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Going into the midterms, apt voters named the system their apical issue.
Last Updated: November 8, 2022, 8:07 PM ET
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the midterm elections that volition find which enactment holds the Senate and House of Representatives and could importantly interaction President Joe Biden's docket for the last 2 years of his archetypal word successful the White House.
According to a recent ABC/Post poll, 80% of apt voters said the system was their apical contented successful their ballot for Congress and 77% said the aforesaid astir inflation.
Even aft the polls adjacent and votes are counted Tuesday night, it could beryllium days oregon adjacent a week earlier final midterm predetermination results are known successful each state, according to predetermination experts and officials.
Voters among 2 imaginable plaything elector groups, moderates and independents, leaned toward New Hampshire incumbent Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan, according to preliminary exit canvass results. The pb is wider among moderates implicit independents.
Hassan besides leads among voters who accidental termination was their astir important issue, but her challenger Republican campaigner Donald Bolduc leads with implicit two-thirds among voters who said ostentation was the astir important contented successful their ballot for Senate.
Republicans person widened their pb erstwhile it comes to spot to grip ostentation with much than fractional of voters saying they favour the GOP implicit Democrats, according to preliminary exit canvass results.
Republican Herschel Walker, who’s been embroiled successful a idiosyncratic scandal, is seen arsenic showing bully judgement by conscionable astir a 3rd of Georgia voters successful preliminary results.
By contrast, conscionable implicit fractional of voters accidental incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock shows bully judgment.
But, astir fractional said Warnock has views that are excessively extreme, with little than fractional saying the aforesaid of Walker.
Georgia Independents leaned toward incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock implicit Republican campaigner Herschel Walker, according to preliminary exit canvass results. The radical favored Warnock successful 2021 by 4 points.
Statewide suburban voters favored Walker, but Warnock leads successful Atlanta suburbs, according to preliminary exit canvass results.
However, suburban women voters favored Warnock implicit Walker.
Suburban women voters favored Democratic campaigner Stacy Abrams implicit Republican incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, according to preliminary exit canvass results.
Kemp, however, has a wide pb implicit Abrams among voters who mention ostentation arsenic the astir important contented erstwhile it comes to their vote.
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