Texas has rejected Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton at the ballot box on Tuesday and voted to seat Democrat James Talarico in the U.S. Senate.
Talarico is the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in Texas since 1988.
The Trump-endorsed Republican ... grossly underperformed in various counties ... where President Donald Trump at the very least secured healthy majority support in 2024.
Paxton, who beat incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP primary runoff, was trailing Talarico 59.4%-39% when AP called the race for his liberal opponent — a call that came after the Decision Desk HQ and NBC News dubbed Talarico the victor.
The Trump-endorsed Republican, who was dogged by numerous scandals during the campaign, grossly underperformed in various counties — such as Collin, Denton, Jefferson, and Webb — where President Donald Trump at the very least secured healthy majority support in 2024.
A White House official told Fox News' Peter Doocy, "Candidate quality matters, and President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves."
This defeat comes after a closely watched race in which recent polls showed Talarico leading by up to seven percentage points.
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Talarico, whose ally Texas state Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D) won the governor's mansion, mopped up the vast majority of early in-person votes and mail-in votes, according to NBC News.
Talarico rebranded himself as a moderate on the campaign trail.
For example, he posed with meat after previously clutching pearls over animal welfare and the impact of meat consumption on "climate change"; walked back some of his more radical theological claims such as "God is nonbinary"; and masqueraded as a "border security Democrat" despite repeatedly voting against border and immigration security measures.
Talarico — whom White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller dubbed the "first transgender Senate candidate" — was evidently able to convince some Texans of his election-time conversion. He certainly won over members of the Bush family.
Texas' 2026 U.S. Senate race was the most expensive non-presidential race on record, according to AdImpact. Over $407 million was reportedly spent on ads and reservations in the general Senate election — and Republicans outspent Democrats $140.7 million in vain.
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Democrat Amy Acton defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio’s gubernatorial election Tuesday, becoming the first Democrat elected governor of the Buckeye State in 20 years.
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Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) has won re-election in the state of New Mexico, defeating Republican challenger Larry Marker.
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Democrat Adam Hamilton has unseated Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) in Kansas's Senate election, which was largely considered a tossup race.
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Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) has won reelection in the state of Delaware, beating Republican challenger Michael Katz.
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Virginians overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to enshrine the right to kill unborn babies into their state constitution.
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Results are in for one of the highest-profile gubernatorial elections in the country.
The highly polarizing race between Democratic candidate Amy Acton and Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for governor of Ohio has come to a conclusion.
Acton, a physician, won the race by a 5-point margin with 87% of votes reported.
According to the Associated Press, Acton won the election by five points on Tuesday night, upsetting Republicans' hopes of retaining the governorship, which has been held by term-limited Republican Mike DeWine since 2019.
The results of the contest were much closer than some may have expected in the red state.
Acton, a physician, won the race by a five-point margin with 87% of votes reported, according to the AP.
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One of the biggest "October surprises" of the campaign — which soon became the central pillar of the race in the eyes of many — came when Ramaswamy's campaign featured Acton's estranged biological mother calling her a "liar" in an expensive campaign advertisement.
Ohio has been a consistently red state for the last three presidential elections, with 2024 support reaching its zenith at roughly 55%.
As of Friday afternoon, the Blaze Poll Watch average showed Acton ahead of Ramaswamy by three points, beating him 48.2%-45.2%. Acton's lead expanded to 4.2 points on the afternoon of Election Day.
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Democrat James Talarico has won the Texas Senate seat over state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), with NBC News calling the race shortly before 9:00 p.m. local time.
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A White House official said Tuesday night that the mood inside the White House is "defiant" and that President Donald Trump’s "resolve to stop the Radical Left is only going to become stronger."
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The U.S. House of Representatives fell relatively early to Democratic control on election night.
NBC News projected that Democrats would take over more than 240 seats in the House and seize control of the lower chamber of Congress. They needed only 218 to take control.
'Let's get to work.'
Democrats are hoping to increase their wins and take the U.S. Senate as well.
Polling ahead of Election Day showed the favorability rating for President Donald Trump had fallen as low as 38% in some surveys. Voters were unhappy about the economic effects of the Iran conflict and inflation eroding the wage gains under the current administration.
CBS News projected Democrats would win control of the House as well. CBS estimated that Democrats would take 253 seats, far more than they needed for a majority.
Democrats will almost certainly block as much of the president's agenda as they can, and many have promised to use their newfound powers to investigate members of the administration and the president's supporters.
Early exit polling showed that the economy was the top concern for 39% of the respondents. An astounding 75% said they were "angry" or "dissatisfied" about the direction of the country.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, the president blamed Fox News for what he said was negative coverage about the state of the country. He has also joked that if the U.S. voters rejected him, he would move to Israel and become its prime minister.
"Let's get to work," reads a post from House Democrats Tuesday night.
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A Harvard University model found that Democrats have a 78% chance of winning the U.S. Senate, which would be disastrous for Republicans for the next two years.
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) secured another six-year term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Hallie Shoffner in Arkansas.
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