Category: 2022 Midterm Elections

Over 50,000 Ballots Left to Count in Nevada’s Largest County

Nevada’s largest county still has more than 50,000 ballots to count, its top election official said on Nov. 11. Workers in Clark County were able to count approximately 12,300 ballots on Thursday night, Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria told reporters during a press conference. But they have a little over 50,000 left to process. The number…


GOP Bets on Blue ‘Mirage’ in Arizona as Half a Million Ballots Await Count

Arizona Republicans have doubled down on their conviction that the more than half a million ballots yet to be counted in the state will hand them the governorship and potentially the Senate seat too. The last few batches added to the vote tally have split slightly for the Democrats, but Republicans remain convinced the upcoming…


Trump Wants Everyone to Know That He’s ‘Of Course’ Running for President: Adviser

One of former President Donald Trump’s advisers said the 45th president will “of course” announce that he is running for president next week despite calls from some Republicans to hold off. “President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for president. And it’s going to be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement,”…


Biden Wrong to Say He’ll Do ‘Nothing’ Differently After Midterms: Rep. Slotkin

Biden was wrong to say that he would do “nothing” differently after the midterms, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told Fox News on Thursday.  At his first post-midterm press conference on Wednesday, President Joe Biden was asked what he would do differently to change people’s opinion that the country was heading in the wrong direction. Biden…


Gingrich: GOP Got Nearly 6 Million More Votes but Lost Many Races, What’s Going On?

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been in politics for decades, and never has an election bewildered him as much as the 2022 midterms. “I’ve never been as wrong as I was this year,” Gingrich, an Epoch Times contributor, said on Nov. 10. “It makes me challenge every model I’m aware of, and realize that…


More Democrats Win Reelection as Republicans Face Prospect of Ultraslim House Majority

More races have been called for Democrat incumbents in the House of Representatives, giving Republicans the prospect of an ultraslim majority in the lower chamber. The Associated Press called races for Reps. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), and Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), and Democrat Val Hoyle, late Nov. 10 and Nov. 11. “We won! I am…


More Democrats Win Reelection as Republicans Face Prospect of Ultrathin House Majority

More races have been called for Democrat incumbents in the House of Representatives, giving Republicans the prospect of an ultrathin majority in the lower chamber. The Associated Press called races for Reps. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Kim Schrier (D-Wash.), and David Trone (D-Md.), and Democrat Val Hoyle, late Nov. 10 and Nov. 11….


Republican Senators Demand GOP Leadership Vote Postponed After Midterm Failures

Following worse-than-expected Republican gains in Congress, several Republican senators called on the GOP’s leadership vote next week to be postponed. “The Senate GOP leadership vote next week should be postponed,” wrote Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and who recently won reelection, on Friday morning. “First we need to…


Republican Senators Demand GOP Leadership Vote Be Postponed After Midterm Failures

Following worse-than-expected Republican gains in Congress, several Republican senators called on the GOP’s leadership vote next week to be postponed. “The Senate GOP leadership vote next week should be postponed,” wrote Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and who recently won reelection, on Friday morning. “First we need to…


North Carolina Sees Red Wave Despite It Not Reaching Expected Peak Nationally: Analyst

Though the outcome of the midterms wasn’t the red wave that was predicted, a political analyst in North Carolina sees the statewide results as a victory for Republicans in the Tar Heel State. There were seven statewide races: the U.S. Senate and six judicial races, with two of those races being in the North Carolina…