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Democratic Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff against Walker
Source: Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term and helping cap an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP in the last major vote of the year.

With Warnock’s second runoff victory in as many years, Democrats will have a 51-49 Senate majority, gaining a seat from the current 50-50 split with John Fetterman’s victory in Pennsylvania. There will be divided government, however, with Republicans having narrowly flipped House control.
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Recount flips Mass. House election to Democrat by 1 vote

December 9, 2022 / 9:54 AM / State House News Service

Democrat Kristin Kassner jumped into the lead over five-term Republican Rep. Lenny Mirra after a district-wide recount erased her narrow deficit and put her ahead by a single vote, an infinitesimally tight outcome that the incumbent plans to challenge in court.

Mirra led Kassner by 10 votes out of more than 23,000 cast across the North Shore district in the original certified results for the Nov. 8 election, a margin well within the legal threshold that allowed her to file for a recount.

By the time Topsfield officials finished retabulating ballots Thursday from their town's first precinct -- the final batch to be counted -- the overall result flipped and put Kassner up 11,763 to 11,762.

Mirra said he plans to challenge the outcome, which would further extend a monthlong stretch of uncertainty about who will be the next representative for the redrawn North Shore district.

"It'll absolutely be a legal challenge," Mirra said.

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Democrat Bass takes charge as LA mayor amid homeless crisis
Source: AP

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and CHRISTOPHER WEBER today

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Karen Ruth Bass, a former physician assistant who shattered glass ceilings with her rise to a leadership post in the California legislature and later a prominent spot in Congress, took a ceremonial oath of office Sunday as mayor of Los Angeles.

A progressive Democrat, Bass becomes the first woman and second Black person to hold the city’s top job and will formally assume her duties Monday amid multiple crises in the nation’s second most populous city.

She was sworn in ceremonially by Vice President Kamala Harris, a longtime friend and former California attorney general. The formal oath was administered privately by the city clerk.

Bass will be tasked with easing rising crime rates, restoring trust in a City Hall shaken by racism and corruption scandals and addressing the issue of over 40,000 people living in trash-strewn encampments or rusty RVs that have spread into virtually every neighborhood.
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Arizona recount shows Democrat Kris Mayes beat Republican Abe Hamadeh
Source: ABC News
Democrat Kris Mayes is the winner of Arizona's attorney general race, a state judge announced Thursday. Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 280 votes after a mandatory recount was triggered due to how close they were separated after the initial tally in November, when Mayes led by roughly 500 votes out of 2.5 million cast.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Timothy Thomason unveiled the results of the recount in a hearing on Thursday. Mayes' lead from November was nearly halved in the recount. The results showed she had 1,254,809 votes to Hamadeh’s 1,254,529 votes.

Mayes' victory is another win for Democrats this midterm cycle against candidates who endorsed former President Donald Trump's election denialism. In Arizona, a traditionally red state, Democrats defeated GOP election deniers in races for Senate, governor, secretary of state and now attorney general.

Hamadeh, who was backed by Trump, denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election. In late November, he sued Mayes and a range of state officials alleging there were procedural and tabulation errors that, if corrected, would make him victorious.
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Republican Sen. Ben Sasse officially steps down, opening up appointment to seat
Source: NBC News
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, officially resigned from the Senate on Sunday as he prepares to step back into academia as president of the University of Florida.

Sasse, who led Midland University, a small private collage in his home state, before he ran for the Senate, submitted his resignation last month saying he would leave office Jan. 8 — two years into his second term.

In farewell remarks last week, Sasse criticized the body that he had been a member of since 2015, saying, “This institution doesn’t work very well right now.”

“Each of us knows we should be taking a look in the mirror and acknowledging that lives lived in a politicized echo chamber are unworthy of a place that calls itself a deliberative body, let alone the world’s greatest deliberative body,” he said.
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Democrat Rouse defeats GOP’s Adams in 7th District Va. Senate race

by: Brian Reese, Andy Fox

Posted: Jan 10, 2023 / 09:21 PM EST
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Democrat Aaron Rouse has defeated Republican Kevin Adams in the race for Virginia’s 7th Senate District, flipping the seat formerly held by Republican Jen Kiggans, according to unofficial election results.

