A Minnesota mayoral election will be decided by a random drawing after two candidates received exactly the same number of votes. On Monday, Spring Lake Park city officials will draw the name of either incumbent Robert Nelson or challenger Halyn Roth out of a bag to decide who wins the seat.
Tuesday was a victory for equity and inclusivity and a rejection of hate and fear. The biggest losers? Megadonors and Super Pacs Rather than regurgitate the particular wins and losses that occurred on Tuesday, I thought it more useful, at this point, to look at the big picture and identify the largest overall winners and losers for the country as a whole. Biggest winner: a diverse, equitable and inclusive America. It’s Donald Trump’s DEI nightmare. Georgia voters elected Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black female governor in the country. Texas chose Gina Hinojosa, the state’s first Latina governor and first Democratic governor in more than 30 years. California elected Xavier Becerra, the state’s first Latino governor. New Mexico chose Deb Haaland, the country’s first female Native American governor. Florida elected Byron Donalds, the first Black governor in Florida’s history (a Republican). Continue reading...
Election wins of Annie Andrews, Abdul El-Sayed and more who ran on healthcare issues are viewed as sign of home as Trump administration unravels US health policy Public health leaders and politicians who made healthcare a central part of their platforms swept into office in the US midterm elections last week, setting the stage for national, state and local changes. Voters, faced with an unprecedented rise in vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, alongside devastating outbreaks of foodborne illnesses , chose national candidates who prioritized public health, healthcare affordability, reproductive health and the impeachment of Robert F Kennedy Jr , among other key issues. Continue reading...
Candidates and their allies in Florida, Louisiana and other Southern states say Democrats could have pulled off even more upset wins had they not written off their region as unwinnable.
Republican Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, dubbed the "Chuck Norris of Florida politics" by Ron DeSantis, says the GOP must rise like warriors.
From the Democratic Party's big wins in the US midterm elections to France's ongoing student-led protests and the first Olympic sports event held on African soil, FRANCE 24 looks back at some of the week's most striking images.
WASHINGTON — Fresh off resounding wins in the midterm elections, congressional Democrats on Saturday placated their base ravenous for investigations of President Donald Trump, pledging to launch sweeping oversight targeting Trump and his allies and threatening to use the courts to enforce their investigative authority. Democratic members of the chief investigative committees appeared at Crooked […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) was the top pick of attendees at a progressive convention in Washington, D.C., to be Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Of the 990 poll respondents at Crooked Con, hosted by Crooked Media, 38.4% of attendees selected Ossoff as their first choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]
With Democrats set to take control of both the House and Senate following sweeping victories in the midterm elections, sitting lawmakers have already begun to lay out plans for the lame-duck period and the latter half of President Trump’s second term. Democrats secured big wins in battleground states, flipping GOP-held seats in places like Texas,…
All 10 of the U.S. counties with the biggest swings toward Democrats in the midterm elections had majority-Hispanic populations.
Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided by a pro-regulation political funding group backed in part by Anthropic PBC at a time when Americans are increasingly uneasy over the rapidly developing technology.
The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during the ICE surge in Minneapolis last winter was a pivotal moment for the country. After Democrats' sweeping wins this week, their deaths at the hands of immigration agents will likely be the targets of renewed investigations.
Even after their big wins, party officials eye new maps—both to expand their House advantage and to warn Republicans to back off.
Maga’s regret voters were all-in for Trump’s racism. Then they found out they couldn’t afford it For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami . Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and Mississippi left mouths agape. The explanation was that Democrats turned out far more supporters than their regulars, and that the “ regret voter ” (both swing voters and partisan Republicans) expanded the wave across districts Trump previously won . Elation and sighs of relief rolled over consistently Democratic voters who suffered multiple sucker punches from recent years of Republican upsets. Regret voters, who run the gamut from gen Z men to Latinos , farmers and the white working class , hope a different party can deliver on the economy Trump promised them. Blue voters look at the dismantling of democracy, multiple wars, mass deportations and Trump’s unchecked power in these last two years and see how it all could have been avoided. Regret voters, however, either co-signed or conceded to Trump’s naked racism and brutish bullying of marginalized people, but switched their votes as soon as the consequences hit their pockets. While some of the president’s backers may have been turned away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gunning down American citizens, the final straw for most wasn’t ICE’s brutality , but rather the price of eggs. Some may have been upset by the Tomahawk missile assault that killed 120 schoolgirls in Iran, but most fumed at the rocketing costs at the gas pump that followed. Few demanded answers for the nearly 60 deaths of innocent people detained in DHS detention centers since the start of 2024, but
Mexican cartels that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations are likely to use Democrats‘ widespread wins in the midterm elections as a way to lure migrants into paying to get into the United States, according to federal law enforcement. The blue wave seen across Senate, House, gubernatorial, and state races nationwide Tuesday […]
Democrats gained strong control of both the House and the Senate in the Nov. 3 midterm elections and are expected to target President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda in some form. How effective these efforts to curb the broad-based, price-hiking tariff program can be is an open question. Democratic wins across geographic regions and demographic groups […]
Opponents of gender ideology have achieved a series of wins over the past year securing youth gender-medicine bans and safeguarding girls’ sports that codify such protections and legally recognize states’ authority to enforce their own transgender regulations. The movement picked up major electoral victories on Tuesday with the passage of five ballot initiatives across four […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., says he feels "pretty certain" at least one committee will investigate DOGE, calling Elon Musk's cost-cutting effort a catastrophe.
