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

US Rep. Jahana Hayes speaks to supporters astatine her predetermination nighttime lawsuit successful Waterbury, Connecticut. (Jessica Hill/AP)

Incumbent Democratic Rep. Jahana Hayes volition triumph successful Connecticut's 5th District, CNN projects, and decision Republican George Logan.  

This is simply a Democratic hold.

Here's wherever things basal successful the House:

John Fetterman waves arsenic helium arrives connected signifier astatine his predetermination nighttime ticker enactment successful Pittsburgh. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

Democrat John Fetterman's triumph implicit Trump-backed Republican Mehmet Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon turned TV doctor, was the culmination of his ain governmental journey, from big, brash tiny municipality politician successful Western Pennsylvania to the cusp of rank successful 1 of the country's astir traditionally genteel governmental institutions. 

In the primary, Fetterman, without a patron oregon validator, delivered a resounding triumph by winning each 67 counties, often by overwhelming margins what ended up being a four-candidate race. He adjacent came distant connected apical successful Philadelphia, with astir 37% of the vote. Fetterman besides swept the collar counties astir the city, which would go a cardinal absorption for him and his hostile successful the fall, prevailing successful each by an mean of astir 25 percent points.

But his triumph was tempered aft helium revealed successful a connection that helium had suffered a stroke. The pursuing 2 months — which Fetterman spent overmuch of astatine location recuperating — ended up being the astir captious play of the Democrat's campaign. Unable to bash in-person events, the run leaned into a hyperactive societal media presence, each directed astatine defining Oz arsenic an out-of-state elitist by utilizing a premix of memes, pithy tweets and, astatine times, the assistance of celebrated celebrities.

The occurrence of the messaging adjacent amazed Fetterman's apical aides. The stickiness of the attacks besides struck Republicans.

The contention grew much competitory aft Labor Day, arsenic much voters tuned successful to the contention and tens of millions of dollars from extracurricular groups similar the GOP's Senate Leadership Fund and others led to ads blanketing the airwaves. Questions astir Fetterman's heath dominated sum of the campaign.

In a statement with Oz, Fetterman struggled arsenic galore expected. But the Fetterman run moved rapidly to displacement the narrative, seizing connected 1 statement enactment from Oz, and they announced a caller advertisement hammering Oz implicit his proposition that "local governmental leaders" should person a hand, on with women and doctors, successful the process.

The last weeks of the run were a nerve-rattling, costly whirlwind. Former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden appeared for rallies with him crossed Philadelphia. Aides besides pointed to a precocious endorsement — delivered with nary warning, a fewer days earlier the statesmanlike cavalry arrived — from Oprah Winfrey, who helped motorboat Oz's TV career.

Just days later, Calvello watched silently arsenic Fetterman took the signifier connected Election Night and instantly touted his campaign's enactment successful typically reddish enclaves.

Democrat Wes Moore said becoming the first Black politician of Maryland — and only the 3rd Black idiosyncratic elected governor successful US past — "means a large deal" to him.

"I cognize the past of my state. This is simply a authorities that is simply a place, a birthplace and location spot of Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman. But it is besides the birthplace of the reddish line. It is the birthplace of immoderate of the astir historically discriminatory policies, the most originative discriminatory policies that we've seen in this country," Moore told CNN's Jake Tapper connected Wednesday.

When asked astir existent GOP Gov. Larry Hogan, who has been fashionable successful a mostly bluish state, Moore expressed appreciation for Hogan tackling much utmost members of his enactment — including Moore's Republican gubernatorial hostile Dan Cox, who has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. 

“I admit the current governor for calling retired these MAGA Republicans early,” helium told CNN’s Dana Bash. 

Moore tied stumping passim the authorities arsenic cardinal to his predetermination victory.

"You spell to their territories and you marque your pitch. If you amusement up, you volition see exactly what we saw present successful the state of Maryland yesterday. We won, not conscionable Democrats, not just Independents, but we took a ample swath of Republicans. That is wherefore I deliberation we saw the numbers and the margins that we saw successful the authorities of Maryland," helium told CNN's Abby Philip.

A Republican-led Arizona region plans to entreaty a tribunal ruling that blocked its planned manus number audit of ballots formed successful this year’s consequential midterm elections.

The Cochise County Board of Supervisors voted 2-1 Wednesday to lodge the appeal. 

The determination comes as cardinal races successful Arizona – including contests for politician and a US Senate spot – remain excessively adjacent to call.

And the enactment underscores however overmuch distrust of physics vote-tallying machines has taken basal successful parts of the country, pursuing the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and mendacious claims that wide fraud contributed to erstwhile President Donald Trump’s nonaccomplishment successful the state.

Superior Court Judge Casey McGinley had blocked the county’s program earlier this week, ruling that undertaking a wide manus number arsenic a mode to cheque the accuracy of those machines violates authorities instrumentality – which helium said permits predetermination officials to audit lone a tiny percent of ballots by hand.

The proponents of the manus number argued that it “would assistance ameliorate fears that the physics number was incorrect,” McGinley wrote successful his 12-page opinion. “However, determination is nary grounds earlier this Court that physics tabulation is inaccurate successful the archetypal instance, oregon much importantly, that the audit strategy established by instrumentality is insufficient to observe immoderate inaccuracy it whitethorn possess.”

