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Barrera leads Shaw in early returns for state superintendent’s race
Richard Barrera was leading Sonja Shaw in early returns Tuesday night in the race for state superintendent of public instruction. Barrera, the school board president of San Diego Unified, was the heavy favorite as the Democrat in the race, even though the office is listed as nonpartisan. The education office they vied for has an…
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‘Republicans failed tonight’: Kayleigh McEnany torches GOP on Fox as Democrats sweep
A former Trump administration press secretary scorched Republicans for failing to make the case against socialism during the midterm elections. Kayleigh McEnany, who served as press secretary during Trump’s first term, delivered the rebuke Tuesday night on Fox News as she discussed the results. Democrats would go on to win control of both the House…
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A measure to raise L.A.’s sales tax by a half-cent for firefighters leads in early returns
A ballot measure that would funnel more money to the Los Angeles Fire Department by raising sales taxes by a half-cent was leading in early returns Tuesday night. “I’m humbled by the support of the voters,” said Doug Coates, president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Local 112, which spearheaded the measure. “We showed…
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‘Wow, that’s amazing’: Staggered Trump learns his Senate pick lost mid-call with NYT
President Donald Trump was caught off guard on election night by the defeat of a Republican senator he had endorsed. Trump learned Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) had lost her race while on the phone with The New York Times Tuesday night, as he watched returns from the White House. “I see that Darline lost. Wow,…
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Democrats Win Senate Control in a Major Blow to Trump
Charles Schumer at a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29, 2026. —Tom Williams—Getty Images In a resounding rebuke of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, Democrats will control the Senate for the last two years of Donald Trump’s presidency, cementing one of the strongest midterm showings for either party in decades.…
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How Texas Turned Blue
Photographs by Paola Chapdelaine For decades, Texas has been the foundation of the Republican electoral college map, holding up the red bloc of midwestern and southern states like a pedestal. Democrats have long dreamed of winning it back, only for their hopes to be crushed in election after election. And now, suddenly, James Talarico and…
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Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters
Democrats stormed through key battleground races across the US in their battle to capture the House and Senate on Tuesday night, marking a decisive repudiation of President Donald Trump’s second term. The scale of victory for Democrats—in some races, the party flipped seats that Trump won by double digits just two years ago—marked a historic…
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Marissa Roy surges to early lead over John McKinney in L.A. city attorney race
Marissa Roy is on track to become Los Angeles’ next city attorney after jumping out to a significant lead over L.A. County prosecutor John McKinney based on early returns. Roy, 34, a deputy state attorney general, campaigned on a promise to convert the city attorney’s office into a massive “public interest law firm,” vowing to…
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The Christian left is here
The Democratic Senate victories in Texas and Kansas on Tuesday night were about more than just turning two red states blue — which, to be sure, is historic enough. They also signal the rise of a new kind of Democratic politics in the late Trump era — a more explicitly religious one. In Texas, James…
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Irate Trump throws Greg Abbott under the bus after his historic Texas loss
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to vent his frustrations Tuesday night as Democrats swept to victory in the midterm elections. Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate, setting up a showdown between Congress and the White House when the new Congress convenes in January. Only twice in the last 50…