In his victory speech early Wednesday, John Fetterman began with mock surprise. “What is it, it’s like 1:30 in the morning and you’re still here hanging in?”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., can’t be happy as the results are pouring in. Not only is the “red wave” that was supposed to make him speaker of the House not materializing, the NBC News Decision Desk says that we won’t know who controls the House tonight. Tellingly, the victory party at McCarthy’s headquarters more or less ended by around 9 p.m. local time.
Democratic hopes of a Senate pick-up in North Carolina have been dashed again, just like they were in 2020. This time, there’s not a dramatic story of, just a close race that drew less national attention than some of the other competitive Senate contests. The idea was that the state, particularly its growing “research triangle,” would have the kind of diverse and college-educated electorate that has turned neighboring states — like Georgia or Virginia — at least light blue. So far, this has worked at the state level — with Governor Roy Cooper elected twice — better than at the Senate or presidential level, where neither Hillary Clinton in 2016 nor Joe Biden at 2020 were able to fulfill expectations of winning the state.
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