district since 2019, when she took office after defeating longtime Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in the 2018 primary.
This time around, Ocasio-Cortez defeated Republican challenger Diamant Hysenaj, a businessman and real estate developer who campaigned on lowering costs and taxes, improving public safety and supporting small businesses.
Ocasio-Cortez has built a national profile as a leading voice of the Democratic Party's progressive wing and a frequent critic of President Donald Trump. She has also become a prolific fundraiser and campaigned for progressive candidates around the country during the 2026 election cycle.
Her victory comes amid mounting speculation over whether Ocasio-Cortez could seek higher office in 2028 , with the congresswoman leaving open the possibility of either a White House bid or a run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
"I know there is a lot of speculation about what I will decide to do in 2028. I get asked about it nearly every interview and event," Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged in a recent fundraising email to supporters.
Ocasio-Cortez has stopped short of revealing her plans, saying her decision will ultimately come down to the question of "where can I do the most good?"
{{#rendered}}House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., easily won reelection Tuesday in New York's heavily Democratic 8th Congressional District, securing another term in the House as Democrats battled for control of the chamber.
Jeffries, the highest-ranking Democrat in the House, has represented the Brooklyn-based district since 2013. The district includes portions of Brooklyn and Queens and has remained a Democratic stronghold.
Jeffries first became House Democratic leader in 2023 after succeeding former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the party's leader in the chamber. He became the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in either chamber of Congress.
Jeffries defeated Republican challenger Lewis Mizrahi. Neither candidate faced a contested primary in June, with both advancing to the general election after the respective party primaries.
Jeffries headed into Election Day facing questions about support from the Democratic Party's left flank if Democrats retake the House. Fox News Digital reported in October that Democratic Socialists of America members and some prospective members of Congress had reservations about supporting Jeffries for speaker, an issue that could come into focus when the new Congress chooses House leadership.
Democrat Brad Lander, a former New York City council member and comptroller, will defeat Republican Jennifer Moore in New York’s 10th Congressional District.
Although Lander’s victory is in line with predictions for the district, which the Cook Political Report designated as a D+32 seat, his arrival in Congress is notable because of the progressive ties that framed his primary victory over the district’s current incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.
Lander received the backing of self-proclaimed socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his race against Goldman, an establishment candidate backed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
Unlike Goldman, Lander promised to bring an “end to Israel’s occupation” in the West Bank and Gaza, in contrast to Goldman, who described himself as a Zionist and supporter of Israel.
Despite the bruising primary, Lander has said he would support Jeffries for speaker if Democrats capture a majority in the House.
In Ohio, voters are split on whether Democrats or Republicans are better able to handle artificial intelligence – with most voters saying neither group is better with AI.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk predicts that Democrat Helena Foulkes will win Rhode Island's governor's race, defeating Republican Aaron Guckian and a field of independent candidates to become the state's next governor.
The race came after Foulkes, a former CVS Health executive and CEO of Hudson’s Bay Company, defeated incumbent Democratic Gov. Dan McKee 62.46% in the September primary.
McKee became the first sitting Rhode Island governor in more than three decades to lose a party primary.
Foulkes campaigned heavily on affordability, housing, healthcare and energy costs, pledging to build 20,000 new homes over eight years and arguing that Rhode Island needed new leadership following years of controversy surrounding the Washington Bridge project.
Guckian, a former aide to Republican Gov. Donald Carcieri and the GOP’s 2022 nominee for lieutenant governor, campaigned on making Rhode Island more affordable by reducing taxes and fees, lowering energy costs, cutting government waste and expanding housing opportunities.
Foulkes advanced to the general election after defeating McKee 62.46%, while Guckian narrowly secured the Republican nomination with 50.56%.
Polls closed in multiple U.S. states at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, including New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
Polls also closed in the remaining counties in Texas, North Dakota, Michigan, South Dakota and Kansas at 9 p.m. ET.
The first round of polls closed in parts of Indiana and Kentucky at 6 p.m. ET.
The latest round of poll closures comes as voters across the U.S. have been casting their ballots as the Democratic Party and the GOP continue battling for control of Congress.
At 10 p.m. ET, polls will close in Montana, Nevada and Utah.
Fox News Digital will continue providing updates as election results come in.
The Fox News Decision Desk has projected that Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., has won Kentucky's U.S. Senate race against Kentucky Democratic state lawmaker Charles Booker.
Barr’s win is a key victory for Republicans as they fight to retain control of the upper chamber.
Barr's projected victory comes as Senate Republicans seek to fend off Democrats' efforts to reclaim the majority.
The Kentucky Republican entered a crowded Senate race earlier this year in a bid to succeed former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who announced his retirement from the Senate in February 2025.
Barr, who served in the lower chamber for 13 years before being elected senator, defeated his Democratic opponent on Tuesday night after securing President Donald Trump's endorsement in May.
The congressman has pledged to advance Trump's legislative agenda in the Senate, including supporting measures championed by the president, such as the SAVE America Act.
{{#rendered}}Fox's Decision Desk can project that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) will defeat Republican Bruce Blakeman.
The victory allows Hochul to extend her tenure in Albany and gives Democrats continued control of the governor’s office in a state where the party also holds significant advantages in the Legislature.
Hochul, who became governor in 2021 after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned, campaigned on her record overseeing the state while presenting herself as a pragmatic Democrat focused on affordability, public safety, housing and economic growth.
The race also tested whether Republicans could capitalize on concerns over crime, taxes, housing costs, congestion and the continued loss of residents and businesses from New York.
Blakeman sought to make those issues central to his campaign while arguing that voters were ready for a change in Albany.
Hochul’s win will allow her administration to continue pursuing policies on housing, infrastructure, public safety, education and immigration while managing the state’s relationship with the Trump administration.
Fox News can project that Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., will win his second term in office. He defeats Republican state senator Mark Baisley.
Hickenlooper, who pledged that this forthcoming second six-year stint in the Senate would be his final, easily toppled Colorado state Sen. Mark Baisely, who initially launched a gubernatorial bid before running unopposed in the GOP Senate primary.
The former Denver mayor and Colorado governor was one of the few Democratic incumbents that stared down a progressive challenger during his primary race, where he easily felled Colorado state Sen. Julie Gonzales, who ran her campaign targeting Hickenlooper’s support of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees.
Hickenlooper’s win, however, does little to sway the needle for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats in their pursuit of control of the Senate, given that it was a safe seat heading into Election Night. But it does give the top Senate Democrat another stalwart ally in the upper chamber heading into the next session of Congress.
The Associated Press projects that Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a member of the progressive group of lawmakers known as the “Squad” and a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), will win reelection to a fifth term in Michigan’s 12th Congressional District.
Tlaib beat out James Hooper, the Republican nominee in the race and the chairman of the GOP in Wayne County, Michigan.
Her victory keeps one of the U.S. House of Representatives’ most tenured members of the DSA in office as the group gains momentum in the 2026 midterms.
Tlaib was among the first female DSA-backed candidates to make it to the House alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., and has long predicted progressives would set the tone for the party.
