An election worker processes a ballot at the Clark County Election Department on Nov. 9, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP)United States (US) Midterm Elections 2022 Results Live Updates, November 10, 2022: Following the US midterm elections, the Republican party Thursday remained close to winning enough seats to gain a majority in the House, but the control of the Senate remained up for grabs. Either party could secure a Senate majority with wins in both Nevada and Arizona — where the races were too early to call.
President Joe Biden said there was a strong possibility that the Senate majority could come down to a runoff in Georgia next month. Biden, in his first public comments since voting ended, said that the Democrats had a “strong night” and expressed willingness to work with his Republican colleagues. “While the press and the pundits were predicting a giant red wave, it didn’t happen,” Biden said.
In Maryland, Indian-American Aruna Miller made history by becoming the first immigrant to win the lieutenant governor’s office. Other key winners include Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Progressive members of the Democratic party Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Corey Bush, dubbed ‘The Squad’ were all re-elected from their seats.
President Joe Biden waves with Vice President Kamala Harris at the Pennsylvania Democratic Party's 3rd Annual Independence Dinner in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Price increases moderated in the United States last month in the latest sign that the inflation pressures that have gripped the nation might be easing as the economy slows and consumers grow more cautious.
Consumer inflation reached 7.7% in October from a year earlier and 0.4% from September, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The year-over-year gain was the smallest since January. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, “core” inflation rose 6.3% in the past 12 months and 0.3% from September. Read more
The fierce race between Georgia’s Democratic incumbent senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker moved to a runoff. Warnock is narrowly leading Walker, but neither candidate will be able to clear the 50% threshold needed to win outright after the polls closed on Tuesday and avoid a 6 December runoff.
In Nevada as of midday on Wednesday, with about 77% of the votes counted, Democratic incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto was trailing her Republican rival Adam Laxalt, 47.2% to 49.9%. Both candidates have urged patience as residents wait to hear the outcome of the race and several other close elections, which could take days.
Arizona’s Democratic incumbent Mark Kelly was ahead of his Republican challenger, Blake Masters, 51.4% to 46.4%, with 45% of the vote counted.
Democratic lawmakers at the UN climate summit in Egypt expressed concern on Thursday that Republican gains in the midterm Congressional elections could spell trouble for America's efforts to fight climate change.
The administration of Democrat U.S. President Joe Biden is hoping the United States, the world's second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter behind China, can be a world leader in slashing emissions but has faced political opposition from Republicans who argue his environmental policies are unwarranted.
Kathy Castor, the Chair of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, told an audience at the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Thursday that if Republicans take control of the Congress it could reduce the chances for additional legislative action to fight global warming. "It's quite likely if for some reason the GOP ekes out control of the House of Representatives, they will nix the Climate Committee," she said during a panel discussion. "They have not really been partners in tackling the climate crisis." (Reuters)
Indian shares fell on Thursday, dragged by auto and metal companies, as investors braced for crucial U.S. inflation data that will provide clues about the severity of the Federal Reserve's future interest rate hikes.
The NSE Nifty 50 index closed down 0.71% to 18,028, while the S&P BSE Sensex fell 0.69% to 60,613.70.
The U.S. consumer price index (CPI) data for October is due at 1330 GMT, with economists polled by Reuters forecasting a decline in both monthly and yearly core numbers to 0.5% and 6.5%, respectively.
"Markets have been rising, gearing up for a less aggressive rate hike from the Fed. But with a fractured U.S midterm election verdict and the inflation data due, we are seeing some corrections with markets getting ready for some surprises," said Anand James, Chief Market Strategist at Geojit Financial Services. (Reuters)
The dollar inched higher ahead of U.S. inflation data due later on Thursday, while cryptocurrencies remained under pressure after crypto exchange Binance scrapped plans to rescue its ailing rival FTX.
The greenback surged on Wednesday against its peers but later pared some of those gains, with investors also digesting the U.S. midterm election results. The dollar index, which tracks the currency against major peers, was last up 0.11% to 110.48.
All eyes were on U.S. inflation figures due later on Thursday, which could have a big impact on the scale of the U.S. Federal Reserve's future interest rate hikes. Economists polled by Reuters expect the headline consumer price index to show an 8% year-on-year rise in October, down from 8.2% in September. (Reuters)
On the morning of Election Day, Charlie Kirk, the conservative talk show host from Arizona, shared a video on Twitter about broken voting machines in Maricopa County, followed by a series of posts suggesting that the problems were intentional.
