It's election night and polls on the East Coast are starting to close, meaning results will start coming in shortly. Like this thread to follow along for updates on big race calls from every state. #Election2020hill.cm/wTNrvec
Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) easily defeated Laura Loomer, a far-right provocateur and activist, in a Palm Beach-area district that includes President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is projected to win his seventh term, defeating Democratic nominee Amy McGrath. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Democratic Sen. Jack Reed has won reelection to return to the Senate for a fifth term. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is projected to serve another term in the Senate after winning reelection against Republican challenger Rik Mehta. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is projected to win reelection against his Republican challenger Lauren Witzke. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw is projected to win reelection to represent Texas’s 2nd District for another term in the House of Representatives. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin is projected to win reelection to his seat in Illinois. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed support for the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, won her race to fill the seat representing Georgia’s 14th Congressional District thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Democrat Sarah McBride is projected to win a seat in the Delaware state Senate, making her the first out trans state senator in the US. thehill.com/homenews/state…
Republican Sen. John Cornyn is projected to have beaten back a competitive challenge from Democrat MJ Hegar in Texas, retaining the Senate seat he’s held since 2002. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Former Auburn football coach Tommy Tuberville defeated Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, flipping the Alabama seat back into GOP hands. thehill.com/homenews/senat…
Miami-Dade County GOP Mayor Carlos Gimenez beat incumbent Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in an acrimonious race for a key battleground district. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley becomes latest "Squad" member to glide to second term thehill.com/homenews/house…
Trump allies mock supporters of Democratic Party in their first tweets as victors thehill.com/homenews/campa…
The constitutional amendment will allow the possession, sale and use of cannabis for Garden State residents 21 and over. thehill.com/homenews/state…
Democrats are projected to maintain their House majority in Tuesday's elections as backlash against President Trump fueled a further expansion of the party's gains in suburban and metropolitan areas. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Louisiana voters have passed an amendment stating that the state constitution does not protect the right to an abortion or the funding of an abortion. thehill.com/policy/healthc…
Mississippi approves new design for state flag, which had been the last in the country to feature an image of the Confederate battle flag thehill.com/homenews/state…
Under the initiative, Arizonans will be permitted to grow up to six cannabis plants and possess as much as an ounce of marijuana. The measure will also allow those previously convicted of marijuana crimes to request their records to be expunged. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Florida voters approve ballot initiative to raise state’s minimum wage to $15 over next six years thehill.com/homenews/state…
Democrat Ben Ray Luján wins open Senate seat in New Mexico, making him the first Hispanic to represent the state in the upper chamber since 1977 thehill.com/homenews/campa…
The outcome of the presidential race will likely once again hinge on the former “blue wall” states that Trump turned red for the first time in decades in 2016. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
The outcome in Florida is among the most – if not the most – crucial for Trump, who had staked his reelection hopes in no small part on recreating his 2016 win in a state notorious for its unpredictable and closely decided elections. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Biden is projected to win Minnesota, holding onto a key blue state Trump was bullish on flipping thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Trump defeats Biden in Texas, fending off efforts by Democrats to turn the state blue this election cycle thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas fends off challenge from ex-Trump official in New Hampshire thehill.com/homenews/house…
The district last voted for a Democrat in 2008, when then-Sen. Barack Obama carried it by a single point before losing it by 7 points in 2012 to Mitt Romney. Trump won the seat by 2 points over Hillary Clinton in 2016. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson lost reelection after serving nearly 30 years in the House representing a district that President Trump had carried by double digits in 2016. thehill.com/homenews/house…