In the wake of disappointing 2020 election results, many Democrats distanced themselves from the progressive flank. But Tlaib, along with other progressives in the party, pushed back. In a widely circulated memo on Nov. 10, 2020, they made the case that progressives would appeal to an expanded voter base.
"We need a new generation of leadership grounded in a multiracial, working-class experience and background," the memo urged.
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Democrat Jamie Ager has won North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, defeating Republican state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom and flipping a western North Carolina House seat, Fox News projects.
The victory follows a tumultuous Republican campaign after incumbent Rep. Chuck Edwards withdrew from the race amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into his conduct toward two female staffers.
The committee recommended Edwards be censured, although the congressman disputed its findings. Republicans subsequently selected Balkcom to replace him on the November ballot.
Ager, a farmer whose grandfather previously represented the district in Congress, received national Democratic backing as his party sought to capitalize on the Republican shake-up
Hurricane Helene recovery, affordability and government accountability were central issues in the race across the district, spanning the largely conservative Great Smoky Mountains region while including the liberal bastion of Asheville and Buncombe County.
Ager's victory returns the seat to Democratic control for the first time since 2010, delivering a Republican-held district to Democrats in the battle for the House.
OKALOOSA COUNTY, FL - 11/3/2026 8:36:15 PM
With an est. 91% reporting in Okaloosa (FL), David Jolly (D) trails Byron Donalds (R) 32.12 to 66.06, a +3.67 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who escaped communist Cuba as a child, has won re-election to represent Florida's 28th Congressional District.
The Trump-endorsed Republican told Fox News Digital that he was "deeply humbled and honored" to secure another term in Congress after receiving more than 50% of the district's vote. His victory comes as House Republicans fight to retain their majority in the lower chamber.
"I am deeply humbled and honored to once again earn the trust of the people of South Florida," Gimenez told Fox News Digital. "This community welcomed my family and countless others who fled communism, tyranny, and oppression in pursuit of freedom and the American Dream."
"I will never stop fighting to defend our freedoms, protect our communities, and preserve the American Dream for our children and grandchildren."
"To the residents of Florida's 28th Congressional District, thank you for placing your trust in me once again. I look forward to continuing our work together for a stronger, safer, and more prosperous South Florida," Gimenez added. "God bless South Florida, and God bless the United States of America!"
Gimenez, whose family fled Cuba's communist regime during his childhood, has been an outspoken critic of socialism and communism throughout his congressional career.
His victory comes amid a broader political debate over the growing influence of the Democratic Socialists of America and the role of socialist policies in American politics.
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With an est. 82% reporting in Santa Rosa (FL), David Jolly (D) trails Byron Donalds (R) 28.37 to 70.26, a +4.44 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
Democrats are touting early election results and exit polls, arguing that they show the coalition of voters that helped elect President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in 2024 has fallen apart.
An official with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) told Fox News Digital that Trump and Vance have failed to deliver on their campaign promises in the two years since taking office.
The result, the official argued, is that the coalition that propelled them to victory in 2024 has failed to materialize again.
The official cited exit polls suggesting Democrats have made significant gains among voters ages 18 to 29 compared to 2024.
Additionally, early exit polling appeared to show Democrats gaining support among Latino voters, while Republicans appeared to lose ground among male voters in the midterm elections.
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman is projected to win re-election in Virginia's 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, securing a second term in a Northern Virginia battleground with a recent history of close congressional races.
Vindman defeated Republican Doug Ollivant, another former member of the White House National Security Council.
A retired Army colonel, Vindman rose to national prominence alongside his twin brother, Alexander Vindman, during President Donald Trump's first impeachment hearings. Both brothers served on the National Security Council, where Eugene Vindman worked as a legal adviser.
Vindman first won the House seat in 2024, defeating Republican Derrick Anderson by a thin margin after then-Rep. Abigail Spanberger gave up the Northern Virginia House seat to launch her successful campaign for Virginia governor.
Just days before Election Day, Vindman was joined on the campaign trail by left-wing firebrand and rumored potential 2028 contender Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who traveled to his district Friday to headline a get-out-the-vote rally with the vulnerable Virginia Democrat in Dumfries. The two rallied supporters as Vindman made his final push for a second term.
{{#rendered}}Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell won reelection in Missouri's heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District Tuesday, months after again defeating former "Squad" member Cori Bush.Bell defeated Republican Paul Berry III and Libertarian Tom Schmitz, according to the Fox News Decision Desk, securing a second term representing the St. Louis-based district.
The general election followed a closely watched Democratic primary rematch between Bell and Bush, who was seeking to reclaim the seat Bell took from her in 2024. Bell defeated Bush by a decisive 59% to 37% in August, widening his margin from their first matchup two years earlier, when he prevailed 51.1% to 45.6%.
Bush, a prominent progressive and critic of U.S. support for Israel, had sought to capitalize on recent victories by left-wing candidates elsewhere in the country. Her defeat marked another setback in her effort to return to Congress.
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that in Florida, Republican Senator Ashley Moody will win her first full term in office, defeating Democrat Angie Nixon.
The former Florida attorney general defeated Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, according to the Fox News Decision Desk, giving Republicans some extra breathing room in their fight to retain control of the Senate following rallies by President Donald Trump in the Sunshine State.
Nixon, like a handful of other Democratic Senate candidates, was not the party’s, nor Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-N.Y., first choice. But like others, she rode the progressive wave that has swept the Democratic Party to score the nomination after defeating Alex Vindman, a national security expert who played a central role in Trump’s first impeachment.
Moody, who was initially appointed to the seat by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will now serve out the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s term, which ends in 2029.
With an est. 71% reporting in Chesterfield (SC), Annie Andrews (D) leads Darline Graham (R) 49.65 to 48.48, a +10.84 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
{{#rendered}}Democratic socialist and Pennsylvania state Rep. Christopher Rabb has won Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District, defeating independent Dennis Mahoney and keeping the deep-blue Philadelphia seat in Democratic hands, Fox News projects.
Rabb, who received the national endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America, will succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans, who has represented the district since 2016.
The progressive lawmaker emerged from a competitive Democratic primary, defeating former party chair and current state Sen. Sharif Street and physician Ala Stanford to secure the nomination.
First elected to the Pennsylvania House in 2016, Rabb has championed Medicare for All, stronger labor protections and aggressive climate policies.
Mahoney, an independent candidate with a background in nonprofit work and community development, challenged Rabb in a district where Republicans did not field a general-election candidate.
Rabb's victory preserves Democratic control of the overwhelmingly Democratic district while adding another DSA-backed lawmaker to the House amid broader debates over the party's ideological direction.
Dozens of voters in the city of Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Muslim population, gathered to cast their ballots on Election Day.
The city was experiencing strong voter turnout, with long lines extending outside some local polling stations as residents voted in the midterm elections.
Dearborn voters were choosing between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in the Senate race, as well as between Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Republican James Hooper in the House race.
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that former Governor Roy Cooper will flip North Carolina’s open Senate seat to the Democrats.
