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Latest midterm election news
- Here’s a guide to how NBC News calls races on election night.
- John Fetterman, the state lieutenant governor, has won Pennsylvania’s high-voltage race for an open Senate seat, NBC News projects, defeating celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz.
- J.D. Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author who was a searing Donald Trump critic before he converted into one of his most loyal allies, has defeated Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio’s Senate race, NBC News projects.
- Democrats won key governor's races in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to NBC News projections. In Maryland, voters elected the state’s first Black governor, while Massachusetts voters elected the first lesbian to lead a state.
- Citing Republican losses in New Hampshire and Colorado, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the midterm results were “definitely not a Republican wave, that is for darn sure.”
- Americans named inflation and abortion as the most important issues driving their votes Tuesday, edging out crime despite Republicans’ hammering the issue, according to the NBC News Exit Poll.