It is unclear however consequential the entreaty volition beryllium to the wide certification of the ballot successful Arizona.

A brief submitted connected behalf of Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat moving for governor, argued that manus counting — if not completed quickly — could perchance hold the certification of predetermination results.

Her little noted the statutory deadlines that predetermination officials look for certifying the results, which see a deadline for the region to canvass the results by 20 days aft the predetermination and a deadline for the caput to past implicit the statewide canvass by the 4th Monday aft predetermination day.

Arizona counties indispensable certify their predetermination results by Nov. 28. The state’s certification deadline is Dec. 5.

There are much than 80,000 registered voters successful Cochise County, which lies successful the southeastern country of the authorities and includes the metropolis of Bisbee.

New York Representative-elect Michael Lawler appears connected CNN connected Thursday morning. (CNN)

New York Republican Representative-elect Michael Lawler told CNN that helium wants the Republican Party to "move forward" from erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Lawler added, "I think moving in a different direction arsenic we move forward is a bully thing, not a atrocious thing. But ultimately, look, the voters will determine what they privation to do, and the erstwhile president will decide what helium wants to do.” 

Lawler was asked if helium is funny successful focusing immoderate clip connected investigations and potential impeachments of this administration.

"I deliberation the apical precedence is to woody with ostentation and the cost of living. That is what I ran connected and that is what my absorption volition beryllium ... I don't privation to spot is what we saw during the Trump administration wherever Democrats just went aft the president and the administration incessantly," helium said. "I don't privation to spell from one issue to the adjacent without dealing with the issues that got maine elected successful the archetypal place."

Boxes of scanned ballots beryllium connected a pallet Wednesday astatine the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center successful Phoenix. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

There are astir 400,000 to 410,000 ballots near to number successful Maricopa County, the astir populous region successful Arizona, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates told "CNN This Morning" connected Thursday. 

Out of the 400,000 to 410,000 near to count, astir 290,000 of those ballots were dropped disconnected connected Election Day astatine voting places, Gates said. 

Out of the remaining 110,000, astir 90,000 ballots were received earlier Election Day. 

About 17,000 of the remaining 110,000 are ballots that were attempted to beryllium counted connected Election Day but were not work by the tabulator due to the fact that of a printer error. These are referred to arsenic "Box 3" ballots, Gates said.

Gates said helium could not foretell which votes would beryllium counted archetypal retired of the remaining votes to beryllium counted, but helium said the ones they received earlier would apt beryllium counted first.

“We can’t truly zero successful connected that with specificity, but they would thin to beryllium those we received earlier first, and past arsenic we determination connected we’re getting much into those Election Day mail-in ballots that we received connected Election Day,” Gates said.

Maricopa County is expected to study much results tonight. 

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine talks to CNN connected Thursday. (CNN via Skype)

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who is projected to triumph reelection successful the midterms, said a fig of voters told him they could not ballot for him owed to his stance connected abortion.

To these voters, abortion "was a defining issue," helium added. "They simply would not ballot for me due to the fact that of the information that they disagreed with maine connected the issue."

However, DeWine said helium besides met radical who voted Republican due to the fact that they liked his accomplishments successful bureau truthful far. 

"We also, though, had a batch of radical who came up to maine and said, 'I don't truly ballot for Republicans, but I similar what you've done successful respect to job training,' oregon 'I similar what you've done successful respect to mental health and I'm going to ballot for you," helium said.

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Republicans underperformed successful the 2022 midterms due to the fact that of galore reasons, including Democrats' campaigner quality, the Supreme Court's determination connected termination and elector effect to erstwhile President Donald Trump's relation successful the party.

"We had immoderate unthinkable candidates successful the Senate and the House," she said connected "CNN This Morning." "No. 2, erstwhile you person a concern that defies the tides of history, it's got to beryllium thing monumental going connected and successful this case, it was a rejection of the orthodoxy of the Republican's position. You person truthful galore of their candidates, basically, wanting an termination prohibition enactment successful place."

She besides said a large precedence for her and her colleagues is to walk the Electoral Count Act during the lame-duck session. 

"In Washington, we person a clump of things connected our plate, including getting the defence measure done with Ukraine close earlier america and the strides that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky is making against [Russia President] Vladimir Putin. On our sheet is the end-of-the-year fund measure to marque definite we get that right. As you know, the Electoral Count Act, an effort that I'm starring with Susan Collins and Joe Manchin and others, truthful we don't have Jan. 6 happen again. All of that is instantly erstwhile we get back."

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrates onstage during his 2022 U.S. midterm elections nighttime enactment successful Tampa, Florida, connected November 8. (Marco Bello/Reuters)

Republican Georgia Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan told CNN that aft Tuesday night's predetermination results, erstwhile President Donald Trump was fired by Republicans.  

Duncan besides said that Georgia's Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker needs to marque 3 important telephone calls to triumph the runoff. 

"Make three palmy telephone calls. One is to archer Donald Trump to enactment retired of Georgia for 4 weeks. He is toxic, helium would do nothing to assistance the ticket. Secondly, I would prime up the phone and telephone Brian Kemp and inquire him for his help. Apologize for not endorsing him during the primary against David Perdue. And third, I would telephone Ron DeSantis and inquire him to travel to Georgia arsenic often arsenic helium possibly can the adjacent 4 weeks. That would be a winning recipe for Herschel Walker," Duncan told CNN.

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