Cooper will defeat former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Michael Whatley, a close ally of President Donald Trump, in a high-profile and expensive ballot box showdown in the race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis.
Cooper's flipping of a GOP-controlled seat in the crucial southeastern battleground state boosts his party as Democrats aim to recapture the Senate majority in the midterm elections.
Cooper's triumph in the Senate race was his seventh straight statewide victory, after winning four elections for attorney general and two for governor.
His continued solid lead over Whatley in public opinion polling spurred top GOP-aligned outside groups a month ago to pull the plug on spending in the North Carolina race. It was seen as a signal that Republicans no longer saw a path to victory.
Trump, during a rally two weeks ago in North Carolina to try and rescue Whatley, appeared to acknowledge the dire situation, remarking to the crowd that Cooper is "going to become your senator... It’s crazy, you’re going to send him to Washington to represent you."
Cooper, the first Democrat to win a Senate election in North Carolina in nearly two decades, touted that he would be a "strong, independent senator" who would work with Trump when he could and stand up to him when needed. He focused on cost of living and health care issues as he campaigned for the Senate.
Whatley, a North Carolina native who served as the state's GOP chair for five years before Trump picked him in March 2024 to serve as RNC chair, was a first-time candidate.He pledged to create jobs, raise wages, lower costs and keep communities safe. Whatley also said he would be a Trump ally in the Senate.
{{#rendered}}Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor is projected to win reelection Tuesday in Florida’s 14th Congressional District, defeating Republican Mike Beltran in a closely watched House contest shaped by the state’s new GOP-backed congressional map.
Castor has represented the Tampa-area district since 2007, but the redrawn seat was significantly more favorable to Republicans. The new boundaries removed much of Castor’s former constituency and created a district that President Donald Trump carried by almost a dozen points in 2024.
Republicans targeted the seat as a potential pickup opportunity as they seek to protect their narrow House majority. Castor’s victory allows Democrats to retain the seat despite the district’s dramatic shift to the right, denying the GOP a high-profile pickup following its redistricting process.
With an est. 66% reporting in Horry (SC), Annie Andrews (D) trails Darline Graham (R) 42.95 to 56.06, a +13.29 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire will defeat former Republican Sen. John E. Sununu in a competitive and expensive swing state race to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
The GOP had hoped the Sununu name would help deliver a pickup, but Democrats will retain the seat.
The victory by Pappas, a four-term congressman, is a boost for his party as the race was viewed as a must-hold for the Democrats as they try to win back the Senate majority from the GOP in the midterm elections.
Sununu, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump but kept his distance from the president, was aiming to return to the U.S. Senate after 18 years away. Sununu repeatedly argued that Pappas had "been in Washington for 8 years and hasn't delivered for New Hampshire."
But Pappas, noting that he's "been reelected three times in one of the toughest congressional districts in the country," told Fox News Digital "I work with people across the aisle, and I've been rated as one of the most bipartisan Democrats in the House."
Pappas, a co-owner of the famed Puritan Backroom restaurant, which has been a family run business for over a century and is known for its chicken tenders and as a must-stop in Manchester for politicians, was elected to New Hampshire's five-member Executive Council before winning a seat in Congress.
He defeated a far-left socialist rival by double-digits in the state's early September primary to capture the Democratic Senate nomination.
Pappas and Democrats repeatedly anchored Sununu to Trump, whose approval ratings are well underwater in New Hampshire and around the country.
Sununu spent six years in the U.S. House before winning election to the Senate in 2002, defeating then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen. But he lost his 2008 rematch with Shaheen.
Sununu enjoyed plenty of name recognition in New Hampshire as he bid to return to the Senate. His father, John E. Sununu, served six years as governor before heading to Washington, D.C., as then-President George H.W. Bush's White House chief of staff. And one of his younger brothers, Chris Sununu, recently served eight years as governor before taking a break from politics.
{{#rendered}}Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., will win re-election in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, defeating Republican Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton.
Moskowitz currently represents Florida’s 23rd District, but ran in the newly drawn 25th after the state’s mid-decade redistricting.
Moskowitz’s victory marks a key toss-up win for Democrats in the Sunshine State, overcoming Republican efforts to reshape Democratic strongholds. The new 25th combines portions of several prior districts and carries a slight Republican partisan lean, even as major forecasters viewed the race as competitive.
In the 2024 elections, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the incumbent, won reelection in a 54.5% to 45.5% victory in the state's old boundaries.
Wasserman Schultz is running for reelection in the state’s 20th District.
During his time in Congress, Moskowitz has carved out a role for himself as a moderate figure, advocating for top Republican priorities like cutting down on waste, fraud and abuse while, at the same time, calling for Democratic priorities like implementing new safeguards for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
During his campaign, Moskowitz focused on topics like affordability, protecting Social Security and Medicare and confronting Antisemitism.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., has defeated Republican challenger Jim Duffie, The Associated Press projects.
The AP called the race at 7:38 p.m. Johnson had received 33,207 votes, or 72.7% of the vote, while Duffie had 12,458 votes, or just over 27%.
Johnson's victory keeps Georgia's 4th Congressional District in Democratic hands. Meanwhile, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff won reelection to the U.S. Senate, defeating Republican Rep. Mike Collins, according to the Fox News Decision Desk.
A Democratic stalwart in the Senate easily is projected to best his Republican opponent in deep-blue Delaware, notching another easy win for Senate Democrats.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., toppled former state lawmaker and presidential candidate Michael Katz in a contest that national Democrats and Republicans paid little heed to in their broader fight for control of the Senate.
Katz initially entered into politics at the state level as a Democrat before switching to an independent when he launched a presidential bid in 2019. He became a Republican and secured the nomination for this midterm cycle.
Coons’ victory Tuesday night secured him a sixth full term in the Senate after winning a special election in 2010 to fill former President Joe Biden’s old seat in the upper chamber.
Though it’s not a victory that will sway the balance of power in the Senate, it does set the stage for Coons to gain crucial positions on key committees, like becoming the chair of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, should Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his party win big and flip the chamber.
{{#rendered}}Another longtime fixture of the Senate is projected to extend his near three-decade career in the upper chamber, the Fox News Decision Desk reports, besting a Republican and independent in Rhode Island.
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., handily defeated Republican Ray McKay and independent Michael Bahry Tuesday night, clinching a sixth term in the Senate. Reed has been a mainstay in Rhode Island politics, having first won public office in the state legislature in the mid-1980s.
He’s also one of the older members of the Democratic caucus that survived challenges from progressives in his primary race earlier this year and far-left candidates seeking generational change surged across the country.
Given that Rhode Island is reliably a Democratic stronghold that hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate in over two decades, it wasn’t a state the GOP was eyeing to flip.
Still, it gives Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats an easy win in their bid to flip the upper chamber. And if successful, Reed would be in line to lead the Senate Armed Services Committee.
