Live updates: Election results and balance of power in Congress - CNN

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks astatine a run rally successful East Lansing successful October. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel volition beryllium reelected, CNN projects, and decision Republican Matthew DePerno. 

DePerno was a person successful the efforts to situation Michigan’s 2020 predetermination results, including by filing a suit claiming ballot fraud successful Antrim County. While the suit failed and DePerno’s theories astir Dominion voting machines person been thoroughly debunked, helium pledges to “prosecute the radical who corrupted the 2020 election.” 

Exit polls are reported connected a surface astatine an predetermination nighttime lawsuit for Raphael Warnock successful Atlanta connected Tuesday. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Four Senate races indispensable inactive beryllium called, but lone 1 offers a accidental of a rematch: Georgia.

As time breaks the greeting aft the election, the campaigns of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are starting to hole for 1 much period of campaigning – not waiting for a runoff to beryllium formally called by authorities predetermination officials.

Both candidates are expected to talk aboriginal today, aides say, with circumstantial plans inactive successful flux.

Top officials from the Democratic and Republican parties besides archer CNN they mean to treble down connected their important investments successful Georgia, with an expanding presumption that power of the Senate could hinge connected the result of a apt Dec. 6 runoff.

While Warnock holds a constrictive borderline implicit Walker of astir 18,000 votes – retired of much than 4 cardinal ballots formed – Republican officials are alarmed by different tally from predetermination night: Walker’s underperformance compared to Gov. Brian Kemp. 

In his reelection victory, Kemp performed acold stronger than Walker successful suburban areas, earning astir 163,000 much votes than Walker.

Georgia predetermination authoritative Gabriel Sterling told CNN that the state’s caput of authorities bureau began making preparations past nighttime for a runoff successful the US Senate race. Preparations see gathering ballots and pushing proofs to counties starting Monday.

So far, neither campaigner has reached the 50 percent needed to debar a runoff, which makes a runoff a precise existent possibility.

An predetermination idiosyncratic moves a rolling support astatine the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center successful Phoenix, Arizona, connected Tuesday. (Jon Cherry/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

There are astatine astir 300,000 ballots near to beryllium counted successful Maricopa County, Board of Supervisors Bill Gates told "CNN This Morning" connected Wednesday.

Approximately 17,000 ballots from Election Day, not including mail-in ballots, person yet to beryllium counted, Gates said. Those ballots comprise astir 7% of ballots that went into “Box 3,” meaning “they were not tally done the tabulator determination astatine the ballot center, but they are unafraid and they volition beryllium tabulated successful our cardinal number facility,” Gates said.

In addition, determination are 90,000 mail-in ballots that were received aft Friday but earlier Tuesday that person not been counted, and astir 200,000 mail-in ballots received Tuesday that besides person yet to beryllium counted, Gates told CNN This Morning. 

He noted that they bash not person a precise number of however galore message successful ballots were received Tuesday, but said the astir 200,000 “all came successful precocious past night.”

Gates stressed that voters successful Maricopa County “should not beryllium concerned” astir their votes being counted aft a technical issue, telling CNN that the bottommost enactment is that “everyone who showed up yesterday with a valid ID…they had the accidental to ballot a ballot and that ballot is going to count.”

The prima illuminates the US Capitol connected November 8. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)

Election Day is over but galore of the cardinal races of this predetermination rhythm stay uncalled.

Gubernatorial races successful Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Nevada and Oregon person yet to beryllium called. And arsenic the state begins to look towards 2024, the absorption of aboriginal elections successful 3 cardinal states remains unclear, with the races for Secretary of State successful Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin ongoing.  

When it comes to Congress, power of some the House and Senate is inactive up for grabs.

In the Senate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's triumph successful Pennsylvania, flipping a GOP seat, gave Democrats a suspiration of alleviation arsenic they await results from Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and Georgia. Republicans request to triumph 3 of those 4 to assertion a majority.

The signifier of the House, too, remains uncertain.

Here are the remaining races, whose outcomes volition find which enactment controls the chambers:

SENATE

HOUSE

Maxwell Alejandro Frost speaks arsenic helium celebrates with supporters during a triumph enactment astatine The Abbey successful Orlando, Florida, connected Tuesday, November 8. Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/AP

The archetypal subordinate of Gen Z who is heading to Congress, 25-year-old Florida Representative-elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost, said that helium and President Joe Biden bonded connected a telephone astir the president besides archetypal being elected astatine a young age.

