Midterm election updates: Control of Congress remains unresolved as results come in — live updates - CBS News

Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria said Thursday day that determination are implicit 50,000 mail-in ballots from the region that request to beryllium counted and estimated that the bulk of it volition beryllium tabulated by Saturday evening.  

 The region received 626 ballots done the message connected Thursday, compared to the much than 12,000 that arrived connected Wednesday, and Gloria said that fig volition proceed to dwindle successful the coming days. Saturday is the past time that ballots postmarked connected Election Day tin get and beryllium counted.   

 Gloria said the ballots are being counted arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable and successful accordance with authorities law. Over 200 workers are counting the ballots and volition beryllium moving done the weekend, Gloria said, adding that the region has stepped up information astatine the predetermination office.  

 In summation to the much than 50,000 mail-in ballots that request to beryllium counted successful Clark County, Gloria said determination are much than 5,000 provisional ballots that request to beryllium verified and much than 7,000 ballots that request to beryllium cured.  

The cured ballots are ones that the region could not verify the signature of the voter. Those individuals person been notified and are allowed to cure their ballots until Monday evening, Gloria said. The provisional ballots cannot beryllium processed until the Secretary of State has compiled a study with each 17 counties to forestall duplicate votes from being counted.   

With 84% of the ballot counted statewide, Republican Adam Laxalt is up of Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto 49.40% to 47.61%. But Cortez Masto is up by 33,179 votes successful Clark County, the astir populous successful the state, and by 356 votes successful Washoe County, location to Reno. Laxalt leads each the agrarian counties.   

Clark County volition study much results this evening, and much than 90% of ballots volition beryllium counted by Saturday night, Gloria said.  

Elections officials successful Arizona's Maricopa county, the state's largest region that encompasses Phoenix, said Thursday that they expected to merchandise much ballots connected Thursday nighttime – but it apt beryllium adjacent to the 62,000 released connected Wednesday night. Although they had initially anticipated having 95-99% of ballots counted by Friday, but Bill Gates, the president of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that won't beryllium imaginable nether the existent pace. 

According to Bill Gates, determination were 292,000 aboriginal ballots that were dropped disconnected connected Election Day. They person gotten done signature verification of 250,000 of them arsenic of Thursday afternoon, but they inactive person different 42,000 to spell through. They person gotten done 8,000 provisional ballots, Gates said.

Gates said they were moving 14-18 hours a day, but the historical turnout and the authorities laws prevented them from being counted immoderate faster. 

Arizona gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake connected Thursday accused Maricopa County officials of "slow rolling" the results to marque it look similar Democrats are winning. On Fox News connected Wednesday, Lake said the authorities had "shoddy elections that are tally by imbeciles" and vowed to telephone a peculiar league of the Arizona Legislature to code it.

Gates connected Thursday said "we are not picking oregon choosing which ballots are being used, which ballots are being tabulated. Gates said they usage a archetypal in, archetypal retired ballot counting strategy –  meaning the aboriginal votes are counted first.

"We're perfectly not slow-rolling it and if their squad had been paying attraction earlier the election, they would person heard america speech astir this implicit and implicit again, that we would not person results connected Election nighttime oregon adjacent the adjacent day," Gates said. "That it was going to instrumentality respective days. And rather frankly it is violative for Kari Lake to accidental these radical down maine are dilatory rolling this erstwhile they are moving 14-18 hours."

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by a Democratic National Committee lawsuit astatine the Howard Theater successful Washington, D.C. connected Thursday. Mr. Biden said "regardless of what the last tally showed, I'm prepared to enactment with Republicans."

"People sent a connection that they privation america to enactment together," Mr. Biden said. "I've ever done that. I cognize I got criticized for it erstwhile I ran, I said I was moving for 3 reasons, 1 to reconstruct the psyche of America, 2 to physique the US system from the mediate retired and the bottommost up. And thirdly, to unite the country."

But Mr. Biden told the assemblage that the connection besides showed that "Republicans request to enactment with me." He said helium would combat Republicans if they tried to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, "I volition not fto that happen."

"The overwhelming effect we were getting, and the information that adjacent those folks who whitethorn not similar maine and whitethorn not similar idiosyncratic but they hold with our agenda," Mr. Biden said. "They thought we were, what we're doing with — by the way, each the Democrats ran connected the aforesaid docket without being told."

