Good morning from Washington, where politicians and pundits are trying to make sense of incomplete results from midterm elections Tuesday that suggest Republicans will retake the House but leave the balance of power in the Senate uncertain. Votes still are being counted in key races in Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, for instance. Republicans routed Democrats in some races for governor and other state offices, but failed to pull off victories elsewhere. We’ve got reports on many of the major battles. This date in 1965 sees one of the biggest power failures in history when all of New York and parts of seven nearby states go dark.
"We reject woke ideology. We fight the woke in the legislature. We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations," says DeSantis.
JD Vance campaigned on issues including curbing government spending, restoring America's manufacturing base, solving the border crisis, putting America first, and ending abortion.
“It’s a bad idea to callously give away the right to vote to people that haven’t earned it,” says Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, who was a leading proponent of the ban.
"I voted all Republican because I don't like how things are trending," a Georgia voter says. "I want constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, so I want the Senate on the Republican side."
Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation fellow and co-author of “Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote," discusses voter integrity on "The Daily Signal Podcast."
A Trump-endorsed candidate, Budd has championed spending cuts as a member of the House Freedom Caucus and called lawmakers’ pork barrel projects an “extravagant waste of taxpayer dollars.”
Dixon’s defeat disappoints supporters such as restaurant owner Sandy Bloomfield. “We’re struggling to run our businesses,” Bloomfield said during a rally for Dixon held at her restaurant, JB's Whiskey.
Given the shifting political tide among the Hispanic community, political strategists were closely watching three Texas and three Florida House districts that are largely Latino.
Michigan resident Joan Jacobson was back fighting for the life of the unborn Tuesday, weeks after being shot while canvassing against a pro-abortion measure.
