Live updates on House races: With every seat up for election, control is at stake
could be determined on Election Day — barring runoffs and delayed counting in some areas.
The party that controls the House can unleash a barrage of investigations of the Biden administration, as Republicans have already promised. The majority can also launch impeachment proceedings.
Key issues include everything from abortion to the economy, with each party hoping their voters turn out in big numbers.
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Frost, a 25-year-old gun reform and social justice activist, ran in a heavily blue Orlando-area district being relinquished by Democratic Rep. Val Demings, who challenged Republican Sen. Marco Rubio this year.
Frost is a former March For Our Lives organizer seeking stricter gun control laws and has stressed opposition to restrictions on abortion rights. Generation Z generally refers to those born between the late 1990s to early 2010s. To become a member of Congress, candidates must be at least 25 years old.
Wimbish is a 72-year-old former Army Green Beret who called himself a “Christian, conservative, constitutionalist” candidate for office.
– Associated Press
Paulina Luna flips Florida district red
Republican Anna Paulina Luna flipped the House seat in Florida’s 13th District red, defeating incumbent Democrat Eric Lynn.
Paulina Luna is a Trump-backed conservative activist and Air Force veteran. The race had one of the narrowest margins. The district covers the majority of Pinellas County, including St. Petersburg.
– Rachel Looker
AOC wins reelection in New York
Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won reelection to the New York house seat, defeating Republican challenger Tina Forte.
The congresswoman, who represents Queens and the Bronx, was the youngest woman and Latina to serve in Congress when she was elected in 2018. She is known for her progressive views on health care, income inequality, immigration, combating climate change and her work on the Green New Deal.
– Rachel Looker
Marjorie Taylor Green wins reelection in Georgia
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., won reelection over Democrat Marcus Flowers, an Army veteran who also worked for the Defense Department, ending the most expensive and one of the highest-profile House races of the 2022 midterms.
Greene quickly gained notoriety during her first campaign for office in 2020 for a track record of promoting racist rhetoric and far-right conspiracy theories. She vowed to spend her time in office promoting Trump-era policies.
– Laura Bargfeld, Cronkite News
Republican Jim Jordan wins Ohio House seat
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan defended his Ohio House seat against Democratic challenger Tamie Wilson.
Jordan is an eight-term congressman who has held his seat since 2007. He is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
– Rachel Looker
Matt Gaetz reelected to Florida seat
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz defended his Florida House seat against Democratic challenger Rebekah Jones.
Gaetz, who has represented the district since 2017, has been one of former President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters. He has faced legal troubles and has been under federal investigation over allegations he violated federal sex trafficking laws.
– Rachel Looker
Biden calls to congratulate Democratic winners
President Biden called to congratulate several Democrats who scored victories as races were still being tallied across the country.
Biden made congratulatory calls to incumbents, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee. He also phoned Senator-elect Peter Welch and Massachusetts Governor-elect Maura Healey.
– Christal Hayes
Arizona GOP looks to flip House delegation
PHOENIX — The partisan makeup of Arizona’s U.S. House delegation and control of Congress itself are up for grabs Tuesday, with Republicans hoping to shift the state’s 5-4 Democratic tilt by picking up two and possibly three seats.
Redistricting after the 2020 U.S. Census gave the GOP candidates a leg up in those three districts. Meanwhile, a district that had strongly favored Republicans for the past decade got only slightly less GOP-friendly. The other five districts are shoo-ins for the incumbents in districts that heavily favor the sitting members of Congress.
The most vulnerable Democratic incumbent is three-term U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran, whose sprawling 2nd Congressional District covers much of northeastern Arizona and dips south to the northern Tucson suburbs. Redistricting remade the district into one that strongly favors the GOP by drawing in the Prescott area.
– Associated Press
Guam elects first Republican representative since 1993
Republican James Moylan defeated Democrat Judith Won Pat to become Guam’s newest non-voting House of Representatives delegate.
Moylan received 17,075 votes compared to Won Pat’s 15,427, according to partial, unofficial election results from the Guam Election Commission. He is the second Republican to be elected to the position since its creation in 1972.
– Eleanor McCrary
Peeling back the curtain: How and why we cover the midterm elections, from the editors
A complete breakdown for Election Day 2022.
tend to perform better when in a divided Congress gridlock since it can restrict government spending and hold up new legislation that can negatively impact stocks, analysts said.
Political gridlock has “historically benefitted equity investors, with the SP 500 Index averaging annual gains within the range of 13.0%,” John Lynch, Comerica Wealth Management’s chief investment officer, wrote in a report. “Though counterintuitive, equity markets tend to prefer divided government.”
– Elisabeth Buchwald, Medora Lee
more closely watched around the country, playing out in a district that went to Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Leavitt cast her ballot at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire.
– Anna Kaufman
are at the forefront of voters’ minds as they consider who on their ballots to vote for in the Nov. 8 midterm election, but their concerns go beyond just the higher cost of gas and groceries.
While inflation has managed to remain the top issue throughout the election season, immigration reform, the soaring costs of health care, and a lack of affordable housing are also economic factors voters are considering as they contemplate who to vote for – if they even decide to cast their ballot.
Read the rest here:Inflation, health care and rent: key economic factors voters consider in midterms
— Sarah Elbeshbishi
Voters have low expectations of what Republicans will be able to do if they win a majority in the House of Representatives in November’s elections, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
Four in 10, 42%, foresee “more partisan gridlock with nothing getting done” if power is divided between a GOP-controlled House and a Democratic president. Just 19% say that situation would force more bipartisanship.
Another 25% predict “nothing will change” from the last two years.
Read the whole story here:Watch out, Hunter Biden? What voters predict a GOP House majority would do
– Susan Page
Voting rights in the United States: A state-by-state analysis
Texas will gain 2 congressional seats. Seven states to lose 1 seat, Census Bureau data shows
– Katie Wadington, Jeanine Santucci
Read about them here.
– Ken Tran, Dylan Wells