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One final projection: Democrat Troy Jackson will defeat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, according to its report updated at 12:17 a.m. CNN
Collins was seeking a sixth term; Jackson previously served as president of the Maine Senate. CNN
President Trump told Fox News’s Bret Baier he plans to veto Democratic legislation he opposes, then negotiate, according to Fox’s account of their phone interview, posted at 12:12 a.m. Fox News
Trump said he had already spoken with Democratic lawmakers and expected more calls, presenting his veto power as leverage in the coming talks. Fox News
He also said he does not intend to change his Cabinet following the election defeats, according to The New York Times’s reporting on the interview. The New York Times
Chuck Schumer told Americans “relief is on the way” after Democrats’ projected Senate victory, according to CNN’s report, updated at midnight. CNN
The Senate Democratic leader credited the party’s success to listening to voters’ concerns about costs, chaos and corruption, while arguing Republicans had failed to heed those concerns. CNN
Schumer described the results as a “generational remake of the Senate map” and said Democrats now must deliver, framing the victory as a mandate for action on the issues voters raised. CNN
Our midnight audio round-up: Democrats win control of Congress, with the AP and every major network, including Fox News, projecting a Democratic Senate; Republican House campaign chief Richard Hudson loses his seat; President Trump congratulates Democrats and says he’ll be “a political pundit”; and the latest Senate and House counts.
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President Trump says he will become a “Political Pundit” to explain why candidates won and lost, according to CNN’s report of his latest Truth Social post, updated at 11:48 p.m. ET. CNN
The post signals that Trump intends to offer his own account of individual candidates’ performances as networks project Democrats will control both chambers of Congress. CNN
Earlier, Trump congratulated Democrats in a phone call with CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang and said he looked forward to working with them for the country’s good. CBS News
Our 11:45 p.m. audio round-up: the AP, CNN, CBS and ABC join NBC and Decision Desk HQ in calling the Senate for Democrats; President Trump congratulates Democrats; Hakeem Jeffries says “America is back”; Republicans concede two redrawn Texas House districts; and the latest Senate and House counts.
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MS NOW reported at 11:37 p.m. ET that Democrats are projected to capture the Senate majority, explicitly attributing the projection to The Associated Press. MS NOW / AP
In the House, NBC projected at 11:40 p.m. ET that Democrat Sarah Trone Garriott will defeat Republican Rep. Zach Nunn in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, adding another Democratic pickup. NBC News
CNN now projects Democrats will win both the House and Senate, in a liveblog post updated at 11:35 p.m. ET. CNN
CBS also projects Democratic Senate control, saying its call came shortly after 11:30 p.m.; its report notes the majority will give Democrats power to block President Trump’s nominees. CBS News
ABC has likewise projected that Democrats will take control of the Senate. ABC News
Those projections follow NBC’s 11:23 p.m. call that Democrats will control both chambers when the new Congress convenes in January. NBC News
Republican Eric Flores has conceded to Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in Texas’s redrawn 34th District, following Republican Alex Mealer’s concession in the 9th District, ABC reported at 11:27 p.m. ABC News
ABC describes both districts as redrawn to favor Republicans, but had not projected either race in that entry; the reported concessions are separate from its Decision Desk’s calls. ABC News
CNN has separately projected Gonzalez’s reelection, describing his victory as blocking a Republican pickup in a district targeted by Texas’s redistricting effort. CNN
Our 11:30 p.m. audio round-up: Democrats win the Senate, as NBC and Decision Desk HQ project control of both chambers; new Senate flips in Kansas and Iowa; CBS joining the Ohio Senate and Texas governor calls; Rob Sand in Iowa; and the latest Senate and House counts.
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NBC projected at 11:23 p.m. ET that Democrats will win Senate control, giving the party both chambers of Congress when the new Congress convenes in January. NBC News
That follows Decision Desk HQ’s 11:19 p.m. Senate-control projection, with DDHQ listing 51 Democratic seats secured. Decision Desk HQ
NBC also projected at 11:23 p.m. that Democrat Josh Turek will defeat Republican Ashley Hinson in Iowa’s open Senate race, adding another Democratic pickup. NBC News
NBC reports Democrats are expected to use their congressional power for investigations and a legislative check on President Trump, who retains his veto power. NBC News
NBC projected at 11:12 p.m. ET that Democrat Rob Sand will defeat Republican Zach Lahn in Iowa’s governor race. NBC News
CNN also projects Democrat J.D. Ford will unseat Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, in a post updated at 11:12 p.m. ET. CNN
Ford’s projected pickup comes in a district President Trump carried by nearly 17 percentage points in 2024, extending Democratic gains into a seat that backed Trump by a substantial margin. CNN
Our 11:15 p.m. audio round-up: Texas goes blue, with Gina Hinojosa projected to defeat Greg Abbott and more networks calling the Senate race for James Talarico; Sherrod Brown’s projected Senate win in Ohio; Democratic wins for governor in California and Wisconsin; and the latest Senate and House counts.