Rep. Lauren Boebert, 1 of the Republican party's biggest right-wing stars, is locked successful a tight reelection battle with Adam Frisch, a Democrat from Aspen moving arsenic a "conservative businessman," successful Colorado's 3rd Congressional District.  

With 96% of the ballot tallied, CBS News characterized the contention arsenic a toss-up, arsenic Boebert held a slim pb Thursday afternoon. At 1 constituent connected Wednesday, Frisch had led by conscionable implicit 60 votes. 

July polling from Keating Research, a Democratic firm, showed Boebert with a 49%-42% advantage, with 9% of apt voters undecided. 

A canvass from that aforesaid steadfast released connected Election Day showed that unaffiliated voters' enactment for Frisch had accrued from an 8-point borderline to a 25-point margin, according to Colorado Politics. 

National predetermination forecasters had considered the spot safely Republican. FiveThirtyEight's modeling arsenic of Nov. 1 gave Boebert a 97% accidental of winning, portion Frisch had conscionable a 3% chance.  

As of Thursday afternoon, CBS News estimates that control for the House of Representatives leans successful favour of Republicans. CBS News estimated that the GOP volition triumph astatine slightest 213 seats, compared to 206 for the Democrats, with 16 races inactive considered toss-ups. The adjacent borderline successful the House means that each uncalled contention matters successful the conflict to get to a bulk of 218 seats. 

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Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks astatine a property league to sermon his runoff run connected Nov. 10, 2022, successful Atlanta, Georgia. Megan Varner / Getty Images

Warnock launched his run for the Dec. 6 runoff astatine an lawsuit successful Atlanta connected Thursday, saying helium and his supporters person "some unfinished business" to be to. 

"I came to inquire you 1 question — are you acceptable to bash this 1 much time?" Warnock asked the crowd. "I did pass y'all we mightiness beryllium spending Thanksgiving together, and present we are."

Warnock won predetermination aft emerging victorious from a runoff successful 2021 successful his archetypal tally for the Senate. He said his contention against Walker is "about competence and character," and said his hostile "has nary imaginativeness for our authorities oregon our country."

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said the midterm results contiguous his enactment with a "fork successful the road," invoking Robert Frost to illustration a way guardant for the GOP if it takes power of the House oregon the Senate. Romney was not up for reelection Tuesday night. 

"Two roads diverge earlier this imaginable GOP majority," Romney wrote successful a portion for the Wall Street Journal published Thursday afternoon. "The 1 'less traveled by' would beryllium to walk bills that would marque things amended for the American people. The much tempting and historically much frequented roadworthy would beryllium to prosecute pointless investigations, messaging bills, threats and authorities shutdowns."

With ostentation being a apical elector concern, Romney said Congress tin assistance code precocious prices by expanding ineligible immigration, expanding enactment visas, securing the border, reducing tariffs and reining successful spending, among different things. Romney said excessive spending has been the "Republican Party's bugaboo" for years. He singled retired "automatic, 'nondiscretionary' spending" connected entitlements similar Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, arsenic good arsenic involvement connected the nationalist debt. 

"If Congress wants to dilatory inflation, some parties volition request to enactment unneurotic to find solutions to the entitlement crisis. It isn't rocket science," helium said.  

Romney concluded that the Congress "must code doubts sown by some parties astir the integrity of our elections."

"It comes mostly from the GOP, but Democrats aren't without sin," helium wrote. "Of people determination volition beryllium isolated irregularities successful immoderate election, but determination has been nary grounds of organized fraud oregon elector suppression that would person changed the result of a caller authorities oregon national race."

The world, Romney wrote, is watching. 

"While authoritarians successful Russia and China are advertizing an alternate to authorities of, by and for the people, spouting evidence-free claims of predetermination fraud is stupidly self-defeating and despicable," helium wrote. 

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the run limb of Senate Democrats, said it is spending $7 cardinal to bolster tract operations successful Georgia up of the runoff predetermination betwixt Warnock and Walker adjacent month.

"The concern volition money nonstop elector interaction programs to scope Georgians crossed the state, gathering and expanding connected the Warnock campaign's robust tract organizing effort which helped Reverend Warnock gain implicit 35,000 much votes than Walker connected Tuesday," the committee said successful a statement. 

Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, the committee's chairman, said the DSCC is "proud to spouse with the Warnock run to physique disconnected their beardown tract programs and motorboat an unprecedented organizing effort successful the runoff that volition guarantee we scope each elector we request to triumph connected December 6th."

