WashingtonDemocrats won the US Senate, flipping Texas after 38 years.
Democrats courted voters disillusioned by Trump’s unpopular war in Iran and rising prices.
Roy Cooper won North Carolina and Annie Andrews took South Carolina, where Republicans won by nearly 18 points two years ago.
“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” President Donald Trump wrote.
Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black woman elected a US state governor, succeeds Brian Kemp in January.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 200+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- Bloomberg Business
- Deutsche Welle
- centres Talarico's Texas win over Paxton, noting Musk's $200m+ for Paxton and Texas's first Democratic Senate win in 38 years
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames Bottoms's win around Atlanta's reputation, quoting her 'long-standing playbook to paint Atlanta as this big bad place' against GOP attacks
- Daily Maverick
- notes Stacey Plaskett's same-evening election as Virgin Islands governor, the first Black woman elected to a US jurisdiction's governorship
- TRT World
- ties Jackson's Trump endorsement to his distancing from Trump in the closing weeks, and the 1988 end of Georgia Democrats' gubernatorial drought
Sources: Bloomberg Business, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera Online, Daily Maverick, TRT World