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CNN and CBS now project Democrat James Talarico will defeat Republican Ken Paxton in Texas, joining NBC’s 10:52 p.m. projection of a Democratic Senate pickup. CNN · CBS News · NBC News
MS NOW’s 11 p.m. liveblog assessment still places Texas among Republican-held seats leaning Democratic, alongside Kansas and Ohio, rather than projecting a Texas winner. MS NOW
CBS says Democrats now need one more Senate pickup and a hold in Michigan to secure control; its latest assessment still describes Kansas and Ohio as leaning Democratic and Michigan as a toss-up. CBS News
Our 11 p.m. audio round-up: James Talarico’s projected Senate flip in Texas, Amy Acton’s projected flip of the Ohio governor’s office, Deb Haaland’s historic win in New Mexico, President Trump’s response to the results, Democrats’ growing House majority, the state of the Senate race, and the latest Senate and House counts.
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President Trump told The New York Times he would accept the midterm election results and was prepared to work with Democrats, in an interview conducted shortly before 10:30 p.m. and reported at 10:49 p.m. The New York Times
He also said he had no regrets about endorsing South Carolina’s Darline Graham or Texas’s Ken Paxton, according to the Times. The New York Times
Separately, NBC reported Trump publicly blamed Republican losses on his absence from the ballot, despite repeatedly urging voters during the campaign to pretend he was running. NBC News
Democrat Amy Acton will defeat Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor, CNN and NBC project, with NBC publishing its call at 10:49 p.m. CNN · NBC News
Acton, a physician and former state health director, becomes Ohio’s first woman elected governor and its first Democratic gubernatorial winner since 2006, succeeding term-limited Republican Mike DeWine. CNN
CNN highlights her affordability campaign and a controversial Ramaswamy attack advertisement featuring her estranged mother, which drew criticism from some Republicans during the campaign’s closing weeks. CNN
A senior Republican strategist involved in midterm strategy blamed President Trump for the party’s poor performance, while another senior GOP official described the results as a “bloodbath,” CBS News reports. CBS News
Rep. Ralph Norman, who lost South Carolina’s Republican Senate primary to Darline Graham, criticized Trump’s intervention after Graham’s projected defeat, telling NBC that voters had rejected a candidate the president pushed. NBC News
The White House offered a different explanation: an official emphasized candidate quality and argued Trump had done more to promote some candidates than they had done themselves, MS NOW reports. MS NOW
Our latest audio round-up: Democrats’ growing House majority, with new pickups in Virginia and Pennsylvania, the state of the Senate race, Tom Cotton’s win in Arkansas, and the latest Senate and House counts.
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Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, posted “LAWYER UP” after projections that Democrats will regain the House, MS NOW reported at 10:27 p.m. MS NOW
CNN also highlights Garcia’s response, reporting that he is expected to pursue investigations into President Trump, his family and the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. CNN
MS NOW reports Garcia is on track to chair the committee and has promised investigations into alleged Trump corruption and the Epstein files if he gets the gavel. MS NOW
NBC projected at 10:15 p.m. that Democrat Janelle Stelson will defeat Republican Rep. Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th District, adding another Democratic pickup. NBC News
At 10:18 p.m., NBC also projected Democrat Bob Brooks will unseat Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in the state’s 7th District, matching CNN’s projection in a post updated at 10:11 p.m. NBC News · CNN
Brooks, a firefighters’ union president recruited by Gov. Josh Shapiro, returns the Lehigh Valley seat to Democratic control after Mackenzie flipped it in 2024, according to CNN. CNN
Our audio round-up of the night so far: Democrats projected to retake the House, Annie Andrews’ projected Senate win in South Carolina, Keisha Lance Bottoms’ history-making victory in Georgia, and the latest Senate and House counts.
