Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, a Republican, secured his second term at the helm of the Magnolia State, defeating Democrat challenger Brandon Presley.
After promising in 2016 that "for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia," Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has had the last laugh repeatedly, and Election Night 2023 is no exception. Although the ink is still drying on the exit polls and outstanding ballots are still being counted, there is no way of getting around it: Republicans once again widely underperformed, and they did so in the races that faced the most national scrutiny. Above all, the string of disappointments suffered since 2018 makes clear that the GOP has traded a once-winning coalition for a losing one.
The Democratic Party had a huge night Tuesday, holding on to the governor’s mansion in Kentucky and the Senate in Virginia while also managing to flip the Virginia House.
Philadelphia polls closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. By 8:30 p.m., the Philadelphia Inquirer declared Democrat Cherelle Parker won the mayoral election. Parker defeated Republican David Oh, a Korean American who was vying to become the city’s first Republican mayor since before the thermonuclear bomb was tested. Parker will become the city’s first female mayor. It was yet another quick and embarrassing defeat for the city’s Republican Party, an organization that really exists in name only and has no meaningful impact on the party’s politics.
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has come up short in Tuesday's elections in his bid for the GOP to capture total control of Virginia's state's legislature
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office in the Pentagon, plans to retire from his role by the end of the year, according to a recent report.
Voters in Ohio, a state Trump carried by 8 points in 2020, have approved a constitutional amendment that enshrines abortion access into the state's Constitution.