White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre said she doesn't person thing to stock astir whether the president volition caput to Georgia to enactment Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock successful his runoff contention against Herschel Walker. And she said she isn't alert of immoderate specified requests from Warnock astatine this time. 

But Jean-Pierre said Mr. Biden is acceptable to bash immoderate Warnock needs. 

"Clearly, the president volition bash immoderate Sen. Warnock needs to bash to assistance him win," she said during Thursday's property briefing. 

Democrats saw successes successful legislative chambers crossed respective battleground states successful the midterm elections Tuesday, flipping a fewer of them to Democratic power portion stopping Republicans from winning supermajorities successful others.

In Wisconsin, Republicans needed to nett 5 seats successful the Assembly and conscionable 1 successful the Senate to scope a two-thirds supermajority — a large improvement that would person expanded the powerfulness of Republicans successful the Legislature to override vetoes by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who was reelected Tuesday. While Republicans flipped the spot they needed for a supermajority successful the authorities Senate, Democrats held connected successful the Assembly and prevented a supermajority there. Republicans request a two-thirds bulk successful some chambers to beryllium capable to override Evers' vetoes.

Evers, a lifelong pedagogue who upset Republican Gov. Scott Walker successful 2018, often refers to himself arsenic the "goalie" against the Republican-controlled Legislature. He has vetoed a grounds 126 bills, stopping the Legislature from expanding weapon rights, limiting abortions, blocking schools from anti-racism acquisition and banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates. 

He has besides blocked much than a twelve voting laws from Wisconsin Republicans: 1 measure  would person made it much hard to get message ballots; different would person prohibited predetermination officials from correcting accusation connected absentee ballots; and 1 would person reduced the powerfulness of the state's bipartisan elections commission. 

"Key Democratic victories contiguous successful Wisconsin whitethorn person prevented the MAGA GOP from wholly overriding the state's predetermination system," said Jessica Post, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the run limb for Democratic authorities legislative candidates. 

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The House Democratic Caucus volition clasp elections for enactment enactment positions connected Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, according to a missive obtained by CBS News from Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the caucus' chairman. Jeffries told his Democratic colleagues that voting volition beryllium done by concealed ballot utilizing an app.

The House Democratic enactment presently includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Majority Whip James Clyburn, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark and Jeffries.

Pelosi has not said whether she volition question different word arsenic Democratic leader, and power of the House remains unclear, fundamentally leaving the enactment contests frozen successful place. Before Tuesday's midterm elections, Pelosi told CNN that the caller brutal attack against her hubby successful their San Francisco location would power her determination astir her governmental future, should Democrats suffer their House majority.

Wes Moore made past this week erstwhile helium was elected Maryland's archetypal Black politician — and says the breathtaking happening astir his triumph was that "the authorities spoke with a unified voice."

"The happening that was truly exciting, erstwhile the numbers started coming in, was how we won: that we were winning successful municipality areas, agrarian areas, suburban areas," Moore told CBS News' Gayle King. "We conscionable won crossed the state. Democrats. Independents. And we took a immense swath of Republicans."

"And truthful it was breathtaking that the authorities spoke with a unified voice, that we were bushed of being astatine each other's throats," helium said.

Moore defeated Republican campaigner Dan Cox connected Tuesday with 59.6% of the vote. He campaigned connected issues similar creating adjacent accidental and ending kid poverty, and gave a triumph code astir maintaining anticipation successful the look of cynicism.

He is conscionable the 3rd Black politician elected successful U.S. history, and said the infinitesimal helium recovered retired helium won was "remarkable."

As of Thursday greeting afternoon, Senate races successful 4 states remained unresolved, according to CBS News estimates: Alaska, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.

The results successful Alaska won't interaction power of the Senate, since some starring candidates are Republicans. Arizona is leaning Democratic, portion Georgia and Nevada are considered toss-ups, according to CBS News estimates. The contention successful Georgia is heading to a runoff connected Dec. 6, since neither campaigner is supra the 50% threshold needed to triumph outright.

The contention for the House leans successful Republicans' favor, according to CBS News estimates, which amusement the GOP yet controlling astatine slightest 210 seats, compared to 200 for the Democrats. 

Of the races successful which CBS News has projected a victor oregon a campaigner has conceded, 15 seats person switched from Democrat to Republican, portion 7 person switched from Republican to Democrat. Republicans flipped 4 seats successful New York alone.

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