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MS NOW’s 9:59 p.m. liveblog entry projects Democrats will recapture the House majority, explicitly attributing the conclusion to an MS NOW estimate. MS NOW
That advances beyond its 9:30 p.m. assessment, which rated control as “leaning Democratic” and estimated Democrats would win at least 210 seats, below the 218 needed for a majority. MS NOW earlier assessment
CNN’s homepage, meanwhile, emphasizes four projected Democratic pickups in Republican-held House districts and leads in scores of other contests. CNN
The New York Times’ Nate Cohn reported at 9:40 p.m. that its estimates gave Democrats a greater than 95% chance of winning the Senate, while cautioning that a final call might not come for hours. The New York Times
The forecast identifies North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina and Ohio as Republican-held seats Democrats have either won or are likely to win. The New York Times
Separately, NBC rates Texas as leaning Democratic and CBS gives Kansas the same characterization; those entries express advantages without projecting individual winners. NBC News · CBS News
CNN projects Democrat Zach Dembo will flip Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, a Republican-held seat that President Trump carried by 15 points in 2024. CNN
CNN also projects Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti will defeat Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania’s 8th District, returning the seat to Democrats after Bresnahan won it in 2024. CNN
NBC’s 9:39 p.m. projection adds another Democratic pickup: Rebecca Bennett defeating Republican Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. in New Jersey’s 7th District. NBC News
The New York Times’ Nate Cohn reported at 9:27 p.m. that its estimates gave Democrat Annie Andrews a greater than 95% chance of defeating Republican Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina, explicitly stressing that this was not a winner projection. The New York Times
NBC’s Decision Desk classified the race as leaning Democratic at 9:26 p.m., a designation it says indicates at least 75% confidence in the outcome. NBC News
MS NOW’s latest South Carolina liveblog assessment remained its 9:04 p.m. description of the contest as “too close to call.” MS NOW
NBC projected at 9:04 p.m. that Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms will defeat Republican Rick Jackson for Georgia governor, flipping control of the office for the first time in 24 years. NBC News
The former Atlanta mayor will succeed term-limited Republican Brian Kemp and become Georgia’s first woman and first Black person elected governor, according to NBC’s reporting. NBC News
In neighboring Florida, NBC projected at 9:09 p.m. that Republican Byron Donalds will defeat Democrat David Jolly, keeping that governor’s office in Republican hands. NBC News
CNN’s Manu Raju reports that senior Republican sources fear early returns could point toward Democratic control of both the House and Senate. CNN
Two senior GOP sources told CNN they believe Democrats are on track to win Senate races in Ohio and Kansas, while Republicans also worry about South Carolina; these are sources’ assessments, not Decision Desk projections. CNN
Separately, MS NOW’s 8:57 p.m. estimate raised Democrats’ minimum expected House total to 205 seats, leaving Republicans at 160 and overall control characterized as “leaning Democratic.” MS NOW
CNN and NBC project that Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz will defeat Republican Scott Singer in Florida’s redrawn 25th Congressional District. CNN · NBC News
CNN also projects Democrat Pia Dandiya will defeat Republican Casey Askar in Florida’s 22nd District, overcoming boundaries drawn to make the seat more favorable to Republicans. CNN
Separately, MS NOW’s 8:05 p.m. assessment rates overall House control as “leans Democratic,” estimating Democrats will win at least 200 seats and Republicans at least 160; that characterization stops short of declaring a majority winner. MS NOW
MS NOW’s 7:42 p.m. liveblog characterized Georgia’s Senate race as “likely Democratic” for Jon Ossoff, but its published results feed still said “Too Early to Call” when we checked at 7:51 p.m. Eastern. MS NOW liveblog · MS NOW results feed
All The Calls tracks that published results feed, so MS NOW’s editorial characterizations may differ from the status displayed here. All The Calls Georgia tracker
CNN reports growing concern among Republican sources over early House returns, highlighting Democrat Darren Soto’s strong showing in a redrawn Florida district that President Trump carried by 17 points. CNN
Two GOP sources told CNN they saw no path to retaining the House if Soto holds his seat — a conditional assessment, rather than a projection of congressional control. CNN
NBC’s 7:35 p.m. analysis also highlighted Florida, reporting Democrat Angie Nixon three points ahead of Republican Ashley Moody in partial Senate returns, while emphasizing that considerable numbers of votes remained outstanding. NBC News
NBC News projected at 7:31 p.m. that Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff will defeat Republican Rep. Mike Collins, preserving a Democratic seat in a closely watched Senate battleground. NBC News
The projection goes beyond MS NOW’s 7:29 p.m. assessment, which classified Georgia as leaning Democratic based on early results, and CBS’s latest liveblog entry, which also described the contest as leaning Ossoff. MS NOW · CBS News
Those characterizations express an advantage without declaring a winner; NBC’s newer entry explicitly projects Ossoff’s victory. MS NOW · NBC News