One of the Senate’s stalwart progressive voices is projected to easily topple his Republican challenger in deep-blue Massachusetts, the Fox News Decision Desk reports.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., blew past crypto attorney and Republican nominee John Deaton for a third full term in the Senate, tacking on an additional six years to a career in Congress that began in the late 1970s.
This was Deaton’s second attempt at a statewide run. Last time around he was handily defeated by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., by nearly 20 points.
Markey, 80, leaned into his progressive bona fides to cruise through a bitter primary against Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who campaigned on a push for generational change — a platform that proved successful in a handful of contests during the primary season.
He also defied the shift among Democratic candidates by continuing to push for transgender rights, particularly in sports.
Like other contests this cycle, Markey’s seat was never a target for Republicans nor troubling for Democrats, meaning that his victory over Deaton will do little to shift the balance of power in the Senate.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., defeated his Republican challenger Justin Murphy on Tuesday, holding onto his New Jersey Senate seat and denying Republicans a major upset in the deep-blue state.
Booker, who first took office in 2013, was widely expected to win reelection against Murphy, a Navy veteran, attorney and former deputy mayor of Tabernacle Township. Republicans have not won a U.S. Senate election in New Jersey since 1972.
Booker ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and won his last reelection bid in 2020 by a significant margin. Murphy had previously run unsuccessfully for the Republican Senate nomination in 2024, finishing a distant third, before returning this year as a conservative, pro-Trump grassroots candidate.
The Republican campaigned on cleaning up New Jersey pollution, protecting parental rights , supporting medical freedom and improving Medicare for seniors. He faced a steep uphill climb against a well-funded incumbent in a state where early race ratings had classified the seat as safely Democratic.
{{#rendered}}Fox News can project that Democratic Governor Maura Healey will win a second term in Massachusetts. She defeats Republican Mike Minogue, an Army veteran and CEO of a medical technology company.
Healey was first elected governor in 2022. Before becoming governor, she served two terms as the state’s attorney general.
This election cycle, Healey made left-leaning causes such as immigration rights and abortion rights centerpieces of her campaign. In August, Healey signed into law a measure that expanded abortion access. She also signed a law limiting ICE’s ability to make civil immigration arrests at courthouses, schools and health care facilities without a judicial warrant or court order.
Healey also sought to tie Minogue, who spent millions of his own money on the race, to President Donald Trump, highlighting Minogue’s past donations and fundraising for Trump. However, Trump did not endorse Minogue this election cycle.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia will defeat Republican challenger Rep. Mike Collins.
Ossoff, once considered by the GOP as the most vulnerable Democratic senator seeking re-election in the 2026 midterms, will now keep his job representing the southeastern battleground state in the U.S. Senate.
His victory means Georgia, a one-time red bastion that swung to the center in recent years, will continue to have two Democrats representing the state in the Senate.
Ossoff and fellow Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock were both elected in runoff elections at the end of the 2020 cycle, ending a decade and a half of Georgia's all Republican representation in the Senate. Weeks earlier, former President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to carry the state in nearly three decades.
But Georgia shifted back to the right in 2024, with President Donald Trump reclaiming the state as he won re-election to the White House.
At the start of the 2026 cycle, Georgia was atop the GOP's target list of seats to flip, as Republicans aimed to hold their 53-47 Senate majority.
But while Ossoff built a massive campaign war chest as he cruised unopposed to renomination, Collins was part of a combustible three-way GOP primary Senate battle with Rep. Buddy Carter and former college football coach Derek Dooley, who was strongly supported by popular term-limited conservative Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.Collins and Dooley advanced to a June runoff, which Collins won thanks in part to an 11th-hour Trump endorsement.
In Maryland, Fox News projects that Democratic Governor Wes Moore will win his rematch against Republican Dan Cox.
Although Moore’s victory falls in line with predictions in Maryland, a state that voted for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in 2024 by nearly 30 percentage points, it also raises his profile as the party continues to look for figures that could lead the Democratic label in future years.
Moore, the state’s first Black governor and the former CEO of the anti-poverty Robin Hood Foundation, has been rumored as a potential 2028 candidate alongside other high-profile Democrats such as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
For his own part, Moore has said he is focused on his reelection campaign, though he has not ruled out a future White House bid. But in a 2026 debate, Moore declined to commit to serving a full second term if elected, which would run through January 2031.
Moore won his first term in a 64.5% to 32.1% victory over Cox in 2022.
{{#rendered}}Almost a quarter of voters across the country say that data centers are crucial to their vote for congress.
It’s 8 o’clock in New York and polls just closed in another sixteen states.
We begin in Florida, where the Senate race is too early to call. Republican Senator Ashley Moodyand Democratic State Representative Angie Nixon are locked in a close battle.
Next to Maine, which could also be pivotal to control of the Senate. The Fox News Decision Desk says the race between Republican Senator Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson is too early to call.
Nearby, in New Hampshire, Fox’s Decision Desk says Democratic Representative Chris Pappas leads former Republican Senator John Sununu. It’s also too early to call.
In Mississippi, it’s too early to call the race between Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic district attorney Scott Colom, but Hyde-Smith has a lead.
The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call the Alabama Senate race between Republican congressman Barry Moore and Democrat Everett Wess.
It’s also too early to call Oklahoma’s Senate race as polls close, but Republican Kevin Hern has a lead.
The same is true in Tennessee, where Republican Senator Bill Hagerty is seeking a second term. He leads Democrat Marquita Bradshaw.
Over to Illinois, where the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic lieutenant governor Juliana Stratton will defeat Republican Don Tracy. Stratton will succeed longtime Senator Dick Durbin.
In New Jersey, Fox News can project that Democratic Senator Cory Booker will win a third term. He easily defeats Republican Justin Murphy.
Fox News can make a projection in the Massachusetts Senate race. Democratic Senator Ed Markey will defeat Republican John Deaton. Markey survived a primary challenge from the center earlier this year.
In Rhode Island, Democratic Senator Jack Reed will win a sixth term in office, defeating Republican Raymond McKay.
Delaware will also stay in Democratic hands. Fox projects that Senator Chris Coons will serve a sixth term after defeating Republican Michael Katz.
GOVERNOR
The biggest governor’s race at this hour is in Florida, where the Fox News Decision Desk says Republican congressman Byron Donalds is in a close race against Democrat and former congressman David Jolly.
In Pennsylvania, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro will defeat Republican Stacy Garrity.
Our Decision Desk says Democrat Hannah Pingree has a lead in her bid to become Maine’snext governor.
In New Hampshire, the race between Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte and Democrat Cinde Warmington is too early to call.
Over to Illinois, where Fox projects that Democratic Governor JB Pritzker will win his rematch over Republican Darren Bailey.
In Oklahoma, Republican state lawmaker Mike Mazzei faces Democrat Cyndi Munson The Republican has the lead.
The Fox News Decision Desk also believes that Tennessee’s governor race is too early to call. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn leads Democratic city councilor Jerri Green.
In Alabama, Republican Tommy Tuberville leadsDemocratic Senator Doug Jones.