It was a close race, with Rouse up by 348 votes with all precincts reporting, 19,430 votes to Adams’ 19,082, results show.

It appears to be unofficially outside the margin of 1/2 percent that would allow a candidate to ask for a recount and not have to pay for it. Rouse was behind until the early voting in person started coming in. Then when early absentee votes came in Rouse won those by about 4-1, and was never behind after that.  

The former Virginia Beach councilman and NFL player took the stage to thank supporters just before 9:15 p.m. on Tuesday as his team declared victory.

“I’m just so excited that Virginia Beach has my back and I have there’s all the way to Richmond,” Rouse said. “… I’m a native here. I grew up in a place where I had a chance to come home and serve on a local governing body. Do good things and [voters] remember that.”

Adams, a Navy veteran who campaigned on crime as high number one issue, also thanked his supporters on Tuesday night. He and Rouse both raised about a million dollars each.

The result means there will now be a 22-18 Democratic advantage in the Senate, all but certainly blocking any chances of Gov. Youngkin’s proposed 15-week abortion ban passing in the 2023 General Assembly, which officially starts on Wednesday.

Rouse’s campaign messaging focused heavily on Rouse’s plan to block those efforts to restrict abortion access in the commonwealth. He said on Tuesday that’s his number one priority going to Richmond.
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Pillen appoints former Gov. Pete Ricketts to U.S. Senate
Source: Omaha World Herald

By Erin Bamer , Martha Stoddard 3 min ago
LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen confirmed widespread expectations Thursday when he announced former Gov. Pete Ricketts is his pick to fill Nebraska's vacancy in the U.S. Senate.

Ricketts will replace U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, who officially resigned Sunday to become the next president of the University of Florida. Ricketts' appointment will take effect immediately. 

Ricketts is Pillen's predecessor, serving as Nebraska's governor for eight years up until last week, when Pillen was sworn in. Before he left office, Ricketts announced he was applying for the position. Ricketts previously sought a Senate seat in 2006, but was defeated by the incumbent, Democrat Ben Nelson.

Even before Ricketts announced he was applying, there were murmurs that he was Pillen's top candidate. After Ricketts' announcement, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon seemed to confirm the rumors on Twitter. 


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How a Decarceral and Abolitionist Movement Helped Defeat the “Red Wave” in Pennsylvania
by Robert Saleem Holbrook
February 9, 2023

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(Counterpunch) During post-election debriefs, political pundits, journalists, and analysts theorized and attempted to dissect why the midterms went “surprisingly” well for Democrats in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Simultaneously, countless organizers—including myself—gathered in a hotel room in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square to celebrate the fruits of our labor. Certainly the theories that these strategists espouse have merit. Women came out en masse to vote for reproductive rights and youth came out in record numbers.

But there’s a glaring blindspot in all the media attention around the election results: the grassroots—the ground-force of working class, low income, Black, Brown, and historically disenfranchised people, who mobilized to push Pennsylvania Democrats past the winning line.

In the weeks leading up to the Pennsylvania elections, the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat Mehmet Oz, was running millions of dollars of political ads in Philadelphia, accusing his opponent, John Fetterman—and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner—of releasing “dangerous murderers” back to the streets. Meanwhile, in the Black Bottom section of West Philadelphia and the Happy Hollow section of Germantown, a joint canvass by Straight Ahead, Free The Ballot: Incarcerated Voter Family Network, and Amistad Movement Power was knocking over 20,000 doors in Philadelphia.

Formerly incarcerated leaders like myself brought our stories of redemption to people’s doorsteps because all of us served over twenty years in prison for violent offenses, including murder. We know these streets and the people in our community; we were able to make personal connections with the people from these neighborhoods in a way that Oz’s racist, fear mongering ads couldn’t. Family members of the incarcerated were doing the same on separate canvases, talking with people about the pain of losing a loved one to mass incarceration.

We knew we didn’t have the money to compete with the Republicans ad campaign, so we invested in our ground game to make a difference—and it did.
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