“This is manufactured chaos,” he wrote, calling for those responsible to be arrested.
The video was shared nearly 20,000 times and liked by more than 30,000 users, including many prominent accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers. The post and others like it on a dozen online platforms kindled a false narrative of widespread voting shenanigans among those predisposed to believe that the country’s elections are rigged. And yet as Election Day unfolded, that narrative’s momentum seemed to wane.
It was supposed to be a red wave that former President Donald Trump could triumphantly ride to the Republican nomination as he prepares to launch another White House run. Instead, Tuesday night’s disappointing results for the GOP are raising new questions about Trump's appeal and the future of a party that has fully embraced him, seemingly at its peril, while at the same time giving new momentum to his most potent potential rival.
Indeed, some allies were calling on Trump to delay his planned announcement next week, saying the party's full focus needs to be on Georgia, where Trump-backed football great Herschel Walker's effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock is headed to a runoff that could determine control of the Senate once again.
“I’ll be advising him that he move his announcement until after the Georgia runoff,” said former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who spent the night with the former president at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “Georgia needs to be the focus of every Republican in the country right now," he said. (AP)
Gov. Ron DeSantis steadfastly focused his reelection campaign on President Joe Biden rather than on his Democratic opponent in Florida. But DeSantis’ runaway victory Tuesday, while crushing to Democrats, felt more like a win over a different rival: former President Donald Trump.
While candidates endorsed or hand-picked by Trump stumbled nationally, DeSantis routed former Rep. Charlie Crist by 19 percentage points, an astonishing result that Republicans in the state were still marvelling over Wednesday.
The party’s smashing success in Florida — among its brightest spots in a national midterm election with decidedly mixed outcomes — was a result of its relentless voter registration and turnout efforts there, DeSantis’ commanding campaign and Democrats’ utter collapse in a state in which they failed to effectively compete at all, leaving it to turn solidly red.
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Democratic Governor Laura Kelly has won reelection in the state of Kansas, defeating Republican Derek Schmidt, the state's three-term attorney general.
"The people of Kansas sent a very clear message at the polls yesterday," Kelly said in a statement. "Kansans said we will keep moving forward as a state, full steam ahead — there will be no turning backward.''
"Perhaps above all, I believe Kansans voted today for civility, for cooperation, for listening to one another, and for a spirit of bi-partisan problem-solving, that's become all too rare in our politics today," she said.
Kelly's victory signals a bitter blow for Republicans, who had sought to tie her to President Joe Biden and soaring prices. During the campaign, Kelly pointed to improved finances and greater spending on public schools in the state under her leadership. (DW)
Control of the 100-seat Senate has come down to three key races that are still on a knife-edge. Here's a roundup:
1. In Georgia, the battleground state with the largest Black population, Democrat incumbent Raphael Warnock is a pastor at Atlanta's famous Ebenezer Baptist Church where Martin Luther King preached. His opponent, Herschel Walker, was an American football player and a member of the 1992 US Olympic bobsleigh team; he was tapped to enter the political arena by former President Donald Trump. If neither candidate secures a majority, the race will head to a runoff on December 6.
2. In Arizona, Democrat incumbent and retired astronaut Mark Kelly is facing a challenge from Blake Masters, a young, Trump-backed protege of German-American billionaire and key Republican donor Peter Thiel. Opinion polls gave Kelly a slight edge, but the state tends to be closely contested.
3. In Nevada, America's first Latina Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is facing a tough re-election battle against Adam Laxalt, formerly a state attorney general. Polls were neck and neck in the build-up to voting. Both Arizona and Nevada conduct elections in part by mail ballots, which means the results in those states may not be known for days. (DW)
American voters elected a record number of women governors, a position that has some of the lowest female representation in US politics.
Twelve women will hold the highest state executive office after Tuesday’s midterm elections, with Democratic stronghold Massachusetts and Republican-controlled Arkansas picking their first female governors. Women have already won ten races, while Arizona and Oregon, which were too close to call, have female candidates leading.
The tally rose Wednesday after Kansas Democratic Governor Laura Kelly defeated her Republican challenger, Derek Schmidt.
Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock will face Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a second round of voting in Georgia after both failed to secure a majority.