The Associated Press had called 254 races for Democrats and 162 for Republicans (up from 155 Thursday afternoon) as of Friday afternoon, with 19 House seats still up in the air.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been replaced as the representative for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District by retired Navy Adm. Nancy Lacore, a Democrat. The Associated Press called the race for Lacore at 6:51 p.m. Friday evening. She garnered 49.7% against Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt’s 48.6%, with 99% of the vote counted. Lacore served in […]
President Trump hinted at possible firings following Democrats' sweeping midterm wins, telling 60 Minutes' Ross Douthat he plans to make "maybe a few changes" to his Cabinet. Watch more of the interview Sunday only on 60 Minutes.
Democrats' midterm wins have reached red states across the country, including Kansas, which has not sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932. That will soon change after Rev. Adam Hamilton, who leads the largest United Methodist church in the country, defeated Republican incumbent Roger Marshall Tuesday night. Amna Nawaz speaks with Sen.-elect Hamilton for more.
Democrats’ wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire (D) said the city would limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents just days after Democrats swept the state-level offices in the midterm elections. The mayor said his executive order applied to nonviolent criminals, who will be released with a citation, and that unless someone is arrested for an…
Hispanic voters, especially those in the working class, have been impacted by economic challenges, leading them to reject President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
As the dust settles after sweeping Democratic wins across the country, many are left to wonder — how will the power shift influence everything from the composition of the FOMC to AI development? Employ America's executive director Skanda Amarnath joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss whether he thinks a Democrat-led Congress will slow down data center construction. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jason Reding Quiñones led investigation into whether Trump’s rights were violated during 2020 election inquiry A US attorney overseeing the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation into Donald Trump ’s rivals announced on Friday he is leaving the Department of Justice, one of several officials to leave the department in recent days after sweeping Democratic wins in the midterm elections . Jason Reding Quiñones, the US attorney for the southern district of Florida, and John Eisenberg, who led the justice department’s national security division, are both leaving. Democrats have pledged to use their majorities in the US House and Senate to conduct aggressive oversight of the justice department, among other agencies. Continue reading...
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon said White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other political consultants should be “removed immediately” following the losses suffered by the GOP in the midterm elections. Democrats secured wins in battleground states across the country on Tuesday, flipping GOP-held seats in Texas, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio,…
After midterm wins, Democratics plan comeback for when new Congress is sworn in, including pushback against Trump and his policies Donald Trump will be blocked from putting a “rightwinger” on the US supreme court, according to Chuck Schumer, the soon-to-be Senate majority leader, in remarks that were a preview of how Democrats intend to wield their power come January. In an interview with the Associated Press, Schumer said Democrats would not confirm “any crappy nominees” to the supreme court, lower courts or Trump’s cabinet. Continue reading...
Wiener defeated Democrat Connie Chan, a San Francisco supervisor. He will step into the seat held by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed Chan.
Robert Garcia and other Democrats campaigned on affordability but pivoted to subpoenas and Trump investigations after winning, Fox News Digital found.
Historians and political scientists say that framing the wins as ‘Ohio’s working class has come home’ is too simple At its peak, the Mahoning valley was once the beating heart of the US’s steel economy – a hardscrabble, heavily unionized Democratic bastion in north-eastern Ohio. But de-industrialization, sparked by the mass closure of steel mills in the late 1970s, transformed the region. Tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs disappeared. Populations declined. And support for Democrats slowly, but surely, faded. In 2020, Mahoning county voted for its first Republican presidential candidate – Donald Trump – in a generation. Continue reading...
Republican Mark Lamb is projected to win Arizona’s 5th District, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Lamb defeated Democrat Elizabeth Lee, securing a victory that gives Republicans a new face in a reliably conservative district southeast of Phoenix. He notched about 51 percent of the vote while Lee secured about 48 percent, with 93 percent…
Texas state Rep. Steve Toth (R) is projected to defeat Shaun Finnie (D) in Texas’s red 2nd District, according to Decision Desk HQ. Voters in the district, encompassing parts of Harris and Montgomery counties, backed the Republican by nearly 51 percent. Finnie pulled in 49 percent support, according to DDHQ. Toth defeated Rep. Dan Crenshaw…
Young voters played a large role in Democratic wins in this week's midterms. People under 30 voted blue at much higher rates than in 2024.
Abdi Daisane's Blooming Kids Child Care Center in St. Cloud received millions in state and federal funding and has faced multiple violations.
"It's a beautiful morning in the world. The Trump regime is over, thank you America," she said.
The National Capital Planning Commission voted Thursday to approve plans for President Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch. Legal challenges are still possible.
President Trump blamed the Democrats' blue wave election wins for Thursday’s unprecedented stock market sell-off that saw firms lose trillions of dollars in value in a single day.
Nithya Raman will be the next mayor of Los Angeles after defeating incumbent Karen Bass. NBC News' Andres Gutierrez has more on next steps from Raman and other city officials as she makes the transition to her new role.
Republican Amanda McKinney, a Yakima County commissioner, is projected to win the race for Washington’s 4th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. McKinney defeated Air Force veteran John Duresky (D) in the battle for the seat, which covers a large portion of the eastern half of the Evergreen State. Eastern Washington is more rural…
Trump blamed Democrats' midterm wins for Wall Street's massive sell-off, warning Americans on Truth Social that their 401(k)s have dropped.
Early voting tallies sealed wins for Ossoff, Talarico and Cooper.
With their new majorities, Democrats will have at their disposal the full investigatory powers of the Congress, which include the ability to subpoena records and compel individuals to testify.
Victory over incumbent Karen Bass comes as voters send DSA candidates to city halls in several U.S. cities.
The Democrats’ sweeping midterm victory put the party in control of Congress, but that did little to settle the debate over the best ideological path forward. Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent, explains where moderates and progressives agree, including affordability and oversight, and where they remain divided.
Union-backed Richard Barrera wins race.