South Carolina state Rep. Nancy Mace defeats incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham, flipping seat red thehill.com/homenews/house…
GOP Sen. Steve Daines fends off challenge from Democrat Steve Bullock to win second Montana Senate term thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Republican Matt Rosendale is projected as the winner of Montana's at-large House seat, defeating Democratic candidate Kathleen Williams. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Republican Tony Gonzales was elected on Tuesday to succeed retiring Texas GOP Rep. Will Hurd in a district that Democrats invested heavily to flip. thehill.com/homenews/house…
"Squad" member Rashida Tlaib wins reelection in Michigan hill.cm/nHL2oOz
Republican Bill Hagerty wins Tennessee Senate race, to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander. hill.cm/ZnMDo8q
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) won his tenth term to Congress, holding off a challenge from Democratic candidate Donna Imam. hill.cm/TEveKbd
State Sen. Kai Kahele (D) won the election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by outgoing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). hill.cm/5a3a3DK
Longtime Rep. Fred Upton (R) won reelection Tuesday for his 18th consecutive term in Michigan's 6th district, defeating Democratic challenger State Rep. Jon Hoadley. hill.cm/Lz91ZBE
Rep. Greg Gianforte (R) has won Montana’s gubernatorial race, bringing an end to a 16-year Democratic streak in the governor’s mansion. hill.cm/AwPxKzk
New Mexico becomes first state to elect all women of color to House delegation hill.cm/1OKkvtD
Vermont's GOP governor wins reelection after revealing that he voted for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. hill.cm/Kubx5Kg
Kansas voters elected Stephanie Byers (D) to its state legislature, making her the first transgender person of color elected to a state legislature, as well as the first transgender legislator across the Midwest. hill.cm/mcMQ6c1
Voters in North Dakota on Tuesday elected the late David Andahl (R) as a state representative in House District 8. Andahl died from COVID-19 in October at the age of 55. hill.cm/4faip1q
Kim Jackson, who is openly lesbian, was elected to represent heavily Democratic District 41 in the Georgia State Senate, making her the first openly gay Senator in the state. hill.cm/ZyW0HBA
South Dakota and Montana join Arizona and New Jersey in voting to legalization of recreational marijuana use. hill.cm/q5VUvYD
Republican Mike Kelly wins sixth House term in Pennsylvania hill.cm/FdJyfiV
Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert, who has expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, is projected to win the House race in the state's 3rd congressional district. hill.cm/TmBtXwn
Oregon has become the first state in the country to legalize psilocybin, or psychedelic mushrooms, with the passage of a state ballot measure Tuesday. hill.cm/QmDGbI5
California votes to return voting rights to felons on parole hill.cm/HxWjH0N
Republican Ashley Hinson defeated Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-Iowa) on Tuesday, flipping back a previously GOP-held seat that Democrats had won in 2018. hill.cm/ddYOi6m
Marilyn Strickland will be the first African American to represent Washington state in Congress hill.cm/Cl8XAil
Rep. Elaine Luria holds onto Virginia House seat hill.cm/kEyjbW5
Democratic Rep. Ron Kind fends off challenge in Wisconsin to secure a 13th term in Congress hill.cm/GllCjPs
Voters in Utah and Nebraska approved measures Tuesday stripping references to slavery from their state constitutions hill.cm/5S2wAHg
Collins says Gideon called to concede Maine Senate race hill.cm/XRRa2a4
Portland votes to create community-run police oversight board hill.cm/cwqZW1Q
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is projected to defeat Republican challenger Paul Junge to win a second term representing Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the House. hill.cm/j3Tu21P
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the most votes out of any candidate in history, with the former vice president notching over 70 million votes nationwide as of Wednesday afternoon. hill.cm/mMLr2qk
Trump wins electoral vote in Maine's 2nd Congressional District hill.cm/df0LqkL
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is projected to win the critical swing state of Wisconsin, claiming its 10 electoral votes. hill.cm/MBpM4to
Biden says "every vote must be counted" as Trump campaign challenges vote tallies hill.cm/geOPRLm
"Stop the count" protesters push toward door of Detroit ballot counting place hill.cm/nq7JVrS
Democratic Sen. Gary Peters has fended off a Republican challenge in Michigan’s Senate race to win a second term. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Indiana state Sen. Victoria Spartz is projected to win the race for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, defeating Democratic candidate Christina Hale. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Colorado passes resolution to award electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote thehill.com/homenews/state…