Frost has received calls from Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi aft his projected triumph successful Florida's 10th District.

He and Biden discussed however the president was elected to the Senate erstwhile helium was 29 years aged and however had to hold until aft his 30th day to beryllium sworn in.

Generation Z refers to those calved aft 1996. Frost will succeed Democrat Val Demings, who vacated the spot to tally for Senate.

Frost said erstwhile organizers successful Orlando archetypal approached him astir moving past year, his archetypal absorption was "no," but helium told CNN that a telephone to his biologic parent changed that.

"I was astatine a crossroads. ... Hearing that she had maine at the astir susceptible constituent successful her life truly reaffirmed what I judge successful and wherefore I ran for Congress," helium said.

Frost said helium wants to propulsion for weapon unit legislation, including cosmopolitan inheritance checks.

When asked astir Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis winning a resounding reelection victory, Frost said, "What we saw was not a reddish wave. ... What we saw is determination was a blue deficit. Democrats did not crook retired the way they needed to. And I deliberation arsenic Democrats, we request to have year-round organizing."

Watch present for more:

John Fetterman addresses supporters astatine his predetermination nighttime enactment successful Pittsburgh connected Tuesday. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

President Biden and his advisers are successful a peculiarly bully temper astir 1 campaigner who scored a large triumph overnight: John Fetterman. 

The Pennsylvania lieutenant politician was successful 1 of the astir intimately watched Senate races of the cycle, and yet defeated personage doc Mehmet Oz. Biden texted Fetterman to congratulate him, and a White House authoritative adjacent made a uncommon remark connected this circumstantial win: “The president had a large clip with the senator-elect connected Saturday,” a White House authoritative told CNN overnight.

That remark served arsenic a reminder, of course, that the president had campaigned alongside Fetterman successful Pennsylvania successful the last agelong of the midterms. That determination had stood retired due to the fact that towards the precise end, Biden was sticking to safer, bluish states specified arsenic New York, Maryland and California.

In the end, 1 of the astir important Senate contention results of the predetermination was Democrats picking up a Senate spot successful Pennsylvania wherever some Biden and erstwhile President Barack Obama went each retired successful the extremity – efforts that yet could person made a quality successful Fetterman’s favor.

In the last agelong of the midterms, President Biden and his White House were starting to beryllium connected the receiving extremity of a full batch of disapproval that went thing similar this: Why wasn’t the president focusing solely connected the system erstwhile it is the top, overwhelming contented for astir voters?

That disapproval took purpose astatine the information that Biden and his advisers were choosing to walk a bully magnitude of effort and clip successful the last agelong discussing termination rights and issues related to protecting ideology and predetermination integrity. This included a large evening code by the president past week successful Washington, DC, successful the aftermath of a convulsive onslaught against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. 

The greeting aft the election, Biden advisers accidental they consciousness adjacent much vindicated connected their messaging decisions – pointing to assorted exit polls that bespeak yes, the system was a immense motivator for voters – but truthful were different issues specified arsenic termination and protecting democracy.

Even arsenic they hold to larn what the equilibrium of Congress volition yet be, Biden advisers accidental immoderate of the astir important agleam spots astir the state that they’ve isolated are ballot initiatives aimed astatine protecting termination rights. 

As immoderate cardinal races stay uncalled arsenic of Wednesday morning, here's a look astatine the states and districts that CNN projected for Democrats oregon Republicans implicit the people of predetermination night.

In the Senate:

And successful the House:

Herschel Walker speaks to supporters during an predetermination nighttime lawsuit successful Atlanta connected Tuesday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Georgia's Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan lamented connected Wednesday that the GOP Senate campaigner successful Georgia was Herschel Walker.

"I deliberation a batch of Republicans similar maine are waking up this greeting going 'what could person been if we picked a amended campaigner that could person won with a borderline similar Brian Kemp that would person been capable to enactment existent enactment connected display, existent ideas connected display, triumph the hearts and minds of Georgians, and get the authorities backmost to afloat red?'" helium told CNN.

Duncan has been a professional of Trump for immoderate clip now, urging Republican leaders and voters to determination connected from the erstwhile president.

"I deliberation Donald Trump's moving from a question to a distraction for the Republican Party now," Duncan told CNN Wednesday.

Watch present for more: