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High-profile U.S. elections could be headed to recounts, legal action
High-profile elections in Georgia, Florida and Arizona remained unresolved on Thursday, two days after the vote, with the prospects of legal challenges and recounts setting the stage for possible weeks of uncertainty. The undecided races will not tip the balance in either chamber of Congress ...
'Trump from Pahrump': Dead Republican brothel owner wins election in Nevada
A brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican candidate who died last month won his race for the Nevada state legislature late on Tuesday, according to state election officials. Dennis Hof, 72, defeated Democratic candidate and educator Lesia Romanov in the race for Nevada's 36th Assembly District, earning ...
No 'blue wave' but increased Democrat ranks pose threat to Trump governing agenda
Democrats have regained control of the House from President Donald Trump's Republican Party in the midterm elections, powered by a suburban revolt that has threatened what's left of the president's governing agenda. But the GOP added to its Senate edge and prevailed in some key ...
Trump fetes GOP gains, slams those who lost, threatens House Democrats
As Washington came to grips with its new divided reality, President Donald Trump on Wednesday reveled in his party's Senate victories, mocked members of his own party who lost after not seeking his support and even suggested he may be able to govern more ...
Ted Cruz fends off Democratic upstart Beto O'Rourke in Texas Senate race
Sen. Ted Cruz fended off a spirited underdog challenge from Democrat Beto O'Rourke to win re-election on Tuesday in a Texas race that once seemed like a cakewalk but needed a late boost from President Donald Trump to help push the incumbent over the ...
In his final pitch to voters, President Donald Trump implored Republicans on Monday to help preserve "fragile" GOP victories that could be erased by Democrats as he closes out a midterm campaign that has been defined by his racially charged rhetoric, hard-line immigration moves ...
NBC and Fox News Channel both said Monday they will stop airing President Donald Trump's campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of murder. CNN had rejected the same ad, declaring it racist. Fox pulled the ad Sunday "upon further review," said Marianne Gambelli, president of ...
The bruising race for governor of Georgia has been roiled by unsupported, 11th-hour allegations from the Republican candidate, who is also the state's chief election official, that Democrats sought to hack the voter registration system. Here's a look at the dispute, how it unfolded and ...
With him or against him, Trump looms large over Election Day
Michael Gregoire marched along a downtown sidewalk in the tense days before the midterm elections, waving a hand-painted sign at passing traffic: "DEFEAT REPUBLICANS 2018." "The survival of the country is going to depend on this election," he said as another man stopped for a ...
Win or lose, Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke may remain political forces
Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke probably have bright political futures, perhaps even plausible White House aspirations, regardless of which one wins their high-profile Texas Senate race. Around Labor Day, when polls showed onetime punk rocker O'Rourke closing in on flipping a Senate seat ...
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate in Tuesday's hotly contested gubernatorial election, has opened a probe of the state Democratic Party over what his office alleged on Sunday was a failed attempt to hack voter registration systems. Kemp's office, which supervises elections ...
Millions in 'dark money' helps fuel litany of campaign ads in Maine congressional district
Millions of dollars in so-called "dark money" have propelled the race in the largest congressional district east of the Mississippi River to become the most expensive political contest in Maine history. The race in Maine's 2nd Congressional District has attracted more than $12 million in ...