MS NOW reports that Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said some precincts had temporarily run out of ballots, urging voters to remain in line while supplies were replenished. MS NOW
Separately, NBC reports that two first-time voters in Goose Creek, South Carolina, said they needed three attempts and about three-and-a-half hours to cast ballots after workers initially could not find their registrations. NBC News
One ultimately cast a regular ballot and the other a provisional ballot; county election officials had not responded to NBC’s requests for comment when its report appeared. NBC News
CBS News rates Georgia’s Senate contest as leaning toward Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff, while classifying South Carolina’s race between Republican Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews as a toss-up. CBS News
Meanwhile, Times analyst Nate Cohn cautions that initial returns could look strongly Democratic because many states report early votes first, with Election Day ballots following later. The New York Times
In Florida’s Osceola County, NBC’s Steve Kornacki reports substantial early-vote leads for Democrats David Jolly and Angie Nixon, while emphasizing that Election Day returns could change those margins. NBC News
Democrat Kelly Thompson’s early lead over Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman in Indiana’s 3rd District is attracting attention, with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes describing it in a 7:03 p.m. analysis as an early signal of voter dissatisfaction. MS NOW
CNN likewise reports stronger Democratic performances in initial returns from several Indiana counties, including Allen County in the 3rd District. CNN
But CNN cautions that these first batches likely consist of mail and early ballots, and that it remains too early to determine whether the Republican-leaning districts will ultimately be competitive. CNN
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner will defeat Republican Bert Mizusawa to win another term in Virginia, CNN and NBC News project, with NBC publishing its projection at 7:01 p.m. ET. CNN · NBC News
MS NOW also reports Warner’s re-election, keeping the seat in Democratic hands as the party seeks gains elsewhere to challenge Republican control of the Senate. MS NOW
The projections arrive as polls finish closing in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, with Georgia and South Carolina hosting battleground Senate contests. CBS News
South Carolina has recorded its largest number of ballots cast in a midterm election in the past 30 years, ABC News reports, citing the state Election Commission. ABC News
By 4:30 p.m. ET, 1,797,335 ballots had been cast, with more than half of the state’s voters participating, according to the commission. ABC News
The milestone concerns the number of ballots cast; the commission separately identified 54.6%, set in 2002, as the state’s midterm turnout-percentage record. ABC News
A bomb threat against a high school serving as a polling location in Gibraltar, Michigan, was determined to be unfounded, MS NOW reported, citing the Michigan secretary of state’s office. MS NOW
State police investigated, and an alternate polling location was established nearby with minimal interruption to voting, according to spokesperson Angela Benander. MS NOW
Benander said the threat had been cleared; Michigan State Police had not immediately responded to MS NOW’s questions when the outlet published its report. MS NOW
Three-quarters of voters disapprove of Congress’s job performance, according to newly released preliminary NBC News exit-poll findings, adding to the picture of an electorate dissatisfied with Washington. NBC News
CBS’s latest exit-poll reporting also finds roughly three-quarters of voters dissatisfied with the country’s direction, with voters backing Democrats particularly likely to express anger. CBS News
As initial results arrive, CNN analysts are watching Hamilton County in Indiana’s 5th District and Fayette County in Kentucky’s 6th, while cautioning that these early returns offer limited clues about the broader outcome. CNN
The voter-survey findings remain preliminary and may change as additional responses are processed; they describe voters’ attitudes rather than establish who has won a race. MS NOW
The first polls have closed in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, with Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia among the states following at 7 p.m. ET. Fox News
An initial batch of early votes in Indiana’s Hamilton County put Democrat J.D. Ford ahead of Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz, but NBC’s Steve Kornacki cautioned that Election Day ballots could shift the picture in the closely watched 5th District. NBC News
Preliminary surveys show widespread economic frustration: roughly three-quarters of House voters rated the economy negatively, while about eight in 10 said inflation had caused financial hardship. ABC News
CNN’s preliminary Voter Poll found 71% saying Congress was doing too little to check President Trump, while CBS reported his approval at 38% in early exit polling. CNN · CBS News
These survey findings remain preliminary and describe voters’ views rather than race outcomes. MS NOW
North Carolina’s first results are expected around 8:15 p.m. ET after voting hours were extended at five precincts, while final outcomes in close races could take days or longer. ABC News · The New York Times
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