Fox News can project that Democratic Governor Maura Healey will win a second term in Massachusetts. She defeats Republican Mike Minogue.
Fox News believes Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has a lead over Republican Ryan Fazio.
In Maryland, Fox News projects that Democratic Governor Wes Moore will win his rematch against Republican Dan Cox.
And in Rhode Island, the Fox News Decision Desksays the race between Democrat Helena Foulkes and her Republican and independent opponents is too early to call.
In Pennsylvania, the Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro will defeat Republican Stacy Garrity.
Shapiro wins a second four-year term as governor of the key northeastern battleground state.
The governor, who is viewed as a likely contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, was heavily favored in his re-election race against Garrity, and enjoyed a large polling and fundraising advantage over his Republican challenger.
Shapiro is a former Montgomery County commissioner who served four terms as a state lawmaker in the Pennsylvania House before winning election and re-election as state attorney general. He has built a formidable national profile since becoming governor, and was on 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ shortlist of running mates.
Garrity, a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel who deployed overseas three times, was first elected state treasurer in 2020 by upsetting the Democratic incumbent.
As he ran for re-election, Shapiro highlighted that during his tenure he's increased investment in public education by 30% and increased the number of teachers in the state, "saved the people of Pennsylvania hundreds of millions of dollars on their energy bills" by taking on the utility companies, and showcased that nearly 23,000 new jobs have been created.
But Garrity repeatedly took aim at the record of a governor who touts that he "gets sh-t done."
Garrity pilloried Shapiro for Pennsylvania’s ranking among states on the economy and education.
“Nearly 70% of our 8th graders can’t read at grade level, thousands of Pennsylvania families are heading for the border to find opportunity in other states around the nation, and Harrisburg is now spending roughly $5 billion more than the state brings in. All of these failures fall at the feet of Josh Shapiro, and the buck stops with him," Garrity charged.
Shapiro regularly tied Garrity to President Donald Trump, who endorsed her, arguing that “we cannot afford to give Trump a rubber stamp in the Governor’s Office – and that’s exactly what we’re up against.”
“She proudly wears her MAGA hat, while I wear the Pennsylvania jersey,” the governor emphasized.
Shapiro demurred when asked if he would serve the entire four years of his second term.
"The only thing I’m focused on ... is this race for governor, winning a trifecta in Harrisburg so I can raise wages, codify abortion rights in Pennsylvania, and I’m doing my part, as you know, to win our four competitive congressional races here in Pennsylvania," Shapiro said a week and a half ago in a CNN interview when asked if he’d finish out his term.
While Shapiro’s re-election was widely expected, the governor’s political clout will also be judged on a handful of U.S. House races where he heavily supported Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents, as his party worked to win back the congressional majority.
{{#rendered}}The Fox News Decision Desk projects that Democratic Governor JB Pritzker will win his rematch over Republican Darren Bailey.
Pritzker makes history by winning a third term, becoming the first Illinois governor in more than four decades — and the first Democrat — to be elected to three terms.
He defeated Republican challenger Darren Bailey, a farmer and former state senator, for the second time. Bailey also challenged Pritzker in 2022, losing by nearly 13 percentage points.
Pritzker’s victory comes after he built a national profile opposing President Donald Trump’s agenda, particularly during the immigration enforcement crackdown in Illinois last fall. He is viewed as a potential contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
The Democratic governor was also active beyond Illinois during the midterm cycle, traveling to campaign for Democratic candidates and support the party nationally. In October, Pritzker visited South Carolina for the state NAACP convention, where he criticized Trump’s immigration policies.
Pritzker also launched a $20 million political action committee and personally contributed millions of dollars to Democratic candidates and groups during the 2026 election cycle.
President Donald Trump's Justice Department has issued more than 20 target and preservation letters as part of its investigation into Daniel J. Sullivan's U.S. Senate campaign in Alaska, two sources familiar with the probe told Fox News Digital.
Federal investigators launched the probe in July into Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher suspected of being recruited as a spoiler candidate to challenge incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, earning him the nickname "Decoy Dan."
Fox News Digital was told by a source familiar with the investigation that a total of more than 120 subpoenas have been issued since the probe began, which initially focused on whether Daniel J. Sullivan's candidacy was intended to confuse voters and undermine the integrity of Alaska's Senate election.
Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola has denied any involvement in the alleged recruitment of Sullivan.
Read the full Fox News Digital story here.
Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel won re-election in Florida's 23rd Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Deborah Adeimy, according to a race call by The Associated Press.
The AP called the race at 7:34 p.m. ET, with Frankel receiving 71.2% of the vote compared with Adeimy's 28.8%, with an estimated 65% of votes counted.
Frankel's victory keeps the South Florida congressional seat in Democratic hands as both parties battle for control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections.
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With an est. 81% reporting in Miami-Dade (FL), David Jolly (D) leads Byron Donalds (R) 53.44 to 45.38, a +9.07 point improvement in vote share for Democrats when compared to the same stage in the 2024 presidential election.
It is 7:30 p.m. on the East Coast and polls have closed in three U.S. states, including Ohio, where Republican Senator Jon Husted is defending his seat against former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
The Fox News Decision Desk says this race is too early to call.
Polls have also closed in North Carolina, where former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper has a lead over Republican Michael Whatley. This race is also too early to call.
In West Virginia, the Fox News Decision Desk says Republican Senator Shelley Moore Capito has a lead over Democratic councilwoman Rachel Fetty Anderson.
Ohioans have also completed voting for their next governor. The race between Democratic candidate Amy Acton and Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is too early to call.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are already touting an expanded footprint on Capitol Hill following Tuesday's midterm elections, with at least five endorsed candidates running for congressional seats as the far-left organization sends a pointed message to Democratic Party leaders.
DSA National Co-Chair Megan Romer told Fox News Channel that the group's electoral push reflects growing demands from the Democratic base for candidates willing to challenge the party establishment.
"The Democratic base is clearly showing that they want fighters, people who will stand up proudly for working class Americans and work from day one to move policy that immediately addresses the cost of living crisis and the war machine that funds genocide abroad while our schools and roads crumble at home," Romer said.
"This group is solution-oriented and they’re unbought by big-money interests, so they’re ready to fight for all of us."
The organization's endorsed candidates include Claire Valdez in New York, Donavan McKinney in Michigan, Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York and Melat Kiros in Colorado.
If victorious, they would join prominent progressive "Squad" lawmakers including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
Meanwhile, DSA-backed Angela Gonzalez-Torres is challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez for his Los Angeles-area seat, proving the socialist organization's willingness to take on Democrats within their own party.
Fox News' Matthew Donnell contributed to this reporting.
{{#rendered}}Nationally, more than four-in-ten say they are worse off financially compared to two years ago.
Fox News host Will Cain, alongside two other panelists, outlined a series of early election-night results that could signal whether Democrats are headed for a historic night— or whether Republicans are on track to hold their congressional majorities.
Cain pointed to Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, where former President Trump won by 15 points in 2024, as an early test of Democratic strength. A narrow GOP win there could still be “a good sign” for Democrats early in the night, even if they don't win, he said.
