Democrats during Tuesday’s midterm election took control of the Senate, winning 54 seats and Republicans taking 44, according to NBC News.
But there are still two races left to call: Alaska and Mississippi.
With more than 95% of the votes counted in Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom was leading incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 43 votes, NBC News projections showed. As of Wednesday morning, the race remained too close to call.
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The last time Mississippi voters elected a Democrat to the US Senate was 1982, the Magnolia Tribune in Mississippi reported.
In Alaska, Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan was leading Democrat Mary Peltola by just 1,677 votes, according to NBC News. The race remains too early to call, with approximately 80,000 votes still to be counted. The race also sparked a lawsuit, with the Trump administration saying they would block certification of Senate results if Republican incumbent Sullivan loses the race, citing the presence of a second candidate named Dan Sullivan on the ballot.
How many seats did Democrats flip, and where?
Senate:
Midterm elections are typically difficult for the president’s party, but Republicans had originally expected that their Senate majority was safe. Instead, Democrats marched through some of the most conservative states in the nation.
As of Wednesday morning, NBC News projects Democrats have flipped seven Senate seats in ruby-red states and battlegrounds alike: Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. Some of those states were barely even on Democrats’ radar as possibilities a year ago.
Less of a surprise was Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff winning reelection in Georgia, defeating Rep. Mike Collins. Rep. Chris Pappas also won a Senate race in New Hampshire, defeating former Sen. John Sununu to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Overall, Democrats now have 54 in the Senate, NBC News projects, compared to Republicans at 44. The number needed for Senate control is 51.
House:
In the house, Democrats gained 28 seats. NBC News projected Democrats will take a total of 258 seats, compared to 177 for Republicans. There, 218 seats are needed for control.
Democrats reached deeply into Trump-won territory to defeat his preferred candidates and win in even some of the most Republican states. There were multiple Democratic pickups in Iowa, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania and new Democratic seats in Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Utah. In Iowa, there was an all-Republican congressional delegation going into the election. Democrats will now represent three of them.
A full list of where Democrats flipped seats in the house can be found here.
Bracing for a tough night, Republicans had spent the campaign’s final stretch pumping tens of millions of dollars into states and districts that Trump won handily two years ago, as Trump campaigned in heavily red areas. But even Republicans’ money advantage didn’t stem the Democratic tide.
“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” Trump wrote on his social media site.
The economy was key to Trump’s White House comeback two years ago. An Associated Press poll found that three-quarters of voters said the economy now is “not so good” or “poor.” About 8 in 10 said inflation has caused a “severe” or “moderate” financial hardship for their households.
The especially strong showing for Democrats could boost the party’s large crop of potential presidential candidates. It may also complicate the paths of Vice President JD Vance and other Republicans who may have been looking to turn their loyalty to Trump into momentum.
Beyond Washington, 36 states elected governors. Democrats Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, Wes Moore in Maryland, Maura Healey in Massachusetts and Kathy Hochul in New York all won reelection. In Illinois, incumbent Gov. JB Pritzker became the first Democrat to win a third term.
In a stunning upset in Texas, Gina Hinojosa defeated Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term.
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