Just Now / 11:29 PM EST
Silence from Team Youngkin after Democratic wins
As the Virginia Democrats rack up wins in Virginia, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s staff has been surprisingly quiet.
Social media accounts for Youngkin and his Spirit of Virginia PAC were radio silent for a number of hours — they’re most often consistent with reward for Republicans.
1m in the past / 11:29 PM EST
Democrats block GOP bid to take complete regulate of Virginia state govt; cling regulate of Senate
Voters rejected Republican efforts to take complete regulate of Virginia’s state govt, in keeping with The Associated Press, protecting Democrats in energy within the state Senate as a counterweight to GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his coverage proposals, which integrated new restrictions on abortion.
9m in the past / 11:21 PM EST
Chris Christie blames Daniel Cameron’s loss in Kentucky on Trump
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stated in an interview on CNN this night that he thinks Republican Daniel Cameron misplaced the Kentucky governor’s race as a result of his alliance with Trump.
“I mean, let’s face it, Donald Trump is political and electoral poison down ballot,” stated Christie, who is working for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. He additionally identified that dozens of applicants whom Trump recommended within the closing midterm elections misplaced their aggressive races.
Trump-backed applicants misplaced in 4 the most important Senate races: Herschel Walker in Georgia, Blake Masters in Arizona, Adam Laxalt in Nevada and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
“Daniel Cameron made a huge mistake by embracing Donald Trump and selling his soul to him,” he stated. “That’s what he did.”
He stated Kentucky voters, in an excessively crimson state, gave their verdict on politicians “who sell their souls to Donald Trump.”
16m in the past / 11:14 PM EST
Houston mayor’s race is going to runoff between Democrats John Whitmire and Sheila Jackson Lee
The combat to be the following mayor of Houston is headed to a runoff subsequent month, NBC News initiatives, pitting Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire towards Democratic U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee after neither candidate won a majority within the all-party number one.
21m in the past / 11:09 PM EST
Virginia elects first overtly transgender state senator
Virginia Democratic Del. Danica Roem is projected to win her election to the Virginia state Senate, in keeping with an Associated Press race name. Roem will transform the state’s first overtly transgender state senator.
Roem defeated the Youngkin-endorsed Bill Woolf, a former Fairfax County police officer.
22m in the past / 11:08 PM EST
Exonerated member of Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, wins NYC council seat
An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, has received a seat at the New York City Council, according to The Associated Press.
Salaam will constitute a district in central Harlem as a Democrat.
He used to be one among 5 teenage boys who had been convicted of assaulting and raping a white girl jogging in Central Park in 1989. They variously served seven to 13 years in jail.
Their convictions had been vacated in 2002 after a person who used to be already in jail for attacking girls confessed to the crime.
31m in the past / 10:59 PM EST
Democrats turn meeting seats in New Jersey; incumbents cling directly to Senate seats
Democrats flipped more than one meeting seats in New Jersey and hung on to a couple aggressive state Senate seats, in keeping with election results from The Associated Press.
The communications director for Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, Mahen Gunaratna, stated on X that each Biden and Vice President Harris spoke to him this night to congratulate him at the Democratic wins in New Jersey and within the Kentucky governor’s race (Murphy is the chair of the National Governors Association).
38m in the past / 10:51 PM EST
Supporters of Presley, Reeves accumulate for watch events
As polls in Mississippi’s maximum populous county, Hinds, prolonged their hours as a result of voting problems, supporters of the Democratic nominee for governor, Brandon Presley, started arriving on the marketing campaign’s watch get together in downtown Jackson.
Inside a packed reception corridor, Luigia Hodge, 57, gestured to her pals, appearing a selfie she took with Presley this summer time. Hodge, an architect from Jackson, stated Presley’s push for higher investment for colleges is desperately wanted.
School leaders in Jackson have recommended final a number of colleges, mentioning declining enrollment and funds pressure. Hodge said {that a} trainer pay carry handed right through Republican Gov. Reeves’ first time period however stated an additional funding is wanted. Some educators, she stated, paintings part-time jobs to make ends meet. Schools too can lack budget for wanted upkeep.
“What happened to funding public schools?” she stated. “What are we funding in Jackson, Mississippi?”
About quarter-hour away in Rankin County, a Republican stronghold in Central Mississippi, supporters of Reeves accumulated at a lodge in Flowood to watch for returns.
1h in the past / 10:15 PM EST
NBC News Exit Poll: Liberals, younger voters assist go Ohio’s marijuana measure
Ohio voters these days forged ballots to legalize leisure marijuana, NBC News initiatives, with make stronger from maximum liberals and younger voters.
Nearly three-quarters of Black voters additionally subsidized the measure, and two-thirds of Latinos voted sure, as smartly, in keeping with the NBC News Exit Poll of early and Election Day voters.
Other balloting blocs that helped the measure go had been Democrats, independents, voters who aren’t married and people who reside in families the place any individual belongs to a hard work union.
1h in the past / 10:08 PM EST
Beshear speaks about solidarity amongst Kentuckians in victory speech
Beshear spoke to his supporters at his headquarters this night, pronouncing in his victory speech that Kentucky made a call “not to move to the right or to the left, but to move forward for every single family.”
“We’re building the two biggest battery plants on Planet Earth and the cleanest, greenest recycled paper mill in this country,” he stated. “We have record high budget surpluses and record low unemployment. We created almost 50,000 new jobs, $27.8 billion in new private-sector investments. So tonight, I stand here excited and optimistic about what we’re going to do these next four years together.”
Over the following 4 years, Beshear stated, lecturers will have to get a pay carry and common pre-Okay will have to be made to be had to each and every kid.
“I pledge tonight to continue to be a governor who serves all our people, regardless of your party and regardless of who you voted for,” he stated. “This is our chance to build that commonwealth we have always dreamed of, to stop the fighting, to push away the division, to recognize that we have more that unites us than can ever pull us apart and that the opportunity right in front of us is more promising than at any time in our lifetimes.”
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