Indiana’s 5th District, a traditionally safe Republican seat north of Indianapolis, could offer an even earlier indicator, with polls closing at 6 p.m. ET, added former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.
“If the Democrats are having a massive night, it’s going to start in Indiana Five,” Fleischer said.
Cain also highlighted Virginia’s 1st and 5th districts and South Carolina’s Senate race as potential warning signs for Republicans if they lose. Democratic wins in North Carolina by Roy Cooper and in Ohio by Sherrod Brown would give Democrats half the four-seat Senate gain needed to take control. Meanwhile, Cain said Democratic wins in Texas or Kansas would signal a “historic” night for the party.
Another analyst who appeared with Cain, Guy Benson, said he expects Texas to remain Republican but predicted Democrat Abdul El-Sayed could win Michigan, calling it a “really tough environment” for the GOP even though Trump has carried the state in the past.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, once again alleged that James Talarico’s campaign ran “racist” ads against her during their primary contest earlier this year, attacking the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas as voters headed to the polls on Tuesday.
“It was just the lies, the mischaracterization and the demonization — and it wasn’t coming from Republicans. I’ma be perfectly honest. The best ads, the ads that I felt like were fair, were actually the Republican ads,” Crockett said in an appearance on the Breakfast Club, a podcast, on Tuesday.
“The racist ads were coming from the Super PAC on behalf of my Democratic opponent,” she said.
The moment resurfaces criticisms Talarico received from Crockett during their Senate primary, after she accused him of darkening her skin in videos for his campaign.
"And you know, I've been asked a couple of times about it. And you know, I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer, and I see when they're sending out ads and they're darkening my skin. And I'm just like, I know what this is, right?" Crockett said at a press conference.
Notably, Crockett, who lost to Talarico by a margin of 52.4% to 46.2%, did endorse Talarico the day after the election, after results were finalized.
{{#rendered}}The South Carolina Election Commission announced Tuesday that voter turnout in the state's gubernatorial election has reached its highest level in 30 years.
More than 70,000 additional voters have cast ballots compared with the previous record, which was set in 2018, according to the commission.
As of 4:30 p.m., 1,797,335 South Carolinians had cast ballots, representing 52.3% of registered voters. By comparison, 1,726,527 voters cast ballots in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
Polls are scheduled to close at 7 p.m. in South Carolina, where Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson is facing Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster.
It’s 7 o’clock at Fox News headquarters in New York and polls just closed in six states.
We begin in South Carolina. The Fox News Decision Desk says Democrat Annie Andrews and Republican Senator Darline Graham are locked in a close battle in their Senate race. It’s too early to call.
In Georgia, the Fox News Decision Desk says Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff has a lead in his race against Republican congressman Mike Collins. It’s also too early to call.
In Kentucky, it’s too early to call the race between Republican congressman Andy Barr and Democrat Charles Booker.
In Virginia, Fox News can project that Democratic Senator Mark Warner will win a fourth term. He defeats Republican Army General Bert Mizusawa.
Turning to the governors’ races.
The Fox News Decision Desk says it’s too early to call Georgia, where former Democratic Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms faces Republican Rick Jackson.
It’s too early to call the South Carolina governor’s race, where Attorney General Alan Wilson is running against Democratic state lawmaker Jermaine Johnson.
In Vermont, Fox’s Decision Desk says it’s too early to call the race between Republican incumbent Phil Scott and Democrat Amanda Janoo.
North Carolina election results will be delayed by at least 45 minutes Tuesday night after state election officials voted to extend voting hours at several polling locations following reports of technical issues.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections approved the extensions during an emergency session on Election Day.
Polls were originally scheduled to close statewide at 7:30 p.m. ET, but voting at the Tabor City Courthouse in Columbus County will remain open an additional 45 minutes.
Officials also approved shorter extensions at polling locations in Lenoir, Wilson and Hertford counties.
The state board announced that statewide election results will be posted 45 minutes later than originally scheduled to accommodate the extended voting hours.
The North Carolina Secretary of State did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Fox News' Mark Meredith contributed to this reporting
{{#rendered}}As polls begin to close across the country, the economy is showing a mixed picture, with everyday costs rising, homeownership remaining expensive and the stock market posting strong gains.
Consumer prices rose 3.7% in the year through September, while a New York Federal Reserve study found tariffs added about 2.9 percentage points to prices for the consumer goods it examined.
Fuel costs are another strain. Diesel climbed from about $3.45 a gallon in early 2025 to a peak of $6.53 in October, raising costs for businesses that move groceries and other goods.
Gas prices also jumped 9.1% in September.
For prospective homebuyers, Freddie Mac’s 30-year mortgage rate averaged 7.24% on Oct. 29, while the median existing-home price reached $417,500 in September.
The figures show what voters are paying for, but not whom they’ll blame — or how much the economy will shape their votes.
In Virginia, Fox News can project that Democratic Senator Mark Warner will win a fourth term. He defeats Republican Army General Bert Mizusawa.
Warner bested Mizusawa, a former major general in the military who has forayed into politics before, launching unsuccessful bids for the House and Senate over the last 16 years.
The odds were already against Mizusawa, who was tapped by President Donald Trump in his first term to serve as his foreign policy advisor, director of national security policy for his transition team in 2016, and then as CIA as a senior advisor for national security technology and business integration, in the Old Dominion, where a Republican hasn’t been sent to the Senate in over two decades.
It’s also not a state that was on Republicans' radar to flip.
Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is poised to take over the chairmanship if Democrats are able to flip the chamber once the dust settles on Election Night.
Polls have closed in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, as well as parts of Indiana and Kentucky, marking some of the first closures of Election Day as voters decide control of Congress and several key gubernatorial and state legislative races.
The latest closures follow the first polls closing in portions of eastern Kentucky and Indiana at 6 p.m. ET.
Several closely watched congressional races are underway in those states, including contests in Indiana's 1st and 5th Congressional Districts and Kentucky's Senate race between Republican Rep. Andy Barr and Democrat Charles Booker, who are competing to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
In South Carolina, voters are also deciding a U.S. Senate race. Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., is seeking election after reportedly being appointed following the death of former Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Meanwhile, Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff faces Trump-backed Republican Rep. Mike Collins in another closely watched Senate contest.
Fox News Digital will continue providing updates as election results come in.
{{#rendered}}A Democratic socialist congressional candidate in New York criticized President Donald Trump's proposal to end U.S. foreign aid to Israel, arguing that the move does not go far enough.
Daria Eliza Chevalier , a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) running in New York's 13th Congressional District, said Trump's proposal falls short of the sweeping restrictions she wants imposed on Israel.
Her remarks came hours after Trump said he had reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut U.S. aid to Israel, arguing that the country "doesn't need it."
"Ending military aid is not enough. We need to end U.S. taxpayer funding for Israel's war crimes, a full arms embargo, and the Palestinian right of return," Chevalier wrote in a social media post Tuesday.
