Republican Kari Lake, the Donald Trump-supported election denier, is facing Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs, a defender of the state’s election process.ĭemocratic upset keeps narrow House majority hopes alive
Which party reaches the 218 seats necessary for a House majority will hinge on races in states with a large share of mail-in ballots - including California, where identifying winners in some races could take weeks, Oregon and Arizona.Īnother high-profile contest remains too close to call: The Arizona governor’s race. The battle for control of the House is now the biggest unanswered question of this year’s midterm elections after Democrats kept their narrow Senate majority. As a state senator, he has pushed false claims about mass voter fraud in 2020 and worked to try to reverse the results of the last presidential contest. Mastriano has been one of the most well-known and extreme GOP election deniers. “He doesn’t get to pick the winner, the people pick the winner, and in a resounding way they made clear that they wanted me to lead this commonwealth forward." “Who cares if he calls, right?” Shapiro said on "State of the Union." Tom Wolf, CNN has projected.Įarlier Sunday, Shapiro was asked by CNN’s Dana Bash if Mastriano had ever called him to concede the race. Shaprio, Pennsylvania’s attorney general, will succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. "Josh Shapiro will be our next Governor, and I ask everyone to give him the opportunity to lead and pray that he leads well." "Difficult to accept as the results are, there is no right course but to concede, which I do, and I look to the challenges ahead," Mastriano wrote in a statement sent Sunday afternoon. Republican Doug Mastriano, a leading voice advancing former President Donald Trump's lies about 2020 election fraud, has conceded his race for Pennsylvania governor to his Democratic opponent. Republican Doug Mastriano speaks in Erie, Pennsylvania, in September. But Republican attacks on the Democrat, particularly on inflation, homelessness and crime, ultimately proved effective. In the general election, McLeod-Skinner tried to refute GOP charges that she would support defunding the police, airing an ad featuring a former Bend chief of police vouching for her. Kurt Schrader, a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition who saw his district, which now stretches south from the Portland suburbs to Bend, drastically change in the redistricting process. In the Democratic primary, McLeod-Skinner defeated Rep. McLeod-Skinner, in turn, attacked her opponent as a “multi-millionaire” and an “extremist.” She said the Republican wouldn’t tackle inflation and accused her of not acknowledging that President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election and of backing restrictions on abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. She attacked McLeod-Skinner, a liberal attorney, as a California expat - she previously served on the Santa Clara City Council - with far-left views on environmental and police policy. Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer will defeat Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects, becoming the first Latino person elected to Congress from the state.Ĭhavez-DeRemer ran as a businesswoman and former budget-balancing mayor of Happy Valley, appealing to voters’ discontent with rising prices, crime and the Biden administration. (Tojo Andrianarivo/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File) Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer is seen in Happy Valley, Oregon, in September.
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