The final outcome in the runoff — scheduled for December 6 — could determine whether the Republicans or Democrats control the upper chamber of Congress.
Warnock, a 53-year-old Black pastor at a historic church, is seeking a full term after winning the seat in a runoff in January 2021. That win helped secure the Democrat's control of the Senate for the first two years of President Joe Biden’s term.
Walker, 60, is a former American football star backed by Donald Trump. His campaign was dogged by allegations of past domestic abuse and reports that he paid for the abortions of former girlfriends. (DW)
For months, the midterm elections appeared to be a clash over rising prices, public safety worries and fears of a looming recession.
But another driving issue proved almost as powerful for voters: abortion rights.
In the first major election since the Supreme Court overturned the case that ensured a federal right to an abortion for nearly half a century, abortion rights broke through, lifting Democrats to victory in Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan and New Mexico.
Former President Donald Trump continues to be an influential figure among the Republicans, and according to calculations by The Washington Post, 291 of the 569 party’s candidates have questioned or refuted Biden’s 2020 presidential victory. While a number of election deniers have, or are on track to win, Democratic Party candidates were able to fend off Trump-backed nominees in Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Hampshire.
In Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock held a small lead over Trump-backed Republican nominee Herschel Walker on Wednesday, however since he did not pass the 50 per cent mark, two will face each other in a run-off.
US President Joe Biden vowed to work with Republicans and said he understood voters are frustrated despite Democrats' surprisingly competitive campaign.
"The American people have made clear, I think, that they expect Republicans to be prepared to work with me as well," Biden said. He also reiterated his intention to run for re-election in 2024 and said he would make a final decision early next year.
The races in three key states — Arizona, Nevada and Georgia — will ultimately decide which party controls the Senate. It is still too early to call Arizona and Nevada, while Georgia is set for a runoff vote next month.
Meanwhile, Republicans appear on track to seize power in the 435-seat House of Representatives, albeit with lower numbers than forecasts had suggested. (DW)
Former President Donald Trump was not a candidate in these elections. But he cast a long shadow over them. As expected, he has already tried to take credit for the Republican victory. But a few of the high-profile unconventional candidates that he hand-picked have lost, which will undoubtedly weaken his position as undisputed leader of the Republican Party.
An analysis by CBS News found that more than half of the Republican contestants in the mid-term elections (308 of the 597 Republican candidates for congressional and state-wide offices) are “election deniers”. In other words, they publicly deny or question the 2020 presidential election results. They either believe or go along with the “big lie”: Trump’s absurd claim that the 2020 election — only the presidential election and not the elections to other offices held that day — was rigged.
The widely anticipated “red wave” in the United States midterm elections — in which Republicans would comprehensively win the House and probably also wrest control of the Senate — appeared to have turned into a “red ripple” by late evening (in India) on Wednesday. As counting progressed, it seemed Democrats had a slightly better chance of holding on to the Senate, while Republicans were favoured to win control of the House by a smaller-than-expected margin.
While the midterms have traditionally been tough for the party in the White House — in 2006, when George W Bush was President, Democrats won both chambers; in 2010 (Obama) Republicans took back the House and in 2014 flipped the Senate as well; in 2018 (Trump), Democrats reclaimed the House — the state of the US economy was expected to hurt President Joe Biden and the Democrats particularly hard in 2022.
The massive ‘red wave’ that Republicans and analysts had predicted would splash across the US — in light of high inflation rates and President Biden’s low approval rating — came as a whimper rather than a bang. Conceding that his party’s results by Tuesday night were not up to mark, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC, “Definitely not a Republican wave, that’s for darn sure.”
While the Republican Party is still likely to take over the House of Representatives (lower chamber), the Democrats put up a strong defence. Early results and predictions have shown that they outperformed expectations and won in a number of states, such as Pennsylvania, where Democrat John Fettermen defeated Republican candidate Mehmet Oz. Anger among the electorate over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the nationwide right to abortion helped the Democrats curb their losses, the Associate Press reported.
A Republican will hold Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat following the state's ranked choice election, with Donald Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibaka and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a fellow Republican, leading in early returns.
A candidate can win outright with more than 50% of the vote in the first round. If no one hits that threshold, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Voters who chose that candidate as their top pick have their votes count for their next choice.Rounds continue until two candidates remain, and whoever has the most votes wins. (AP)