In the lead-up to Tuesday night's election, several Democratic candidates voiced opposition to continued U.S. military assistance to Israel and called for an arms embargo amid Israel's military campaign in Gaza following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed approximately 1,200 people in Israel.
Earlier this year, the DSA adopted a resolution titled "Until Palestinian Liberation," calling for an end to "Israeli military operations" and efforts to "end U.S. complicity in Israel's genocide and apartheid at every level."
Most voters across the country say that inflation has caused a hardship for their family, and one-in-five even say it has caused a severe hardship.
Rising costs, property taxes and environmental concerns were top of mind for Iowa voters Tuesday, with some Republicans splitting their tickets in the state's closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races.
Rochelle Adams, a Republican voter who backed Senate nominee Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, told a Fox News reporter in Marion that grocery prices remain a burden.
"I'm seeing at least a 30% increase in my grocery prices and it's tough," Adams said, also citing clean water and cancer research as priorities.
Democratic voters echoed the economic concerns while criticizing Hinson's alignment with President Donald Trump.
"I think that Ashley Hinson's lying when she says that she's bipartisan now," said Jamila Vrba, a substitute teacher and mother in a family of six who supported Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek.
College student Dylan Dolphin also backed Turek, citing grocery costs, student loans and opposition to Trump's agenda.
Meanwhile, Republican voter Tim Reck said he supported Hinson for Senate but crossed party lines to back Democrat Rob Sand over Republican Zach Lahn for governor.
"I think we can be stronger with having more representation of both parties instead of a landslide one or the other," Reck said, explaining his split-ticket vote.
Fox News' Grady Trimble contributed to this report.
{{#rendered}}The campaign of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that it is seeing strong turnout among young and Latino voters as Texans cast their ballots in the midterm elections.
The campaign also claimed Democrats outvoted Republicans during early voting for the first time in years, citing data based on voters' past primary voting history.
HOW TO WATCH CRITICAL 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RACES IN TEXAS
Talarico is facing Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a closely watched Senate race as Republicans fight to maintain control of the chamber.
Fox News' Brooke Taylor contributed to this post
Voters nationally say the most important issue facing the country is the economy, followed closely by the state of democracy
New Hampshire voters offered sharply different takes on President Donald Trump and the war in Iran on Election Day Tuesday, with one combat veteran warning that America's freedoms are on the line while another voter sounded the alarm over rising costs.
"I'm a combat veteran, and I didn't fight the Communists to run our Constitution, to say the things that they're doing and destroy our nation like they're trying to do, or they will do," Ronald Bastien told Fox News in Manchester.
Bastien, a retired martial arts instructor, predicted a strong Republican showing and shrugged off concerns about higher gas prices stemming from the conflict with Iran.
"Yes, we have the Iran thing, gas a little high, but so what? [It's] temporary. We're going to end all that and we're going to maintain our freedom," he said.
But fellow Manchester voter Ken Murray expressed frustration with the administration over energy costs and the war.
"We weren't in a war before. Now we're in a big one, and then we don't see any end to that," Murray said.
Fox News' Arianna Bertolotti contributed to this reporting.
{{#rendered}}Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, believes the presence of a second candidate with the same name on Tuesday’s ballot is only motivating people to support his campaign as voters head to the polls on Tuesday.
“I think that is the biggest motivator right now. The people I’m talking to are outraged. What I tell them is: the best way to make sure this doesn’t happen is to get out and vote for me — vote for the right Dan Sullivan. Don’t throw your vote away,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan’s frustration comes on the heels of reporting that the campaign of his opponent, former Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola, had purposefully introduced the second Dan Sullivan, a logger, on the ballot to create confusion and act as a spoiler, according to the New York Times.
The reported effort spanned coordination between the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and Peltola staffers, according to text messages, interviews and internal documents.
Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC have denied involvement with the second Dan Sullivan’s candidacy.
“People are disgusted by it and the way the whole scheme treats all of us Alaskans with disrespect,” Sullivan said on Tuesday.
“The whole country is shocked. This is a year-and-a-half long secret scheme where there was regular involvement from Peltola’s chief of staff and her campaign manager who said on the record that of course [Peltola] knew about it,” Sullivan said.
Polls have closed in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, marking the first closures of Election Day as voters decide control of Congress and a slew of of governor and state legislative races.
While Guam’s polls closed at 5 a.m. ET, the first mainland U.S. closings came at 6 p.m. ET in the eastern portions of the two states. Polls remain open elsewhere in Indiana and Kentucky until 7 p.m. ET.
The states are home to several races being watched as part of the fight for congressional control, including Indiana’s 1st and 5th congressional districts and Kentucky’s Senate contest between Republican Rep. Andy Barr and Democrat Charles Booker, both of whom are seeking to take over retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell's seat.
More polls will close later in the evening at 7 p.m. ET in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, along with the remaining polls in Indiana and Kentucky.
Fox News Digital will continue updating the results as they come in.
The Justice Department said it has deployed election monitors and observers across all 50 states for the first time as voters head to the polls on Election Day.
The announcement marks the largest election monitoring effort in the department’s history, with approximately 1,000 personnel deployed to help ensure election integrity.
“The DOJ will further this mission by engaging in its largest monitoring effort in history — with approximately 1,000 election monitors and observers deployed, and, for the first time, in all 50 states,” the department said.
HOW TO WATCH CRITICAL 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION RACES
Throughout Election Day, personnel will maintain contact with state and local election officials to monitor compliance with protections against voter suppression, discrimination and barriers for individuals with disabilities. They will also field inquiries and complaints from the public.
“Election integrity has been one of the top priorities for this Administration and this Division,” Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.
“I am very proud we are deploying the largest monitoring effort in DOJ history, and pursuing transparency for elections in an assertive and nondiscriminatory manner.”
{{#rendered}}Fulton County Government warned voters Tuesday about text messages falsely claiming polling places had changed, urging residents to verify information through official election channels before heading to the polls.
“Some Fulton County voters have reported receiving text messages regarding polling place changes,” the county said in a post shared across social media channels. “These text messages were not sent by Fulton County.”
Officials directed voters to check their assigned polling location through Georgia’s My Voter Page or call Fulton County elections officials. The county did not say how many voters received the messages or identify who sent them.
Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, is Georgia’s most populous county and a key area in statewide and federal elections. Voters must cast ballots at their assigned Election Day precinct, according to county election guidance.
The warning comes as Georgia voters decide between Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Rep. Mike Collins in a closely watched Senate race that could help determine control of the chamber. Voters are also choosing between Democratic former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican businessman Rick Jackson in the open governor’s race.
American Muslim reformers criticized Muslim American political commentator Wajahat Ali after he warned that "the fire will rise" and people will be "radicalized" if Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed loses his election.
Reformers have compared Ali’s choice of words to the "Jihad First" intimidation rhetoric used by religious tyrants before elections in the Middle East.
"If, God forbid, Abdul loses, this will be a watershed moment in Democratic politics. The fire will rise. It’s over. People will be radicalized against corporate, pro-Israel Dems. There will be a reckoning," Ali wrote.
Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian Muslim reformer and critic of political Islamism, told Fox News Digital that Ali’s language is what “Islamists use before elections in countries in the Middle East, including Egypt.”
"Maybe we need to expect troubles coming up,”Ziada, who is Washington, D.C., director at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, added.
Soraya Deen, a Muslim reform activist, attorney and co-founder of the Los Angeles Women's Multifaith Alliance, told Fox News Digital that Ali’s “words are deeply troubling," and should be given scrutiny.
Ali defended his remarks, accusing critics of Islamophobia and "anti-Arab bigotry," calling the backlash "so pure and naked."
Voters are heading to the polls nationwide Tuesday as control of Congress hangs in the balance. Republicans are defending slim majorities in both chambers, while Democrats are looking to flip the House and Senate and block President Trump’s agenda.
All 435 House seats, and 35 Senate seats, are up for election, while voters in 36 states are choosing governors and all but a handful of states are holding state legislative elections.
More than 54 million Americans had already cast early ballots before Election Day, according to the Associated Press.
The first polls close at 6 p.m. ET in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, followed by additional poll closings at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ET.
Election Day developments have included ballot-scanner problems in New York’s Westchester County and reports of misleading texts about polling-place changes in Georgia.
Continue to follow along with Fox News Digital’s election coverage.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned on X Tuesday afternoon that federal agents risk arrest on state charges if they "interfere with the vote."
Newsom had echoed an ICE announcement nearly word-for-word earlier Tuesday that warned of "no escape" for illegal voters, except to turn the message back on the agency in the event their agents show up at polling sites.
"A warning to Donald Trump's thugs: If you violate California's laws, if you interfere with the vote, you will be prosecuted," he added about an hour later.
Newsom has also clashed with Trump-appointed Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli over allegations that more than 20,000 registered voters in the state may be noncitizens.
The Justice Department sued to have mail ballots associated with those voters set aside pending citizenship verification, citing a preliminary review of federal immigration records.
Newsom's office countered that California follows federal voter-registration requirements, while Southern California election officials questioned the reliability of DOJ's list, noting that many sampled registrations were inactive or canceled.
Federal prosecutors separately charged 28 lawful permanent residents with voting-related offenses, according to earlier Fox News Digital reporting.
Fox News Digital's James Cirrone contributed to this report.
Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday accused Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico of putting on a moderate persona, arguing that his voting record and policy positions tell a different story as he faces Republican rival and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
“James Talarico seems like a nice young man and a moderate. That's the act,” Cruz said in a post on X.
“His record is just as radical. He voted NO on border security, NO on cutting your property taxes, and NO on stopping cities from defunding the police.”
Cruz pointed to Talarico's past comments on religion, gender and capitalism, arguing that his seemingly moderate demeanor masks his support for more progressive policies.
“This is a man who said ‘God is nonbinary.’ Who said there are six biological sexes. Who called capitalism an oppressive system he wants to dismantle. And who says we should look to Western Europe for inspiration. Take a look at Paris,” Paxton said, criticizing France as an example of what he described as a failed model of progressive economic and social policies.
“Lie to the voters, then get in power. Don't let it work.”
John Nagel, who is challenging Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in the deep blue 5th Congressional District that includes Minneapolis, says he’s “optimistic” on Election Day, despite facing an uphill battle.
The congresswoman is currently facing a federal criminal probe related to potential immigration fraud, which sent shockwaves across the country only a few weeks before the midterm elections.
“Right now, Ilhan Omar, or whatever her name is, is currently in hiding, Nagel said. “She’s not doing Minnesota any good. We need somebody who’s going to go to Washington and actually be there, and not have this stuff dogging her.”
Documents in the federal probe suggest the congresswoman’s name is actually Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. A source told Fox News Digital the Ilhan Nur Said Elmi is her “real name.”
Nagel thanked his supporters for their efforts throughout the yearlong campaign.
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart,” he said. “Your time, your talent, your money and you know, all your prayers, I think your prayers probably mean more to me than anything else.”
“Whatever gains me make … we helped make sure the public in Minnesota understood what our problems were. And they also understand they’ve got a choice between someone that loves Minnesota, or just thinks Minnesota is their personal piggy bank.”
{{#rendered}}Left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen warned election officials not to violate their "oath" to the Constitution on Tuesday, advising against allowing any alleged outside interference in their municipal duties.
Springsteen has regularly engaged in onstage diatribes skewering President Donald Trump -- whose administration has signaled its Justice Department will be monitoring certain polling places around the country.
"You have sworn an oath to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution. That means you have a solemn duty to ensure our votes are securely counted," Springsteen said.
"Thomas Jefferson said, ‘Government requires the consent of the governed.’ You who represent us must never consent to any directives that undermine our Constitutional right to a free and fair election. Our vote is our voice, and it’s up to you ensure our voice is heard. I wish you all a good Election Day, and thank you for your service," the Asbury Park, New Jersey icon said.
Springsteen previously labeled the Trump administration "treasonous" and said in 2016 that the U.S. is "under siege by a moron."
He also issued a ringing endorsement of Michigan Democratic senatorial nominee Abdul El-Sayed , calling the millennial a "fighter for our American democracy and ... against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House."
It’s Election Day and the Fox News Voter Poll is asking voters in all 50 states who they support and why, as part of a survey of about one hundred thousand voters.
This is a new election survey method developed by Fox, with the other TV networks and AP. Conducted from October 19 to November 3, 2026 by the research firm SSRS, the poll combines data collected online and by phone of registered voters with in-person surveys of voters at select precincts on Election Day.
We’re asking questions about what issues are driving voters, such as the cost of living and the war in Iran. We also ask how they feel about the political parties and which party is better able to handle issues like the economy and healthcare. And we ask if one reason for their vote is to express support or opposition for President Trump, or if he wasn’t a factor in their vote at all.
All that and more is coming up. Each state’s survey questionnaire and results will be posted on foxnews.com when polls close in that state.
Check back here for the latest survey results!
As polls close across the country's biggest battlegrounds on Tuesday, Fox News Channel and will deliver live results, race calls and analysis of the contests that could determine control of Congress.
Viewers can watch live coverage on Fox News Go with a participating television provider or stream Fox News Channel through FOX One.
Fox News Channel's special "FOX News Democracy 26" coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET and will be co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Dana Perino, Brit Hume, Harold Ford Jr., Bill Hemmer, Sandra Smith, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and other Fox News personalities will contribute throughout the evening.
The Fox News Decision Desk will provide race calls for House, Senate and gubernatorial contests, along with projections of which party will control each chamber of Congress.
FOX Business will simulcast Fox News Channel's Election Night coverage from 6 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Trace Gallagher will lead overnight coverage, with a special early edition of "FOX & Friends First" beginning at 4 a.m.
Readers can follow a live Election Night blog featuring breaking developments on Fox News Digital, which will include coverage of Fox News Power Rankings and Fox News Voter Analysis as polls close across the country.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Hanna Panreck.
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