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Latest updates and results as Democrats perform better than expected and Fetterman wins Pennsylvania Senate race.
18:25
Two major networks believe Georgia’s tight Senate race will go to a runoff.
Winning the state could prove crucial to determining which party controls the chamber. Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock appears to be leading his Republican challenger Herschel Walker, but neither man has yet cleared the 50% threshold needed to avoid a run-off election. The Associated Press has not called the race.
However, CNN believes the match-up will have to go before voters again:
Warnock and Walker headed to a Dec. 6 runoff, CNN projects. The Senate majority could hinge on it— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 9, 2022
As does NBC News:
NBC News: Georgia U.S. Senate will go to run-off as none of the candidates has met the required threshold to win the race. Raphael Warnock (D) will advance to the run-off and Herschel Walker (R) will advance to the run-off @GabrielSterling tweeted last night that no is 12/6— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) November 9, 2022
Republican senator Johnson wins re-election in Wisconsin
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Voters in Wisconsin have re-elected Republican Ron Johnson to the Senate, the Associated Press reports, beating back a challenge from Democrat Mandela Barnes.
Johnson was considered the most vulnerable GOP incumbent in the Senate to face voters this year. His victory narrows the Democrats’ path to preserving their slim majority in Congress’s upper chamber.
18:24
From Detroit, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports on the victories Democrats won in statehouses, particularly in some of the battleground states along the Great Lakes:
Some of the Democrats’ most consequential victories on Tuesday were in state legislative chambers, where they put forward an unexpectedly strong performance.
In Michigan, Democrats took control of both chambers of the legislature for the first time since 1983. Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, was also re-elected to a second term, giving Democrats complete control of state government in one of America’s most politically competitive states.
Democrats also took control of both chambers of the legislature in Minnesota and held onto control in Maine. They appeared poised to flip the Pennsylvania House.
Democrats also blocked Republicans from gaining a supermajority in Wisconsin and North Carolina, ensuring that Democratic governors in both states still have a veto. In Arizona,