Freshman GOP Rep. Jim Hagedorn is projected to win a second term in office, defeating his 2018 opponent yet again to retain his seat for Minnesota’s 1st district. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Michelle Davis-Younger is the first African American, woman and Democrat to be elected Manassas mayor thehill.com/homenews/state…
Mauree Turner was elected to the Oklahoma state legislature on Tuesday, making history as the first openly nonbinary state lawmaker in the nation thehill.com/homenews/state…
Democratic Rep. Angie Craig retained her House seat representing Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District after her Republican challenger requested a delay in the race following a third-party candidate’s death. thehill.com/homenews/house…
Jackie Johnson, the Georgia district attorney who was criticized for her handling of the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, has lost her reelection bid to challenger Keith Higgins. thehill.com/homenews/state…
Dem Rep. Cartwright fends off House challenge from ex-Trump official in Pennsylvania thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Rep. Jeff Van Drew is projected to win reelection for a second term representing a swing district after switching from the Democratic Party to the GOP last year over President Trump’s impeachment. thehill.com/homenews/campa…
Democrats are second-guessing the decision to put Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman on the debate stage after a stumbling performance that put the spotlight on his condition after a stroke while playing to Republican Mehmet Oz’s strengths. 🧵 1/ thehill.com/homenews/campa…
The state lieutenant governor’s auditory processing problems resulting from the stroke proved to be a major part of the debate just two weeks before Election Day. Fetterman had a number of awkward pauses and stumbles that are sure to be seized upon by the GOP. 2/👉
A Democratic strategist spoke to The Hill about the issues Fetterman may face due to his health problems that came to light during the debate. 3/👉
.@libradunn was thrown into the spotlight in the weeks following the January 6 Attack on the Capitol. He told @CheyannaMarie97 he was there for one reason: to hear the truth.🧵⬇️
The Capitol Police officer’s testimony before Congress detailed the horrors he faced on Jan. 6, 2021, from facing down the mob’s deluge of racial hatred to wondering if he’d make it home alive that night.
“I wasn’t a big follower of politics,” Dunn said. “I didn’t know what the certification of an election was and all that stuff when I first started. As I got older and went along in making this my career, I started learning more.”
As the U.S. marks one year since pulling out of Afghanistan, Afghan women detail the perilous conditions they endure under Taliban rule with little help from Western countries, @Sarakshi reports. 🧵⬇️trib.al/ZtX9cJA
One woman told The Hill she was in hiding due to her previous work with the U.S. government.
“The Taliban came to my father and told him they knew his daughter was working with U.S. ‘spies’. [They] don’t like women working with U.S. projects,” Fatima said. 2/➡️
Women in Afghanistan feel abandoned by Western countries as the Taliban has stripped away their rights to education, walk freely or go to work. 3/➡️
House Republicans are not only forecast to win control of the lower chamber in November’s midterm elections, they’re also poised to bring with them a roster of new Trump loyalists. @emilybrooksnews and @RealMikeLillis report.🧵⬇️ thehill.com/homenews/house…
A number of Trump loyalists have bumped off more moderate Republicans in the summer primaries — a list that grew longer this week with conservative victories in Florida and New York — while a number of other centrists are stepping into retirement. 2/ ➡️
The combination foreshadows a power shift in the House GOP that has the potential to complicate any bipartisan compromise with President Biden, while creating headaches for Republican leaders who will face pressure to demonstrate their governing chops in a new majority. 3/ ➡️
The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history. @TheHill's new series - DRIED UP - kicks off with a piece on Lakes Mead and Powell, which are at the epicenter of the biggest Western drought in history, @BudrykZack reports. 🧵 thehill.com/policy/energy-…
Nowhere is the Southwest’s worst drought since the year 800 more evident than Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the pair of artificial Colorado River reservoirs whose plunging levels threaten major water and power sources for tens of millions of people. 2/
Lake Mead is projected to get down to 22 percent of its full capacity by year’s end, while Lake Powell is expected to drop to 27 percent, according to estimations from the federal Bureau of Reclamation. Both now sit at record lows. 3/
The Department of Defense announced that U.S. forces had carried out a "successful" counterterrorism mission last night in northwest Syria. thehill.com/policy/defense…
The operation targeted Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who died at the start of the operation by blowing up himself and members of his family with a bomb.
Biden called al-Qurayshi’s move “an act of desperate cowardice.”